Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-09-19

DEAR Bro
have inst returned from the City oil New
York. heretofore the great emporium OF inc
Western World. The business Is paraiyzed
and Frustrated beyond caicnlation- Many
an SAa;I, merchants say their business trans
a,;nns are literally nothing. Statesmen and
goods were IN aDunuah0e' o"' 81
few purchasers
fsroe nortion of the standard and lead
mercantile establishments, especially
tbosa heretofore depending upon Southern
,rade have recently failed, and hundreds OF
others affected by them are Keeling and tot
tering headlong into the disastrous vortex oil
| bankruptcy.
The ghosts of impending ca'amities, ruined
for,.nes and blighted hopes alone present
their grim wages to New Workers. as the
consequences and results of their persistence
in supporting this Ubiquitous, unrighteous and
fanatical war upon the South
II Is a common sight to see costly and mag
niticent stores in the most thrifty and COM
mercial parts of the city closed, with the very
nnthrifty public notice posted on the door,
TO Let" Rents have deprecated fully one
half, and but few renters able and willing TO
pay even the reduced prices
This utter stagnation In the mercanuie
world SEXES hold of every other branch OF
another in the approaching and inevitable
ruin. Even the legal profession, which gen.
eraIIy fourishes and grows rich on the dis
putes and misfortunes of mankind, feels the
universal shock. The farmers too, that here.
tofore thrifty and fortunate class, whose toll
was so amply repaid by large prices, are now
compelled to be satisfied with 10 to 10 cents
Der pound for butter and cents for bacon.
instead of 20 to "a cents for the former and
10 to Is cents for the latter last year.
Public sentiment is very much divided IN
regard to The war. The old democratic
party. in the general. bitterly oppose the
Lincoln Administration in its war policy
sympatbize deeply with the South, and think
she has been badly treated. When the news
OF another defeat to the Northern arms ar
riyes. the democrats speak OF THEIR having
last another battle with evident, though con-
cealed, delight.
The republican party, on the other hand
witnessing and feeling the blight, ruin and
anarchy they have brought upon this once
prosperous country, gnarl and gnash the:T
| teeth ia rage at defeat and foam out thell
Ioud-mothed thunders against the rebelllou'
Sontb as though thew would annihilate bel
| by anathemas and denunciations. This par
ty is fast becoming openly dboliiOnized, and the
violent p1rtisans are taking the position, thai
sLgrsyy shuU Be abolished, If necessary to restore
the Union-denOuncing alike the South fol
its rebeIliousness. and Lincoln and his Cdbl
net for their mid policy
| The North IL not unit for the prosecution o.
| this lrdr! | have seen LCdT SpsTa here, suei
| as sce hare N the South. But few enlistment
and those of the lower class, such as coulC
and would be caught by lying promises o
large rewards in money and bounty lands al
the expiration of hOstilities.
Neither do see any signs of an improve
| ment of the Nor 'hern spirit to crush the
South. after sOiourn of more than SIX week:
| among her people. A few more lost battle
will carry the present apathy to indifference
| and finsily Oyerwhelm the authors OF The
| war with Odium and disgrace
The suppression of opposing newspaper
| by the Lincoln Government Is fast arouslnt
| the public mind to hostile acts and expires
sions of bitter Indignation. and you may re
| Iy upon, it the time is not far distant, Iudg
| lug from what have seen and heard, wheI
there will be civil revolution in the North
| such as the world has never seen. There L
| but little freedom of speech and press lett Il
/ the people. They already are chafng unde
| the CALLING oppression and will not muci
longer brook the tyrant's hand. Fearful vii
| be the retribution when the day OF retaliation
comes; and it is as certain to come as tn
| hour of death to US all.
Remember me to inquiring friends. viii
| be in Nashville about the LIST of October.
Very truly your Bro.