Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-02

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Extra ordinary Confession of the Enemy
Evidences are rapidly increasing that an airre
pressible conflict" is risng in the North On the con
duct Of the wsr. The scales are falling from ,ei,
eyes, and they begin to see the venalty and corfup
| ton Of the urgers of ths war against The South
We find in the Cincinnati Tines, leading Reuusi1
can organ, the following extraordinary article one
of the most severe bitter and whitening criticisms
of the war we have yet seen. The Times adjures
US: Tell it not IN Virginia! publish it not in the
streets of Richmond! lest the Seet ssionists nav
hear it" but It's argumest is too honest for US to
withhold from our readers. We must give tit is
too good to be lost: 70 s-5 -sr
THE CoNDrc7 or TIE WAR-HAYE We GOVERNMENT?
= Starring SOLDIERS AND coRRLPr POLITICIANS
The management Of this dreadful war has czst a
halo OF slory over all the ''short-comings'' Of ali
The military economy Of ancient and modern times
The conduct of some of he managers of our at
fairs n Western Virginia has dispossessed The great
actors of former times Of chronic n1OnOpolies OF
inoarable military iniquisies and dignihed By con
trast the hitherto Inaccessible inches Of criminsly
attained by the Gree ks Of the Lower Empire p
NE are sorry TO speak plainly upon this subject;
but we must De permitted to say that the Federal
army Is the especial victim of ahoSt Of s1indleTi
sued as the &C rh t7dectGiaed 9Th for 7lg si5
no1tsGn5 yeTTs Ii does seem as though the deyh
shmseh oW ed America debt, and was trying to
cancel the obligation By furnishing psymasteTs and
avn, ~ GfT1,
TO the Federal army. SAVED
What is the matter inv stern Virginia Is our
army D be treated az travelling circus WiIsre
does the responsibility rest =? Winter is approach
ing few weeks will pass and the deep SHOWS
VIII cover the mountains ;OUr trO0pSiR WestTn ET-
9izt are partially clothed and Partially fed; they are
WI hout blankets suited TO the present season.
what will be their condition by the beginning Of the
ext winter! We have needlessly asked who is 70
blame! The correspondence between Gov. Nor
ton, of Indiana. and of the officers in Western
Virginia and in Washington city, throws food Oi |
light upen the entire subject. Immense quantities
of clothes have been furnished, and these hsYe not
reached the suffering soldiers Why will not the !
Government order an immediate investigation OF
the conduct of sffsirs It is burning shame upon
civilization that men who are known 10 be corrupt
from the crowns Of their heads to the soles of their
feet are retained in ofice-retaiEed In the face
protest loud enough to secure responses from the |
Wondering carcasses of the tomb.
Our soldiers are sick free zng. starving dying in
Virginia, while paymasters are boarding the none /
which belongs to them, to their wives, and 10 their
orphan children, and while certain qus=termas,ers
men whose lives are unbrokPn records Of veuaE
ity-11en who obt1ined their situations because
they were corrupt enough 10 buy them-men who
know enough about certain members of the Cabinef
to cause their immediate ejectment from Office il
they would only turn States EVIDENCE inls
such men are dashing along through towns and cities
at the expense of the Federal Government, draw
by Federal horses, and followed. at every step, BY
yritn r11ra fhuu
adorned the most elegantly alfred Marshal of tn
first Napoleon.
Our sick are eUerychsre, cur halfnaksd are eUsy |
1ohere our hungry are eU9y1ohsre, our freezing are
Everywhere our dead sTe everywhere, whilst some
of our public disbursing q officers are draw
ing interest the public money, and while OF
the clerks of these disbursing % officers offer
ing to purchase the claims of the poor soldiers in
the field? Tell it not IN Virginia publish it not in
the streets of Richmond lest the SeeessOniss hear
it lest the daughters of Alabama hear it and re
joice-that We have pecuniary agents IL Western
Virginia, who purchase Virginia bank money
which is st considerable of discount and pay il
to the men who have left their wives and daughters
and sweethearts, and mothers, and fathers, and sis
ters and comfortable, beautiful homes in Ohio, for
the purpose Of defending the Star spangled Ban
ner and exposing their bodies, at the rate Of Sl3
per month. to bursting bombs, and showers Of Pow
der lead and iron!
aApcels and ministers Of grace defeudus ~ What {
are we to look for next? Did the abstract demon
of venaty and base ingratitude purposely skip the
awful events of SIX thousand years that it might
effect an incarnation in America in the middle of the
Nineteenth century? up, guards and at 'em! z"
Now is the time to strike and sweep in, with tenn
pest of lava the avenues of political vice
Great God viii America sleep forever! Are the
memories of the dead and the hopes of the living
not enough to arouse the slumbeii ing energies of
mighty Continent Is the very cradle Of American :
liberty to be employed its coffin Is there no
Hercules that can rise and strangle the dragon that
is insidiously coiling around the wasting body Of
the great Republic? Are we to be over Whelmed I
like unhappy Greece, in the pHrid waves of do q
nestle corruption? Heaven forbid that this niqui :
ty shall be consummated! We have not yet eulmin :
ated TO the meridian; we are net yet manacled for
the scsfod; we are not yet shrouded for the grave
of nations We have committed dreadful errors;
we have walked in the valley and the shadow OF =
death but there is beautiful star shining ike the
cross in the wilderness" reckoning Us 10 lOiter
and prouder des tiny. There is whose pavilion
is dark cloudn--one, al whose voice the universe q
was summoned into existence who is st;li the !.
guardian of the land of Washington. Let us not
despair. ina .- =
Now il the time for action The eyes of the
world are upon you the shades of one hundred c
and eighty generations of men are looking down il
upon YOU and il is for you to fight or die As we r.
said you have no election you must fight or con~ b
sent TO be kissing and by word through every n
century to come; you must meet tue dreaoiuIls issue
or your children will deny their parentage, and Il
blush when your names shall be mentioned c.
The eatestquestion1 of the world are to be de-
cided at once H1us lgs a GJUTnHsat on this Cont
aent? This ia the momentOus issue. More than b
thirty millions of people directly interested in
the result and all the nations of the earth will be il
involved in the general ruin. Such struggle as $
this is not confined to any particular region OF the
globe and is net limited to any especial age the a.
ntereata Of humanity concerned, GDG in