Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-24
oins the Rebel ens' 40 Pav,ns
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ssCFushinE oiHt the Rebel oms' 40 Pavlns
theExPenses Of she War.
The New York Iri5sfzs, true to It's Radical in
stncts and its hatred Of the South, put forth the
following demand few weeks since;
If puEshzsf for treason can erer De Tiqktsoasly in
10 ed, ths time 70 iict q Is noto upon ~ Mifions
of acres IN The rebelsoss dtes shotld bs conf c,t,f
their tTarogs ossnsTs bani2hs5 and tpir lands soLi TO
Northern immigrants, sohose presence aol cara loyaly
nth 4. fund from these sales should be raised to
indemnify the thousands whom slS veholdug brutal
ity has driven away. Others. whose business has
been ruined by the same lawlessness, should be in
IDENTIFIED from the same source. Northern claims
on citizens of Georgia, con6scated by the State
they have been, should be paid by cCnlscating the
property of Georgia traitors The lead Of the re
bei0a should Be Otld1ptd By Congress- and eeery man
authorized to hunt them dolca. 40 Ouer dto
be that Of he drum head con reach them The time fOT
this crushing retaliation ,ol dsstTedly come The ma
ton demands Il at The earliest monent No poet rev
dictionary fight of tories could equal the hegira Of
these modern traitors, were such wholesome meas
ures put vigorously 10 force. Then, having failed
to destroy this Government, they will learn that
they have succeeded in destroying themselves.
This idea was caueh t up by number of the
Black Republican organs, and finally we find LIN
co1ss Secretary of the Treasury adopting and in
his report to the Congress of the United States now
in extra session, the financial schemes the LINCOLN
Government for paying the expenses Of the war are
fully exposed. In tn report Mr.. CHASE uses the
following Language, to which We beg leave to call
the especial attention of our readers:
cit will not, perhaps. be thought out of place. il
the Secretary suggests here that the property OF
those engaged in insurrectIon giving aid and com
fort &c the insurgents may properly be made TO con-
tribute to the expenditures made necessary by their
criminal misconduct, as q part Of tn punishment
Nof na oY,ilt IF wiz
tiles of civil war and thereby bringing distress up
on so many innocent persons. Congress may justly
provide for the forfeiture Of tie lobole part C The es
tIte Of the ed rs and for The payment Of as proceeds
into the public treasury.
The telegraph advises US that "the bill pro
viding for the confscatiOn Of the property
Of rebels found in arms against the United
States" was passed IL the Senate on the
22d, by vote Of thirty-two to six. 1t will dOub.-
less pass the House. The Southern people now see
what LINCOLN and his myrmiions would DO if they
had the power.
The Chicago Post commenting on this prOpOsition
to conflscate the property of people defending
their constitutional rights remarks:
We can say to those who are for conducting this
war upon a system of terror, that they may step
too far There is lurking devil Of hostility to the
war and its traces can be discovered in every vii
lsRe in the broad land. Let those entrusted with
the conduct of the war change its avowed purpose
and object and instead of being the especial guard
ians of the law and the Constitution become their
most INSCRIPTIONS violators, and that devil will
come forth from its kennel attended with such nu-
merous progeny, and all so deep mOuthed In their
opposition that the war may be adjourned from
Richu,oDd to points nearer home Do not let the
men entrusted with the destinies Of the Union, arm
by their misconduct and high handed outrsges
upon the Constitution the now latent treason at
home. Let the Government act in strict obedience
to the Constitution and will be backed TO the last
by the people, but let it rival the rebels in war
upon the Constitution, and it will call in vain for
succor upon people betrayed by their own chosen
ministers.