Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-21
rrensOn and TraitOrs in East Tennessee.

We wish to submit some undeniable facts for your
most solemn reflection, and upon your determine
ton depends all that you can regard on earth as sa-
cred and inestimable-yOur rights, civil, political,
and constitutional. the lives Of thousands of your
citizen soldery all your material interests and pros
perity the shame and degradation Of yourselves
your families and your successive posterlty iOr
Years to come. For the war that the Yandal North
no wages, and hereafter intend to Wsge against
the South is of utter subJugatlon and humllla-
ton This. no intelligent man will dispute for II
has been recently proclaimed in every speech and
every act by the present Congress It Washington,
passively obedien to the behests OF the yrant who
sits in Executive chair, well as by all the Re
publican press which but echo the sentiments OF
the Republican masses of the North. Thus, every
thing which we regard as sacred and invlOable Is
involved in the issue Of our present revolution.
Now then. what these mOmentOus facts
Tell me who invited the Northern hordes of Lincoln
TO the State of Maryland, to overthrow all civil law
and rights to plumber and shoot down its UnOtfend
ing ctZ9ns to outrage female virtue and chastity,
and commit other Outrages at which religion and
civilization stand Mortified? They were the Union
men of Maryland. Tell me, who invited into the
State of Missouri the pandeTed minlOns OF the North,
to seize its cities, massacre its women and children
upon the streets, plumber houses, desoiate lands
subiugate inhabitants. and spread everywhere the
havoc of civil war? They were the Union men of
Missouri Tell me, who are the men IN the State OF
Kentucky that recently voted millions of money and
/ many hundred thousands of men to subJugate the
/ SOuth-whO, out of Congress, are distributing
Lincoln arms among the citiZens-whO are inviting
Northern sodiery to enter the State-who have de-
| livered the Government of the State over TO the
! Powers at Washington-its Post Offices its Rail
roads its Custom Houses, its Federal and Supreme
/ Judiciary-who indeed are willing to unyOke the
| fiery dragons of civil war, rather than the State
shall not be bound to the captive car OF Black Re
| pubuCanism? They are the Union men OF kentucky
Who were the inv irgnla, that gave to the Lin
coin Administration at Washington maps OF the for
/ A. 41,v1 q no
number and position CT their armies the details OF
| their operations; and who guided the hOrdes OF
Mcclellan so recently through the passess and de-
files of the mountains, and defeated the little army
| of Garrett and Pegram? They were the Union mel
of Virginia Who are the men in the State OF Iennes
see that invite the armies of Lincoln to the Stae
| subugate its citizens-whO are receiving clandes
timely through the State OF kentucky arms, by Wmci
| to equip a portion Of our citizens TO make WG
! upOn another portion, in defiance OF the laws an
sovereign authority of the people, who are still
organizing secret military force that may, as 500
as the armies of Lincoln Mcclellan, johnson, Brown
| low and Nelson, may invade our State, turn thel
organized force, against the State, and merciessl
bu.cber their neighbors kindred and fellowcitizen
who are tO>day running a bogus ticket for men
hers of Congress and Governor throughout III
State-in some cases men who have heu the otau
vet by getting ten COteS may represent the ota
or Federal COngress-all for the purpose OF adm
! Lincoln in subjugating the State, and humlliatn
! and degrading the recent overwhelming secesslo
| majority of sixty>one thousand: They are Ii
| UBion men of Tennessee. Are they not Traitor
~ tbe State of Tennessee and the Southern Confed
racv. we care not what be their professions, NJ
: I What cloaks or guises they may wear?
Now for the laws of Tennessee and the SOutheI
Jonfederacy upon this subject Treason may
| committed against the State of Tennessee
| yr against the Confederate States. 1t
: | against the former or the latter as the blow
h aimed The power to punish this crime, in eth
II case, depends upon the sovereign authority Of I