Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-06-01
The onn,pOtent Federal Authority

The rampant Black Republican journals of the
North assume such swelling airs regarding the GER
tainty of the conquest they intend making of the
South that it really seems doubtful whether they
are not endeavoring to play the game of war with
their clustering pens instead of calling in the assist
ance of their bayonets. If the men of war in the
North are made of the material of these buster
ing editors the war will certainly be very bloodIess
one They are well skilled in the use of such cpl
thets as BIILINsGATE is familiar with or the Fish
market spawns, but we have serious doubts about
the courage and military capacity of men who take
cut their revenge by viifying their enemies. Just
now, they they initiating the Chinese belger-
ents in casting stinkpOts at their adversaries aid
endeavoring to iutimidate them by sounding gonys
in their ears The columns of the New York Times
Tribune and Evening Post glow with the intensity of
red heat and give forth offensive epIthets that show
how deep and dirty is their impotent malice. The
Times has recently turned its attention to England
because of the Queens Proclamation of neutrality.
and thus portion of its forged wrath is diverted
from the unlucky South aud leveled at the heads
of those English philsnthrOpists with whom
it has formerly had such COED time.
hobnobbing the wrongs of the poor African.
whose sleek condition challenged their sympathy.
in preference to the lean starvelngs of their facto-
ries But the terrible Indignation of the Times
cannot be easily appreciated without reading some
of its oubursts of modification and threats of ven
geance upon poor England, from whose Exeter Hall
sympathizers the negro wOrshippers OF the North
have drawn their chief political pabuum for more
than twenty years last past. The following ex>
tract, however, indicates what is the chief burden
of its wailing wrath:
Whether this English tone proceeds from an utter
and debasing self interest or from profound iguo
rance of our struggle, 1t is equally dgraceful
Centuries of kind relations will never wipe from
American memories the recollection of that crisis
of supreme danger to the very existence of Liberty
and Law n America, in which the English people
had nothing to offer but fears for their cotton SUP
ply, and sympathy with American pirates and
shareholders
OF course, other and wiser words will vet come
over the Atlantic. But to generous natures the
first words are the real words Nothing that Eng
land can now offer of sympathy or hereafter of
pious congratuation at the triumph of liberty and
Government remove the conviction implanted
in the minds of people, of the base selfshness
the canting hypocrisy of her governing classes.
After this, it will be refreshing to turn to the Tr
buRe and witness the elimination of its effort to
surpass the Arch fiend in devsing curses bitter
enough to fall upon the South. The spirit of its
whole party may be seen in the subjoned menace
to supplant the people of the South with its Adolf
ton emissaries.
We are determined on restoring the Federal auth
orty IN sill the rebeous States and have started to
carry our national flag ia triumph from the Poto-
mac and the Ohio Southwark to the Gulf, and West
ward TO the Rio Granss, determined that if the PEG
pie dwelling in those States will not return to
their allegiance, another race shall be planted
there who will respect the Constitution of our
fathers.
1t is with people cherishing these amiabe senti-
ments that there some in Tennessee weak enough
or base enough to desire continued Union Men who
would plant the assassin's dagger IN our beal Is or
use the incendiary's brand with which to fire our
dwellings are not considered too good to govern us
1t is difficult to restrain expression of the feeling
that exists in the mind of this community against
persons who seeing the aims and objects of our
enemies persist in dividing and sstracting the more
ignorant simple of their fellow citizens by en-
treating them 10 still cling 10 a Union that has be-
come one of the most hateful despotsms that the
world ever But little more patience and for.
bearanee must be exercised. A very few DAYS will
end forever the reign of demagoguical traitors in
Tennessee. The voice of the sovereign people will
proclaim an order Of independence from their
thaldom that will impose upon them the necessity
of no longer abusing their patience.