Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-04-28
Northern Sentiment.


The New York Courier and Enquirer, of the
24th-the same paper which few days be-
fore threatened the South with the forcible
emancipation of their slaves-tEus delivers
itself on the subject of prosecuting the war
s.Action, fiction, Action should be the
watchwOrd of the Government and of every
body connected with it; and the first duty of
the Administration, with the defence of Wash
ington is to occupy Baltimore, and reduce
MARYLAND to obedience. Until this is DONE
it would be the height of Jolly, to make a
movement in any other direction. The idea
of an enemy occupying the country between
the Tree North and the National Capital, is
too absurd to be entertained for a moment
If we cannot Immediately occupy Baltimore
and Maryland. d.open and keep open, our
road to Washington, then we may as we'll
give up the Capital at once. For all practi-
cal purposes, it is lost to Us, if we do not
hold Maryland; and if the Government are
to retreat from Washington, why then the
game is up, the North whipped, Traitors and
Rebels triumphant, and the Union dissolved
now and forever.
Is this so? Is it possible, that the feeling
and enthusiasm of the whole North, now so
thoroughly reused in behalf of the Union,
are to pass for nothing? Impossible. 1.-The
Union shall be preserved" and to preserve
it, Maryland must be instantly whipped into
subsection and held in the hands of an army
faithful to the Constitution and the Govern
ment To do this, it is only necessary to Or
der the troops not already in Washington, to
assemble on the Southern line OF Pennsyl-
vania, at Carlisle or any other convenient
place, and then move down in sufficient force
to overawe, and if necessary, punish the
Rebels now obsiructing our way to the Ma
tional Capital. Cost what it may-whether
it requires a quarter of a million or three
quarters of million of troops, to put down
this Rebellion and punish the Traitors, it has
to be done; and that promptly, too. And
the first thing to do, is to take possession OF
the North of Maryland, including Baltimore
and the entire region around Washington, or
acknowledge ourselves whipped, degraded
and diSgraced. And will it be pretended that
the first call for seventy-fve thousand men is
sufficient to re-establish this Union by the
quelling of the Rebellion and the punishment
OF the Traitors? 1t is idle TO entertain any
such opinion; and it becomes a matter of I'M
PERFUME necessity that the President should call
out more troops But We repeat, the first
duty Is, to take Immediate possession of
Maryland and reopen our road to the Capi-
tai; and The troops now called out are unite
sufficient for this purpose. Not another reg
iment or company must be permitted to 90 IN
Washington by water; but all the troops call
cd OUT VINO are not already moving by water
or for whom such arrangements have not been
made, must be concentrated on the Northern
line of Maryland and marched to Washing
ton, first teaching the Traitors of MARYLAND
lesson which will strike terror into their
brother Traitors of Virginia To take troops
to Washington By any other route than BaIii-
more after this week, would be to cast dis
grace and dishonor on the Government: and
the Administration have no alternative but
to wipe out the disgrace already inflicted. be-
fore il reaches movement in any sther di
rection- Let it promptly meet the wishes and
respond TO the feelings Of the People by call
ing out an aadlllonai hundred and fifty
may be required. A million of men and un-
told millions of dollars, are at its disposal. -