Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-14

hands being determined to humble the pride and
the power of the oppressOr, at such time
and in so marked manner that all the world might
know that it was the Lords doing, not that Of man
and that thereby the people Of the South might in
lowly gratitude and joy, recognise the hand that
saved them, and trust to it alone to uphold them in
the future. Even while I write the Aaah of light
ming is in my eyes, and the hoarse mutteriDg Of
thunder comes through the fast patteriDg sound Of
a warm rain. Surely all this is passing strange.
Yet the Yankee feet has done the work, or part
Of the work it was sent to DO. Forty sail have ap
peared of Port Royal, and the LINCOLN flag now
floats over Fort Walker Some even say that Beau
fort has been taken Well! the harm is not very
great, and is compensated in large measure, by the
gallant affair at Belmont. The worst to be appre
hended from any success the Yankees may achieve
on our coast, is the encouragement of Northern
people to prolong the war, and the indisposing Of
foreign nations to recognise our Independence The
former result the prolongation of the wars
something for which we ought to have been pre-
pared. Col LEE. one Of the Yankee prisoners taken
at the battle of Leesburg says that mistake the
temper of his people if we suppose they are going
to submit to a dissolution of the Union. They will
never EIF6 up Until NAAS-A - ASSAOAGA
sound and whole as it ever wss.
Such doubtless is the feeling Of the North; but
the btsotted people of that section must remember
that there are two parties to the question of re-
union Tie North, like the gambler in bad luck
has put its ell upon the hszlrd Of the die faulty
which does little credit TO the nation which boosted
80 loudly of its smartness. We of the South, on
the other hand can stand many turns of futures
dic4 and if conquered today would revolt on the
morrow. As to the latter result, the postponement
of our recognition abroad, that is matter which
can not wait much longer on such trifng successes
which the Yankees have hitherto accomplished.
The great centre of human industry can not remain
idle because the Yankees have captured few sham
batteries.
The elections all Over with Whist result, so far
as the President and Vice President are concerned
1 need not tell you. Our people are well enough
content to entrust their safety for the years
to DAVIS and STEPHENS; yet had there been an Oppo
siton ticket the indications that it would have
received not inconsidersble vote, owing, think,
more to the fact that the administration will not
take the pains to refute some authoritative fern
the charges preferred against the President of be.
ing opposed to an advance movement Of our armies,
and guilty of permitting personal piques and old
grudges to influence him in the selection and pro-
motion of officers as, for example, in the case Of
Gen. WALKER of Georgia. Without entering into the
discussion Of these charges against the President
can still discover good reasons for the appearance
at tins time Of an opposition party. The Post Of
fee Department and that of the Navy have not been
ably administered and it is question whether
; the Treasury is in the hands of one to whom the
occasional admonitions and advice Of others would
not prove of benefit. The resignation Of the late
Secretary of War. has taken away the chief com.
plant agoinst the administration, and yet human
fallibility may fed Judgement even in the per
son of so industrious and acute man as Mr. Ben
JANIN But apart from any fOibles Of the Presiden
and his Cabinet there is always need Of OPposi
ton, and especially during revolutionary periods
" when the warm confidence Of the people. anziou
to encourage to the utmost their leaders, is bu
too apt to be repaid by usurpations for which Their
may be a security rather imaginary than real. Tht
price of liberty ia eternal ance-a feet overlook
ed sometimes in the very struggle to secure it. W.
have been accustomed to laud the wisdom of tht
fathers of the old Constitution yet are this day
reaping the fruits of organic and structural defset
in the Constitution many of which might have beer
escaped If the warnings ofs single man-PATECE
HENRY. had been headed. We should therefore
feel no alarm at the uprising of Opposition par
ty The administration is abundantly strong to re-
: sst any onslaught not founded upon just prOvoca
> tons and It should never be permitted to become
too strong to resist those which are just.
PABKE.
Incendiarlsm in asst Zee nessee