Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-30

The warriors of Babylon and the generals of
ancient Persf. prepared enormous banquets in their
camps says the Richmond Enquirer, when they
went out to battle loaded their tables with gold and
silver plate, iced Their wines, and prepared their
cnopping blocks, their winches their pincers and
otner instruments of torture that they might feast
and De drunk after their victory whale enjoying the
pressure Of Witnessing the death and agony of dis
nnguished prisoners. But as the satraps of Assvra
and the gnded hosts of Persia were invariably de-
feated with slaughter by handfuls of Greeks these
preparations served their double purpose 10 the
victors in way not anticipated. When the inyin-
chile Armada set sail for England, a train of heavy
transports followed the ships-ofwar with loads Of
manacies, foot and hand letters, Ingenious thumb
screws, racks, monks, priests and erucifxes. for
application to the hereto English so soon IS the
conquest Of their isle was completed. But the Ar
mazda either sunk to the bottom of the sea or fell
into the power of the fleets of ELIZABETH, who en-
plOyed the preparations of the inqusiton on those
who bore them in charge.
Our cotemporary Yankees appear to have added
8 leaf TO the book of XEBxRs and PHILn II. Hls
impossible not to recall the instances of the vanity
of human expectations just alluded to, and a hun
dred Others while reading their plans for the day
after the battle of Manassas, made the day before
it was fought.
No doubt but that the gallows and the coufscation
were in readiness but they had also an instrument
of torture unknown to the Spanard and the Asiatic
in the wires Of the telegraph. The announce.
ments Of the destruction, carnage and rout of the
Southern army seem to have been already in the
hands of the operator, and the tone of cruel
and of barbarous triumph which is perceptible,
though puzzled, in the beginning of the dispatch
from Washington published this day, forms a In
dlerous contrast with the perfect collapse of abect
defeat and terror that inspires the tale of disaster
concluding it.
When we recall the characteristics of the warfare
they have already waged on the South-the burn
ing homesteads of Virginia, spared y the British
and desOlated by American invaders the brutality.
lust, and insolence which has marked every moves
ment of the enemy; the arrogant certainty which
possessed the whole North of our speedy and abso-
Lutte subjugaiion; and the hdeous intentions which
they advanced this week to execute; when we re-
collect all that was before us on the morning of the
battle,-who can refrain from sentiment of relig-
iOus gratitude at the manifest interference of SUI
perior. power on the unequal field? Who can fail
to recognize in the result the arbitration of a Su
preme Judge?
Oh, how cou'ly it Is, and how reviving
10 the spirits Of just men losg Oppressed
Wien God, into the hands OF their dc .iyeter
Puts invncibe might
To que the mighty Of the earth, the oppressor
The brute add hoist'rous force of violent men
Eardy and industrious 20 support
TyraHn power, but raging to pursue
The righteous, and all such as hon. ur truth.
He all their ammunition
And feas OF war defeats,
With plain heroic magnitude Cf mind
And celestial vigour armed
Their srmories and nagazinCs contenns,
kenderG them useless, while,
With winged expedition,
81 Wit as the lighrnirg glance, he execu.
Eis GRAND on the wicked.