Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-02-18

10 snow the manner III WHICH tne ndLIOnal
crisis is viewed by the women of the coun-
try, We copy the following article from Miss
DiL's indianapolis Gazette. Miss Dill is an
accomplished writer, and in her Issue of the
9th inst says
"THE UNION, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE
ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS"
This is the war-cry of large proportion
of Northern people. Seeing nothing, fearing
nothing, reasoning not at all, they take
| their stand by the Union, seize upon the Con
| stitution. and swear to God that, under
| that Constitution, they will "enfOrce the
| lawsl''
Alasl that the day should ever come when
| the Union. the Constitution and the Enforce
ment of the Laws can not stand together
But that day has come. They must give up
| the Union, or they must give up the enforce
ment Of the laws. Once let them undertake
to enforce the laws, lin the sense that they
mean it, and they deal death blow to that
Union that they love so WE'LL for she is sick
almost unto d.-ath and nothing but the most
loving kindness and Indulgence will restore
her 10 health. Deal sternly with her, and she
dies This cannot but be obvious to every
thinking mhd. Sappnse the Federal Gov
eminent should treat South Carolina as these
civil-war shriekeTs would have her. Suppose
she should blow up Charleston, and hang all
the "traitors;" what would be the result? In
the first place, long, horrible and devastat-
ing civil war. and in the end deep and I'M
dying hatred between the North and the
South. This being the state OF things, we see
in the future our beloved Union lifeless.
stiff and stark; deadl deadl dead for all eter-
nityi-slain by the fanatics who sWoTe that
they would die to save heri Their cry now
is for ';justicel justice!" and they forget
'sThat in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation
We have every thing to lose and nothing
to gain by civil wal; and it is, indeed, singu-
lar that in this selfish age people do not take
this fact into consideration. But the truth
is, they do not and cannot realize the horrors
of civil war. They cannot imagine this land.
lately so peaceful and happy, the scene of
murder, arson and robbery. They cannot
believe that the gigantic energies of this ma
ton can be paralyZed by any blow. They
think that in few short months, or a year or
so, she will recover from the shock and re-
sumo her rapid march onward. But are they
not dreadfully mistaken? Civil war must
and will cause the engine of this nations pro-
gress to be reversed, so that she will travel
backward instead of forward. Instead of
being ahead, she will be behind the rest of the
world.
Ruin, misery and degradation ever have
been and ever will be the result of civil war.
Our country must give up her proud place
of first among nations, and her degradation
must be in proportion to her present eleva-
tion She will be pitied aud patronized
where she was wont to be the patron This
thing has begun already. Already from
across the waters we hear the voice of con-
dolence. Fie! let US fling their pity in their
teeth, and show them that
90 Divide as may in our own native land,
To the rest OF the world we are Oner' -