Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-01-22
Telegraphic Dispatches.

Our contemporary, the Union and AHze7ic17i
in its issue of last Saturday. appeared to b'
rather out Of patience with telegraphic dis
patches received the day before, and pat
itself to some trouble to show that informa
ton contained in them could not be true
This was not improper. under the eircum
stances. 1t exhibited a desire to sift the
wheat from the chaff of the telegraph, and
was eommendable But the UIlioz and Anlsri
regly s'rolled as sweet morseI under its
tongue" a dispatch which came Saturday,
not more reliable than that of Friday which
it repudiated. Friday the Secession OK was
gored; that was unpleasant. Saturday the
anti Secession OK was gored; that was de-
lightful. We have no doubt that both the
dispatch of Friday and that of Saturday mis-
represented the facts. But that of Saturday
gave the Union and American an opportunity
to aim poisonous shaft at the manly heart
of JoHS J. CRrTTENDES, and it could not re
sist the temptation.
We have generally published the telegraph
ic dispatches sent us, without comment. Yet
we have often felt that some of them were
unreliable, others grossly untrue We pre-
sumed our readers would take them cum
orano sails. Since the secession movement
was inaugurated in the South, the telegraph
has been used for the purpose of preventing
reconciliation and settlement Of The section
al difficulties. Mr.. TooMBs did not hesitate
to send an untrue statement TO Georgia when
Mr.. FLOYD resigned; and upon that state
ment the movement to seize the Forts Of the
United States in Georgia was based. On the
day of the election of delegates to the State
Convention in Georgia, dispatch was cir
culated to the effect that Charleston hs5d bee1.
5onlbarded. II was telegraphed that the
Brooklyn had been sent to Charleston to
back the Star of the West, and see that her
supplies and -FsiEE--e-a.-nfz .@a0I.4d Fort
Sumter. whereas she sailed for the purpnze Of
interceptiag the Star Of the Vest, and seRd-
ing her back to New York. There have
been numerous other dispatches calculated
and Intended to still further excite and exas-
perate the Southern mind, and hurry on the
drama of secessiOn-tO preEent cooluess and
deliberatiOn where these high qualities were
most needed. On the other hand. it was tele-
graphed that the Governor Of Mississippi had
sent cannon 10 Vicksburg 10 enforce the
policy of haiIing and questioning steamboats,
on the Mississippi river,-that forced loans
had been ordered in South Cirolin 4, shat
large quantity Of powder, on Its way from
New York to St. Louis 10y water. had been
forcibly seized and detained at New. Orleans:
and that Gov. AIKEN had been comp He'd 20
contribute $4,000 to the State Of South
Carolina; occurrences calculated to render
the cause Of compromise more aud more
hopeless in the North.
We apprehend that this mean species OF de
ception and impcsture will be Kept up. "
donis know hos it is to be prevented. The
good sense of the people mast save them from
becoming subjects of it. Weigh well every
dispatch you read; if improbable, do not rely
upon it. And above all things commit
yourselves to nothing, through impulse.