Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-09-28

New York Daily News. =.
Ithss sirssdy been announced that the publica-
item o.his able and fearless journal has been sass
pended. The following announcement of the sus-
pensien and the causes which rendered it necessary,
appears in the issue Of the l4th inst: s .
TO THE PUBLN
To-day the unpleasant but imperative duty de-
wolves upon us of bidding readers and subsc
bers a temporary, but, we trust, short farewell.
After this mornings issue, the publication Of the
! Daily and Weekly Netes will be suspended for a
time. We make this announcement with feeling
deeper than regret for It s consequence of events
that should haze been impossible OF occurrence In
/ the Republic where we claim the rights and inmu~
mites Of citizenship We have stood mani ully st
our post while the slightest hope remained of weath-
ering the stern: but area Of action has been
narrowed until even the possibility of our render
ing service to our couBtryTen has vanished we lay
/ down our pen in the bitterness of despair, and
await for its resumption, the propitious hour when
persecution shall no longer strike the instrument
| of labor out Of the hand of industry. a
The causes that have led to our suspension are so
| palpable as scarcely to need recapitulation. We
have been denied the enjoyment of mail facilities.
which itself is virtually suspension by Government
decree. We have been shut cut from express trans
portaton, and attempts have been made to prohibit
the sale of issues in public vehicles of travel
Our property. and the property Of our subscribers,
has been cOnfscated by Government officials acting
patrons have been threatened through anonymous
communications, and some of those who have been
in the habit of contributing to editorial columns
for no other known cause, have been arrested and
consigned TO the dungeons Of fortress. Police
men, in their official capacity, have interfered with
our circulation By pFacticing intimidation upon
news vendors. Our readers have been subjected
to insult and indgnity. and it had absolutely be-
come dangerous for citizen TO be seen perusing a
copy of the Daily Nelns in public places. Rival
los dad n nIr pn lun
as fit subjects for popular fury and administrative
severity, and have been as unceasiBg and unrelent-
ing in their persecution as were the prtors of Cali
gulR against the early ChristiaRs. The fanatics in
private life and the fanatics in high places have
leagued TO crush u.s. and we find ourselves at this
day so completely shackled and shorn of all essen
tial privileges Of journalism, that further pubca-
ton becomes mockery and mere waste of time
and substance .s.---..l--
ave wish the public to understand that while we
withdraw for time, from the arena of our labors
we onot yield or retract, or any way admit as
responsible erroneous or REASONABLE one thought
sentiment or doctrine that we have hitherto ad- |
Vsnced. The course of the paper under its pres
ent proprietorship, was shaped after mature and /
deliberate consideration. Its policy was based |
neither upon selfshness, nor avarice nor ambition
but upon solemn sense of duty jim hour of great
national danger. 1t were useless for us to rehearse
now those opinions which, without deviation, we
have abundantiy advanced from the beginning but
in the face of all the imputstloDs against our loyal
ty that have been flung at us by thOughtless en-
thusiasts and railing fanatics, in the face of the
bitter hate of rivals and the eectual hostility
of official power, affirm that those opinions were
born of honesty and nutured by eonyiction-con-
yiction that argument and events hsEe not changed
and that reflection has bat strengthened. Our para
mount desire has been the country's welfare, and
we have knowingly published to the world no word
or sentiment that had net in view that scred object
We may have erred in our estimate of toe means by
which nations prosperity can be secured, but we
can admit no arbitrary dictstion to our heart and
brain by any mortal being. -
In taking present leave of our friends and patrons
we will now make pleasant use Of the occasion, in
extending to them the assurance of lively grat>
itude for their past fav0rs When the laws by which,
till now, we have been accustomed 20 be guided, |
shall resume their sway, when authority shall have
been stripped of its extraneOus attributes, and
shorn Of its usurpations when the free thought of
freemen shall be permitted to radiate throughout
the land, and the American citizenship shall have
become once more reality and not q shadow, then
we will ask our friends TO welcome US back to the
lUties and responsibilities Of journalism. Mean>
WHILE let them be reminded that the Ns,os seepeth,
put is not dead" BENJAMIN WooD.