Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-11-23

ner as not to interrupt the commercial inter-
eonrse betveen our people, or place check
on their productive energies. For this end
the means of transportation from one sec
ton of our country to the other must be
carefully guarded and siEproved, and this
should be the object of anxious care on the
part OF the State and Confederate Govern
ments. so far as they have power over the
subject. We have already two main systems
of through transportation from the North to
the South, one from Richmond along the
seaboard, and the other through Western
Virginia to New Orleans. The third might
be secured by completing Ink of about 40
miles Between DaaVilles in Virginia. aud
Greensborough in North Carolina. The con-
struction of this comparatively short slines
would give US a through route from North
TO South in the Interior of the Confederate
States, and give Us access to population and to
military resources from which we are now IN
great measure debarred-we should Increase
greatly the safety and capacity of our means
of transporting men and military supplies.
II the construction of this road should In the
judgment of Congress. as it is in mine. be in
dispensable for a vigorous prosecution OF the
war, the action of Government will not be
restrained by the constitutional objections
which would attach 10 q work for CONNER
eial purposes; aud your attention is invited
to the prsetscability of securing its early
completion, by giving the needful aid to the
company organized Tor its construction and
administration.
III We husband our means, and make a jul
dieious use of our resources. il would be diff
fcult to tx a limit to the period during which
we could conduct a war against the adFer-
sary whom we now encounter The very et-
forts which he makes to isolate and ipvade as,
must exhaust his means, whilst they serve to
complete the circle and diversity of the pro-
dnetion of our industrial system The de-
struetion which he seeks to effect by arms be.
comes daily more and more palpably impos-
sible. Not only do the causes which induced
us to separate still exist in full force, bat
they have been. strengthened; and whatever.
doubt may have fingered in the minds Of any
has been completely dispelled by Subsequent
events. II, instead of being dissolution OF
a league, il were indeed a rebellion ia which
we are engaged. we might find ample yindi-
cation for the cause We have adopted ia the
scenes which are now being enacted in the
United States Our people hook with con-
tempt aud establishment on those with whom
they had been SO recently associated, and
they shrink with deriston, from tue bare idea
of renewing such a connection, when they see
President making war without the assent
of Congress-when they, behold Judges
threatened because they maintained the writ
of hoJeds coyus, so sacred to freemen-when
they see Justice and Law trampled under the
armed heel of military authority, and upli ght
men and innocent women dragged to distant
dungeons upon the mere edict of q d. spot.
When they 6nd all this tolerated and ap-
plauded by the people who had been In the
full enjoyment of freedom but few months
ago, they believe that there must be some
radical incompatibiiity between such peos
ple and themselves. With such people We
may be content to live at peace, but the sep
aration is final, and for the independence W.
have asserted we xill accept no alternative.
The nature OF the hostilities which they have
waged against us must be characterized as
barbarous wherever is is understood. They
have bombarded undeended villages without
giving notice to women and children, tesen-
able them to escape, and In instances teleet-
ed the night as the period when they might
surprise them most etfeetually, whilst asleep
and unsuspicious of danger, arson and rapine,
the destruction of private houses and proper
ty. and injuries of the most wanton char &C, er
even upon nen-eombatants, have marked
their forays. Although we ought to have
been adInonished by these things that they
were disposed to make war upon US in
| the most cruel aud relentless spirit, yet
| we were not prepared 10 see them iii
| out large naval expedition with the
| confessed purpose not only OF plumber
I but to Inclta n sefVlle inSnrfectiOn IN our
midst If they convert their soldiers into
! incendiaries and involve us in a species OF
| war which claims non-combatants, women
| and children as its victims, they must expect
| to he treated as outlaws and enemies of man
! kind There are certain rights of humanity
which are entitled to respect even in war
| as in peace, and he who refuses TO regard
| them forfeits his claims, If captured, to be
| considered as a prisoner of war. but must
4 h Il
ali law human and divine. But not content
! with violati ag our rights underline law of IA
/ tons at home, they have extended these in
/ iariesso as within'anotber jurisdiction The
/ distinguished gentlemen whom, with your
| approval at the last session of Congress,
| commissioned 10 represent the Confederacy
4 at certain foreign Courts, have been recently
| seized by the captain of United States
! ship of war on board British steamer, or
their voyage from the neutral Spanish por
of. Havana to England. They have thus
claimed a general jurisdiction over the higt
seas aud entering a British ship sailing un
der its couptrys flag, have violated tbs
1 rights OF embassy, for the most part helt
sacred even among barbarians by seZne
/ onr Ministers while under the protection
1 and domains of a neutral nation. These
! gentlemen were as much nnder the jurisdic
ton of the British Government upon that
ship anu Deuestth It's nag, as III I0ey naQ Deer
on IFS soil. aud claim on the part of The
Z. United Statessto seize them in the streets O
! Lontion would have been as well founded a.
that to apnrehend them where they were ia
4 ken Had they been Indicators, and iciti
zens Of the Bnited States, they could no
! have been arrested, unless aInders the express
] provisions of a treaty .ahd according to thu
/ forms therein provided for the ex tradition
Of criminals. But rights. the most sa
4 cred seem toshave lost, all respect in their
eyes. When Mr.. Faulkner, a former Minis
I ter of the, Uailed States to France, commits
q stoned before the secession of Virginia, biz
/ Hatise State, returned in good faith to Wash
| iugtoatO settle his accounts aud fulfill al
the obligations into which he had entered
he i8as perfdiously arrested and imprisonet
in New York, where he now is. The unsus
pecIing confidence with which he reported {,
his Government was abused. and his desire
to fulfill his trust to them was used TO hi
injury. -,S ,.-s5- U.s. -. F
4 10 conducting this war we have soug bit NJ
aid and proposed no alliances. offensive or de
fensive, abroad. We have asked for recog
| nized place in the family of nations; but il
doing SO we have demanded nothing TO
which we did not offer fair equivalent. Th,
! advantages Of intercourse are mutual anon,
nations. and in seeking to establish diploma
II fic Vytsrf, fDlv f,udpa 4,