Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-13


Pose-Resignaion OF Gen l. Rossssu-
BowLNG Green, Ky, November IL.
The scriptures make frequent mention Of nations
who for their wiekedness became bewildered and
COMPOUNDED to their utter destruction. consider
alton Of the course being pursued by the LrEcoIE
Government strongly tends to Impress ono with the
belief that ere long the Mortimer will be in the
same category. That persistent course of fanstl-
cal legislation, both Federal and stats, provoked
the Inauguration of the troubles that led to
secession, no intelligent, unparalleled observer of
political events for the past half century can doubt
From the inception of actual hostilities at Fort
Sumter, occasioned by the Yacilaton and treaehery
Of the Executive at Washington, the plans, policy
and battles as directed by his Cabinet have been
clear exhibit of weakness maladministraton and
continued series of oYerg helming defeats. Be,
widersd and baf1sd in their Efforts to make sue
eessful demonstrations in vi GINA, the coastwise
blockade to great extent proving Intellectual they
were lured by the foreign element in Missouri to
believe the securing that State as an ally would be
soon accomplished, and regarding it an easy task
| together with the Importance OF gratifying the
fsnstical Abolitionists of whom he was the favor
ito, placed JoHS O. fremont at the head Of the Yves
tern Division.
His career, if the report Of the Adjutant General
at Washington predicated upon his recent visit to
the West, is be credited has materially defeated
! the very object be was to have effected, and has
proven him practically great friend to the cause
Of the South. The admitted political economists of
England and Europe regard the protested purpose
of the North-subjug ation-as the veriest chimera
the people Of the South confident Of the ability
to maintain their assumed independents, and it is
almost impossible to believe other than but for the
terrorism which Black Republicsnism has estab.
ished throughout the free States, strong demand
would be made for peace by those who are not ia
nstics by advocating the recognition Of the South
ern Confederacy. Unfortunately for the cause of
humanity, wild radiealism has not completed i 8
race the ultrsism of those belonging to the Ward,
BEEoHER, and JOIN Brown school has to be consult
d they not yet prepared to abandon the cher>
ished scheme of freeing the negro still chngng,
they do, to the erroneous fancy that what really
constitutes a strong feature in the ability of the
South to support ITSELF may be converted into q
powerful instrument to work out its destruction.
! Another and very powerful interest to b, con-
sdered is that of the Northern merchants and snip
owners, whose PROSTATE trade and rottng vessels
! point 81 ClSdTIJ W lucy my
concile themselves TO a severance from the profits
secured by trade with the South Again, the of
cers and contractors who fsttening at the pab-
lie crib. are to the discontinuance Of mill
tary matters an extensive scale, and the Cabinet
is entirely at fault to what shall be done with
the immense number of sharks now in service who,
if disbanded, would most likely instlgate bread
riots and other connections in consequence of
total suppression Of work in the manufacturing
districts of the Northern and Eastern States. Ut
terly at loss what else to do, the plan now de
termined upon IS evidently to throw al overwholm
| ing force into Kentucky. Gen SHERMAN assured
Secretary CAMERON few days since that notwith-
standing the soconsidered Union vote of 60 600
majority, recruiting in the State really availed
nothing, that most OF the young men were Seces-
sionists, and that the old men and conservatives
coald not be induced to take up against their
own people.
In summing up the report, he expressed it as his
opinion that 2O0O 600 men would be necessary to
subugate the State and that they must be obtained
from the Northwestern States. The devastation
that has marked the movements of the Federal ar
my in every locality visited by them is at length to
be transferred to Kentucky. The issue is fairly
made up the irrepressible conflict is upon Kentucky
and on those who have been instrumental in bring
ing it about, the vengeance OF betrayed and in
dgnant people viii burst forth in the very fallness
of horror.
An earnest desire to take no part in the unhappy
war IN order that when the time for negotiation
rived she might act as mediator, and then decide
what should be her most advisable course has been
construed by Kentucky's enemies at home and
abroad into cowardice en- the part of the peope.
First to offer their services in bringing war and
desolation to the pesceful homes and fresides Of
Kentucky, were ingrstes from Indiana. Ohio and
Illinois who owe their very existence to the pro.
lection afforded their ancestors by those brave pio
neers whose offspring they now come to destroy
From the gray haired sire to the beardless youth,
all will soon be in arms and eager for the fray, the
war cry has gone forth and all that is now needed
is to know when the bloody festival shall Gem
mence.
From all parts of the State representatives have
congregsted here, who hope the Convention which
meets on Monday next WILL after declaring Kentucky
no longer member of the old Union, take such &C
ton as will admit of the organization of partisane
g1onary corps if So the foul invaders will soon be
swept away. The exiles here are of one mind, they
are for to the knife and the knife to the hitssk-
ing quarter and giving none, while an invaders
footstep on the fair land, won and bequeathed to
them by brave ancestry. Men there are here,
who fought the ensanguined fields Of Raison, the
Thames and the Tippecanoe, as well as at many
other spots memorable in the frontier wars
Though their locks are thin and whitened by age,
they desire to take the path and lead the young
men into the thickest of the fight to beat back an
enemy more merciless than the savage foe, against
whom their heroic fathers Of Seventy Six led them
The shades of MADISON, DAvTEss HICKMAN, and all the
spirits of Kentucky's brave departed look down up
the gallant sons they go forth to battle, their
arms nerved with the determination to blast, as
with some bolt of Heavens vengeance, that crime
abhorred by God and nan-ingratitude.
An act of hellisb barbarity, unheard of torture
and unsurpassed expedient, one which would tinge
with blush the cheek of India's most daring and
reckless Thug, was perpetrsted in Breckenridge