Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-30

Mr.. SeyVard's FOrLIficatIOn CiFCEiaT-Ets
Effect at the NOrth-Opiatons OF the
Press
The promulgation Of the circular of Secretary
Sew ard, recommending the Governors Of the North,
ern States to provide for the defence of their tron-
tiers and seacoas has created intense feeling at
the North where it seems to be considered diplo.
matte puzzle intended for some supposed important
object vhich the political editors cannot yet deter
mine. 1t would seem, however, from the tenor OF
their articles eopious extracts from which We give
below thati is supposed the circular is to counter
act any influence that our commissioners, Aessrs
Mason and SIden, may exert in Europe, should they
safely arrive there. The New York Express, how
ever, sees nothing it but preparation reasOra-
by called for by the menacing attitude Of Eaglsnd
and says:
Mr. Stewards admonition to England, and other
mowers. for we presume from its publication, It is
rather an admonitiOn than an address 70 GOV. Nor
gan. is we'll very well, but We must not content
ourselves in receiving il only as foreign admonl-
tion but prepare for 1t here at home IN toTtgJlAg
and ayrniag The whole militia system Of this Stat
should be remodeled the moment the Legislature
assemblies Every man IN the State IRON Is 10 10,
should be brought under arms, for We know not
what day the British red coats IN CaEala may oe
nitched in upon US. But there are offensive steps
tn he taken as well as defensive. Our reclprocrscy
treaty with Canada should be overhauled, and Can
ads should be made t0~fPel that her cause and the
cause of the North are one.
What we want as an Offset to British interference
in orr civil war is American interference in Eng
land ard Canada re-developIng to the utmost there
the abolition and anti-slaVery 1urore II we nave
Irish orators here that can retread IN SAFETY ne son
of Ireland let them 90, as commissioners ana touch
the irish heart once more. Great Britain IS giving
as every reason to excite, wherever we can sentl
ment. passion, wrath against the Administration OF
the British Government. o..
The Frpress before the var and since the war,
has never disguised its spprehensons that We were
to have serious trouble with Great Britain, and with
France too if we did not diplomatizs and give
France business favors at the cost Of Great Britain
The feeling against Great Britain, indeed, IN TINS
country is becoming so strong that hundreds OF us,
Who denouEcea the Morrill, tariff as barbarlsm IN
ra5e rather rejoice in it now, and wish it was an
embargo en- British importations, rather than g
tariff IF the Morrill, tariff did not exist, sssoclG-
tons would soon be forming to touch not taste not
British manufactured goods'
The New York Commercial (Rep.) takes the Sec
retarv severely to task for issuing the Circular It
says:
The first thing probably that will the read
or Is the ineongfuity between the recOmme ndatlon
so oarnestIv and elabOratey made and the distinct
snrance that the danger Of any disturbance Of our
friendly relations with foreign powers IS now less
serious than it has been at any previous perJd GuF
ing the course of its insurrecIon-' Dy 1his i4us
orsge the Secretary of State means that such dan
co. "a stiIl serious but less imminent than it was
sav three or six month ago. We can only say that he
expresses himself somewhat vaguely, and even that
INTERPRETATION of his circular does not much mend
tba matter The call upon the States to do the work
that devolves upon the Federal Government ought
to have been when the danger was most imminent
and should not have been deferred TO the period
when the danger was 'less serious" And why
ahould the Secretary Of State thus throw tins alarm
creating appeal before the country now, that any
possible danger has nearly vanished, when no re-
recommendation was made to Congress on the sub
Sect. although upon the Secretary, own she wing
the danger more serious when that BODY was IN
session than tits now.