The daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1862-1863, 1862-11-26


Martial law overthc entire North is
a national necessity, If the Governors
OF the Northern States manifest a fac.
tlous spirit, the provost marshaIs, it is
presumed, will have the power to keep
them in order. II State Legislatures
should attempt to Interfere with the
action of the General Government, nee
essary to the prosecution Of the war,
they will come under the action of mar
tial law, and if the action Of any polit-
ical party shall threaten to change or
paralyze the movements of the Gov.
eminent, it will doubtless be competent
tor the provost marshal in any State to
suspend political meetings and postpone
elections. If the constitution CT the
United States is to be construed &C.
cording to the necessities of Il civil wal
Of vast proportions, the constitutions
Of the individual States cannot be al
lowed to stand in the way Of its vigor.
Gus prosecution"
This is u pretty plain indication of
the desperate determination of the de.
structive party who have control Of the
old wreck at Washington, to hesitate
at no high handed usurpation of power
which may be necessary to enable them
to retain possession of the Govern.
ment.
How far the result of the recent
State and Congressional elections may
operate to restrain the fierce spirit of
abolition, and hold it back from gloat-
ing upon tho powerloss forms of its op-
ponents at home, remains to be seen.
We do not believe that its restraint
will ba more than momontary; and we
look for the inauguration Of some such
plan as that toreshadowcd in the eX.
tract from the New York Times, as by
no means improbable. The prediction
was freely made all over the northern
government, in the late election, that
the CANVASS would have u bloody de.
noument on election day, and we agree
with the Richmond Wing, that though
the prediction failed as to time, the dan.
ger may not DO ended.
We all remember the excited scenes
which threatened many times to dis
rupt the old Congress, and we are not
sure but that the active part of the
fiery element Of discord is all of it in
the old Union yet. We believe that it
is all there, and therefore we look for
scenes Of discord to darken their future
Congressional assemblies, which shall
make the walls of the old capitol at
Washington quake with the clash of
tongues, if its marble tiles are not
drenchcd with the first blood of the civ
il war.
The prediction used to be made that
the rupture between the northern and
southern nations OF the old govern.
ment, would in all probability receive
its bloody Inauguration in the national
capitol. But, that cur war for separa.
ton might have nothing like the bloody
christening Of a civil war, It's opening
scene was laid far away from the old
capitol, before the commercial mart of
the elder sister Of our C~onfederacy.
The next session of the present Uni
ten States Congress meets next Mon.
day. The newly elected democrats do
not take their seats now, but the opno-
sition to Lincoln will be strong ENOUGH
20 rouse his party to desperation. Its
proceedings will no doubt show that
we are right in saying that the discord.
ant clements which in times past. dis.
graced the capitol at Washington, are
vat +hnrn and thrnatnniup mora tho,