Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-04-07

We a,.epermitted tottpublsh the following extract
from private letter from citizen of Nashville to
friend in this city Both the writer and the gem
teman to whom it is addressed have hitherto acted
with the Union party.
New York April l, 1851
Dear Sirs-You would be surprised to sec New
York as it IS, compared with what it was but one
short year ago. Then everything was buoyant and
prosperous, and every house had a tenant, and al
most every face you might see looked cheerful
Hotels were crowded to oyerfowing, and it was
often that man could scarcely find resting place
without taking rooms IN the attic of some one of
these great palaces in the shape of hotels Buthow
changed nowi Stroll up and down Broadway or
the smaller streets crossing this great thoroughfae,
among the splendid marble palaces, and the thou
sand and one to lets' that may be seen upon the
doors and windows, tells, alas but too sadly. the
melancholy story. The bright and cheerful faces OF
other days have changed to sadness, and New YORK
to-day is but the shadow of its former greatness
Hundreds, and, might say, thousands OF business
firms that in her Dalmy days were considered strol
have been force - succumb to the pressure AT ~
are now numbered among the things that were. In
our business our operations have been conieu -
limited few and even among that NUMBER inore .en
half doomed, entirely gone, anu 1Po. .4..-
doors TO lett is all that can be seen. ny y"n -
pression Is that in twelve menths from Io-usy not
moro .n half sIdozen of our acquaintances Will be
left Ask Southern man who dlo II, ana nus answer
win be. the id Black Republicans ASK q ne
publican who did it, and he VIII at once say the
ID Secessionists of the south. AND so 1t
coes ASH the Southener what's the remedy,
He AZ once SAYS for all the South to 60
tooether Ask the Northern man, friendly TO
ne Gdmnistration, what's the remedy, and some of
tbe internal scoundres will say with their Yankee
brogue, ,uip them in, without the h. / tell them
thew viii have good time at that As q general
thing. the business men are all right, and among
the class of houses that we do business with they
are in favor of the States South going right out
they say there is no other remedy. and the sooner
the better. There is great complaint here abont
this new tariff The great majority of the import
ers swear they will not submit to it, and / would
not be at all surprised if in less than ten days. there
was az effort on foot among the New York mer>
chants to declare their independence, aud their
sympathles with the South. AS truly as / live,
believe that in the event of united South, New
York City viii go with it. / have talked with a
great many men, and they all say that they are
done importing goods to New York if she holds on
to the North. and the South goes out. ! presume
this new tariff was gotten up under the impression
that it would be an additional source of revenue.
If So never were set of people more completely
deluded for until the country is thoroughly and
completely drained of all the foreign fabrics in it,
and the necessities of the people require it. there
will not be twenty five per cent of the former rev>
enue received from this source, and the Admins
tration will be forced to pOd along with an empty
treasury broken, bankrupt, ruined, and how silly
to talk of Wipping the South into terms with an
empty treasury. Why sir, if an effort were made
to coerce the South, Icanddly believe that hun
dred thousand men could be raised here to fight for
the South before the same number could be had to
favor coercion. But where are the munitions of
war, the men and the moneys-It is truly absurd
to think about it. But fear you will think am
more interested in the politics Of the country thar
my business.
Yoy,rc firmly