Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-05-05

The Tribune of the LIST is for @No Half Measures"
It thus tells its readers what has to be done:
The West has done well for beginning. but she
has still good deal of work before her. The MIS-
sissppi river she must remember, is under her pc
cuiar care and as she is pledged that shalt DC
closed by rebels to the injury of the commerce VI
the country, so she is bound to see that IL is IO'
kept open for the aid and comfort OF our enemy: ~
distress foe in every way to deprive MN Oh the
Injuries and even of the necessaPes OF life, to stop
his trade to undermine his strength, ana 70 starVe
him into submission, are measures Jusuned by war
Not that we propose, in our conIest WIN te oouli
to follow their example, it, indeed, IL were possiDie
that people trained In the arts OF peace anu ~
ts of civilization could initiate the savage rufhan-
ism which has necessarily been eDgendered by iso-
latad lantation life where there can be but little
social cnt,re and where there is perpetual conflict
with slaves conflict of servile vice with the I'M
restrained passions ofirresponsible power
Therefore shall we initiate the South no more IN
war than in peace But, nevertheless, we mean 70
conquer then-not merely TO defeat, Dut 10 co4qe''
TO srBJUGATE them-and we shall 90 TINS sne Anoss
mercifully the more speedily we DO IL; Dul mh ~
the rebellious traitors arc overwhelmed IN lhe ne
and scattered like leaves before an angry wind. 1t
must not be to return to peaceful and eontenteo
homes. They must find poverty al their nresiu eS,
and see privation in the anxious eyes OF motners
and the rags of children. 1t IL little enough the
slaves will do when masters are at the wars, anu 10
be Idle and wasteful is the least harmful thing IN
which thew are likely to engage themselves. There
will be little cotton raised in the Southern
States this year, and that little must pay the en-
haneed expense of new route to market II allow
ed to go at ALL the price thereof to be returned in
the bare necessaries of l1fe in limited quantities,
at starvation prices. The whole coast of the South
from Delaware to the Rio Grande, must be soils
tIde save form the presence of blockadlng squad
ron so that no relief shall in to the beleagur
ed people from the sea. The other great highway,
the Mississippi, it is the duty of the West to hold,
and to prohibit its use, either partially totally,
as the obstinacy of the infatuated rebels
shall promise TO be Of a shorter or
longer duration. The South even in the
best of times, never half feeds herself,
and the want of productive force and
productive will, makes this more impossible
the West htaraily to starye her into submission
Even now but little we hear, goes down the Missis-
sppi except from ST. Louis, and all that trade, and
any that should seek outlet from the Ohio, could
be put stop to by sufficient force st the mouth OF
the latter river The West can drown or stsrve the
lower country, it pleases if a continued rebel
ous obstinacy shall compel the North to accept the
alternative Cairo is already possessed by strong
body of troops, but sufficient force should be
pl ced in the river and all trade stopped at once 1t
will not be long be long before there is nothing lett
to eat in all the South Western region.
And the measure is as wholesome one for tn
East as the West. If Maryland goes out of the
Union, and Baltimore continues eontumacious, the
same means of coercion should be resorted TO- Ii
Baltimore should be anything more than the name
of an extinct city after the secession of that State
not another barrel of -four, not another bushel OF
corn not another hog, not even SO much as spring
chicken should be allowed to approach her by land
or water. Halfway measures will not do with an
enemy who will conquer us and desecrate all this
fair land with their accursed barbarism, unless we
conquer them.