Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-05-31
The Presbyterian General Assembly
and the Federal Administration.

Environed with difficulties such as no other
administration encountered, the usurPers at
Washit gton, it appears. still have time to
spare for interference in the affairs of others
Having usurped powers conferred by the
Constitution upon Congress, driven States
from the Union, and set on foot measures for
invading and crushing out Southern Liberty,
they are now attempting to get finger into
Dr. SPRINGS PRESBYTERIAN pie. We spread be-
fore our readers yesterday the resolutions of
fered in the General Assembly sitting at
PhiIadelphis.by the limpid political doctor OF
divinity, SPRING, of New York, and spoke OF
the proceedings thereon, had on the 24th
inst. On the 18th the subject was again ia
ken ND for consideration, and the Rev. Mr.
WINES, of Pa, made a speech. in the course
Of which he read the following Dispatches
Hon. Edward Bates, Washington City:
Have you said that in your opinion, and
that of other members of the Cabinst, the
best thing our Assembly can do to sustain
the Government is to preserve the unity of
the Presbyterian Church, by abstaining from
any deligersnce on our present troubles: it
is so stated by what claims to be good au-
thority. II consistent with your views. please
answer Immediately. E c. WINES.
Washington, May 24-Rev. E. C. Wines,
DID,: Yes; for myself. decidedly; and / be-
lieve for other members OF the Cabinet.
EDWARD BATES.
Wishing to crafty the Administration, Mr.
VINES offered the following preamble and
resolutions
WHEREAS. The General Assembly has cause
to believe that the National Administration
itself is OF opinion that the silence of this
body on the present fearful crisis in public
affairs as tending to preserve the unity of
the Presby terrain Church. would at the same
time, and for that reason, be in the interest
of peace and of National Union. and would
strengthen the hands of the General Govern
ment:
And WHEREAS, further. the ministers and
elders present in this Assembly. true to their
hereditary principles as Presbyterians, have
already, in their civil and social relations,
given the most decisive proof of their devo-
ton to the Constitution and the laws under
which We live. and are ready at all suitable
times. and at whatever personal sacrifice, to
demonstrate their loyalty to the American
Union; therefore
Resolved, That the General Assembly think
itinexpedient at this time 10 give any formal
crisis, and that, consequently, the whole sub
Ject be indefinitely postponed.
Thus they 90. The rights of the Southern
people, fragrant and unconstitutional war,
are as nothing in the scales; the National
Union aud the General Government must be
sustained, and every artifce and appliance
used to promote the unholy purposes of the
Administration. The pulpit having been
desecrated, and the worship Of God made to
pander to fanaticism, it is now, when conye-
nient "a means to strengthen the General
Government by attempting to blind Union
men, proposed. at the instigatiou of that
Government, to forego "a deliyerance On opr
present troubles" 1t Is too late for sncb
tricks as these to deceive. Deliver yourselves
gentlemen of the Presbytery; it matters LIT.
tie what You may say. The day for eomn,ai.
sance, compromise, and concession. has mass
ed away forever. Nothing that YOU can saw
viii stop the progress of the Southern reyo-
luton.