Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-17
The danger Of Rebellion in the NORTH.

| JAMES BUCHANAN.
! The Danger of Rebellion in the NORTH.
/ From the New YOrK Times, Oct g
The symptoms Of a mutinous and seditious spirit
| against the Government are daily and hourly de-
velOping themselves ct the North, in the radical
wing OF the republican party and among the Abo-
| htionists of the true blue stripe Both factions
having been separated by only the breadth OF hair
or the difference between tweedle-dum and tweedle.
| dee, now cordially united in opposition to the
| President, whose manly letter 10 Fremont is the
occasion for the opening of general fire upon him.
| from the big sixtyfOur Founders dowR to the pop
| guns Even the telegraph at St Louis is used 70
| spread untinythrough the North. Under the cir
cumsauces it Is the duty of the conservative ele-
| ments to come forward and sustain Mr.. Lincoln aud
denounce the Abolition traitors, who are the prime
cause of the present misfortunes of the country,
and are doing their worst to render permanent the
| mischief they have wrought. The Government
itself consulting its safety ought to seize and
| incarcerate the leaders, who thousand times
more dangerous than the editors of Northern papers
| sympathizng with the Southern rebellion, and
opposing the war for the Union. The Secession
heresy never had any strength at the North and it
| Is now completely squelched here by the vigorous
action Of the Government; but a more formidable
and far more extensive disunisn element openly
defes the President, spis upon and execrates the
Constitution, which is the bond o. the Union and
| threatens to subyert our whole political system
turning 1t either into consolidated military des
yg
numerous petty chieiteins will each play an inde>
pendent part.
When the Southern Seeessionisss were forming
their plans against the Federal Government IFe
warned hr. Buchanan Of the danger, and call-d on
him to act with energy. We told him that his foes
were Of his own household that leading members
Of the Democratic party meditased the destruction
of the Government. Our admonitions were IN
needed, Snd the consequence il bloody civil war.
We now warn Mr.. Lincoln that there Is a disaffec-
ton TO his Government his at NOPth.
that it is every day gaining strength and that unless
he speedily brushes it, it is very likely soon to crush
him and betrEy the cause of the Union into the
hands Of its Southern foes. This is now the real
danger Of the county, and it should be promptly
met by the powerful arm Of the Government before
It consoidAtes its strength and natures its plans.
If the policy Of the red revolutionary republi-
cans prevailed, and the Government we're weak
enough TO Succumb to it and endorse such prOcla>
nations IS FremOnts, or issue others to the same
effect, the North would become divided instead of
q united people, and the South would become so
thoroughly unitsd that 1t would be as easy to ind
white crow as Union man beyond the Delaware
and the Ohio. When the war commenced. no sane
well informed man hoped for the success Of our
arms, uUless upon the basis Of Union element in
the Southern States, which would become developed
as our armies advanced. The maignity of abo |
tOnism seeks to destroy that element and convert
it into Of hostility, and If it is only successful
the men of the present generation will not live to
see the end of the war; and from its vast extensive
nature covering an area Of two thirds Of the soil
of the United States, it will soon exhaust and ruin
the country.
Already great evil has been done by the procla>
nation Of General Fremont in Missouri. We have
the testimony. of Rev Mr. Olmstead, pastor Of the 1
Baptist Church at BOOnVile in letter in Chicago
Republican journal, that "the whole country in
Northwestern Missouri is up and focking by hun
tredS to Prices camp, their arms being of every de-
Scrpton, that the whole force OF the rebels march
ng from various points. against the Union army
will amount from 100 900 to $50 600 men = and his
opinion ls that the only hope Is to fall back, con-
,entrate, entFench, and act on the defensiVo Such
ire the first fruits in Missouri of the false step Of
Fremont towards making the one Of emancie
'auon, instead Of war TO restore the status quo ant
eINm-ths same condition As existed before hostili-
les broke out The AbolitiOnistI and rad
cal Republicans do not want the UuiOn restored :
nless negro slavery Is cut out of it bV the sword
hey do not want the Union restored unless the es.
entail principles Of the Constitution are abolished
principles without which the Uuion never could :
ave been formed. A Union without the COnstitu-
ion is new question which neither the President I
or Congress nor Generals have any right to solve q
hat remains for the decision Of the people in con -
sntlon assembled, and any attempt to decide It in =
ny other way would be aB-act Of usurpation and
ebelon, equAling in criminality the couTse Of the
outhern rebels.
The President has been denounced by the radical
rgans because he did not override the act Of Con
ress relating TO the cOntIcatng of slaves and other 81
roperty. These reckless revOluton.sts thus call if
the President to peTjVrs himself. He is sworn Ell
maintain the Constitution and execute the laws dC
was upon this ground that the Herald and the tv
press Of the country called on Presi %
snt Buchanan and after him on President LincoIn s.
put down the rebellion in conformity with the Ell
Ith of Office. Unlike the monarchies Of Europe, DC
our Government it is not the Chief Magistrate, in
1t the National Legislature, that is the max an
g power, and therefore controls and defines the an
gects of war. When the present war broke out
ID before COngess had assembled, the President We
d discretion subject to the revision of Congress- slC
1t as that body met and passed an act lin Pr
ng the discretion OF the President on the very 3
int raised by Fremont's proclamation, the Presi in
mt who was sworn to carry OFT the laws CT Con-
ess, was bound to conform TO that policy himself ia
d to cause all in authority under HIM to do like III
Sc; and the fact Of the abolition journals expect M
him to do the contrary Is an admission of their
famous designs-that when they voted for him as mir
esident they expected him to use his power as | eb
esident to abolish slavery, and when they sup No,
rted the war in the commencement they also
ped that such was its object; and now, when they m
cover the contrary and that he is not willing to chi
y the part Of usurper, they filed with all the
,s Of disappointment. ArC
The patriotism of the President has so far baflsd the
If schemes and he ought to be warmly support erq
by the whole country, without regard to party 7
itics. But meantime, it will be only an act of the
.dent precaUtiOn on the part of Mr.. Lln0Oln's bea
to arrest the leaders of Conspiracy Sew
falling IN atroaity that Of Catalina ard his cons I
crates In ancient Rome. not
Prom Fortress Monroe. Mt
rom late number Of the New York Tribune, wit
extract portion Of one of its correspondence fgh
n Old Point Comfort, as throwing some little
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