Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-09-08
Dreading consequences.

1t is hard for man to believe in the total
depravity of the human heart. There is a
limit to the unlimited, paradoxical "a il NAV
| seem. Whoever supposed that there could
be any act performed by the Federal author
| itirs that past and hoped-for pay wonld not
| induce Paul K. Shipman and his tool Geor ge
d. Prentice, OF Louisville, to sanctionl Has
there ever been an honest mau in Kentucky
who believed that Imagination could dream
an act mean enough to draw forth a protest
from either, if paid for approving it Not
one. AMI yet Lincoln has succeeded in prov
| ing that, even in these lscariots, nature bad
somewhere planted ons healthy seed, which
in their hollow hearts, could finally be found
and made to rattle out truth.
Ga the 2nd of this month the Louisville
Journal printed the following comment on
General Fremont's late proclamation
The proclamation of martial law in Mis-
souri, by Major General Fremont is a step of
extreme severity. We are aware of nothing
in the condition of Missouri that iustifies the
step. Whether it is approved by the civil
authorities OF Missouri and thu military au-
thoritles OF the nation. or by either, We know
not. We, however, shall probably know in
the course of few hours. Meanwhile, we
can but profoundly regret and condemn the
measure. Is there indeed to be no end to the
burdens that are flung heedlessly upon the
shoulders of our beloved country in this des-
pefdte struggle lOr n1r EXISTENCE
As the clang OF war IL heard nearer and
nearer TO the Journals sanctum, its loud
echoes are shaking truth from the mean car.
Cases heretofore generally supposed igno-
rant even of its existence. The affrighted
hand. forgetting the constant itching palm.
traces out at last condemnation of the
evil deeds of those who creased it into silent
motion.
As the stealthy spy is felt to be seated at
hIS nxUn hos rA
wounded by the loss even OF his dream of in-
iuence, and AS wife and sous call aloud to
him to try to remember that even be has 9th
er ties than those OF money to bind him to
The State that has fostered him, with Fort
Lafayette to the north of him, aud a Ken
lucky gibbet to the south of him, Prentice
lays the blame at last on the masters that
bought him, and askes, on reading the federal
proc lamation-"Is there to be no end to the
burdens that are flung heedlessly upon the
shoulders of our beloved country ?" He now
sees phere the burdens come from; but can he
forget who has been calling them, and WOO
ing them to Kentucky? He now talks of
1.-The awkwardness and unfaithfulness of the
men entrusted in this exigency with the con-
troll of affairs" Can he forget who has cou-
tinually said that Kentucky should be guild
ed and controlled by this Identical awkward
ness and unfaithfulnessi
The only remedy these men of the Journa
see is one strictly in accordance with their
opprobrIous measures, the remedy OF cowar-
dce-submission to the very "awkwardness
and unfaithfulness" whose measures thew
condemn! Not by submission to oppression
is remedy to be found against its evils. The
lower people aliases itself, the more pite-
ously will tyranny trample upon it. Preach
to Kentucky servile submission to men
whom you style the cause of all the burdens
flung on your country, and whom you brand
as incapable, and such preachings may be-
come the hired tool of incapable tyranny;
but Kentucky must indeed be strangely al
tered ii she can heed the sermon.
Every Southern State that has boldly
espoused the constitutional cause of State
rights, and armed in defence OF the constitu-
ton, every Southern State that has resisted
the metamorphOsis of that constitution into
party platform, has had no burdens to bear
from the hand of despotism, which is ever
weak against right. The hesitancy of Mis-
souri, has met its punishment in wrongs
great enough TO call forth the condemnation
even of Paul r. Shipman, and the impossible
neutrality OF kentucky has transformed her
into the future battlefield of North and
South, whereas her hearty cooperation with
her Southern sisters would have averted the
evils of war from both North and South, and
rendered the abolition of freedom in the for
mer task far more difficult than it has been.
1t will not do for the Journal hereafter to
plead "error of opinion" for opinions have
nothing to do with the pursuance of plain
duty, and no duty is palmer than that which
makes it incumbent on the citizen to protect
from executive ambition the charter of hu-
man liberties.-Aenaphis Appeal.