Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-09

her limits. Men, women and children are
fleeing from their homes 10 seek an asylum
amongst their friends OF the South. Many of
her best and nobiest citizens are the tenants
of dungeons, and of the free men who few
short months ago discussed without restraint.
the policy and measures of the Government,
there remain none who dare to speak except
IN terms of adulafion of the tyranny which
has robbed them of their liberties. Not con-
tent with the degradation imposed upon the
people, they have caused to be arres ed and
imprisoned their elected Representatives to
the Legislature, who were suspected of enter
tanning opinions adverse to the measures of
President Lincoln. -
In Missouri the despotic rule of the militia
~ leaders sent there by the United States,
has been even more calling and oppressive,
III such were possible. u g ~
The bloody code of military laws by which
that unhappy country is at present govern
ed, is equal in enormity to any of which there
Is record In the pages of the history of the
civilized world. Martial law has been pro-
claimed and established, so far as the FEEDER
al Government has the physical power to
establish it, and the civil authorities superce-
ded by the military A citizen charged with
an offence against the law is no longer al
lowed the privilege of fair and impartial
trial by jury of his peers, but is subjected
to the mockery of a trial by drum-head
court martial, composed of members who may
not even comprehend word of the language
IN which the laws are written; and who have
entered the military service of the United
States as mere adyenturers, or mercenary
cut-throats, who are willing to butcher their
fellow men for hire.
As independent States, both Missouri and
Maryland have ceased to exist They have
been blotted from that catalogue of soye-
reignties, and foreign master has placed his
foot upon the necks of their once free and
happy people.
What may be said of that once proud Ken
lucky, which Tennessee has always regarded
as a twin sister? She, too, seems almost ready
to fall victim to the arms of our common
enemy. For the admiration we feel for her
noble sons who are rallying by thousands to
rescue her from the perils which overriding her
present and future, and in memory of her
glorious past let US hope, and hope without
doubling, that she will hurl the manacles
from Der limbs before they have been firmly
riveted, and once more stand forth amongst
Der sister States of the South redeemed and
disenthralled, the same as we have known
her in other aud better days.
Maryland, Missouri and Kentucky may
have to bear yet little longer the tortures
OF their enslavement, but the day of their
dellyerance will come. Millions of their
sympatsizing friends of the South regard
their Cause as their own, and If it is the wish
OF those States to be saved, the soldiers of
the South will never lay down their arms I'M
til the last Northern mercenary has been
driven beyond their borders!
The States of the South now engaged in
this momentous struggle for freedom may
behold in the present condition of Maryland
aud Missouri a faint picture of what their
own fate would have been if they had de-
layed their declarations of independence and
postponed the work of preparing to resist
the encroachments of an INSCRIPTIONS enc
my. Had we remained short time longer
IN lnglorious ease, living in the enjoyment of
the delusive hope that a returning sense OF
justice would induce the Northern people to
award to US our full measure OF Constitu-
tlonal right, we would, like the victim en-
clrcled by the anaconda, have been crushed
without the power of resistance.
The condition of Maryland and Missouri
furnishes Us with a dim foreshadowing of
what our own fate would be if the fortunes
OF war should result even in the partial sub
DURATION of any of the Confederate States.
We would be blind indeed if we did not
see That for US there can be no future to which
annlhilatiOn would not be preferable, except
In the establishment of our Independence
All that we have, and all that we hope for, is
dependent upon successful issue to this con-
hlct. Not only our estates and our rights of
every description, but our liberties and our
lives are staked upon the result.
The South has entered into the struggle
with enthusiasm and unanimity, knowing
well the consequences which would surely
follow defeat
Already have our enemies parceled out in
prospective the property of our people, and
their deluded soldiers are reveling in imagi
nation in the promised homesteads of the gal
liant defenders of our soil.
The Northern tax payers who hesitate to
encourage the prosecution of a war, which,
even in the first months of its progress, is in
creasing the national debt at the rate of over
million of dollars per day, are silenced in
to acquiescence by the promise that the South
shall pay the entire expense, past. present,
aud future, so soon as she is subjugated.-
And visions of prospective positions Of dig
nifty and power in the government of the
conquered provinces of the South, are daz-
King the fancy of their ambitious military
chiefs.
Never before did any people engage in a
war in which they had more to gain by Sue
cess, or to lose by defeat, than have the peo-
pie of the Confederate States in the present
struggle. Aad never yet have any people
marched forward with nobler. frmer or
more united purpose, to gain all or lose all.
They have known from the beginning, that
there was for them no intermediate stopping
place, between complete victory and entire
ruin. -se-s az -. = 81.
In the stand they have taken. they present
the noblest spectacle of sublime devotion to
libertyl Unselfish patriotism aud perfect
fraternity wherein the wealth OF money, and
the best blood of the country are all thrown
into the common stock without stint or reser-
walton, to achieve a common and glorious de-
hverance, or to perish by common dsasteri
In the Providence of Almighty God, it was
never designed that such people should fail
in achieving their independence. despite the
power of superior numbers to which their in
vaders may lay claim.
The pages of history do not furnish sin
gle example where eight millions of united
freemen have been permanently subdued by
any power, however formidable, which may
have been brought against them. The spirit
which animates men who combat in defence
of their families aud their homes, renders
them more than match for twice their num-
Der of mere mercenary adyersaries who fight
for plumber and for conquest.
Witness the various engagements which
have aireahy marked the progress of the war.
Remember the siege of Sumter, the battle of
Bethel, the crowning glory of Manassas,
where our victorious legions drove back that
'-Grand Army" in wild confusion and dismay
lutO Tue very pIeseuCe Oh the QecpOb VINO sent
them forth, and into the very capital from
whence they had marched only short time
before, flushed with the assurance of an easy
victory. Remember the brilliant achieve
ments at Springfield and Lexington.
{ The difficulties which beset us for time
are resulting in permanent advantages. The
rigid blockade which it was yainly supposed
would starve US into submission, has not on
ly taught US how easily we can dispense with
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ed, but having thrown US upon our own re-
sources, it has developed internal sources of
wealth o. which we had lived in comparative
ignorance
Instead of the bread which we have hereto
fore punched beyond our limits, we have fur
!nished it ourselves in fourfold abundance
from our own teeming and generous soil. The
contemplation of a possible necessity, has
taught Us that we can produce within the
limits of the Confederacy, every necessary
al ticle for whichw have heretofore been de-
yaudant unon others Tenuessae aIane m