The daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1862-1863, 1862-11-23
CHILLY BULLETIN
". T. HELMS, Editor.
W.nchosteT, Tenn
SUNDAY MORNING, NOV. 23D
The. Gulf of Fire.

and the Southern COnIcderacy triumphant and
J.as,ailabIe. '-New York Times.
The figure we hsyc employed for a
.aptjon to this article may appear to be
strangely odd, if not inappIicablo, But
before we clay down our pen at the pres
emit Writing we will be able to reconcile
tho figure to the subject to which we
are about to apply it. The sentence
quoted from the New York Times con.
ycys a volume Of prophetic meaning in
- single breath OF words. 1t is of the
import of this that we wish to speak
to-day; and tits proper to premise that
tho ~journaI from which We have quoted
is not the only quarter from which sim
liar m,sgivings of the character of com
Ing events in the old government, have
been promulgated. The premonitory
muttcrings Of civil war, and anarchy
and every attendant political and social
evil, have had their mouth-pieces among
the press and people of the so,called
free States Of the present Union, before
the Times gave utteranc9 to the senti.
ment We have quoted. Indeed, before
the separation of the slave States or
the establishment Of our Confederacy,
it hardly needed o seer to foretell the
latent volcano underlying the anti-rent
riots, and the workmcn'S riots, and tho
higher-law politics Of the Northern PEG
pie. Sothat the anarchy into which
the Times and others now foresee the
old government must sink, is not prop.
erly attributable to our separation from
them, or to the immediate misf0rtuncs
which their unholy and futile war of
"subjugation' brings upon them. These
troubles are but the developing cause,
while the original is Of older date. Our
separation from them is the immediate,
bat the remote and true cause is a rad
lcal defect in the character Of The New
England clement, the dominant and
controlling spirit in the northern mind
mixed with the incmably uneasy and
molly spirits Of rich, ragged, or row.
dy adventurous from the old world,
who have mixed into the northern pop
ulation of the old United States. In
separating from them, the southern
States saved themselves, we honestly
believe, from an age of anarchy which
was bound to oyertake the northern
States Of the Unioh, tracoable in part
to the natural causes we have indica-
ted, and from which there was no es.
cape for us, except in an independent
government.
OBSTRUCTION" is the ~watchword of
the anarchical demon; and when too
'impotent to- gloat upon foreign havoc,
it turns upon itself. This is it's charac-
ter, and it's destiny. 1t feeds upon it's
W vitals at the last, and dies self con-
sumed. The poet Milton pictures it,
when he makes the mother Of Death
describe those horrid monstrosities, her
offspring, the cycling monsters that
with ceaseless cry surrounded her, of
which she says:
"-for when they list, into the womb
That bred them they return, and howl and
gnaw
My bowels, their repast."
We have not como with haste to our
Conclusion With to the fearful
r%otribution which we believe is even
now overtaking the people with whom
Te haves so recently associated in gov
ernmental fellowship. The political
tpdeat who was any sort of a close
watcher of events there conld b.rdly