Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-21

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An ancient soothsayer would not have augured
well for our day of national humiliation fasting and
prayer, so cold and cloudy was it. Due observance
! was paid to it by all save a few rum sellers and
! drinkers. The churches were well attended and
the sermons were in some instances powerful. The
services at ST. Paul's, the church attended by the
President, were peculiarly solemn and impressive
The choir was enriched by one Of the clearest and
sweetest soprano voices to which have ever lis
| tened, and the discourse Of the Rev. Mr.. WILMER
contained enough original and striking thought to
make up score Of common place sermons The
theme was the duration of the war, and it was
treated az became man and christians true
Southern man, full of love for hts country and his
country cause and full too of just resentment and
righteous indignation against the base besotted and
God-forsskeu wretches who seek to crush US under
the vilest of despOtisms. Yet it was no political
sermon, but abounded in genuine christian doctrine
and sentiment, in humble recognition of the rod
which the Almighty has laid upon US for our sins.
Some of the points were admirably made, as, for
instance, this-that without the shedding of blood
there ia no remission of sins; but said the speaker
nation has no life hereafter. its he'll is ion this
earth, and it's sins be RENTED only by shedding
the blood of its sons-the first born, the truest and
the best. Thoughts like this, uttered in tones the
most earnest and thrilling, made the heart of the
congregation stand still more than once
Our State Convention has not gone fairly to work
Members were slow to arrive in the city, and while
one-half the people are profoundly indifferent to
the proceedings, whatever they may be, the other
half rampant with the idea that the Convention
has resolved itself into Committee of informed
ding, with power to call for persons and papers
during the whole war. Organic changes in our
Constitution are, doubtless needed but the DISPOSE
ton of the people is to postpone these changes un-
til such time ss the moral atmosphere may become
clear and calm free from the perturbstions of san
culinary strife.
gentleman has just arrived here from Cumber
land Gap with the intention of getting Gov. Letcher
to call out en- dsss the militia of the counties in
Virgiaia adj accent to Kentucky. He reports as tie
result of confidential conversation with General
ZoIlicosr that that officer did not consider himself
in danger. Whether this conversation occurred
after or before the burning of the bridges is not
stated, If it be true, as many here contend, that
onethird of Tennessee il disafected, together with
the counties of Ashe and Watauga in N c., then 1t
is evident that Zollicoer is by no means safe, for
bis supplies may be cut of at any moment.
Late advices from the various corps of our army
are so doubtful that they can hardly be called i'm
portant. It's said we are to have grand fight at
Centrevle to-day, also that Jackson and Loring are
about to join their forces in order to crush large
force of the enemy at Romuey but these sayings are
taken with many grains Of allowance.
We have received no Nashville papers of later
date than the 10th inst 1 read with sincere pleas
ure your editorial on Mr.. HUNTER In nay judg-
ment, he is, by Odds the purest and sblest states
man, in the COnfederacy. That he could mot be
spared from the Cabinet, is evident but, at the
same time, can well believe the assertion of his
friends, that he took the position at great person
81 sacrifice and from the highest considerations Of
duty to his country. regret to learn that he is
deeply afflicted in. consequence of the extremely
precarious health of his eldest son. recent grsdu
ate of the University and By common consent one Of
the most promising young men in the State.
The account given in my last letter of The gam
bling hells recently broken up by order of the May
or as it turns out, bntby the suggestion doubtless
of President DAVIS, for this is new theory the
part Of the Mayor, who has permitted it to go on
undisturbed for years, affords some idea of the
pid spread of vice in the Confederate Metropolis.
Thirty nine prisoners from Washington reached
here last evening. They came by way OF Fortress
Monroe, and were released in return for the same
number Of mangled Yankees, sent from our hospit-
as few weeks sgO While in prison they had
little else to eat besides bread and water and mean
meat They think MCCLELLAN will give battle
shortly.
1 do no. overrun the mark when say that there
is gro wing conviction here that we shall be COM
PEELED to hoist black flag and neither give nor ask
quarter. When the Yankee Government authorizes
SHERMAN to arm the negroes he steals from u.s. what
other recourse have have wei Even ministers of
the Gospel have been heard to say that it would
have been better for us to have adopted this plan
in the beginning.
You ave, perhaps, heard how the venerable
DR.. COVE RsE editor of The Christian Observer waz
driven from Philadelphia by the mob, and became
an exile because of his devotion to the South The
daughter of this aged minister, with heroism wor
thy Of her father, left her home with her little bro
Their and after days of toll and suffering, during
which she slept two nights on the bare ground with
no protection but her shall sole covering for hers
self and brother, arrived safely In Richmond few
days age, bringing her trunks with her. in spite of
the jealous vigilance of the LINCOLN officials. who
searched them and cross-exsmined her at every
stopping place. Who will say that this war
has not produced heroines of the highest order.
equal in all the elements of Roman fortitude and
Spartan courage to the daring and desperate heroes
who upon the blood-red field, in the PASSES of the
mountains and on the dark waters at dead of night
have taught the world how proudly Southerners
can do and die in defence of the soil which God has
given them "fOr heritage forever" LET US fondly
hope and in behalf of the holy cause Of civil liberty
and undefled religion. of which God has made them
champions against the atheists, infdels and law,
breaking Constitution violaters of the fanstcal, /
tyrannOus and inhumsnly, pitless and unmerciful
NORTH PARKS.
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