Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-05-17

IN mind, has taen "a earnest, answervint Union
paper, gives this Interpretation Of the rather am
hseous part Of Gen. HARxEr's manifesto:
Inthe presnnttemper of the people wroneed and
desrzded as they have been by recent unlawful and
outrageous acts of men who had not even a M
mssaoa to bear them out in their attack on G mp
jackson, and IN the breasts of whom personal mai
Ice had prominent place-now. when thousands Of
mercenares are CHARTERED among US to overawe
and enforce obedience lit is very possible that the
suggestions of General Harvey may be read with
sO@e impotence at the restraint imposed upon
them by military chieftain- At all events, there
can be no mistaking the import of his orders con-
veyed In courteous but determined terms, and they
nav be summoned up in few words: Gen. Har-
ley instructions command him to retain Mis-
souri, in her present and past position Of loyalty
the Union, and this be is 70 DO at the hazlrd Of
lighting up all over the State, By marching his
troops 10 put down any organization which may be
tortured-as camp jackson was-into hostility
to the Federal Government. Il is no use to mince
matters Gen Harvey feels himself able to put
down all opposition wherever it may show itself,
and the sign 6cance of his manifesto is embraced
IN this particular fact alone. St. Louis is overawed
by armed bands of men, eager for fray and seek
ing the opportunity to glut their vengeance upon
those Who up to the present time, their neigh.
oors and friends, but who are so no longer. The
whole eastern front Of the Mississippi river is COM
manded in the same way, and the Iowa and ksns Q
borders are, or soon will be, equally well guard
ed Gen. Harney's manifesto is modest enough in
not setting forth with some particularly these facts,
and the advantages which they give him, bat we
are restrained BY no such delicacy, and notify the
people of them that they may take warning. The
StGts of Missouri Is so enfaded aa1 controlled By the
military fTces leuied bythe United States Government
that tcould be toorse than madness to think Uf oppOs-
ing them acith any tTpectGtioa Of success.
"The first bloodshed on the banks Of the Mis-
'slssippi" says the New York Wor d. will instantly
"divide with red line the intermineed part les in
missouri and other border States. From this mo
"ment, in the West" continues the World, The who
is not for the Union is against it, and Missouri
"musta accept the alternative of loyalty or DssoIA-
'rIoNr The Cincinnati Commercial declares tlat the
people Of Missouri must submit to "the irOn-handed
grip of the Government" IL they will not other
WISE says the Commercial ''they will be shot and
stabbed and stamped into submission y This is the
sentiment of the entire press in the confidence and
support of the LINCOLN Government.
1t is clear that military desPotism has been in
augurated by the LINCOLN Administration, the end
whereof no man can see. A few of the border
States may be held in subjechon 20 the despotic
Government at Washington, for time, at least. by
keeping a standing army in their midst, but the
Confederate States-thoee that have thrown off all
allegiance to that Government-can never be
by the entire military strength of the
North Fighting for their liberties for their homes
for their wives and children, they cannot be con
quered.