Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-05-15


The r,ouisviIle .7osrndl, sheet whose insulting
and ansi-southern utterancez became so depraved,
lcen.sous and incendiary that its circulation has
been Suppressed in this city essays to pour out its
sesb,c wrath upon the Legislature of Tennessee for
daring to vindicate the freemen Of the State from
the suspicion of disloyalty to their own loved
land.
We are indebted to the Louisville Courier for the
following effective answer TO the low TRADE of the
Journal:
The Journal has grown weary Of abusing, misre-
presenting, denouncing and assailing South Caro-
lima, which. strangely enough, appeared as uncon-
cerned IS If the Great Organ had no existence: and
it now brings its biggest guns to bear On virginia
Arkansas and Tennessee, and the statesmen and
soldiers of those States.
It is possible its attacks will be as harmless and
as little needed in this direction as when turned
against the States which sooner declared their in
| dependence.
1t is possible that John Bell, and the +" Ewings,"
and Gus. Henry, the Eagle Orator" and others
of whom the journal but recently assured the PEG,
pie that they were the ablest the purest, the most
incorruptible the most loyal and patriotic, the most
trustworthy and honorable statesmen IN the naHon
it is possible that having survived lis 1rlehdsnp
| they will outlIve its yiruf mt hostility
The Journal is particularly bitter anu FiOielS ~
its denunciations of Tennessee.
1t can't find anything to complain OF IN the I'M
| constitutional acts of the Lincoln Admihlstrauoh;
1t can't find anything TO CAL OUT US curses
| in the murder of irnocent women ana uno1endlng
me, +; tho streets Of Baltim and ST. Louis by the
mob the Administration has organized and armed for
the nurnose of subJugatng the slave States; saw
notbing wrong or at all improper in the gathering
of arrped men at Washington during the last SEES
| -. of Congress to intmidate Southern Represen-
| +otives and Senators it has not denounced the
mob rule that prevails throughout the Free
States to the serious injury Inconvenience, and loss
~ =
| Is evidently pleased with the unlawful and indie
feasible attack made on the State Guard of Missouri
by the United States troops and Union volunteers
on FRIDAY last the occupancy of Cairo by thousands
of Abol Ii m soldiers menacing our commerce and a
portion of State. and the interruption of the
| legitimate trade and business Of our city have
rather gratifed it than otherwise; but the Legsla
ture of Tennessee has reused its ire. and the con-
duct Of the people of Tennessee proVokes its most
violent and Incorporate abuse!
1t has many particulars of oppression and vio-
| lence and wrongdoing in Tennessee as it had of
similar acts in Mississippi and Louisiana, and they
are quite as reliable in this they were in the
| other.
What right, if its charges against the people of
Tennessee were really true, they are not has it
| to complain of them?
Hasn't it threatened the Legislature with mob vio-
ence if they should dare to disregard the wishes of
little knot of cOnspirators who have determined to
| tie Kentucky on as caudal appendage to the Free
/ States2
Hasn't it threatened civil war if the people of
Kentucky should determine. they have deter
mined. to 60 with the slave States?
| And why should it complain, wrong though it
would be- if its friends traitors like Andy johnson,
! should be treated as it would treat others?
The secret however, of the peculiar bitterness of
the Journal in this is apparent in the following
lines taken from its leading article of yesterday:
CAS- for the Tennessee press, excepting the loyal
and heroic Brownow, the best portion Of it is
dumb, and the rest applauds. We have seen editors
escaping from that State because they could not
stay ard speak their minds without the sacrifice of
their lives, [who they dear ,I0uadl?1 and the
circulation of papers from abroad that boldly speak
thu truth is prohibited. Eren IN NashUipe tchere the
La isJiue journal has for years had thousands ana
tn ycs u,ds Of l5Gr7a and deUoied friends has been
re~a ~ lneTdicted and banned By luTesiSted mob
uouqi Hedre and zaannd bear ,1jtnesS that IL
1cds conducted o. deeper and lOier deroiioa Il
| the truth ard the right than Il is at this day.;