The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-09-10

Nv al AAAAMNAAWAN anu AAAAAA ENNAAAAAANf
who support Themselves mainly by the
free labor Of their own hands. Western
Virginia East TENNESSEE, and Western
North Carolina, and Northern Alabama
have little interest in slavery, and no
sympathy for The war which Il has forced
upon the country Their citizens con-
sequently have been and arc cruelty per-
secuted by The military dcspotism which
now rules The South with q rod or iron.
Mr. Davis, IN his late message affects 70
reproAch the Government Of the United
States and its Generals in command with
making war upon peaceful private indi-
yiduals. II is che familiar artilice Of
wrong doors 20 charge upon Others the
crimes Of which they are themselves
guilty. Qss hiaN GfQoh0s ne seiitioRo
gUerenies
For years past, and in profound peace,
a man or woman who should have ex-
pressed at the South opinions adverse 20
slavery, would have done itat the risk Of
life A Senator from one Of the Southern
States made il a matter Of boast that
AbOltionists coming among them (mean-
ing thereby every Northern man not
friendly TO slavery hung like ripe fruit
on the trees BefoS Virginia had Sc
coded, and while lier ordinance Of Seces-
sion was pending before the people, Mr.
Senator Mason Published a letter on the
18th of May, 1851, with his name in
answer 10 The inquiries addressed 10 him
as 10 The position of those citizens whose
principles would not allow them to vote
to separate Virginia from The United
| States. If they retain such opinions
says the merciful Senator, " ficg pMa kaie
the SaicF' Yes, dare 10 defy tho oli-
garohy At Richmond and vote against
separating from the Union beQucathed 10
you by your Washington as your dearest
inheritance, and Danish YOU from the
State.
The wholesale sentence of exile was
pronounced before the iniquity of Seces-
sion was cOnsummated, and against the
inhabitants of a third part of the terri
tory Of the State, men guilty Of no crime
but that of entertaining certain 4 opin-
ions" Nor is this all army after army
was sent into Western Virginia last year
to execute the DEGREES of prescription /;
her villages were burned, her fields
wasted, and some of her prominent citi-
zens dragged to Richmond, and immured
in a felon's Jail. The same state of
things exists in East Tennessee. Wher-
| ever throughout the South a Union man
/ ventures TO avoW himself the common
| Jail, the scourge, sometimes the halter, is
his fate. know the press at the South
affects TO deny the truth Of Parson
| Brownlow' statements. / own ] could
not myself at first believe that such afro
cities could have beeu practiced by men
| protesting TO be Christians, nav, by per-
sons in the highest civil and military
stations. But | an well persuaded, from
numerous other and independent sources
| Of Information, that his accounts are true.
Mr.. benjamin, the Confederate Secre-
tary of State, by letter of the 25th of
| last November, addressed TO the officers
in command at Knoxville, directs that
| all prisoners of war taken among the
| traitors of East Tennessee" $50 be des-
/ ignates the great mass of the loyal peo-
| pie OF that region,) "who can be identi-
fed as having been engaged in bridge
burning, are to be tried summarilv bv
drum head court martial, and, if found
guilty, executed Fon the spot by hanging.
II would be well TO leave their bodies
hanging in the vicinity of the burned
bridges" This most humane Secretary
seems te have forgotten that one of the
first acts Of his seeding friends in Bal
timore was to burn the bridges on the
| Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad. 10
| prevent the troops Of the United States
from marching to the defence of Wash
ington. 1t is needless to say that this
cruel order was as cruelty executed /:
while throughout the South thousands
Of Union men have been driven into ex-
| lie, and other thousands are forced into
the Rebel army, or are languishing in
| prison, on fleeing before their prosecutors
to the caves in the mountains. III we
now shrink discounted from the contest
we surrender these our loyal friends and
brethren 10 exile, confscation and TO
| death.
Now, fellow citizens, there remains no
alternative but a short and vigorous, or a
| protracted and languishing prosecution
| of the war. Shall il be the first. or shall
il be the last VIII you let IL 20 down.
| a legacy of sacrifice and sorrow. 10 vour
children, or will you not rather finish it
this very year. You can if you will (;
you have the means and the men, if YOU
but choose TO employ them. ] rejoice to
behold in this great outpouring of the
people the assurance that you are deter
mined, that, as far as depends on YOU,
the work shall be quickly done and in
lieu Of any words of exhortation on nv
part, which know you do not need, let
me give You a "Reminiscences from the time
| that tried mems souls -
Boston, as you well know, was, 10 the
| year i115 and part Of 1776, occupied
by British troops, and besieged by the
American army under Washington. The
! great question was how the enemy could
be best assaulted, and among the measures
| proposed was the bombardment Of the
town, then almost wholly built of wood.
/ The richest man in Boston, John Han
cock, was then President Of the Cont
mental Congress, and as such transmitted
the orders Of that body to Washington.
! " y on will notice the resolution" said he,
! in his letter, relative TO an attack on
Boston. This passed after a most Sc
| rious debate in a Committee of the whole
House. and the execution was referred 10
/ you. Nay col cl0lcn your attempt with
| success! / most heartily wish il, though
Individually may be The greatest saf-
] lorer."
The fact is, an his property consisted
Of real estate in Boston; the destruction
Of the town would have made him beg
/ gar. Fellow-citi2ens, he was the ocou-
| pant Of yonder house. We're he living,
| he might, from his windows witness all
/ this glorious sight; his eyes would swim
with tears Of gratitude 70 Heaven, as he
! beheld yOnder banner Of the Union float
| ing in the breeze his ears would drink
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