The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-04-05
From WASHINGTON.

From Washington.
WASHINGTON, March 29.--The CHASTITY
spectre OF civil war is not likely to haunt
the public mind much longer. There is
no ilavor of saltpeter in the whiffs of I'M
tel.igcnce from the White House. The
drift of the Administration is evidently
towards peace, upon the basis Of peace
full separation. No coariag nor compelling
The Stceciers. The idea of being able to
coax the seeded States back into the
Union is entirely abandoned, and still
less is there disposition to attempt to
drive them back ct the point of the
sword and bnyonet. The Administra-
ton of course cannot take the initiative
in the premises but will continue. a pa
cific attitude until either the proposed
National Convention or Congress will
take such action as will bring about afi-
nal parting on good terms. The revolu-
tionists alone can plunge the country in
to civil war, either by aggression or I'M
reasonable demands upon the Federal
Government, or by refusing to acccde to
n final separation on terms consonant
with the interests of all concerned.
1t can no longer treat the doings of the
secessonists as rebellion, but has to re-
cognzc a successful revolution in them.
Any attempt to retake the forts and
other public property now held by the
rebels or to reinforce Forts Sumter and
Pickens, or blockade the Southern ports
for the collection of the revenue, would
Immediately open civil war, and without
doing the least practical good, cause
loss of life and property far outweighing
the advantages that would possibly be
gained. ..
1t is true the Nation will be utterly hui
inflated and debased in the eyes of the
whole world, by the virtual triumph of
the Southern rebellion, but the spectacle
OF bloody strife between the two sec
tons of the country would hardly be
more credible and hence, the Admins
tration will choose the least of the two
evils.
These are the exact views prevailing in
Administration circles at the present
time, and they will be embodied in tho
action of the executive during the next
| few weeks.
The order to evacuate Fort Sumter is
still unissuel
As some affect to question the correct
ness of my statements in reference TO the
mission Of Mr.. Lamon, herewith repeat
that, he had no authority to call upon
Gov Pickens and Gen. Beauregard in
the name Of the President, and that he
did not carry line of official instruction,
but simply letter Of introduction from
! Cen Scott to Maj. Anderson. He simply
went Tor the purpose of gathering infor-
nation in reference 10 the condition of
the Fort for tho guidance of The Prcsi-
dent, but, not being military man, he
brought very little Of that.
There is not particle of truth in the
late Tribune sensation that Fort Pickens
is about being reinforced by four hun
dred troops.
Secretary Seward is busily engaged in
preparing instructions for the newly ap-
pointed Representatives of the Govern
ment abroad. Those of the Ministers to
Europe and Central America, will en-
brace the question Of the recognition of
the Southern Confederacy by foreign
powers. ANY inclination to do so is en-
phatically protested against, until the
Revolutionary authorities shall have at
tanned legal status by the consent of the
Federal Government itself,
TREASON TO THE CoNFEDERAcY.-The New
Orleans True Delta, the only paper in the
southern Confederacy which has not yield
ed to the secession folly, thus Announces
the adjournment of the State Conven-
ton:
In our inmost heart, this morning we
sincel ely do thank God that the ignorant.
iactious and Notwithstanding gang re-
Gently belching and splitting out treason.
proiilgacy and waste in Baton Rouge, is
scattered. The new or sham Democracy
who there held high wassail; the filthy
dregs OF every loathsome faction, frona
blear-ey'd federalism to rufiian thuggery
which has appeared at intervals of nation
al darkness and gloom, from the founda-
ton OF the Government until the present
time, were therein represented; and the
chosen opponents of Slidell Democracy,
the mouth-pieces of that fetia, vulgar and
unprincipled organization which is INSTALL
ed III power over this unfortunate people,
were taken with president intelligence Of
their adaptability to the work, to incul-