The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-06-29

Dangerous Wen,
The Trojan horse, which, wearing the
semblance of harmless wooden figure,
has an armed force hidden in its belly,
is always a dangerous intruder into the
army or the State. It's external form is
attractive, and well adapted to throw
spectators off their guard. Why be sus-
picious Of an image so ingenious, so ma
jestic and harmless So said the foolish
Trojans as they dragged the wooden i'm
age within their walls. They closed
their gates, and deeming that all was
secure, joined in a drunken revel. AT
midnight the ambuscade opened the door
in the side Of the horse, and sallying out,
unlocked the gates and the enemy rushed
into the city, and Trey, which had for
nine years withsiood the combined ar
mics of Greece, fell by the deception of
the wooden horse. The loyal men of the
South who are struggling to stay in the
Union, are in peril from a wooden horse.
II is treason, concealed under the mask
of conditional Unionism. We are in
more danger from some who profess to be
the friends of the Union than we are
from avowed enemies. These creatures
who wear an everlasting smirk and smile
upon their faces, are swarming around
every loyal Federal officer in the South.
They are whispering peace when there is
no peace, They profess to desire the
preservation of the nation, but at the
same time whisper in dulcet tones and
melliiluous phrases in the ear of the Off
GERS Of justice Hold OH Don't strike
or you will offend. Conciliate, conciliate.
We are sure of the loyal men already,
and policy requires that we should win
over the rebels by favors and rewards"
The sympathizers with the rebellion
seeing the inevitable failure attending a
contest of arms, are applying all their
energies to controlling the policy Of the
Government. They cannot resist, 30
they seek to advise. To our mind moth
ing is clearer than this proposition,
that The Government must be in the hands
Of its friends exclusively and re-
ward its friends exclusively. Loyalty
cannut compromise with treason. The
least touch Of treason is poisonous and
communicating. We cannot rebuild the
fallen portions of our constitutional edi-
flee by attempting to cement the WE'LL
hewn stones Of patriotism with the ill
tempered mortar Of treason If we take
--Im0ng us this wooden horse Of condition
al and temporizing Unionism, we shall
soon find that dagger is ready to stab
the nation TO its heart. Rebellion will
break forth again in all its fury, and
with more effect than at first, if we stop
short Of cutting it up root and branch
and sowing its place with salt. Better
fight for twenty years, better sweep every
rebel from the soil of the Republic, and
have the great work OF restoration "done
when lis DONE" than to cover up the
live Goals of disancction and allow
them to burst forth into hotter and
more consuming flame. Beware of these
councillors them who advise a vascillat.
ing temporizing, halfway policy towards
those men who have plunged the land
in the horrors of war, and are response
BILE before God for the murder of twenty
thousand men, who have already per-
ished in battle, aud for the blood Of
many thousands more who will pass
thHough the horrors of the battle field
20 an untimely grave. Oh, thou heaven
born Republic, baptized with martyr
blood in early infancy, and daily COM
mended to the keeping Of Divine Mercy
by many millions Of agonzing hearts,
not only in the New, but in the Old
World, awake from thy slumber Awake
TO a sense of thy peril from many false
Summer friends" on the fields of thv
hercest conaicts-awake, and with the
sword, achieve an immortal and glorious
destiny