The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-01-18
SOUTHERN NEWS.


The Richmond Examinerof Friday
January Is, has long editorial on the
Blair mission It says
I'VE did not think it hardly credi-
bic that Blair has been furnished with
pass by the Confederate authorities
to visit Richmond, ID be true as reps
resented In the Northern newspapers,
that he comes here without any official
authority frnm Mr.. Lincoln. Yet on
vest srday Blair was actually holding
c9nfabulation with Seldom. IL Blair
has no authority 70 negotiate, then it is
claimed he ia TO act in SOME way on the
people. through old friends, doubtless,
whom he knew in Washington, Bis
design must be to pry into the popular
feeling of the Confe6eracy, and give
that feeling a wrong direction. BY
what methods Of percussion, ltitrlghe
and collision he may be enabled 10
forward his design, we cannot ten
The Examiner goes on at length to
say
1T would be more sensible to let
Grants engineers visit the richmond
Notifications, than 70 permit this pollt-
ical engineer, Blair, 70 remain
Then II comments severely on the
manner Ia which people of the North
yi.it Richmond, while DO one from
this city dare 60 TO Washington for fear
of being imprisoned
The Ez miner then says:
But beyond ell other reasons why
these mock emmissaries should be kept
away from Richmond, is the obvious
impolicy of eettng up Idle talk about
An impossible peace. We knew, be
forehand, that Mr. Lincoln and hIs par
Is will never recognize the Indepen-
dence of these States and under no
circumstance, on no condition, can
these States return 10 the Union Ii
the Confederate Government and the
State Governments we're agreed 70 do
so, or if the DaVis7Seddon- Mallory Ben
iamin, concern continued the causes
Which led to its overthrow, yet peace
would not follow. Return to the Union
on terms that may be named, means
slavery 10 the North of the people OF
the South; and whatever some think
when they are frightened, We will nev-
er cons Mt tote slaves. If the Conlel-
crate government goes down, the States
will form a new one, and the war for
independence be resumed again and
again 81
Ia concluding this editorial the Elk
aminer says:
"The main object Of sending such
old boys here as Blair, next to gaining
some information, is to produce q va
cillation OF purpose among the people,
The Enquirer of the 18th makes mer
ry over Blair's mission, and saws
1T is hardly to be supposed that
Blair has done anything remarkable in
the diplomatic line since his little 30
journ in Richmond"
NoRTHERE PART Is FsoM A SOUTHERN POINT
OF VIEW.
The Richmond Examiner Of the 18th
contains lengthy editorial by Pollard,
It's editor, who has just been exchanged
on parties and opinions in the North,
and the Chicago programme, and what
came Of it. He opens by saying that
it is impossible to understand the pres,
ent state of political parties in the
North, from any reference to the divi
sion IN past Presidential campaigns.
He says that since the Chicago COnven-
ton, the Peace party universally, with
the scale of military success, has fallen
until at last it approaches, zero. The
article goes on in q style of bitter in
vective, denouncing all parties North,
and especially Southern sympathizers.