Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-05-16

ties with fire and sword We are at war
with these pestilent rebels and traitors. Let
| us treat them accofdingiy. Strike home.
Let the assassins of Baltimore, and the EUR
derers and thieves of Norfolk and lower Vir-
GINA, feel the weight of cur biowsir
The N. Y. Cburier asd Eaguirer, defending,
says
"Instead of censuring the past without
knowing how much of censure is Just and on
| whom it should fall, daaond action. prompt
aud efficient response to the peoples wishes
in future. Do not talk of changes; but hav-
ing good and able men in the Administration,
keep them posted in relation to the public
sentiment; aud if behind the times work
them up to it. This can be done. Life, en-
ergy, and activity. will prevail at Washing
ton, and that shortly too; but if not, then zoe
will cheerfuily unite in calling upon Mr..
Lincoln to resort TO the very dangerous ex-
| pertinent of reconstrucring bis Cabinet in
the midst of great Rebellion, aud in the
very presence of the enemy"
Still later the N. Y. Tribune says
Even those who are moved by no higher
| motive than desire to he relieved from an
agitation which, for a whole generation, has
| absorbed so much of the time talents, and
| temper OF the country, eagerly bail the pres
ent exlgency as the Heaven-ordained oppor-
| tunity for striking exterminai ing blow at
| the root of the evil. 1t can be doneI Peace
ful expedlents have failed. War is the only
| remedy. Let iimidity stand aside, and leave
| events TO flow on in an Uninterrupted channel
| Let us listen TO no compromises. Let US
| stop at no halfway measures. Ia his recent
speech, Daniel S. Dickinson has given voice
70 the Northern sentiment: Let u.s. said
that veteran National Democrat, settle this
| thing speedily and surely. 1t may ruin this
| generations; but we owe it to the nezt that
they should have no such troubles as we
| have had. Let US strike now in our might.
and If necessary, wipe the rebels from The
| face of the earth. Let US finish things while
we are about it, and leave nothing behind
us.w
In the Northwest the spirit is the same
The Madison, Wisconsin, Patriot, formerly
Democratic journal protesting great regard
Tor the rights of The South, has the following
which is copied approvingly by the Wiscon-
sin State Journal. the government organ in
that ate
'Since all mild measures have failed-and
since Mars is TO be the umpire, we say war to
tue knife, and knife to the hiIt-carry the
conflict into the very heart of Africa, and
light for their constitutional rights to their
slave property let Us all turn aboltionisls-
II that word will express the meaning-and
aim blow at slavery that shall make the
proud masters hearts quake. Always strike
an enemy in his most vulnerable part and as
we know OF no subject more tender to South
ern consciences than their slaves let such IA
blow be struck will make every rebel howl
with midnight alright for fear of a serviie
insurrecuon. Yes, that's it. In war we have
no compliments iand if Maryland acts 'theItrai-
Tor 100, let us begin by a coup de etat with her
$4,000 slaves, aud when we have put them in
condition of offence aud defence, let us turn
our attention to the half million slaves in
Virginia, aud make the chiValry see spectres
in every bush"
And the Chicago Journal responds
"We know not OF one man-not ons-in the
whole Northwest who is not now heartily
and resolutely in favor of maintaining the
Government and the Union, and crushing out.
at all hazards, the presumptuous and wicked
rebels at the South"
To keep alive and still further imfiame the
popular mind of the North, we find such re-
presentations of the South as the following in
the N. Y. World -
1.-The modes of warfare already adopted
and likely to be carried into determination
oy the South are, IN IA few respects, without
historic parallel. We are to encounter and
subdue not merely Keeling horde of helots
armed with stolen guns, clad in garments
swindled from dnsuspecting and non-partisan
traders, of1cered by apOstates, traitors and
renegades, but the illicit and treacherous as
saults of the incendiary, the prisoner. the a.
sassin, the official liar and the pedler of
brides. We do not make this statement i'm
view of possible or remote contingencies
These secret and Infamous agencies are al.
ready at work. We have published accounts
OF the attempt to bride sentinel at Fort
Pickens, and to poison with strychnine a sol
dier of Gen. Buffers Brigade, at the RELAY
House.
We have witnessed the splendid achieve
ments OF our ices in meudacity with breath
less awe aud wonderment, not unmingled with
that admiration which stupenduous and up-
biushing vIliaiDy Away elicits, and we this
morning print an account Of the firing of
WlllIards' Hotel, in Washington by sofne of
the traitors who yet in spite of martial law.
unawed by the air-drawn halters, which. like
the dagger OF Macbeth, must stare them out
Of cOuntenancc at every turn-haunt the pur-
lieuS OF the capital.
We have certainly had, for many years.
good ground to anticipate from the South
any aud everything base and treacherous.
Innocent men have been hanged by ire
sponsible MODS, stabbed, tarred and feath-
cred, despolled women and children have
been driven forth in exile all over the South.
while the local law slept the sleep of gin. Its
newspapers have teemed with lies its pub
Tic speakers have foamed and bubbled, like
the cauidron OF Hecate, with talsehood for
half generation. Its blear-eyed, tipsy
chevalieIs have staggered with insolent
braVado through our streets, bristling with
the vulgar consequence which possession of
a " Niger" seems to inspire, and bullying
with haif-concealed weapons. What SORT of |
honor is to be looked for from a community |
bred up under code OF ethics of this sort |
We may as well make up our minds at |
once that We are to encounter a rabble of |
drunken assassins instead of civilized |
army, governed by the acknowI lodged laws of |
modern warfare. The Campaign, begun by |
the South with theft, carried forward by an |
attempt to starve feeble garrison, and sus-
tained thus far by local pili.ge and systema- |
tic lying, will undoubtedly blossom forth in |
more Respondent villanies as it progresses |
The torch, the dagger, and the aqua tofanla |
are among the agencies, the employment of |
which we are to anticipate"
Such, FREEMEN OF TENNESSEE, is the OBJ |
ject and character of the war between the |
North and the South. 1t was for such pur-
poses that Mr.. LINCOLN issued his requisition
upon the Governor of your State for troops.
He refused, coupling his refusal with def |
ance. as a freeman representing freemen
should have done. The Legislature met and
of independence. Our only choice is between
that declaration and an active participation
with the enemies OF liberty, the subverters of