Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-06-06

home that would quiet the South and all would feel
like no body going to be hurt sure enough and
at the same time, Mr.. Lincoln and his Cabinet were
to go to work, vessels were to be fitted out arms
obtained, that portion of the navy that was abroad
was to be called home and everything that could h.
done without giving alarm was to be done. and
when the intention of the President and Cabinet
could no longer be kept secret the Presdent wss IN
fall back and cover himself by this old whisky act.
and all the Editors in the secret now came out Al
once and sustained him with Uielo. and il possible
get up reign of terror so ss to put to silence with
one single maanuvre, all opposition; and | must
confess that this part of his plan has worked finely
Now this viii explain to your readers why it that
this old absoete act that no honest President would
ever have thought for a moment, would have
authorized him to go to war. was not objected to
by Northern editors, they all famed in, IN such a
mauner as to show that every Abolition editor had
pipe laid connecting his with this sewer.
The next difficulty was with the Commissioners
from the South The determination was at least to
detain them as long as possible, and when they
could detain them no longer 20 make their answer
as vague as possible and to prom everything that
would not commit Lincoln and Cabinet with the
Abotonists Of the North, and to hold cut the idea
| that they were going to yacate Fort Sumter unti
they might perfect plan to resupply and reinforce
| it. In this they failed.
Another difficulty was with respect to reinforcing
certain points in Virginia and North Carolina. First
| they did not know whether these States would go
out stay in the Federal Government, and IN con-
sequence OF the COMMUNICATIONS Oh Cuiou hien V'ci-
stating the Union feeling, the Washington governs
ment was mislead but there was still another DIM
Guilty, which this: If we now go TO reinforcing
Harper's Ferry and the various points IN Virginia,
will give the alarm to all the Border States and
as they have declared against coercion we had bet
ter lose at tho start few positions than that all
these States should arm themselves. So they rea>
soned with regard TO Virginia and North Carolina !;
and the same motive influenced Mr. Lincoln and his
Cabinet when they lied often to the representa-
| tivpS from TpnOQSspe-Qll M other object but
that they might be able to take the State at last by
surprise This hypocritical sham took in Mary
land, Kentucky and Missouri. Had these States
known the intention of the Washington government
as it was known by Mr.. Lincoln and his Cabinet,
these States would have been in very different po-
sitlon to-day. And | will now say to you, that the
conduct of the Federal Government has produced
in the bosoms of the noble of these States an
intense, burning, Icitering hate for LncoR and his
Government, which an extreme Southern man can
never feel and the time will come when these
slumberlng, pent up elements Of wrath and indigna
ton VIII burst up with dreadful fury such has
been the hypocrisy and duplicity of the Washington
government. No low, beer-shop blackleg ever con-
descended to more little petty tricks the thought of
which ought to make every true American loathe
them. and will in the end lead the Nations Of the
earth to distrust and despise them.
But the Washington government was not content
with deceiving the South but took measures to de-
celye large portion of the North, for there were
many In the North opposed to war of invasion
and to get all the machinery Of war in motion before
the intention of the President and Cabinet should be-
come notorious, was the difficulty Hence the follow
ing plan was adopted will pretend that troops
and munitions of war wanted for the alone par
pose OF collecting revenue and protecting Washing
ton City, when they knew well you did that
the South had designs Washington at the time,
but an impression to that effect must be made, so
the heads of Departments became terribly alarmed,
when there was not soldier of the Confederate
army in two hundred and fifty miles of Washington,
9 and no way to get there without going through at
least two States that yet belonged to the Federal
! Government But it would be to the people North
taking keynote TO start on, that the volunteers
understood that they were in some way or another
to blockade ports and collect duty, defend WASH
ington City, and this veil Mr.. Lincoln wishes to
take away gradually for his volunteers not to
find it out. He, Lincoln, was to be silent for 8
while and let his abolition organs in the North urge
their measure OF INVASION and even threaten Mr..
Lincoln with impeachment if he did not act more
promptly, in this way the Northern mind was to
become prepared, that is those of them who were
opposed to invasive war. do not suppose that
the world ever witnessed before or will again wit
ness, such coordination of falsehoods and lame
tricks on the part of great nation.
That God, who has promised to send al liars to
hell and unmasque the hypoerte, has fearful ret
ribution in reserve no doubt, for Mr.. Lincoln and
his Cabinet. Az OLD STAGER.