Daily National Democrat

Dr. Huntey, late editor of the Nashville (Tenn) Democrat, has addressed a letter to the National Republican protesting against any compromise or peace until the rebels acknowledge the authority of the Government.—Eastern dispatch.

All who have any respect for their country's honor, or any desire for the perpetuation of the Nation's existence, will insist that the authority of the Government must be acknowledged throughout the length and breadth of the land. The rebels have utterly failed to give any decent reason for their headlong plunge into anarchy and war.—Wicked and crafty men have succeeded in deluding the people of the South into the idea that their rights were to be invaded. The anti-slavery sentiment of the Republican party has been held up to the popular prejudice, and every effort made to create the belief that the new Republican administration contemplated nothing less than an effort to abolish slavery throughout the Union. When the last Congress met the rebels were in arms, and our Government was lying supinely on its back. Now we are driving the enemy before us. Then, to have offered terms of adjustment to the rebels, would have had the appearance of yielding something to their menaces. Now, we are ready to crush them, and to compel respect to the flag dishonored at Fort Sumter. The Government can now well afford to deal firmly but fairly with such as choose to straddle the treacherous path in which they walk. As yet no great battle has been fought. The rebels, ten thousand strong, have just fled before the brave Pennsylvanians whose march into Virginia they essayed to impede. The strong arm of the Nation holds treason in check in Missouri and Maryland, while in Delaware and Kentucky the Unionists take care of their own traitors. Virginia is rent asunder already by divisions among her people. Instead of flying threats against the Capital Washington, the insolent pretender, Davis, now shows symptoms of weakening, and the dispatches indicate a probability of his forces retiring to Richmond. The evacuation of Harper's Ferry made some brave fellows away down on the Gulf, very wroth; the evacuation of Manassas Gap will perhaps drive them into rebellion against their own rebel leaders. The people of New Orleans are in a state of commotion, expecting Federal hostilities there. The Georgians refuse to allow any more arms to leave their State lest they be caught defenseless. In short, the blustering swagger of mouthing traitors has much subsided. It is very possible that by a master stroke of policy, our Government may now drive in the wedge which, by dilatoriness, or more probably inability on the part of the Davis concern, to carry on the revolutionary war, has surely been entered between the rebel leaders and their followers. Our Government can now, without appearing to be governed by threats of traitors, give any assurances necessary to convince the dupes in the South of the fatal error into which high-handed treason has led them. We do most fervently hope, that Congress will, during the extra session, recognize the fact that none will deny, viz: that thousands of Southern men do really believe that the party in power is hostile to their interests in times of peace. We do not say that the fear ought to exist, but as it does exist, we would gladly see it removed. We hope that the President will be sustained by Congress in every act he has performed since the 11th of April last, when Sumter was attacked. We again. We know of no local interest for the dissolution into its original elements of petty States.

We know, now, that the Nation is strong and that it has power to sustain itself. We hope to see every rebel camp, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, broken up, and the voice of sedition hushed. Believing that all this can be accomplished, we are anxious that, if possible, none shall suffer who did not deliberately enter into hostilities against us. We hope and believe that the Message of President Lincoln will be of such a character as to convince those who have been dragged into taking up arms against our Government, first, that they can never prevail, and that obedience to Federal authority legitimately exercised, will be enforced at all hazards: and second, that the alarms excited in their minds by Disunionists per se could never really have been entertained by the latter, for the reason that no cause for such alarms ever had existence. We shall probably see the Message by Wednesday, and we feel certain that, while it will in no degree temporize with treason, it will go far towards convincing those who will reflect, that what seems to so many in the South a just revolution, is really the result of a black and foul conspiracy, born years ago in the brains of men who would rather rule in Hell than serve in Heaven.