Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-09-07
ConfIseatIen.

The LINCOLN Government, few weeks since de-
1iberately passed an act confscating the property
real and personal debts and demands, owned by
aud due to citizens and corporations of the South
ern Confederacy. o1
The vandal right usy be admitted, but the policy
is rot sustained by the morality of an enlightened
Christian nation, controlled by good faith and re-
spect for private contracts
Their acts are marked by deception aud infrac.
tOns of the Constitution. To protect the citizens of
the Southern Confederaey from immense losses by
capture and coniscation. made and to be made, our
Congress at Richmond has been compelled, reluc-
family, to pass an act of sequestration.
This Act, we are informed, changes the owner
ship of all credits and right and all other property,
and stocks, Except State and Confederate Bonds
from Glisa enemies to the Confederate Government
and commences its rights in May last, for some
purposes and upon the conditions therein expressed
They bOastingly state that they have lsOOnegroes
in Fortress Monroe, taken without authority from
the citizens of Virginia. Indemnity for such losses
can only be reached by taking into possession all
such property and evidences of debts as are found
in the Confederate States. The agencies used in
carrying out this law of retaliation are the District
Court Of the Southern COnfederacy, and Che Re
ceivers and Commissioners appointed by them. The
States are now divided into two governments, and
settlement of account between them is thus
brought on, not in the manner sanctioned by an
elevated standard of national faith but justified on
our part, by what was firstdone by those who have
made war on us and seized our property.
, The Judge Of the COnfederacy in this district,
ever true and unwavering in the cause of the South
looking the spirit Of the Law and the good of the
country has appointed trustees for its execution
men of high position. integrity and capacity.
As we understand the Act, the Government of
the Confederate States, becomes the trustee of
al property, debts and rights which did belong to
salien enemies" and of course, citizens will be pro
tected in acting in obedience to laus forced upon
our Congress, by violations of the Constitution, by
waging ar, and by an Act of confseation, under
which they are now selling money, goods and all
other kinds of property belonging to Southerners.
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PAssPOBTs.-As Nashville is on the frontier, the
military authorities have deemed it proper to re-
quire all persons going out of the Confederate
States to provide themselves with passports, which
are furnished to such as ought to have them with
out expense and with as little trouble and annoyance
10 travellers as possible.
Persons living in the city or any where in the
neghborhOod have no difficulty in establishing their
character by reputable testimony, but it is some
times difficult for strangers from distance to offer
more than their bare word
1t will relieve the labor Of the Committee and
lessen the annoyance of the applicant, if, before
leaving home, the latter viii take the trouble to pro
cure the written endOrsementof some official person
whose signature and seal would be sufficient guar
anty Of the bearer. There are several ways which
prudent person can adopt, provided he knows
that there is necessity for p=eoaution, and it is
precisely for the purpose of calling the attention of
the public this necessity that these suggestions
are made.
1t is hoped that all newspapers which have the
interests of their readers at heart will call the
attention Of the pubic TO this matter, and suggest
ways by which travellers may easily identify them
selves before the Committee.