Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-07-07

LAST Monday being County Court day, We
had the opportunity of talking with persons
from different portions OF the county. From
every direction we learn good state of feel
ing prevails, end that There is general as
nosiiion among Uoion men to acquiesce in
the Ordiusuce of Independence SO largely
ratified by the people on the 9Th of June.
Indeed 80 far as McMinn county is concern
I'd. we believe the sen ,iment is almost uni
versal at this time. We frankly admit tbtre
are few men-a short half dozen, more or
iess-stiil "boldiDg out" waiting for the
covert act. :" and who cannot be made to be-
lieve that any Southern State has yet been
invaded. or will be. But their number is
growing smaller by degrees and beautifully
less; every day, and as the deiuson under
which they have been laboring is dispelled,
we have no dobt they will all promptly aban-
don the position they unfortunately took at
the early stage of the revolution Lincoln's
war. if protracted. will destroy the govern
ment at Washington, eradicate every feature
of republican liberty, and build upon their
ruins an odious and bloody despotism. Its
tendencies are all that way to-day. In fact,
the leaders OF the Black Republican party
themselves say the old government Is pass
ing away. that its days are numbered. and
that they will erect another, a great central
power, with a strong military arm, and an
essential feature of which shall be hostility
to Southern institutions. Why, then. should
any one here be found clinging to the old
concern. aud by divisions and distractions
add to the present evils and call down new
dangers npon the homes and fresides of
friends and neighbors? You cannot stay the
wave of revolution or arrest the inevitable
march of events, any more than you can
measure the design or check the progress of
the flaming meteor now cOursing the North
eru Heavens. But by cultivating a spirit of
union, harmony and good feeling among Cur
selves we can do much to shorten the war
and to keep its more terrible evils from our
own Immediate borders This is the duty,
and should be the effort, of all, whether their
influence be much or little. And the men
who now persist in agitation, who insist upon
keeping people distracted that ought to be
united for defence and common safety, must
lie possessed of devils by the side OF which
the seven cast out of Mary Magdalene would
compare as mere infants. We can account
for their madness in no other way.
We have said the people of this county
were now nearly a unit for aoquiescence to
the will of the majority; and we believe such
is the feeling generally throughout lower
East Tennessee. with the exception perhaps
of Bradley county, where it is reported there
is yet good deal of division, kept up main
ly by the efforts of few unwise and infatu-
ated men, who will be abandoned by the
people to merited scorn and OblOquy as soon
as their motives are penetrated and generally
understood Mark that. From the signs, we
have but little doubt that by the first of Au-
gust our people WILL be one in sentiment and
action; and to that end let us all labor, as the
surest and best way to tighten the evils
which are already upon US. and avert the
heavier ones which a contrary and factious
course will be sure to bring.-4Atteals Post.