The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-17
Tendency Of the Rebellion to Harden
and Brutalize its Devotees.

selfishncss and inhumanity has been de-
veloped in the South, as il to teach man
kind that the loss Of reverence for the
laws Of ones country is soon
followed by the loss Of that regard for
those unwritten laws of humanity, which
elevate men above the brutes. The dis
tiDguishing trait Of the secessionists at
this time is an unbounded lust for gold,
which will crafty itself by any and
every means, even the cruelest and
basest. Pompous aristocrats, who used
TO inyeigh loudly against the greediness
and acquisitiveness of the yankees"
and eulogize the superior generosity and
iiberality Of the Southern chivalry,"
have thrown off the mask of benevolence
which they once wore, and now stand
before the public as the Shylocks of the
age, the most heartless Of extortioners,
the most grasping and ayaricious misers
that any country was ever cursed with
The rebel slave aristocracy who now
seek to destroy the government, have
convicted themselves, by their practices
on their Own neighbors, of being the most
inhuman and unfeeling and debased of
men. They treat their miserable slaves
with brutality, and yet their treatment
Of their slaves is kindness itself com
pared with the oppression which they
lay on their fellow citizens of their own
color No one can take up rebel news
paper without being convinced of the
truth of what we have said. Nearly
every one which comes to us is loud in
its denunciations of the extortioners and
spectators which swarm over the South,
and suck the veins of the suffering peo-
pie like the tabled Vampire. In ad-
dition to the many articles from Southern
papers which we have already published
on this subject, we extract another one
from late number Of the Chattanooga
Rebel.
A great deal has been said in the
newspapers and by the people genera lily
against spectators and extortioners,
but il all seems to be insufficient to cor
rect the evil. We have a remedy which
we think will be effectual. 1t is not TO
take them up as public enemies and con-
fine them in the guard house a short
time. This might be an effectual rene
DIV, but it would be rather too harsh
measure TO adopt until other milder ones
are first tried What we would sug-
gest is that no man sell TO or buy from
speculator. This may be thought inn
By no means. If man
wants wheat, or -four, or bacon, or lard
or any other article, let him buy it from
the original producer, and if he wants
so small quantity that he cannot go
for il, let any number of neighbors join
together and send for such articles as
thew need. In cities and towns let the |
corporate authorities aid the citizens in
obtaining articles of necessity at fair !
rates. Small sums of money might be |
placed by citizens in the hands of a
committee appointed for the purpose,
who would send for such things as were
needed. In that way each man would |
get articles Of necessity atcost and car
riage. It might be necessary for the cor
porate authorities or citizens who would |
un te together, to employ an agent at fair
to purchase the articles
II may be said that spectators would |
represent themselves as agents and buy |
up articles if this plan were adopted. To
obviate this objection, let any man who |
buys large quantity of wheat, -four
bacon, or any other article, show his au-
thority for 80 doing before the people !
sell to him. This, we know, would be
an inconvenient method Of getting along |
and, in times of peace, when the evil |
would cure itfelf and the country is not |
infected with monopolising spectators,
wepld be very Objectionable, but il would |
be much better for individuals and for |
the country generally than submitting
to The exorbitant prices now asked by |
SPECTATORS and extOrtioners. There are
other remedies which we will suggest
hereafter
One who believed in the sincerity of
the pretensions made by the fire. aters to
superiority of breeding and refinement
IF sentiment, would have imagined that
IN the breaking out of the war, the South |
would show more examples Of lofty lib
,rality and aflectionate regard for the
than Athens or Sparta ever
exhibited; but history has given us am
pie testimony that the soul Of traitor
Is selfshness.
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