Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-03
rn. situation ON the Potomac.

All the neUs from the Potomac seems to indicate
that the Buu Runners win be compelled, in the
n,,re of things, to accept the gage of battle from
rour patriot army, within very few days.
Q The Potomac is now effectually bloQkaded
.bv heavy batteries at Transport ard
Matthias Point. Ingress and egress by watsrto
washington are efsetualiy stopped, and the ens~
nys main channel Of supplies is cut OF, together
,;tb their direct communication with Fortress Mon
roe from their capital This must eaeetually cripple
their resources and supplies for the large army
now concentrated at Washington. Their whole de-
pendence must now be upon the Washington branch
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which is
scarcely adequate for their purposes, when it is
considered that Washington has been the military
earsp1. for the supply of their immense forces IN
that quarter.
Added to this, it is now settled fact that
mu.lny, on large scale, has occurred in their
camp, which has been temporarily checked by
shooting down the mutineers. The remedy, howN
ever i we'll ca lated to produce smothered feel
ings Of indignation and revenge in the breasts of
great part of the whole army, and TO increase,
rather than diminish, the dissatisfaction. Whole
sale murder can never discipline volunteers into
submission to military authority. Such proceed
ing is evidence Of the deepest Generalization and
indicates unmstlkably that, unless action aud en-
terprise are infused into the army, it must become
hoPeiessly manageable.
There is another reason why Mcclellan is close
vpressed to retrieve the disasters of the campaign
Big Bethel, Bull Run, Vienna Manassas Plains,
Springfield and Lexington have lowered the crest
Of the Northern masses, and have produced a wide
spread feeling that brilliant victory must be
wonor grsat advantage gained in order to their
escztcheoR from absolute disgrace They have boast
ed so long of their superior numbers resources and
power, and have been met by reverse after re-
verse in the face of their thrests ard gasconade,
that they will not be content with seeing their inn
r,nse army, raised and organized at cost Of hun
drels Of millions, merely hiding behind their in
t.enchmants to defend their capital from capture.
Something more as necessary, in the eyes Of their
own Ieadess, degraded as they are, much more N
the estimation Of the world to save them from con
tempt They, whom they have boosted Of conquer
ing and subjugatiug in brief sharp and decisive
contest are pressing them to the wall threatening
their capital ard plunging their murderous fires
from imDregnablc batteries into tie great river
which commands their communication with the
.O-ean. Whist humIiating and Gizgfacetul IOsi-
ton, fo- nation that las Dragged SO largely to C
cgpg!
They rarss cxtricgte themselves from ills 5ill-
Gully or be forever faleuia TIE estimation Ct ch--s
tendon.
Aud then their capitalists and bankers, wlO
agreed to take the last mammoth loan, on the ex-
press condition that greater energy was to be OF
served in tie cOnduc. Of the war. What viii they
think of the great army for which they have poured
out their treasure, instesd Of reco7qIeriHg tie
rebels" nd whipping" back The seeded stitss,
c0ntenting themselves with sitting down safely be-
hind their entertainments and igaomiuiOusy shirk-
ia- hattie.
!. .aaet be. The Hessans must 6sht or be
dalaaralizad ard destroyed. Their people VIII rot
consent 70 be taxed for such war. They viii
demand another advance, or they will despair of
achieving The purpose of The war. One or the other
must occur, within the succeeding autumn days
which ere destined to Be the most eyentful in the
history Of the war.