Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-06-06

In the following letter we have set forth
some of the causes which led to the resigua.
ton Of Gen. HARSET of the position be re-
Gently assumed amidst flourish of Lincoln
trumpets. These Republicans are great in
shouting man up one day, and down the
next:
A Western Campaign-Mfssou and
Arkansas to be Taken Care Of-Af-
fairs I'm sIissourf-Geu Harney,s Re.
caIl-Re asons Therefor.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.l
ST. LOUIS, June l.
Official advices just received here state that
a comprehensive and exhaustive campaign
through Arkansas and Missouri, if necessary,
has been determined upon by the government
and will soon be vigorously executed.
Preliminary to the important enterprise,
and the better to secure the threatened integ-
rity and peace of Missouri, Gen. Harvey has
been Withdrawn from the command of the
Military Department of the West, and is now
nnder orders to return TO Washington. There
are curious details of the affair, depressed for
the present, which will make one of the most
striking chapters in the chiefs biography.
Affairs have been miserably retrogradiug in
Missouri since the so-called truce between
Harvey aud Price. In that tran action the
ilian. In terms the most general the revolu-
tionists conceded everything, while in fact
they yielded nothing but gained all they de-
sired-immuniiy and time. These they have
since been. and still are, assiduously imprOv-
ing, as instructed to do both by Price and
jackson, in accumulating additional NUM-
tons of war, and ia recruiting, drilling and
perfecting their organization. Meanwhile,
the persecution of the Union men by Seces-
sion mobs-these mobs often consisting of
State troops-is permitted to continue, and
ELECTS not even the tamest remonstrance from
the acting Governor. Governor / call him,
since he is as legally the Governor of the
State as murderer is good citizen because
suffered to go unhanged. Nobody expected,
unless it We're Harvey, that the shameless
periurer and traitor would abide by the so
called truce further than necessity aud his
cowaIdice should make him. One of his first
acts after it, was TO raise again the rag Of trea-
son, which guilty terror had caused him TO
pull down. in front of the Executive mansion
at the capital. Compelled to dismiss his
troops, he first addressed them in the bitter
est of Secession barangues, explicitly telling
them that their slime would come, by and
by" and bidding them be active and vigil
liant in preparation. Precisely thus, il
Lyon had been the simpletOn Harry has
proved, and Frost had used The gen"ralship
OF Price, might the accommodating troops and
mum tions OF Camp Jackson been saved to
treason. Under these circumstances things
have necessarily been going from bad to
worse bushels of letters of complaint, pour
ing in from the Union men in the country
hundreds of Missourians q .eing with their
families to the Free States cOntraband goods
constantly seeking them successfully, with
tue most ingenious devices to elude search,
and Commandant Harvey all the while not
ruly uuiescent towards the authors of the
mischief, but protecting against. crippling
aud thwarIing, by orders aud counter orders,
the best efforts OF the true friends of our peo-
pie. The General is a sincere, noble hearted
old man. but is vain and too easily influenced,
and has been led into dreadful mistake
respecting the nature of the animal he was
sent to kill. No language can depict the in-
tense implacableness and desperation of the
Secession faction and nothing under heaven
can prevent it from initiating tight in Mis-
souri,. except vigorous following up OF the
policy begun by Gen. Lyon at Camp Jackson.
The military expedition to the Southeast at
once tranquilized that region, and has re-
suited in the formation of several companies
of Union HOmr Guards there.
Late in April last it was found that yigor-
Gus m assures would prove indispensable here.
and accordingly Gen. Harvey was fattering-
~ invited to lend the aid of his presence and
military genius at Washington. His absence
from this post was improved by organizing
q. S. brigades and taking treason by the
throat in Missouri. Meantime, the General
replied to the imputatiOns cast upon his al
legiance, and the Government, by many
friends, has owned that injustice had been
done in entertaining even doubt of his 10y
atty. He was therefore remanded to this
post with the result above described.
No doubt the agreement between Price and
Harvey will henceforth command respect
The General Government will see that its in
tegrity is maintained and the rights of Amer
lean citizenship protected in Missouri. The
proba bilIties are that treason will now be
bearded and dragged to the peoples scorn
and righteous punishment 1t must and will
be put and kept where it will be deemed as it
is digracefully criminal and infamous.
General Haraey formally communicated to
neral Lyon, this afternoon, his resignation |
as Commandment of the Military Department |
Of the West. 1t is rumored that he intends |
resigning his position in the army. Much ex-
element exists this evening in this city, and |
much complaint is made by the SecessiOnists |
n view of Harney's removal This fact is |
he Governments best Justification of the act |
Zen. Nathaniel Lyon is now in charge OF all |
military affairs here