Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-06-07
The Future CT the Northern Government

The m ,.,, tive portion of the Northern
Government, of which LINCOLN is the head, are be-
ginning to appreciate the terrible future that
awaits them. "a valued friend and sound think
err so designated in the Albany On. y Atlas and
Argus, writes to thar paper, in renewing his sub
scription, as follows:
know the Republic is at an end, and the militia
ry power proclaimed by General Butler in Balti
more but the expression of the despotism under
which the country will hereafter be governed.
was born in a free Republic, and though deprived
of living and diving in one, yet shall hold TO the
opinion that it the happiest form of govern
ment ever instituted, and well merited longer life.
The Northern people have sown the wind and
are about to reap the W irlwind.' The way is as
surely preparing for form of government ap-
preaching more nearly than that under which they
have grown up, to the most despotic monarchies
of the Old World, as that time moves apace. Every
thing betokens a Capitalization of power IN the
LINGO, y or Northern Government, to be supported
by prodigious ornaments. and entailing upon the
treasury an expenditure of corresponding magni-
tude Take as indices of what is before them, the
following extracts from two leading Republican
journals of New York. The New YOrks Times, in
arguing The Need of Permanent Standing
Army, says:
Our first task is to subiue; next TO preserve
order. This Tor time must be an enforced
one. The great element Of discord still remains,
and must be watched by powerful force"
Nothing can be more obvious than that govern
ment which cannot be maintained by the cheerful
acquiescence and cooperation OF the people, must
be maintained by brute force, represented by bayo-
nets; and to this deplorable necessity the people of
4pa Nnrfb 4,-t WI l.
in another place by the same writer, ito meet such
necessity, we lthe NOrth) must Immediately COM
mence the organization Of q standing arny In like
manner and for similar reasons, the New York
World, which sometimes processes to sneak semi
officially, contends that the LINCOLN Government
must eventually have a large permanent aa,,al es-
adjustment. That paper SAYS:
Mr.. seward foresees that the eAigencies of the
government Will require us to make large additions
to our permanent adUdl establishment. and 40 the
for not uniting with the powers Represented nj
Paris have in great part ceased to exist he THINKS
the government at liberty to obey the moral con
victions which il has always held on the subject of
priyateering. No matter how this war NAV ter
inmate, we must maintain large increase of orr
naval establishment
Provision was made by the last Congress Of tho
United States for building six war steamers ana
proposals are nON invited by the LINCOLN Gov.
eminent for an indefinite number of staor,
screw gun-bosts, to be launched and comne,a5 a.
short notice. This is only the beginning-the end
none can see 1t is thus clear that the way is being
marked out for despotsm as absolute as that If
Austria. These preparations, together with the
expenses of the war, win result in an enormous
debt, which will hare 10 be met by taxation. and
then, if not sooner will the mad fanatics of the
North see their folly. We rejoice that we shall
have no part lot in the terribly dark future
that Overhangs them.
The sway of despOtism over Baltimore is CON-
plete None but the most abiect submissionists are
free from molestaton. The telegraph reports that
LNCoLN's Marshal took possession of the gun FAC,
tory Of Messrs. Merrill Thomas, of that city. on
the 5th inst, and seized sll the breach loading mus
kets in the establishment and that the proprietors
were informed that ample employment would soon
be given to the establishment in the manufacture of
arms for the Government