The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-06-12
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Prom the r chrnond Examiner, May z6
Surely Congress will not persist in il
determination 70 depart from the sea
Of government on the 3lst Of thi
month. Yesterday the resolution t,
adjourn on that day occupied til,
House for an hour, and was then post
poned till Saturday Now between thi,
day and Saturday q very mOmentous
event may befalL Either Gen. Grants
army may be abolished, or Gen Lees
may be retreating within the fortifca-
tons of Richmond Surely our legisla-
ture cannot intend TO make the dues-
ton Of adjournment or no adjourn.
ment depenI upon that military event.
II has nothing to do with the business
before Congress and that business is
the things which they are here to CON
slider and transact There are bills
and resolutions referred to the various
committees Of the House not vet re-
ported upon some not even vet ex-
afrined IN committee. There are sug-
gestions for legislation upon seven or
eight important subjects, contained In
the Presidents special message. none
Of them yet acted on except one. We
know that the country is extremely IN
wiling at this season Of the year but
business first and pleasure afterwards
is a most excellent maxim, and it is To
be hoped that until the last committee
has carefully and deliberately presented
its last report, and the last bill has been
debated with due calmness and cir.
cumspection, there will be no mention
of adiournmentan any more.
Herein we do not put the matter
upon any sentimental footing nor
adorn it with lofty historic parallels.
We do not mention how the Roman
Senate sat in a sublime silence while
the Gauls came pouring through the
streets Of Rome, flooding the Senate
hsuse itself, and how the barbariaas
were awed by the sad grandeur of that
reverend assembly all sitting in a row
upon ivory chairs, and with long white
boards flowing down their breasts.
There is nothing 50 imposing in the
present matter in hand no need to
invoke anyof the muses. or any of the
graces on the present occasion. The
point is simply that constituents have
delegated these Representatives to come
here and put through certain matters
of Confederate business; and they
ought not to run away until that bust
ness is done
Run away is hard word yet we are
not without some apprehension that
the public at large, and the Confederate
soldiers, and the Federal soldiers, and
all the newspapers, and foreign nations,
and future historians, and makers of
comic songs in ages 10 come, will all APP
ply this very term run awav.' or some
equivalent, more or less offensive to
the procedure contemplated by the re-
solution now before the House of Rep
resentatives and standing for debate on
Saturday 1t will be urged, indeed on
next Saturday, that ali the material
legislation may be dispatched in few
hours and that nothing really remains
of a nature sufficiently important to de
tain gentlemen from the cool rural re-
treats which already WOO them to their
pleasant shades Yet, after all, CEN
serious world will connect this adjourn
ment in some measure with the fact
that Grants army is within twenty-five
miles Of Richmond. At this particular
moment il may even be said that more
than usual time and attention ought to
be bestowed upon every detail Of Con-
gressional business And even if all
were done and finished, no preteXt Of
any business any longer, it would be
well, while Grants army IS still in ex-
istence threatening Richmond, that
Congress should still remain in session.
1t might occupy itself with set debates
upon-historic questions; as whether ia
Illus Cesar or Napoleon Bora )arte was
the greater man; or upon the nature of
virtue and the structure Of the human
mind, and the difference between SEN
sation and perception-anything. in
short, OF the most abstract useless,
trumpery and recondite sort, save and
except one thing only We would ex-
clude from debate no subject, sacred or
profane, nothing in all history, poetry,
prophesy, physics or metaphysics, ex-
cept this one single matteT-we mean
Mr. Leach "peace' resolutions and
the disgusting nam about North Caro-
lima Human nature can bear no more
of that. How desirable soever it NAV
be that Congress should remain with
MS another week or month, it were bet
ter that they all ran away before day
light tomorrow, for parts unknown,
than that they should stay to maunder
and SWIVEL, or listen 10 maundering,
snivelling, or dwelling about peace.
Our sincere respect for some North
Carolinians. whom we see daily brought
into our hospitals with pale faces and
shattered limbs coming from the front
of the battle-this sincere respect COM
pels us 10 deprecate sll consideration
OF the peace resolutions, and 10 declare
that we do not hold ths State nor her
soldiers responsible for such a treason 10
manhood and common sense. Oar re-
spect for that which is good in y CARROLL
ma intensifies our disdain for that which
is mean; and, therefore, while de-
bate IN Congress on, for example
the old red sandstone would give us
true pleasure, we DO trust that the me
cotiations for peace" may be totally
barred, tabooed, shut out, voted down,
swept under the table But-ayoiding
only that topic-let our Congress hold
its ground and quietly get through with
its business If those gentlemen
should hastily abandon Richmond at
this moment why should not all the
members of the Administration Why (
not the PRESIDENT Then, following
the example Of those authorities, who /
are supposed TO know more than pri- (
vate people, we should have a STAN;
pede OF ali the new or floating popu- /
lation-the war population-here who I
could scrape up money to 20 away; 4
panic among those compelled 10 re- +
main; the roads Of the whole Confed- 4
eracy thronged with headlong fugi- /
tiyes, spreading dismay and fsintheart- +
edness, while General Lee army, per
G Giving that no confidence is placed in
their proves, would no longer Sight |
with the same spirit TO protect thank
less. nerveless country.
This must never be the fate Of Rich ,
mond. The city has looked an enemy
in the face before, and has not blench- /
ed Let US all stand together yet once /
more. Government, Congress, citizens, /
and all, and see the thing out. Wash /
ington is ia more danger at this mo- /
ment than Richmond