Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-04-16
The Events of the Hour.

OF the day will be founa II Jul
of this morning To il We ih'i'e
l;her.,a and unbiased attention Oh gu
readers If they have attentively read ID
t.ve furnished them, for month
1.,dwa might almost say years) past, thel
w;lI he prepared in greater or less degre'
.. consider the duties which now deVolV'
80, them. Since this time last year, We
- mot ceased to warn them that the Unior
was in the greatest peril, that the successful
n-ogress of sectionalism in the grand and
glorious American Union, would lead IN
svitsbly to the condition of things which
we are at present beholding- Our voice was
not so potent in other States as 1t was II
ra,nes.ee and our warnings were UNDECIDED
.r5 our principles oyerborne- We next
d;-ectsd our efforts towards reconciliation
and final settlement of pending difficulties,
ond desired End urged With all our power
tho maintenance of peace in order that full
I'd fair exodus from these difficulties might
ha discovered and pursued In this we have
also uartially, if not wholly failed. War is
ho,,,n and no man, as we have often said
with all the terrific emphasis we could COM
msnd. can absolutely see the end OF IL The
socaded States have entered with wonder
full energy upon the labor of sustaining
their position They have captured Fort
Sumter. which has been pronounced the
strongest Fort in America. They had the
advantage and did their work with ease
This we consider entirely sufficient to con-
vince the Administration that the Confeder-
ate States are not playing ridiculous farce
IN smuse the rest of mankind, but, if forced
to carry out the programme they have al
ready determined upon and published, the
dsnO,lenuent will inevitably be a most serious
and real tragedy. This is the point we have
uuouestionably reached. That the Confed-
crate States are in dead earnest no one can
now entertain the remOtest doubt. We
never have; but there have been those who
advocated the perpetuatiOn of the Union
who have disagreed with US. This state OF
things is net by a proclamation from the
Administration, ordering the armies of the
Confederate States to disperse within twenty
days, calling for Is, 900 men to recapture the
property which has been seized, and summon
ing an extra session of Congress for the 4th
of July. Doubtless the Administration can
get $1,000 men, 1t may get great many
more. But will the Confederate armies dis
perse, or can it recapture the Forts and take
possession of the other property within the
T. I A. al
blood knee-deep to do it, and then perhaps
fail. This too upon the supposition that the
Border Slave States remain where they are.
Will they do it In our judgment they
ought not, and will not Heretofore they
have been for the Constitution as it was, dis
pensing equal and exact justice to all, and
tOr the Union as it was, with not a star erased
and not stripe blurred. Mr.. LINCOLN need
net expect Tennesseans to form part of
his armies. His Is, 900 militia must number
alone among them those who deny equality
IF rights to all the States and all the citizens
IF the Union, and not Tennesseans, who pre-
er the principles of justice and equality,
he keystone to the arch of the Union, to a
sectional despotism, North or South, even
With the Union. Let him reflect upon these
truths.
Sumter has fallen. Pickeus comes next.
This may take weeks with varying details
md partial successes. But Pickens will fall.
# the Confederate States display half the
mercy and skill they have displayed, Pick
must inaugurate a war of subjugation, and
1y force make a sectional party plat
IOrm the paramount law for the public adj
He must penetrate from the
Southern coast the Southern country where
ever he may. He must march his $4,000, or
his 100000 men by land into the Confederate
States. He must deluge the country in
blood before he Is crowned with success
Sooner or later he must acknowledge this
fact. Time will make it apparent, if he
persist in his present undertaking, however
iimly it may appear to him now.
Is it desirable that these bitter extremities
should be forced upon the country: AS yet
we speak the words of soberness and truth
We speak as the original and true friends of
The Union. We ask, is it wise? is il prudent?
Is it proper? is it inst that these dreadful ex-
.relnities should be forced upon the country?
Is the Administration SO mad as to insist
upon and urge such a course? Are the peo-
pie of the Northern States so demented as
70 sustain and support such course? Will
he Congress which is summonded to con-
rene ia extra session sustain the Administra-
ion in this movement? Is such infatnation
possible in this age of the world?
All this may be, and in view of it, we can
lot:fy Mr.. LINCOLN that be canEot get his
rmies from Tennessee. Individuals may 90
o his standard, but they will be few and tar
between. Neither can he march his armies
through Tennessee for the purpose of subju-
rating the Southern States. And this is not
aid by way of threat or menace, but as the
nipple expression of an important truth.
Iut cannot this war De stopped3 Can it not
e stopped now? Can we not arrange for
ettlement or peaceful separation? We
ave denied secession and coercion. But
here is yet mode of peaceful separation,
{ 10 must come TO that. That mode we
famed some weeks ago, and it is through
he instrumentality of o national convention,
be same by which the Union was formed.
.et Congress when it shall meet, instead of
rOyiding for prolonged and disastrous
Tar, first provide for national convention,
nth power to restore the Union, and if that
J imprseticable, then let it arrange the terms
{ 8 peaceful separation. Such a course
1ould compromise neither of the conflicting
pinious that are now goading US on to des-
lation and ruin; but it would uphold the
fundamental idea of American institutions.
-hieh have for their basis, the consent of the
eople.
PRIsoxER OF MARA telegraph despatch
ON Montgomery, dated the 18th inst, an
ounces the arrival in that place of Major