Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-08-30
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We have never been more impressed with the terri
HE strait of the followers of LINCOLN than when read
inc the numerous canqrds with which their news
nsners abound The scandalous and, in many in
stances transparent falsehoods which they daily in
vent and disseminate forcibly indicate that they
eompelled to get up some powerful stnulaut to the
patriotism and enthusiasm of their people, in order
TO inspire them with sufficient courage to meet
the emergencies of the crisis. Enlistments
langush and recruiting is decidedly slow
business since the great defeats they have received
in Virginia and Missouri. The spirit of gasconade
has given way to feeling of CONSERVATION and
alarm. 1t is proclaimed by them that Washington
City is again in danger Of capture. The dropping
spirits. of the multitude must be cured by a new
sensations. It matters not how this is done,
so the sensation is produced. Hence the invent
i've faculties of the Yankee are diverted from
the production Of wooden nutmegs to the manu-
facture Of stupendous lies with which to gull and
hoodwink their deceived population and save them
from that despair which presages destruction. An
example Of the success they achieve, in this direc
ton, may be found in the dispatches of the Black
Republican papers, in which it is reported that
"the Government has reliable information that a
quarrel has broken out among the leading traitors
of the rebel States, that promises to be disas-
trous to them was the Bull Run affair to US. The
benigerents are TeOxBs and the Virginians and
North Carolinians on one side and DAVIS, WIGFAIL
aud the extremists of South Carolina on the other
The complaint among the disEfected is, that DAVIS
is making rather fast to the legitimate results of
treason, the abnegatiOn of State and individual
rights,
The Governor of Georgia, you ecollect protested
against acts Of President DAVIS and it is here
understood that in doing he acted in concert with
the macontents at Richmond. The quarrels be-
tween these parties has already reached the extent
that the disaffected do not hesitate to openly de-
nounce DAVIS in the streets and public places of
Richmond. 5a-.. --. ..-a ...a.a
The near approach Of the time for choosing per
manent President is probably the cause Of this out
burst and it supposed the coming canvass for the
successorship will be as embittered as any Presi-
dental contest under the old Government Strange
y enough, South Carolina that has always been so
clamOrous for State Rights is now the frmest for
consolidated Government; but the Virginia politi-
clans arc true to the principles of 49,"
This extract is literally hawked about the streets
Of the fallen city New York as grave statement,
dent intent of it is to encourage and stimulate the
dropping spirits Of the people who are beginning to
realize that they cannot conquer the South
that if this wicked war is prosecuted much longer,
the danger will be that the North will become de-
moraHzed and impoverished. Seeing at h,me no
cheering Indication by which they can encourage
their brokenspiritcd followers, they have resored
TO the desperate game of invenng terrible discord
among our leaders, that they may confidently ex.
pect our defeat from the weakness engendered by
dissension.
The inference that an intelligent person
would form, from such statement, would nat>
urally be, that the wagei upon us by the
North is not sufficiently formidable to con-
sOlidate our strength and unite our counsels. 1t
ia poor compliment, if true, to the strength of the
grand armies they are marshalling in the field
BUTT has not scintilla of truth in it. While our
citizens differ, intelligent and patriotic men, on
of the details of the policy, they are one in
their determination never to lay down their arms
until they win their independence, they are one in
action, and one in the confidence they repose IN
their gallant and devoted chieftan, JEFFERSON DA-
Wis, who will be unanimously elected their first
President under the Permanent Constitution.
The desperation Of our enemy is clearly betrayed
by their resort to such interruptions expedients to
bolster up their fast sinking cause.