Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-06-12

cents a quart, and potatoes so cents /
peck, are some Of the articles Of fooC
which are offered to our citizens. w,
don't blame the market men, for they can.
not supply The demand of their custom.
ers, but we do say that large addition
al force of gardeners and small farmers
who do not think it beneath their digni-
ty to bring their produce TO the Market
House, is greatly needed. Public senti-
ment would become more healthy, the
public pulse would beat more vigorously,
and the whole public body would have
more animation, if we could get large
infusion Of that class which supports it.
self by manual labor. Their presence
toonld be a decided benefit and support to those
zee haze here already. They would strength
en- each others hands, and be wall of
defence around the citadel of loyalty
Old things are passing away. The old
leaders and controllers of public policy
must give way TO active and liberal men,
who are alive to the demands of the ma
tion and are ipbued with the progressive
spirit of the age. This is the daWning
of an era of free thought and free dis
cussion. The days of Judge Lynch are
numbered. Our State must be rescued
from the hands Of an insolent ignorant
and minded oligarchy and become
Anaericanized. We have had quite enough
ofthese expressions of wishes for the ''es-
tablishment of conservative government
like that of Great Britain instead of our
wild and radical democracy-wea are sick
and tired of this senseless huzzaing over
the glittering generalities of the De-
claration of Independence" - and like
sentiments from the lips of fashdious
gentlemen whose white hands never
earned an honest dollar, and whose brains
never acquired one sensible idea. It
must be stopped. We have had surfeit
of such balderdash. Let the traitor who
cherishes such sentiments in secret, find !
that their expression in public will bring
a storm of popular indignation about his
ears. Nashville has too many natural |
and acquired advantages to be ruled any
longer by what the London Times most
happily calls 'tle Transatlantic dreg8 of the
English CaUa6er8." Give us one sturdy,
fearless man like OLIVER CROMWELL,
rather than thousand of the debauched |
cavaliers who vainly tried to oppose him.
The Roundheads will always drive the
cavaliers before them, as the lion scatters
a flock of sheep.
The question arises, holO shall zoe maize
Nashville an industrial producing city? By
her citizens taking a bold, unequivocal
and uncompromisingly loyal position in
the present contest between the Federal
Government and the rebellion A great
responsibility rests upon her working
men, Every man who drives plane, or
an awl, or sets a type, or is engaged in
any similar employment, is guilty of
treason to himself and his family, as we'll
as to the cause Of human liberty, who
does not seize the present opportunity to
throw off the rule Of property, and estab-
ish the rule of men. Why should any
honest industrious laborer degrade him
self to the position of mere beggar for
Inc aims of an aristocracy? We blush
% say that there are such among us.
Surely their false and unnatural position
s the result of thoughtless excitement,
or accident, and not of choice and cool
eflection. What, the lion living in tame
to the ape ? The eagle stoop-
ng to the peacock? Is this a republic
II monarchy? Are we in America or
n Great Britain that a sight SO unnatu-
al should offend our eyes ? 1t is time
or the middle class, that overwhelming
majority Of the American people who lie
few capitalists on the one side,
nd the idle and vicious poor on the other,
we're taking the affairs of the nation into
heir own hands, and asserting the great
principles which are the basis of our gov
rnment that the majority should rule, and
nat government should be administered
secure the greatest good to tie greatest {
unaber The reign of property is over. {
10 property should have any political !
'ower much less a controlling influence
n government. The understanding of
hese truthes is necessary to the pros
Gritty and growth of Nashville. They
'il give her population, energy, activity,
Intelligence and wealth. Let her work. /
ng men be up and doing. c