Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-05-19
sooss.. plan of the Campaign.


Through a channel that ia deemed sure.
and which is certainly direct, the editor of
this newspaper has received statement of
the actual plan of lincoln and Scott regard
ing the State of Virginia. They propose TO
invade it at three points and with strong col
umns on or Immediately before the day of
election. for the purpose of preventing the
ratification of the ordinance of secession by
the people. The moment the step of inya-
sion is taken. il will be necessarily known by
telegraph and by exaggerated Tumor in every
corner of the country. 1t will produce a
great excitement. huge uproar; the whole
population will fly to arms. The polls, with
all personal interests. will be forgotten. The
mere idea that actual bostilities have begun
will be enough to swallow up all other re
Fiction and thought. Every man in the
Commonwealth will be occupied with that.
A vote even approaching to fairness under
such circumstances, will.be not only impro-
bable and difficult, but actually impossible,
fer the voters of every age will be either vol
unteers in camp or on their way to the places
OF rendezvous. The universal acquiescence
of Eastern and Southwestern Virginia in the
Ordinance, is of itself enough to render the
vote slender. The people believe there is no
use in going through that empty formality.
They will let the election go by default,
while the disaffected portions of the North
west, and all that traitorous party under the
lead of Carlie and his gang-far more nu-
merous than is generally supposed-are fully
organized and ready for action.
1t is also believed that a large part of the
late Submissionists elsewhere than in the
West, loud as they now are in their profess
sions of Southern sentiments, will stink TO
the polls and cast their votes against the In
dependence of the South, at least, this is the
calculation of Lincoln and his colleagues.
and this their project, concocted on the ad-
vice of Carlle and other Submissionist trait
ors of the Virginia Convention, who left
Richmond unhung, and whose temporary ac-
quiescence was not purchased. as was that Of
so many others, by good and fat offices at
home. This plan receives the immediate and
earnest sanction of Gen. Scott. 1t accords
with bis whole system of American politics.
The writer knOgrs that it has for half life
time been the frequent boast of General
Scott, that he could nave prevent d the Multi
fication Ordinance Of South Carolina in 1852
by preventing election, as he would certainly
have done had he been allowed to have his
own way then. Now be has the chance to
convert his theory to practice. Amid the
great tumult and moral earthquake which
the entrance of Federal troops in Virginia
territory will for some few days produce, ev-
cry SubmissiOnist vote in the State will be
polled, while the citizens will be only occtl-
pied with the thought of resistance.
The information given US is authoritative
The more it is examined, the more probable
does it seem to be. We warn the people of
Virginia of the project. The country press
is cOnjured to take notice of it, aud place
the patriotic population of the State upon
It's guard. No time is to be lost. On Thurs
day week Virginia must break the last link
of her chains, or be bound with an eternal
ha ma of nd inf,
the men of enterprise and weight, in every
county, whatever may have been their past
party associations, should Immediately or
ganize the whole voting population, and
bring to the polls every citizen Of the State.
They should make such arrangements that
no temporary excitement shall interfere with
the important duty of that dav. Though the
Federal armies may enter Virginia, their
progress must be necessarily slow, even if
opposed by the difficulties of transportation
alone. Even should they succeed beyond
their widest hopes, their power can affect
only the neighborhoods where their camps
are pitched. The mere fact that they are
on one side of geographical line to-day
and on the other the next, great as its import
in politics may be, has but little practical
consequence-nOne sufficient to require a
confused rising of the masses. Until the
election has put the allegiance of Virginia at
rest, once and forever, all movement except
that which shall carry every honest man to
the polls, should be suspended Richmond
Examiner.