The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1861-05-17

The following items from the Memphis
Daily irgus indicate . high degree Of ten
p-rssure ia that latitude for any ono wio
may have a lingering attachment for the
Union. or who may be unwilling 70 embark
his all In the cause OF secession We com
mend the frat selection 10 the careful eonsid.
Grafton Of tho-e apologists for treason who
shrink aghas, with horror. a. the prompt ef-
forts Of the Government, TO suppress rebellion
shereser il has assumed tangible shape.
FoR Is. rnKs WIrn Us-AeAISsr lie.
fHKS LrAyK Cs--In a frstricidal war like the
present. personal neutrality l. AZ impossible
a. State inaction. Every dwsller in the
States Of the old Union mast join IN the civil
broil or leave the country. and he who will
Join must join his party in is own section, or
naturally DC suspected Of double dealing
Notifications are increasing on all sides. and
Justly. Let all who cannot conscientously
tight with Us and for Us leave us All opin-
ions may be tolerated in peaee-righs action
can alone be trusted in war. That there are
among Us many trsdesmen. most useful men.
raised at the North. who care nothing for
politics. and would peaceably work Tor the
wages Of work saving naught. doing naught
believe: vet, IL ne cannot depend upon them
a. brethren IN ai> 6gAf. We asve no use here
Tor them. The business OF the day Il war.
and III that is over We have no use for men
who are not soldiers Of the South when her
soil needs defenders against invasion.
The following account Of the grounds Of
action of Southern Committees Of Safety,
presents. se do not doubt. only too correct
picture Of the frail tenure by which any per
son no, known 20 the local authorities 10 be
''doubiy dyed IN treason" possesses his sem
blance Of liberty and Of the slight causcs
which may lead to his arrcs; and imprison.
meat:
THE VfGILkScx COMMITTEES MADE TooLs
+ TO PEwArE ESps.-Onc Fitz In conjunction
with painter names. Grain. perpetrated here
a panopticon of several Southern localities of
present interest. Among Fits workmen
MAS one Dick whom. II would seem Fitx left
Behind him. when he left Memphis, unre
wsrded for his labor. Dick followed fitz
and caught him in a not very distant town
/ Fitz not wishing or unable to satisfy Dick
/ pecuniarly denounced him TO the vigilance
committee of the place as an abolitionist and
Chicago thief Dick had to leave He re
turned 10 Memphis resolved on vengeance
Knowing that Fitz was 10 show in Holly
/ Springs. Dick sent affidavit there TO the
effect that Fiu was an abolitonist, and had
sid that the fight once upon US he would
fight for the North. The panoptieon was stop
ped. and Grain has come TO Memphis 10 OBJ
tain the influence of certain official parties TO
! counterbalance the afidavits of Dick.
And here il another Of the same sort:
BoSrA-W learn that the case Of the man
Bonita. arrested for alleged incendiarism and
abolitionism. Is still before the committee Of
safety.
The double crimes with which this victim
Of the "chivalry'' is charged have the same
Specification in the vocabulary Of the South.
Incendiary and Abolitionist are synonymous
terms in their dialect-and he "who does not
love slavery for its own sake. as a Divine in
ner stone Of civil liberty. and who does not.
in bis Utmost soul. desire TO sec it extended
and perpetuated over the whole earth as a
means Of human reformation second in digni-
ty. Importance and sscredness alone 10 the
Christian religion. is both in the estimation
Of the propagsndis,s of this new system OF
ethics.
Is il strange that that Johnson. Etheridge,
Nelson. and other good men Of Tennessee
shuddcr at the danger threatening their State,
when its de.tinies are likely 10 be placed un.
der control OF the originAtors and dissemina-
tors Of doctrines so pernicious and dcstruc-
tive TO all the interests OF humanity : or. that
Parson Brownlow says he would ask week to
determine. IL offered his choice and forced 10
make IL between the Southern Confederacy
and more sulphurous region
.'Can such things be.
And overcome us like passing cloud
Without our special wpaderi''