Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-07


and Central States. They begin to experience the
want of market for their -four, hay, and grain,
and are as badly of to dispose Of their surplus
crops, they have reoiced in supposing the slave
holding States would be Of getting rid Of their cot
ton. Neither is there any probability Of an amelis
grafton Of thsir condition. On the contrary, the
prospect Of one of the most boungeous harvests ever
known affords them no comfort, because it can nei
Their be sold nor consumed and, when gathered in,
viii rot in warehouses; or be sacrificed at less than
the expense Of production. The resolutions that
were offered short time since in the Iowa Legiss
lature, and which were substantially repeated, e
fortnight ago, in Connecticut, afford but faint re-
TEX Of popular Indignation against those who. for
their own selfish, demagogical and wicked ends,
have reduced the United States to so deploPabie
condition, and shall not be surprised II even
ny Black Republican members Of the coming Goa
4 gress shrink from endorsing measures that have
eaused such ealsmities and from authorizing Pres
ldent Lincoln to proceed further IN career so de-
trimental to the interents of the nation.
Not only have our Industrial classes discovered
that impoyerishment is staring them in the face but
we observe that the portion Of the Press which, an
terror to the 18th of April inculcated sound, con
servative views, is gradually returning to the posi-
ton it formerly occupied. The Journal Of Commerce.,
| terrified for while by Black Republican menaces
and threats, that its valuable property should be
converted by mob into heap Of ruins speaks with
its wonted boldness, and dares to tell its readers
that peace is better than war and that no glory is
| influence Of the Herald occasionally makes itself
felt in the direction, and every thinking mem
Der OF society will approve of its recommendation
yesterday, that "there should be an armistce be-
tween our loyal and reyolted States for one, two
three years, in reference to domestic troubles.
1t advocates the use of the armies that have been
| raised North and South, for the purpose of pos
sessing ourselves OF Canada, Mexico, and the West
| India islands, and adds: This is our programme
| for turning the war of mutual destruction between
| tho North and he ipto of
ance, expansion, and power and to the remova al of
every vastige of European domination from this
| Continent" And again How much it is to be
regretted that such sacrifices in prospect to pre-
serve the integrity of Union, already glorious, in
stead of their being made to extend its dominion"
! Without indorsing this longing for foreign war,
we approve of every depreciation of domestic strife.
| Compared with the bedlamite ravings of the IFi>
bune, and the puerie carpng and fretfuness of the
Times, any utteranees that have peaceful tendency
| are welcome, and we greet them with hearty re.
| joicing
| The Administration has succeeded in disgusting
| all parties. Its high-sounding promises all
| blown to the wind. The savage coercion faction,
who wish, with Mr.. Greeley that Southern mothers
should be reduced to poverty and their chldren TO
rags" that cities should be laid in ashes slaves in
cited to rise up against their masters and general
reign of horror be inaugurated are of course, wo-
fully disappointed. We are not sure that the pro-
gramme OF the Constitution burners on the Fourth
of July may not be reconsidered, and that they may
not be compelled once more to celebrate that day
with = sacrilegious bonfire.
The bone, sinew, and intelligence of America ut
terly repudiAte Mr.. Lincoln and all his works and
look back with regret to the days when Presi-
dent would have heen impeaehed for the tenth part
of the crimes he has perpetrated. He dare not re-
trace his steps now but it s evident that he lives
in perpetual anxiety with regard to the future and
breads the approach of the day when he will be
called to bitter account for his reckless violation
of the sacred trusts committed to his hands.
East Tennessee Union Men Speaking ont.
From the Cleveland Banner.
Mr.. EDTOR: In times like the present, when the
country is rent by faction; when clouds of dark
ness hang around it. when neighbor speaks deliber-
ately of taking up arms against his neighbor-when
reason seems dethroned, and wild excitement per-
vades the masses il is the duty of every patriotic
citizen to come forward and express mis- willing
ness TO acquiesce in fair expression of the State
given through the ballot box.
My intense devotion to the American Union, like
many others in the State led me to vote against
separation in the late election. But when my fell
low citizens Of equal patriotism with myself, by
almost an Unprecedented majority, say that our
safety and interest demands that we should sever
our connection with the old Government, deem it
my duty to bow to such decision. We are now
engaged ia one Of the most powerful revolutions
the world has ever known, and however much we
may regret the necessity of taking position it is
forced upon US and we are either for the South
or against it. Il is now the duty of every lover
of his country and his kind to say to the North
stay your hand. The people Of the South have as
sumed position from which they will never back
down-and every effort made to force them back
only drives them farther away and alenates the
| section. However much the South might be dis
posed to let East Tennessee occupy her OVID posi-
ton, the safety of the South demands that her ter
ritOry should not be occupied by those unfriendly
| to the South. Thousands who voted against sepa-
ration in the late election would not only oppose
the separation of East Tennessee from TIE balance
of the State, but would take up in defense Of
the State should her soil be invaded by the hordes
of abolitionism. | say what | mean when | say
that East Tennessee does not approve of the attempt
to divide the State. The very pacific character of
the late Legislature will do much to quiet the peo-
pie, and hope this bitterness that has threatened
to destroy US here win disappear and that we may
| have peace. F. W. EARNEST.
Cleveland, Tenn, July 1st 1861.
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