Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-10-11
SHquesIla,isa.

| lr1m IN M0olte IsitG0e
We notice that the Richmond Dispaieh complains
that there is Hardness in the execution of the Se'
questrstiOn Act.
It would be infinitely better, perhaps, for large
class of Southern citizens that certain provbions of
| it should never be executed or enforced.
To sequestPate lands, negroes and other property
| and money of the enemy IS well eROugh-yka il is
right that it should be. But the provisions Of this
| bill stop not here. It requires all persons OJcRg
debts TO tae enemy to pay such indebtedness to be
| sued into Judgment, or to give security for
| its payment at future time, paying tia in
teTest sneuaIy. Let US see how this viii
| work. Our merchants have sold ths goods
| into the interior, for the purchase of which
the now proposed sequestrated debt was cbntract-
ed at the North The inferior msrch ants Iurchas-
ed their goods On time of the larger deserk SOUTH
And millions upon millions are now due by the
smaller interior merchants to the larger city mer-
chants South and in this condition the wa, comes
upon us. How much Of this interior dtbg will
ever be realized no human ken can discern
The States, the most OF them have pas te1 stop
laws 10 protect cur citizen from oppression by
suit sale Of property, &e, bee ause money not be-
ing in the country. cannot be collected without
great sacrifice Thus BOnied matters are in stai,t
quo in the South generally. outstanding debts
But this SequestratiOn Act. in its mild hehignisy.
threttles the SOutherner, and demands Bir pay
that thou owest" to alien CneIsies into the Coufed
crate Golfers act of retaliation for Southern
property eenfscated by them. or the rigOIs Of the
lAW VIII De IOfC6 against you
And pay he must, or give security. thereby giving
this Northern debt a preference and priority over
the debts due to our Southern merchants, When at
the same time the Sou bern merchant is p1eslu5
BY stay laws ia some States from ever su eing for
his money; and this sequestratOn comes 10 mGke
clear sweep Of the matter By requiring the money
intended for the payment Of Southern debsB, or he
must give security for the ultimate payment. In
either event the interior merchant viii BE- totally
unable to pay his Southern or home debt because
this SeQuestratioa Act has exhausted him
The operations Of this law will result in he loss
Of millions our brave and truest Southern popu-
lGtion. and 10 many instances viii work their ruin
totally and irredeemsbly,
And for what is this done? The preamble to the
act says it is retsliatOry But il is more thAn retail
iat0ry. la enforcing SoutherDers to pay Northern
debts, when it will work their ruin, is no retalia-
ton.
To have sequestrated lands, negroes. steck mon
eys goods belonging to the enemy in the posses
sion Of parties South, would have been rst ztOry;
but TO include the debt Of the South IN this act,
makes it most suicidal and oppressive. when our
people need relief instead Of oppression.
We call upon the merchants and people through
this Confederation to get I'D petitions and remOn-
st-ances against his feature Of the sequestrat0n
act to be sent 70 the next session Of Congress- 20
be held on the third Monday of NovembAr nexi,
and ask its repeal or essential modifi ,atiOs
That the act had may be uniform, we sBgEest the
following as the form of memorial above recon-
mended TO wit:
WHEREAs, the act of sequestration makes ttquire-
ments OF Southern eitzans owing debts to alien enc
mics, ghilh in thsir 0peFaLian must result most
disastFcus!y 70 aaay Of Our l1yRl CitiSelis and
whereas said citizens Will not be enabled tb pay or
further secure said debts during the war without
detriment to their Southern creditors, thu under
signed respectfully request the provisional Con- |
gress 70 repeal or materially modify so much Of
9uch act as sppes TO debts DUE by Souihernetizsns
py alien egemles.
Let any man re sect upOa tins iS~ all 1b opera !
tons, and be viii perceive the absolute rsctssity Of
relief from its heavy exaotiOns.
Let the law require every Southern debto to pay
his debts due TO alien enemies to the Receiver a.
fast as he get the money, but in the d ame Of 1
humanity and protection to our own eitik ans. let
this feature Of the law be repealed and no grind /
and ruin our own people. CoNFEDERkTiOS