Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-05-07

NktrRAI1rY.-THe mn ,st mischievous traitors the
Go Eethment has had &c deal with in its preparations
to put down the rebel ion are those pretended lovers
Of the Union who set up in the Border Slave States
q i2reposterous claim to neutrality
Neutrality the st ate of nation which takes no
part ia a war existing between other nations In a
war between England and France the United States
might with perfect propriety, claim and hold the
position Of neutras. But when the lawful and corr
stitutional government of nation calls unon the
people to defend il against the assaults of band of
mutnous rebels, there can be such thing as neu-
trality on the part of any man or body of menll
| the nation. Those who do not support the govern
ment are either open rebels or secret traitors
Moreover. in the present ISSUE when the Gov
! errors of Kentucky and Maryland claim 10 hold
their Statss neutral, they SIMPLY seek to. establish
in a new and more dangerous manner, the very
position already occupied by those in open rebel
lion against the Union: that the States Of this
Union are individual and independent nations and
may act at will in national capacity. 1t is to put
down forever this pernicious and destructive
! heresy the danger of which has been pointed out
by every great statesman, from Washington to the
present time, that the government now calls upon
the nation to arm against the mutineers.
When these Governors proclaim neutrality they
place themselves upon the same ground with Davis
and his fellow>traitors. For if Kentucky may
remain neutral she may secede. If the Govern
ment were to permit her to assume this position it
J would in fact, permit her secession from the
UnoD.-N. I. Post, May2.
HOW SHALL THE WAR BE wAGEDG
How shall the United States Government wage
the war; In mercy, both to winner and loser, let it
be short IL il is to cost one or two hundred mil
lions of dollars let every dollar be spent in ninety
days. Whoever has to die it is better to die by the
guillotne than by cancer. Then up with the axe,
and down with the head, and let the slide fall.-N
! 7. Times, Nay l.
| FORWARD.
Henceforth Forward" will be the cry; En-
tration, the organization or the State that shall
brave the onward rush. The nineteen millions of
the North the Fast and the West are thoroughly
| aroused. Their account with treason is made up,
and the eckoning must be had now. They have re-
solved to meet rebellion. not on Northern SOIL but
on its own ttleground, in its own strongholds.-
Times, Nays.
"The Union must be preserved in its integrity
says General Dix in his letter the meeting at Rye:
This is true doctrine. Rebellion must be crushed,
and obedience to the laws of the Union enforced
everywhere throughout the land. No division of
the Republic is to be thought of. The United
States WIZ remain Continental Power Tribune
Nay I'd,
| EXCELLENT POOLING.
Some of the journals are reiterating the assertion
that the Government is about to act vigorously
against the traitors b IoiH not INVADE The secsdpq
States. Is it not time to have done with this delu
siVe nonsense? There is no foot of ground within
the boundaries Of the United States which the
Government has not perfect right TO occupy when
such occupation shall be essential to the vndica-
ton of its constitutional authority; and of the ne
cessity it is its own Judge. Federal forces are al
| ways marched into and through the State when the
| Government sees fit, without asking leave of the
State authorities And if the government should see
fit to send an army of One Hundred Thousand men to
the relief of Fort Pckens, that army might march
through Virginia. North and South Carolina, Geor-
gia Alabama and FLORIDA, without invading one of
them even though it should be obliged to erqsh out
half dozen separate nests OF rebellion and treason
on the way,
Let US have an end forever of all talk about the
FEDERAL Government invading any of the United
States. It might invade Cuba, Mexico, or Canada
| but these States never. And let there be no more
definitions and limitations of the whereon it is
| to grapple with armed treason. "Where' e2 You
head, hit il" the Irishnan's injunction to
his son bound for nGnly brock and the spirit of
that injunction should govern the Governments
dealings with treason.-Tfibane. Maya
svRJpGATIoN.
If reducing revolted states to an obedience to the
Federal Constitution makes subjugation, then sub
! jugatOn it IL; and
1--WE thank thee, Jew. for Touching US that word"
We don't suppose that sterner, more infexible
purpase ever existed in the human breast than now
possesses the northern people to subdue the South
into a return to its duty. The purpose Is as fixed
as fate.-The World, April ii
| PROMPT ACTION
The President, in his proclamation, has declared
his purpose to repossess all public buildings and
places belonging to the United States and if, in
Compliance with this manifesto, he should speedily
dispatch suitable bodies of troops to retake and
occupy the arsenal grounds at Harper's Ferry, the
| custom houses of Alexandria and Richmond, the
Navy Yard at Norfolk TO protect the federal pro-
perty at other points and to furnish security against
violence to men loyalty exercising their rights as
American citizens it is possible that the public mind