Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-12-28
SATURDAY, DECEMBER %, 1861
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State paper. emanating from first class
power, asserts that thore exists no war IN
the United States, there is something OF
eontending character going on inveiVlng an
array of o million Of hostile men IN arms,
who are surprising, shooting, killing ana
taking each other prisoners on every sui'a-
BILE occasion. This may not be war In the
United States, because there is not fooi OF
ground occupied By the contendinS Parues
which properly belongs to the United States
or which will ever belong to them. IL msy
not in the metaphysical mind Of Mr. SsW-
ARD be war to eight for liberty and against
the equality of the white and black races |;
but transporting events convince the common
people of the world that every solitary one
of the articles and rules of war are IN the
fullest force in both the armies, and that II
we lave no var now, the Yankees must make
a Few dictionary, and new term defining
what war is. The key to Mr.. SEwARD's the
nry of the non-existenee of war is bis minor
theory that there has been no iniracaon OF
the Union. He believes the Union still IN
bro ken. and although there is something Q:
a row In full blast In certain parts OF the
country, the Union is still perfect and there
Is no actual war on hand. There was once,
also, set of metaphysieiass who conte1ded
that there was no such thing as matter in
existence, and that all the impressions We
have on that subject are purely imaginary.
Still men will believe what they see and feel
and taste and hear and smell. This school
has never made much progress, neither Will
Mr.. SEWARD. Aad if be is horest in bis dec
lnrations he ought TO procure the diiband-
ment of all the Lincoln armies, aad thus put
his theory to actual test. He ought, further,
to refuse to hold any intercourse with for
eien nations which are laboring under the
Oujxotic impre ssion that there is any war
in this country. If be is right they are ma
king the veriest fools Of themselves, and
their nraseut Ministers, who have misrepre-
: pted affairs here should be reUaiied,sa.a
others sent in their places who would stub
bornly refuse to see anything in this country
which could be construed By the most mat
serof-fact understanding into war.
The truth is, Us theorist Mr. SEWARD,
who undoubtedly controls the administra-
ton at Washington, is as old as the Oldest ;
but as practical statesman he is younger
than kitten less than nine days old-his
eyes are not open. a few days ago, Mr..
LINCOLN, his nose of clay, gave the first re-
oeption of the season" at the White House.
N AZ. NJ -, I'll
gar crowd He left early because there were
but few of the persons with whom be has
TO deal present. Neither Of the Ministers
from England. France, Spain, Prussia or Aus
tria we're present. Such an event has Do
occurred, unexplained, for many year. There
vas but one representative CT prime Euro
pean power present, and that Minister wa
from the Gear of Russia, the chief despot, pas
excellence, of the earth. The only other Min
listers present were thoae from Sweden. Bre
men and Nicaragua. Our only surprise i
that an ambassador from Hayti was not pre-
sent, and the chief parsonage of the Assem-
blage. BE may have been in the kitchen IN
der promise of speedy promotion to the choic
est salon in the Presidential mansion.
But Mr. SEWARD must have propOundet
searching selfinterrogatory as TO the ab
.cence of Ny Lord Lyons, and the rest. 81
must have wondered if the just then lat
news from across the Atlantic had anytbin.
to do with it. These suggestions would hay'
been. st least, practical. If his metaphysic
teach him there is no war in any part of th'
United States, he certainly could not iguor
the possible fact of war with England
Whatever reflections these occurrences ma,
have led to in the mind of the Washin gto!
Cabinet, it is not out of the range of posi-
biiity that they were intended to be siguiii
cant of the feeling of the nations abroad @,
the subject of the revolution in Americs
England, France, Spain, Prussia, Austrir
and Russia are the first class powers of En-
rope. Only one out of the six grsced tn
frat Presidential leFee of the season Thi
fact Is significant to some extent of tn
sympathies Of those poAers. Outside c
this fact it is known that three out c
the six sympathise with the Confederat
States. From Russia We expect no friend
ship. Who caD.tell. nov, bat that the. per
ding war in our midst may sooner or late
involve the world, and but that the trivia
incident of the Presidential levee may Civ
. clue 70 the probable alignment of ths d
sionsi Let tbs friends of Armageddon NJ
despair -
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