Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-06-21
The Tories OF ne ana ,eI.

The war upon the South has its prototype, in
many of its incidents, in the war which George the
Thirds ministers wsged upon the thirteen Colonies.
To ascertain whether there was Government"
was the pretext then. George the Third claimed
absolute dominion over the people of this country.
Their commerce and domestic legislation were all
under his control and subject to his supervision.
In addition to this, it asserted that the Parlia>
ment of Great Britain possessed the power Of IN
limited taxation over the colonies. The people,
bred up TO believe themselves free, refused 10 sur
render all their liberties. The tea thrown
board in Bosten harbor, and the spirit of resist
ance and independence blszed out in every county
of Virginia. Lord North sent his fleets and armies
to ascertain whether there was GoVernment-and
after seven years war, be obtained the information
SO much desired Orr, Yankesi Friends are doing the
identical Same thing now. They claim thaA the CEN
tral authority is supreme and absolute all the
States that it can tax st their will md pleasure,
and impose whatever conditions upon US it may
choose AS the free people Of the Southern States
do net manifest disposition to abandon the rights
their fathers won for them-their Northern eppres-
sors are quite as indignant as was His Majesty
George the Third, and are exceedingly anxious to
find out whether there is Government. They,
like their transatlantic predecessors, resort to
fleets and armies to make the invest Est n JUS
tice and the God Of Battles grant that they may
ceive like satisfaction.
Another parallel is to be found in the vocabulary
the Tories Of 'T6. Then every brave patriot, who
stood UP for the freedom and Independence of his
country, was denounced as "Rebel and Traitor"
George Washington, pre-eminent in position and
virtue, enjoyed the preeminenee Of being the chief
"Rebel" On his head was set priee-snd he,
with few other ardent Rebels was specially ex-
cepted from His Msjesty's royal grace and mercy.
One would suppose that the very poor success,
which this royal attempt met with, TO stigmatize
the champions of freedhm, would have deferred
all others from making it. The greatest Rebel of
the American Revolution fills the foremost place in
the objections and admit alton Of mankind, while his
assailauts sre covered with infamy sunk in OBJ
livcu. And if the whole power of Britain, with
its historic prestige failed to attach odious sig
MITIGATION 10 the word "Rebel," what chance, think
yon. has the Frse-negro Government at Washington
of doing i'll
"Tle RtbeI WasIiqgton!' 1t may be in the Pro-
whence of God, that such another may be seen =
but the land that produced him will give birth TO
hundreds animated by the game high principles,
and will follow in his track with steady, if unequal
footsteps. "Re5els and Traitors words, which
the name of Washington has hallowed forever; and
which the present crusade against freedom will
render if possible, still desrer to every manly
bosom!
But another and still more serious identity
lists between the tories Of this day. and those Of 10
The English tories hired the scalping knife of the
Indian and urged the savage to butcher their breth
rem in America species Of warfare which has
been transmitted 10 the exaeration- Of posterity by
the burning eloquence Of Chatham. We are not
left to doubt, that of still more disbolical
character is meditaled against US. The Abolition
press do not hesitate to the design oflighting
the fires of the incendiary and exciting ssrvile in
surrection. If their power only equal to their
maligniiy. our doom would be sealed. But as there
is a God, who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,
SO does q Gracious Providence battle the designs Of
she wicked The tories and their Indian allies
were routed in the last century-slike fate awaits
their successors of the present day Richmond
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