Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-04-24


According to the invitation previously
announced, Governor johnson attended
the dress parade Of this splendid Regi-
ment, on yesterday afternoon, at their
camp, two miles from, the city. a large
number Of citizens were present on the
occasion. We have previously spoken in
COMMUNICATION Of these troops, and now
are forced 10 add still more literally TO
the need of praise formerly bestowed.
We have attended many dress parades
and pronounce this Regiment The best
drilled and most accomplished in the
manual of arms and movements, of all
that we have seen since the beginning of
the war. They not only look like sol
diers, but bear that
"Dauntless brow and spirit speaking eye"
that indicates the.earnest, determine, din
elligent freeman. They seem to
"Han in their hearts the t,irjnpb yet to cone,
And hear hoT els stormy music IN the drum
Governor johnson was introduced by
Mr.. East, Secretary of State, in some
brief and appropriate remarks. Cover
nor johnson said that, recognizing the
men before him as the defenders of the
Law, the Constitution and the Union, he
welcomed them heartily to the State of
Tennessee He recognized in this great
contest no sectional line, but the broad
and noble one of Union. He believed the
men, the citizen soldiers, who stood before
him had come not as subjugators and inva-
ders,but as protectors and defenders Of all
Who.Were loyal and true. This was a mo-
mentous struggle which involved the ex-
istence of free goycrnmentitself II was
battle between despotism and demo-
cracy for supremacy He knew the lead
ers Of this rebellion we'll and intimately,
both personally and politically, and he
declared it was the firm determination of
the rebel leaders to overthrow popular
government, if they should succeed, and
establish despotism instead of our pres
ent liberal institutions. Mr.. Clay ton, the
Assistant Secretary of Hon. Howell
Cobb, declared to him on one occasion
that the people of the South as we'll as
many at the North, were fully determin-
ed to submit to the election of no Presi-
dent who had sprung from the common
people, as Abe Lincoln had Andrew
jackson had foreseen this attempt to re :
yolutionize the GovernmC twenty-eieht
years ago, and had foretold that tie aris-
tocrats in the next struggle would make
slavery their pretext. The prophecy is
now in its fulflment, and the leaders of
this Infamous rebellion were trying to
trample down all popular government
and establish dtspotism, based not on
man'sinherent tights Of elf-government,
not on the intelligence Of the people, not
on the sublime truths Of democracy, but
solely on the institution Of slavery thus
Wrestling government from The hands of
The people where God had placed it,,
and giving it TO mere institution
There was nothing noble or exalted in
the rebel movement. lie knew the deinon
of secession TO be an ignoble one
II was diabolical, hell born concern.
II was conceived and born in sin, and
would end in He'll And he was glad TO
see all over the land an instructive rally
around the flag OF The Union by the
people. All differences Of birth and of
former party associations are forgotten
in this battle for The right of man. lie
hailed the men of Minnesota as tho citi-
zen soldiers of the Union, who Lad come
not to infringe upon one right, but rather
to protect us in the enjoyment of ALL.
Yes, he spoke almost in sight of the tomb
of the Sage and Soldier of the Hermit
age, and if that noble old man could
know what was going ON to-day in
Tennessee, it seemed TO him that he
would burst the ccrements of his tomb.
and walking forth in all his former ma
jestys would raise his hand and exclaim
to the soldiers Of Che Onion, 1.-THE Fed
eral Union must be preserved and then
cry TO The embattled host ION to the
conflict" 1t had been charged by the
apostles OF treason that the North had
come here TO set negroes free. lie knew
the North-had travelled AMONG her