Daily Nashville Union

FROM WASHINGTON.

Correspondence of Nashville Union.

Washington, May 19, 1862.

The excellent report, at full length, of the proceedings of the Union Convention at the Capital of Tennessee, on the 12th instant, has reached us, and filled all loyal hearts with joy and gratulation. We were slow to believe that the people of that noble State would favor Secession; and now that all but the most obtuse must see that the majority of those who acted openly with the conspirators were deceived, beguiled, or coerced, into that co-operation, will they not embrace the opportunity which is presented by the magnanimous course of the General Government and its worthy representative, Governor Johnson, and return, without delay, to their allegiance? Nothing can be in better temper or taste than the whole of the Governor's speech on this memorable occasion.

The Hon. Edward Stanley will leave Washington to-morrow for North Carolina, to enter on his duties as Military Governor of that State, so nearly allied to Tennessee by family ties and a thousand endearing and inspiring associations. He cannot take a better chart for his guidance than that which is presented in the conduct of Andrew Johnson, since he undertook the same responsible post at Nashville.

Kentucky, it is said, will very soon enjoy the advantage of a Military Governor too. The insolence and cruelty of the Rebels in certain districts, since the withdrawal of the Federal troops, renders such a procedure necessary. What a commentary on the boasted chivalry of Secessionists! To slink away at the sight of Union bayonets, and when the wholesome presence of the glittering steel no longer restrains them, then to creep out from their hiding places, and oppress defenceless old men, and unoffending women and children!

The intelligence from the Army and Navy to-day continues to strengthen the confidence of the country in our gallant heroes on land and sea; and to convince the representatives of Foreign Powers here that the Rebellion is approaching its end. There is no foundation for the rumors about intervention being about to be attempted by England and France, either singly or combined. The present is no time for such intervention, even if they had ever thought of it. When we are opening port after port along the Atlantic coast to the commerce of the world; when we are loosing the bonds that kept back cotton, it would be most inopportune for a nation that has any regard for the law of the world to do that for which there is no pretext whatever; after having forborne so long, when the pretext of want of cotton did exist.

The Secretary of the Treasury, with that sagacious and prompt statesmanship which he has so often manifested, rapidly follows up the recovery of commercial points from the possession of the Rebels, by setting on foot means for facilitating the influx of goods and merchandize, such as the people have need of, and have been long kept from, by the miserable machinations of the conspirators.

L. M. D.