Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-05-08

WASHINGTON, May 2.
The Public Sentiment IN the Rorh-The Reason of
as sudden call for Wdr-Cmf afford 10 do
schhout the South--Further Measures 6y The
GOUernment--Maryland, SC.
Never did public sentiment undergo so ra-
pid and sudden a change as has been wit
messed in the entire North since the fall of
Fort Sumter. Even that and other incidents
and episodes in the progress of events would
not have united the North for war; had it not
been for the secession of Virginia and the
general belief that Maryland was also ready
to assume an attitude of hostility to the fed
eral government. But one idea now pre-
walls in the entire North, namely: That the
integrity OF Union, politically and geograph-
ically, must be maintained. and that all COM
binations against it shall be put down by
force. This prevails with all parties, and is
sustained by democrats, as well as republic
cans and Americans. ~
Only ten days ago, highly influential re-
publican leaders talked of pacific dissolution,
| and the question was treated as one of boun-
diaries. But that time has passed, and no
man at the North now tolerates either COM
promise or pacific division of the Union. At
| the recent great New York meeting, where
prominent democrats were the chief speakers
| not one word was uttered in favor of COM
| promise, or time, or mediation, or separation
With the commercial North the question is
| now to be one OF life and death. The inter-
| nal commerce of the country would be de-
stroyed by dissolution of the Union. Again,
the-questions presented by the possession of
| the Mississippi, the Chesapeake, the Florida
straits, AID the federal city, presented an in
| superable obstacle to a pacific separation by
| any boundary line. The natural divisions OF
the country do not Indicate, but seem to for
bid a division by any line drawn between the
| North and South, for the range of our noun
/ tains divides the Atlantic from the Western
States, and not the North Atlantic from the
| South Atlantic States.
But whatever may be the reasons, the North,
as with one mind, runs far in advance of any
administration policy of defensive war, and
demands one of aggression.
1t is estimated that when the twenty DAYS
of warning given by the President in his
proclamation of the 18th of April shall have
| expired, the administration will take more
decided measures Tor objects beyond the de-
| fence of this city.
| The ultimate course of Maryland will ne
cessarily have bearing upon the govern
ment's policy. If Maryland does not secede,
| this city can be easily held by the govern
ment, and can only be attacked at great dis
advantage. Already, it is said, that the fur
ther collection of troops here has been stop
| ped, and they are to be stationed at conve-
nient points for future orders.
| 1t is supposed that General Harvey will
command the troops here.
| The New York Albion, while declaring
non-intervention between the North and
| South, states that the British prime minister
| had authoritatively advised British subjects
to express no opinion upon the merits of the
| unhappy controversy; and, further, the same
paper states that all the governments of Eu-
| rope will treat privateering as piracy.
| Ion.