Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-04-25

signed for publication in New Orleans-a
copy Of which accompanies this-but visit
ting there in December, Hound passion, and
not reafon, dominated 10 every circle; the
bold were defiant, and the iimid yielding; the
time for exhortations and appeals had passed;
and those who dissented from the clamors of
an arrogant egotism, were regarded as ene-
mics, and nearly all seemed inspired with an
earnest belief that everything that magma
ton told them, was actually 10 take place;
and o wing tothis unjavorable condition Of
public sentiment, deemed the publication of
my letter to Mr.. Siephus as qpwise.
An impartial and candid review ofevents
since; the ordinance of South Carolina in
December,s 1860. must be assigned to the
period when the passions, invoked by the
destructive war it inaugurated, will have
passed away. But it is my earnest prayer,
when some future Tacitus shall compile his
annals of the greatest event happe1ing in
the recorded history of nations, it shall not
recount the Observance of o Union of States,
aud the forfeit of Institutions which every
lover and benefactor of his race will lament
asthe most complete calamity that ever be-
fel mankind. so
Listen to the appeal'of one of Maryland's
most gifted soas, the Hon. j. p Kennedy,
dated Baltimores May 9Th ! 1861, to the people
OF bis State; s roiiosgsui 1ol .1ii
: Maryland has no, cause 10 desert our
honored stars and stripes. Out of this Un-
ion there Is nothing but ruin for her. 10 the
Union. dark as may the present day, the
stout resolve of Maryland to retain her feal-
ty to the faith Of her fathers win secure TO
her a glorious future. E - SloH IBIS
nlgt''Let ous not fall intod the fatal error Of
thinking that the great interests of the Union
are irretrieVably lost by the election of an
Administration we do not like. At the
worst, the present Ipredominance Of a Sec
tional party in the National Government is
but transient evil. We shall never have
another. but through The ignoble surrender
OF the loyal men South. Even, indeed, now
the perpetuation of such party is an i'm
possibility in the North The excitement
apd storm q this day-if it has for season
uuseated The prosperity of the nation-is
worth all its privations in the good it has
already accomplished. It has forever put an
end to that pssilent agitatisn of slavery,
which for thirty years disturbed, the repose
1ofi'the countrg;,it has forever patan end to
sectional Presidents and pat lies; it bias re-
vealed great truth to this nation-that the
Union is above all party, and that peaceful
brotherhood is the most benefeAnt of-ah
blessings.
:" Let Us bring to our minds calm esti-
mate of our duty in this great crisis. There
is but ons issue before us, Union or Disunion.
Every man in Maryland must meet that
issue. esl
.'Union on the one side, is loyalty, faith
in the traditions of our ancestors, devotion
to our historical Union, brave support to our
country in its adversely. eirw
sDisunion-let us not evade the conclu.
sion--is rebellion, desertion of%our duty,
dishonor to cur flag, voluntary disgrace cast
upon the names of the heroes and sages, who
have made our country illustrious in human
anna =. It is prompted by the assertion of a
principle of anarchy which makes all gov.
eminent impossible, a false dogina,l which
assumes a right of disintegration that may
pervade every division of society,""
Is it wisdom-nay. common sense-.o
disregard the solemn admonition of this
warning, and uttered by citizen who has
as little sympathy with Abolitionism as the
planters of Louisiana 5hdi 1el7'
+ The progress and settlement of the West
ern aud Northwestern States have been ac-
CELEBRATED within the last fifteen years with a
rapidly that few persons, if any, who have
not been the witness Of their growth, can
have any perception of its. magnitude and
and whilst the attention Of the
people of the Atlantic Southern States have
been engrossed with the idea that New
England was chiefly the adversary they
would have to encounter, they have over
lookedoer rather been insensible to the pow
er of newly created States ic The great |
West; which, in numbers and resources, are |
equal, if not superior, to the population of /
the Cotton States combined A similarity of |
pursuit, and the hardy energy. developed by |
the rigols imposed on pioneers, life, have
for great army, TO be found in any nation /
Of people. In common with the sudden
growth of The West / deem it not uninter-
ssiing 10 cite one of its evidence, and as a
against the superior importance
claimed for the carrying trade of the South,
BY statement based upon statistical facts.
The cotton crop of the South in 1Sfs and
1861, numbered about 4, 10000 bales 10 the
ormer, and 1000 in the latter: making
IN annual average of 100000 bales for
hese two yeats, which are known to have
srown the largest crops yet made
Five bales OF cotton, will equal ton in
weight, and the tonnage required 10 carry
,0OO,OOO bales amount TO 100000 tons. The
eceipts Of -four and grain at the port of Chi.
ago for 1861, reducing the former 10 bushels
xceeded 57,OOo,OOO tons, and estimating
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