Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-18
tongues and pens were in the market and
could be bought With the gold and patronage

at the disposal OF the administration
The history of Louisville from that time to
the present is wen calculated to shake our
confidence in the capacity of man for self
government. We have all seen how her
people have been moved, step by step, in the
path that was leading them to their own
ruin. We have seen the means employedto
array her manufacturers,7 her merchants,
and her working men against their own in
terests. We have heard the arguments used
but too successfully in favor of policy that
could but destroy her business and cut her
off from all the sources of her wealth and
prosperity. We have seen her invite the
soldiers of the North to drive out, by their
presence and their arms, those Of her loyal
and true citizens who could neither be bought
nor inundated into acquiescence in the sui
cidal course marked out for her by the
friends of the administration, and heard the
shouts with which short-sighted populace
welcomed their destroyers. The worst is
not reached yet; but what is her condition
now? The piercing blasts of winter are not
driving through her streets, but who can es-
innate the suffering of the unemployed thou
sands who sit in DISCONTINUED groups and
scowl oInineuslyas they think of the long
| and dreary months to come? The abun-
dance of summer is not yet dissipated, but
whose heart is hard enough to be unmoved
as he. looks in at the pale, gaunt forms which
even now speak of want and despair in the
cottage of the laborer? Lincoln is master of
Louisville. His troops file in long columns
through her streets. The flag which he has
made the emblem, of despotism is everywhere
to be seen floating from her public buildings
and private residences. She is '1oyaP'-
''loyar' according to the requirements and
ideas of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, of joe Holt, OF
GEORGE D. PRESTIGE! What are the fruits
of that loyalty?-a loyalty which he'Usurper
requires shall be manifested by the people
| of every part of the State under the pains
| and penalties of treason and outiawry
| They are seen in her silent mills, her stilled
| manufactures, her idle workshops, her
| closed stores, her deserted wharves-in the
prostration of every interest Of every class
| of her citizens-in the bankruptcy and ruin
| of her capitalists, and in the beggary and
starvation of her working men. These are
some of the effects of the f'mild and pater-
| nar' government for which we are asked to
fight, as seen in a community lately the most
| prosperous, happy, and contented of any
on earth. The administration has undispu-
ted sway in Louisville. The people there
| have been taught that submission is duty,
and the few gallant spirits who think other
wise are overpowered and helpless. The
responsibility cannot be shifted. Whether
the condition of that city be good or bad,
the administration must have the praise or
bear the blame. If the Southern troops
were in Louisville, as the Northern troops
are every mill there might run night
and day, and ready sale for cash, at bet
ter prices than ever realized, of every pro-
duct would encourage andreward enterprise;
every foundry and machine shop would have
employment for every laborer that could be
crowded into its workshops, at more than
renunerative rates; every store would be
crowded with eager purchasers, with pock-
cts filled with money; every hotel would be
filled from bottom to top; and, as in times
past, every product of the farm, and all the
fruits of industry and skill would be sought
for there, and carried thence for the use of
those whose patronage and encouragement,
cut off by LINcoLE's Ubiquitous policy,
coupled with the folly of shOrtsighted
people, have made Louisville all she ever
was, and would have enabled her to realize
the most sanguine expectations of the most
enthusiastic Kentuckian. ..---
Such is Louis vile, and such she ght
have been. The recent history of that city
is the history on larger scale of other cities
and towns in the State which have passed
for the present under the yoke of the tyrant
or writhe beneath his heel. Before his adj
ministration and the Inauguration of his per
fidious policy, all was peace, prosperity, and
happiness; now all is confusion, ruin, and
woe and misery unutterable.
The counties of Southern Kentucky and
their cities and towns, were prosperous be-
fore the revolution in the same degree that
Now, instead of being under the heel Of the
tyrant, and subject to his sway, as is the
case ia the Northern part of the State, the
people south of Green river and west of the
Cumberland, have risen against usurpation
and tyranny, and in defense of their rights
and liberties, and, aided by the arms OF their
friends and brothers of the Confed erate
States, have rescued that region from the
grasp of the despot. Shall we compare
their condition with that of their unhappy
countrymen in Louisville and the adjacent
country? 1t is enough to say that here
there is peace, security, plenty; here there
is market for everything the farmer, the
mechanic, or the merchant has to sell; here
there is employment for every laborer at
high wages; here are no idle hands, no
mouths untitled, no crowds clamoring for
bread, no gloomy forebodings, no dread of
the future What we have shown the coun-
ties and towns north of us might have been,
those in this section are. What the condi-
ton of that portion of the State from which
the Federals have been excludedor expelled
now is, that of the entire State viii be when
her liberation is completed, and her union
with her southern sisters perfected. May
God hasten that happy day,
Letter from Pensacola.
From Our Own Correspondent
PENSACOLA, Sunday evening, Oct. IL.
Several OF our officers, among them Cap-
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