Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-22


needed. their dungeons are full to overflow
ing, and still new prison houses are found
for new victims. Indeed, the camps of the
Confederate armies furnish almost the only
security against the cruelty and rage of the
soldiers of the North. In them, there is
little danger that however obnoxious the
man may be to the myrmidons of tyranny
he viii be caught by his prosecutors At
Great Bethel, at Vienna, at Bull Run, at
Manassas, at Carthage, at Springfield, at
exington-wherever the armies of the two
powers have met, the Northern troops have
been beaten and driven back Inundated and
disgraced but their reverses have not
taught them to spare those whom civilized
armies never modest, but rather seem TO have
inspired them with spirit conceived ofthe
devil that prompts them to rapine, plumber,
and indiscriminate murder
The war is yet in its infancy. How much
longer it is to continue, Heaven only knows.
If it be conducted according to the laws of
If old and unarmed men and children are to
be its victim, there can be no security for
innocence and helplessness until the bayo-
net of Southern freemen shall drive the in
vaders, whose cruelty is only equalled by
their cowardiee, beyond the reach of our
homes and our wives and children.
We have seen nothing better calculated to
illustrate the spirit of Lincolnism than the
following Uerbatim extract from sermon
recently preached by Rev. r. J. BEEcKIN-
RIDGE to the abolition soldiers at Camp Dick
Robinson. The language is so atrOcious
that if there wereroom to doubt its correct
ness we would not believe that it could have
been uttered by any one claiming to be a
christian or a gentleman, scarcely that 1t
could have fallen from the lips of a man.
Unfortunately there is NO room to doubt its
authenticity. 1t is the language of man
born in Kentucky, reared amid Kentucky
institutions, educated in Kentucky schools,
whose talents are prostitued to the service of
the wicked one, whose utterances are re-
proach to civilization, and whose conduct
mars the glory of the name he unfortu-
In the sermon to which we refer, he said:
81 have never believed in the doctrine of
Purgatory, and have all my life fought
against it; among other reasons have de-
clared that in the whole grand sweep of Gods
moral government, l would find no place to
locate it, and if a place could be found, l
saw no necessity for it with the fu1 provis
ions for redemption made in the Redeemer
Christ But if there ever was time when
such place was needed it is now, for a man
occupying the stand point which l do, the
conclusion forces itself, unbidden albeit,
upon the mind, that there are many men
who deserve not to be saved and are not
worth claiming. Such are that class of Ken
tuckians who would still wish to remain
neutral when our State has been invaded
by maraudiug soldiery from Tennessee.
They refuse to offer their lives for the per-
petuity of the country and the putting down
of the Rebellion, and show themselves
of nations blessing. They take
so feeble part in the Rebellion that they
hardly deserve the public notice of ma
toms meditation. But I hope there IS not a
soldier in this east GssembLage achose heart te
not nzrUed to the same high purpose Of my
wn-THAT THIS REBELLION SHALL BE
PUT DOWN, IT MATTERS NOT, AT
WHAT EXPENDITURE OF MONEY, OR
WHAT SACRIFICE OF THE BLOOD OF
REBELS, OR THEIR WIVES OR CHILL |
Government is worth itall, and |
worthy more"