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

copy Of which accompanies this--but visit
itng there in December, found passion, and
not reason, dominated in every circle; the
bold we're defiant, and the iimd yielding; the
time for exhortations aud appeals bad passed;
and those who dissented from the clsmors Of
an arrogant esotism, were regarded as enc
mics, and nearly all seemed inspired with an
earnest belief that everytb that imagina-
ton told them, was actually to take place;
and owing to this unovorable condition of
public sentiment, deemed the publication of
my letter to Mr.. Stephus as unwise.
An impartial end candid review of events
since the ordnance OF South Caroliaa in
December, 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 happening in
the recorded history Of nations, It shall not
recount the dis-everance Of a Union Of States,
and the Forfeit of institutions which every.
lover and beuefactor of his race will lament
as the most complete calamity that ever be-
fel mankind. T T1)
Listen to the appeal of one of Maryland's
most gifted sons, the Hon. J. 2. Kennedy,
dated Baltimore, May 9.h, 1861, to the people
Of his State :.
maryland has no cause 10 desert our
honored stars and stripes. Out OF this IN.
ion there is nothing but ruin for her. In the
Union, dark as may be the present day, the
stout resolve of Maryland to retain her feal.
" TO the faith Of her fathers will secure TO
her glorious future.
''Let us not fall into 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 predominancs of a sec.
tional party in the National Government is
but q transient evil. We shall never have
another, but through the ignoble surrender
OF the loyal men South. Even, indeed, now
the perpetuation OF such a party is an inn
possibility in the North The excitement
and storm Of this day--if it has Tor q season
unseated The prosperity OF tho nation--is
worth all its priYations in the good it has
already accomplished. Ithas forever put an
end to that pestilent agitation of slavery,
which for thirty years disturbed the repose
OF the country; II has forever put an end to
sectional Presidents and paJties; it has re-
yealed great truth to this nation-that the
Union is above all party, and that peaceful
brotherhood is the most benedcent Of all
blessings.
Let US bring to our minds calm esti-
mate Of our duty in this great crisis. There
is but on9 issue before us Union or Disunion.
Every man iu Maryland must meet that
issue.
"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.
"Disunion-let US not evade the conclu.
sion--is rebellion, desertion of our duty,
dishonor to our flag, voluntary disgrace cast
upon the names of the heroes aud sages, who
have made our country illustriouH in human
annals 1t is prompted by the assertion of a
principle of anarchy which makes all gov
eminent impossible, q false dogma, which
assumes a right Of disintegralon that may
peryade every division Of society"
Is it wisdom--nay, common sense-to
disregard the solemn admonition of this
warning, and uttered by citizen who has
as little sympathy with Abolltiouism as the
! planters OF Louisiana
The progress and settlement Of the West.
ern aud Northwestern States have been ac-
celebrated within tie last fifteen years with a
repidity that few persons, If any, who have
not been the witness OF their growth, can
have any perception Of It's magnitude aud
importance; 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
looked, or rather been nsensible 10 the pow
er Of newly created States 10 the great
West; which, in numbers and resources, are
equal, il moi superior, TO- the popula;.ea o.
the Cotton States combined A similarity Of
pursuit, and the hardy energy developed by
tbe rgols imposed on pioneers lie, have
constituted them among the best material
for great army, 10 be found in any nation
Of people. In common with the sudden
growth Of the West, deem Il not uninter.
esling 20 cite one Of its evidence, aud az a
comparison 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 1860 aud
1861, numbered about $500 600 bale4 ia the
former, and 3 100000 in the latter: ,,ahing
an annual average Of 100000 bales for
these two years, which are known to have
grown The largest crops yet made
Five bales Of cotton viii equal a ton in
weight, aud the tonnage required 10 carry
100000 bales amount TO e00,O 600 tons. The