Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-06-26
The Programme of the Lincoln Des-
pOtism.

The Washington correspondent of the n
Y. Tribune, who is probably as fully informed
of the designs of the Administration as any
one of Mr.. LINCoLN's purveyOrs, writes til.
| following, which is an indication of the pur-
pose to utterly overthrow the structure of
civil liberty, and reduce the people over
which the Government is to bear sway to a
state of vassalage more CALLING and unlimit-
ed than those of any nation in Europe. Is
there a freeman in Tennessee who will bow
his neck to the yoke which is thus proposed
to be placed upon it?
If Congress are to be brought together in
the hot. high sun of July, to go over again
the old and poor farce of duping and drag
ging the North into a new completely with
slavery, under the specous appearances of q
truce, it is well that we understand the char
acter ct the drama and the cast of the dra-
mats persona. Mr.. Crittenden need not
fear thin house when the performance is to
come of. Pit, box and gallery will be filed
by spectatOrship who are making it now a
special and peculiar business to compromise
this question upon new theory of adjust
ment. Bell-crowned hats and round toed
boots are just now out Of fashion, and dis
Greet men leave them in their wardrobes and
buy new outft-according to the mode. The
practice is worthy of the imitation of the
modern peace-maker. Five hundred thous-
and earnest men in arms. every one of whom
buckled on his knapsack because he saw
there was work to do, are not likely to go
home without some practical solution of the
difficulties which they have not sought to ad-
just in this way until after all her resources
had failed in their trial. Congress may do
what they will, but the mightier power which
Is behind Congress and all other constituted
authority will submit to nothing which looks
to restoration of peace without the guarantees
of submission for the future, and indemnity
for the past. The same men who have touch
ed ballots for a quarter of a century can ham
die a cartridge with the same dexterity of
niger. They will as easily and readily or
ganize military despotism, if the exigencies
OF the hour demand it, as they can recon-
struct on the foundations of the TRANQUIL ar
duration. We have opened our ewes to the
necessity of stronger and central mower
when States are in insurrection, and cities in
banded rebellion. We suspend the habeas
corpus In public danger, and we may not Oh.
iy restore but keep the subordination of pop-
ular elements by the sharp discipline of the
sword.
OF Mr.. Crittenden l do not propose to
speak, except in his public relations. Un-
NPPiiJ 'AAOn a. eiSu'y ose not anyways SO FlgO-
rous or useful as at the tally of forty. / do
not hold him to the high force of what be was
in middle age. The system Islaveryl which
he would arrest in its dying thrOes is nearer
to Its end than even be Is to his mortal limit
He cannot put aside the inevitable fate which
awaits him, nor can he avert the destiny
which has written the doom of decrepit in
stitution. He will hardly live to see how
complete and perfect will be the extinction
which has been hurried on by the blind
guides who have led it to the precipice.