Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-03-13

The views of Mr.. lincoln as 10 the mode
OF dealing with the refractory cotton States
partake OF The liberality which distinguishes
the rest of bis proposed policy, as il may eff
feet them and the other slave States. He
denies the fact Of there being any secession
at all, and expresses his intention of execu-
ting the laws of the Union in all the States,
to the extent of his ability He does not
propose to invade and subdue them. nor
even TO deny them the privileges of the
mails, unless repealed, and will not insist on
| the execution of the laws OF the United States
within the borders of the seeded States. since
he is willing to dispense with the Federal
! Courts there. He will hold, occupy and
possess the property and places belonging
| to the Government, and collect the duties
and imports. He thinks there need be no
| bloodshed or violence. He does not say
whether he intends recovering the places aud
| property of the Government which have been
/ seized by the seeding States, and relnforc-
ing the forts that are in danger. For any
thing that he says, be may intend carrying
out the policy of Mr.. Buchanan in these par
ticulars-in which case there certainly need
| be no blood she'd or violence. But if he at
| tempts to throw suecors into Fort Sumter. or
to recover The arms and money which Sonth
Carolina, and Georgia, and Louisiana have
| filched, be kno VS. just what he has to expect.
While we hold that the Cotton Revolution is
complete, and that 1t is the part of true
statesmen to accept the accomplished fact,
and recognise the independence of those
States. before lighting as thing which must
be done after it, we must confess TO little
| shame at the attitude in which the new head
of a great nation before the contumacious
| and rebeilious members of it, entreating them
TO believe that he is no better than Buchanan
and his party as bad as the Democrats ever
were. For this is the substance of his ex-
hortation to seceders, to consider how much
| safer and better off they are, as shareholders,
| in the Union than out of it.
| We have not room to speak of his ready as
| sent to the amendment to the Constitution
| b efOre he had seen it!-intended to m Ike that
| instrument expressly recognize slavery,
/ which its trainers had so sedulously wrapped
| up out OF sight; nor yet of his bold hint that
the clause of the Constitution guaranteeing
| to the citizens of every State the privileges
| and immunities of citizenship in every other
State mi ht not improperly be enforced by
| law. This last suggestion might well undo
| all his good work, initiating as il does with
| the sound policy of the Southern States,
| which reserve the right of forturing, Danish
| ing or executing all suspicious Northerners
without any process of law at all. We do
| not know how his Address will be received
| by the party at the North that bore its au-
| thor into pOwer-especially if it be followed
| up by unanswerable acts. We think, how
ever, it can not .ail to disintegrate the party
aud cause its elements to take unto them
| selves new shapes. That more thoroughly
| anti-slavery political party will grow out OF
| these attempts to daub with untempered NOR
| tar, we cannot doubt-supposing that they
should be effectual in patching up the breach
| for awhile. II is inevitable, in The nature OF
things. Aud thus again, ever in the time
past, we shall see God making the ambition.
| the cunning. the seifshness and the wrath of
| man to praise him.