Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-05-16

of his plans with so much celebrity and com.
| parative secresy. that month had onIy
elapsed when be startled the country with a
display of war vessels, equipped and in full
commission, more formidable and extensive
than the people supposed the nation possessed
One week from bis induction into Office be
| gave assurances that Fort Sumter was to be
speedily evacuated-and sustained this i'm
preston for nearly three weeks; but in one
month he dispatched messenger to inform
the South Carolina authorities that Sumter
would be speedily reinforced and provisioned
at all hazards; and in five weeks his war
ships and transports were at the mouth OF
Charleston harbor for that purpose. Such
treachery and perfidy are unexampled in the
history of the country. At this point the
Confederate troops bombarded and compelled
the evacuation of Sumter. The proceeding
at Sumter being foiled, the supplies intended
for that fortress were sent forward to Fort
Pickens, showing that the purpose was war
upon the South from the outset. As soon as
Mr.. LINCOLN received authentic information
of the fall OF Sumter, he issued his proclama-
| ton for 5000 volunteers, which, on the 3rd
of May, by another proclamation, he increased
to $4,000, besides the regular army and
navy, declaring his purpose to be TO crush
out the rebellion at any and every hazard.
The responses of the Northern people to
these acquisitions was intensely enthusiastic.
The popular excitement grew into positive
passion, and they flew to arms with an alac-
| yrhi oh foil of q DaralIp l
| in the fanatical annals of the CrCsades. All
| former party conflict was instantly sunk into
oblivion. The 100000 November oppo-
nents of Mr.. LINCOLN vanished as chaff be-
| fore the hurricane. All thought of justice to
the South was swallowed up by an over
towering and all-pervading feeling of re-
venge. The last hope of Cancellation, COM
| promise and redress of grievances became eX-
tinct, and the fierce battle-cry of "SUBJUGA-
TON, or DETERMINATION pealed from the
maddened throats of their 10 100000 people.
Not friend of the South stands forth any,
where in the North to breast the storm raised
for our destruction.
Shall we pause to contrast these facts with
the great principle of consent and freedom,
embodied in the Declaration of our fathers !?
l. it not plain to the cOmmOnest understand
ing that the fundamental principle of Ameri-
can liberty is subverted I? Is it not beyond
question that the intent of the North is to
compel, by brute force, the people of the
South to live in government destructive of
their liberty, their rights, their safety and
happiness? Shall we speak of the binding
obligations of Constitution the ground work
of which has been violently and totally re-
moved =? Shall we speak of sustaining a
Union when all the elements of justice,
equality, peace and friendship are wholly ex
tinguished Have not abuses and usurpa-
, tons become absolutely intolerable? Shall
we pause to illustrate the true object of the
war by citing the preparations for its prose-
cution? Have we not already seen the sub
jugation Of the State of Maryland! Is not
the war cloud lowering over the borders of
Virginia momentarily threatening to burst
10 tempest of blood ?. Are Lot the minionS
of the tyrant chief in Missouri, taking her
free citizens prisoners, and preparing to over
awe and subdue the proud free hearts of her
entire people, while her great city is the seat
of minor military despotism Is not the
commercial intercourse between the citizens
of the Southern States violently interrupted,
and public and private property alike seized
for confscatiOn and plumber? Are not these
enemies of our blood bought liberty. endea-
voring to starve cur wives and children, by
an interdict of our provision trade?
But as infamous as is the object of the re-
lentless war now being waged against the
liberties of the people, the character and
mode of that warfare infinitely exceeds in
terpitude anything known TO the authentic
annals of the world. As evidence of which,
we subjoin extracts from leading Northern
journals, all high in the confidence of the Ad-
ministratiOn.
We begin these from the New York
Courier and Enquirer, the editor of which was
thought worthy of foreign mission, and
which ranks high as an exponent of the
views of the Administration.
From the n. Y. Courier and Enquirer-l
'Let the levees on the Mississippi be at
once Frustrated in a hundred PLACES, while
the water is high, and let the Traitors and
Rebels liviHg on the lower Mississippi be
dowued out, just as we would drown out rats
infesting the hull of ship. Nor is this all.
Let the negroes in the Border States under
stand that all moral obligations ON the part
of the North to sustain the peculiar institu-
ton has ceased; and let the Traitors thus be
taught at once the price of Rebellion and its
legitimate fruits.
What we desire to see at once is a call for
an additional one hundred and fifty thousand
volunteers from the free States, and the estab-
fishment of land blockade of the strictest
kind extending from the Atlantic to the
Mississippi by the flooding of
the country bordering on the lower Mississip
pi. Do this, and the inevitable consequence
of such a state of affairs-the extinction of
slavery in the Border States-will soon bring
the rebels to their senses"
"The Law of Nations will in like manner,
authorize, Justify, and commend the Govern |
ment of the Union, if, whenever 1t marches
it's army into Slave State in Rebellion, it
issues Proclamation giving freedom to the siaUe!
There need be no mlncing this matter. We !
have it gingerly told to the Southern States, !
that if they rebel against the Union, and be- |
come parties to another Government their !
slaves NAV, and probably will run away, and |
not be returned to them. This is true as far |
as it goes; but it by no means meets the ques-
ton at issue. 1t is our right-a right which |
the Law OF Nations under such circumstances |
coners-ghenever we march into the enc |
my's country, to declare by Proclamation,
that all who will give US aid, no matter what
their color-or whether bond OF free, appren-
tice or free-shall have aud enjoy our protec
tiou. and be protected in the enjoyment of
equal rights with ourselves. Sucn is our
right; and do not let the people of the Bor-
der Slave States, suppote for moment, that
we shall hesitate to exercise it,
"Treason and Rebellion in Virginia, have
exhibited none OF the redeeming qualities of
boldness, daring, and manliness, which char
acterizes the Treason of South Carolina; but
from the beginning, bias been marked by low