Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-03
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THE N.usEkcrros AND tbs VAR WHAT OF II


1 THE N>UaEEcTIOS AND tbs WAR WHAT OF TEE
NIGHT?
/ While the Washington correspondents Of the Nor
err papers are, some of them, speculGtng on the
campaign in Missouri and discussing the question
whether Fremont ought not to be removed, and
whethsr h ought never to have been appointed
some thro wing gloom over the prospects in Ken
lucky and Western Virginia, and others indulging
in lamentations about the late disaster our naval
squadron near the uO.th of the Mississippi river
the capture of the Fanny at CHicsmscoRsico the es
cane # the Bermuda into Savannah. the escape of
the Nashville out of Charleston, and lastly the OBJ
structlon Of the navigation of the lower Potomac
by such formidable batteries to suggest the ques
ton whether the blockade Of the river by the can
non of the rebel5 IS not more efficient than the
blockade of the Southern coast ~ the United States
uavy-while the Washington letter writers discant
on these topics, the journals for which they write
add to ID depressing Of their lugubriOus jsr
maids by sui more gloomy comments. The
mischievous peace p4pers are squelched
but the more mischievOI5 abolition jour
malls remain. BY their continual cowsTGly
whining their Bsse tear of war with
England Just if hsJ would ami 'iis.e the eouu,
try-by the doubts they throwing oat 81 to the
fortunes of our army and navy IN their next coils
ions with the enemy. and by their positive asser-
tiOns that in this war the cause of the Union cannot
be rOwned with ultimate success unless the cons i
tuition IS DESTROYED and the whole negro population
Of the SGat'i are eHsneiPste3 BY fSe federal army
under a proclsmiiCR Of the President, fhese EhiJc
feather journals are producing spirit Of despond I
enc7 she North eX ,ept II the case Of ueB whose
MOTTO IL W l--puder /" who have faith in the 4
wisSos, .'E lEIliIc3l ia hers who framed the /
coAs5,lats, RiLn u -, Flayery among its provis
ions, aud who nSve The pluck te 9a,tie to the last
for the preservation Of mat constitution is and
for the Union of which it ia the sacred bond To Sc
journals aud the abolition demag igues the STUN
and in the pulpit here and there throughout the
NortkeIn States are dVmOraiizinz the army and
di cuursRirg its leaders by preaching " the idea
that the war will never end BHisss il is msde a war
Of universsl ema lcir=tjan.
S0E Ge 90 not kaow tie future. snd cOnGot tel
what the action Of tGs 07crQuea5 Of she generals
of the army may n; huJou=e We ara thal if G D.i
Mcclellan could fght again the battle ri Bah Run
Fl zrt r. over the gays uf those who fell on the
2lst Of Ju y4nd if The u ZION General conquer the
fee on the very scene OF the former defeat of our
arms, az conGa;r be will wherever and whenever
he meets him; AID if. at the same time with this L
victOyr the Government should seEe all the IDurn-
alsts and dsmagngues At the North who throw
ing hampers Oh the var. 5eCsass &c = carried
in such a way as suit their fsnaticai ideas the
clouds Of objection Which noT hangs over 50 many Il
mla5 would b speedily decreased, and such
joicngs wOu take place all over the North as
we're never witnessed before.
These are the two heroic remedies -whiehiTin eff