Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-22


The Radical Revolutionary Eicuaent In
the NOrsla-The North Must Fight.
It is matter Of much surprise among our people,
why the North continues to battle against fate Why,
in the face Of overwhelming disaster and defeat,
with Bethel, Bull Run, Oak Hill, Lexington and
Belmont, fresh in their memory, with bankruptcy
and ruin staring them in the face, they hang on with
lldog tenacity and apparently undismayed, still
go forward with their gigantic preparations for
subjugation- The main reason is, that they cannot
stop the war without the risk of revolution and
anarchy at home. This wicked conflict has stirred,
from the lowest depths, the disorgsnzing elements
that have been collecting in the political caldron for
the last forty years. Abolitonism, nfidelity, So
calism, woman's rights free love and official cor
rupton, are now foauing in seething mass upon the
surface. Panic stricken capital and frightened re-
speetablity seek to avoid the threatened blow, by
pouring the red hot sulphurious scum Of their de-
graded population upon the South.
The North desires war that ace may diminish the
number of ineendiary hordes of communists and
sgrarians that infest her cities. With the advent
of peace she tears that unemployed mob of train
ed soldiers win be turned loose upon the defence
less inhabitants of her great manufacturing and
commercial cities to prey upon the property Of the
wealthy, and perhaps under some modern ROBES
PIERRE to re>enaet the scenes of the French Revo-
luton. The fat capitalists of New York, PhiIade.
phia and Boston, are fully awakened to the ex-
istenee of the dangerous element in their
midst, and will sssuredly urge on the war
until at least that surplus proportion of their man
ufacturers and artizans, who were formerly en-
gagged in fsbricating for the Southern trade, shall
have been killed eff or, they yainy imagine, the
lust of their soldiers satisfied, by the farms and
plantations of deeapitated rebels Tie Indifference
of the Northern officers with regard to the care of
their wounded and the burial of their dead together
with their extreme repugnance to the exchange of
prisoners, all tend to exhibit the low estimate they
place upon their mercenaries.
As the war continues, however, the disease be-
comes worse the relations between capital and
labor become more conflicting, since, in bsronisl
Europe, the aggregation of property
into the hands of few intensiies in a tenfold
ratio. The effect of war in general, and more par
ticularly in the North, is to make the very rich
richer, and the poor poorer. That this is not the
result in the South is owing to the increase in the
demand for the labor of mechanics and factory
hands, and the high prices for goods and provisions
caused by our being cut of from all former sources
of supply. Real estate and property of all kinds
in the North on the other hand, have fallen to ru1
nously low rates, and those unfortunates, who have
not sufficient capital to weather the storm are
forced to sell out to ready cash men, at great ss-
CRITICS. in order to supply their families with CON-
mon necessaries. Hence, the AsToRs LAWS, STEW
ARTS, DUNCLNs, BELMoXTs and the hosts of the LIN
GIN army contractors are fast absorbing the pro.
perty Of their poorer neighbors. These overgroWn
aristocrsts will soon clsmOr for stronger Gov.
eminent" for the batter security of their estates,
snd demand titles for the lordships, duksdoms, and
principslities that they have been industriOusy
creating.
There Is. bat a temporary and hollow truce be.
tween the belgerents in war in the Free States be-
ween Capital and Labor and it only requires bold,
Lcton and success on our part to cause it to burst
'orth with terrific fury. In order to accomplish
his, we must drive our diahesrtened enemies back
beyond the SusquehRnns IN the East, beyond the
ohio in the West; we must crowd them starving
jagged and whipped to the very doors of Fifth Ave~
Tue and Walnut Street until the quaking money lend
RS lift up their hands to the South and impore US
or assistance against this radical element
The first campaign may be ended with
n the Southern border, but, if we would
ecure honorable and lasting peace, we
must next summer, unless the war should happily
md before that time, carry our victorious arms
Icross the border that the Northern people, having
,sce tasted invasion themselves, will be less prone
o quarrel in future. Let US, therefore, concen-
rate our energies during the present winter for
,ne grand decisive campaign, that by next spring
Ne may march forward, and driving the thieving
Yankee mob before vs., simultaneously threaten
heir great cities.