The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-03-18


70 Be! Or SOt to Be?
The Prince Of Denmark was not more
parplexed, over this question. than are
the people Of Tennessee to-day. An
organized civil administration or not
an organized civil administration
Whether it is better to continue the
present military, or to inaugurate the
reign Of law These things are for the
people to decide; and no well-wisher of
the country will be long in determining
upon his course.
Rebels, and rebel sympathizers only,
oppose the establishment Of civil
government And why? Because they
are aware that at this time there are
at least 10, 900 troops in the State doing
Provost, and police duty, who might be
spared to the front, the moment the
different counties, cities, towns, and
districts, are supplied with the requisite
number Of Judicial and executive Off
GERS; and they are anxious to prevent
50 heavy a reinforcement from going
to the field They are aware that all
the men thus employed are veterans,
and hence are far more valuable to the
service than an equal number of new
recruits. They are drilled, and are also
Injured to the hardship of campaigning;
and while the ranks of new levies
would be thinned by disease, while un-
dergoing the process known as "sea-
soning," these men would retain all
the health and yigor of acclimated
veterans.
Again; they are aware that the re-
establishment Of civil law would bring
out vote 50 large as to be a warning
to the rebels that they need never hope
10 regain possession of the State. One
hundred thousand voters would be
far better protection to us, than 10000
bayonets The Richmond authorities
only hope to regain control of sections
where the people are unanimously REBEL
to do this will require all their energies;
and they viii not be likely 10 attempt
the seizure of section embracing a
large population of loyal men The
rebel population, then, Of this State,
have no desire that these Union citi-
zens should makean exhibition of their
strength; it would appal their friends at
Richmond therefore they are opposed
to the supercedure of military rule.
They have yet another reason Gen
Rousseau may be superseded; all are
aware Of the influences which are
being constantly brought to bear TO
remove really popular General
from the command here; and his
just and equitable course has made
him peculiarly an object against
which the shafts Of malice viii be hurl
cd by ambitious demagogues; and these
rebel sympathizers believe he viii be
removed, and some odious party sub
stituted, who will destroy the content
and loyalty which the General has
fostered until it is bringing forth fruits
Therefore, they throw all imaginable
obstruetions in the way of resmrec-
ton Of the civil authorities
These things are well known among
loyal men, who have no other object in
view than their country's good who
areprepared at any time to subordinate
their own interests to that of the com
monwealth; and therefore it is not sur
pFising that they are anxious to estab-
lish order upon a permanent, and
enduring basis; basis which cannot, in
the present educated condition of
public sentiment, be shaken
The whole subject of State reorgani-
cation win be, we presume, amply dis
cussed in the approaching April con
vention at Shelbyville; and it is impor-
tant that the people Of the State at
large should be represented We hope
10 see delegates there from every
county and if this should be the case,
the determinations reached would have
great weight and would doubtless be
followed as the work of reconstruction
progressed
The Cincinnati Commercial, speaking
Of the nomination of Gen Fremont by
the Yolksfreund, Of that city, says that
"there may be persons who suppose
this to be vagary Of single Demo
cratic paper of the German persuasion,
but we learn that there is serious talk
among Democrats, who are not willing
TO surrender their party into the hands
of the leaders and organs who have
worked for the nomination of an ayow-
ed or marked adherent of the seces-
siodists' Fernando Wood , Of taking
up Fremont in earnest, and insisting
upon his nomination by the Chicago
Convention. There Is an extensive cor
respondence now going on among these
TnanipulatOrs To organize their force