Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-06-12
NO TERMS WITH LEADING TRATToRs.


NO TERMS WITH LEADING TRAITORS.
There are already signs abroad in the land
| to show that many of the Rebel leaders are
preparing to turn political somersaults. nv
way not only of saving themselves from most
deserved punishment, but in the hopes, doubt.
less, OF again attaining position when thew
have chance to figure in the matter of .'re.
| construction" We trust that this shame
less game is not going to be tolerated TO any
extent by vigilant and patriotic Govern
ment, such as we believe this to be- We
cannot believe that glib tongue and bra
zen front, and the faculty of wheeling sud-
denly to the right about, is at all sufficient
to make treason long INDUCED in forgotten.
whilst hundreds and Thousands of the moor
dupes of these very leaders are lying in dis
honored and obscure graves, as the penalty
OF having too lar confded in them. We
should dislike exceedingly to see one of
THESE accursed demagogues mounting the
stump with two good neither limbs, and priv.
LEGGED to swing about In facile gesture two
good arms, to tell the legless or the armless
lad he had persuaded to the battlefield that
he had at last discovered that the whole
damnable plot by which the poor bow had
become cripple for life was all mistake
"a political blunder. and that he, sitting i'm
his easy chair, in some Confederate bureau.
unharmed all the time, had at last discover.
ed it.
Wo do not object to such coming in. II
thus they choose to do; hnt for very shame
sake, let them retire to some corner, if their
crimes permit them still place in that coun-
try they sought to betray, and let them there
SIT down Tor the balance of their lives-as
did the penitent of old-in sackclotbs and
nfsah he IL
Others have perished by murderous wounds
by loathsome disease, whilst numberles3 pri-
sons are to-day filed with the spirltbroken
lads aud Ignorant men, these leaders. because
It was popular, wiled to ruin and every evil
Whoever else were deceived, these leading
demagogues were not. They knew better
and they have played the accursed game for
power, using the Ignorant aud the preiudced
as their 'paws" with not the shadow of com.
Function; and are now in the political arena
once more, watching with keen and sordid
glance for another chance to make a trad.
OF patriotism, and 80 keep uppermost. The
heart sickens at the bare contemplation of
such spectacle. We hope the Government
will never tolerate such as these in ann
State. We hope to see Congress pass some
bill which will discriminate in fitting and
just manner betwixt the plotters aud their
victims, which will provide that no man who
has ever held Office above certain grade in
the Rebel organic alton shall ever hold Office
again. 1t Is due to the people Of the States
SO awiully misled, as well as to the loyal of
The land who are in the field to correct the |
terrific evils brought upon the country bv |
the class of men TO which we have Referred |
Else the conflict might as well cease at once,
and before any more expense is incurred |
because alreaoy the rebelien is proved a |
failure, and there is not traitor of them ali |
but can recognize the !act With the lead. |
ing Rebels tolerated or patronized the mo. |
ment change OF sentiment is confessed. the |
mghtest conflict Of modern times dwindles
at oncnce to the mere dimensions and char.
aeler OF a mere trial Of strength, and settles
nothing, II no punishment is To be meted out
Tor the guilty experiment.
Then, we say, let our soldiers now facing
death IN 30 many forms ia the field know for
what they are lighting. Let them know
whether leading traitors will be suff red
when the last battle is fought, the last poor
fellow Of The rank aud file consigned 10 the
earth, away from home and irseaas-io. She
rank aud file know, we say, whether the en-.
auletted gentry aud Confederate function /
aries generally will be suffered to cit down
In peace with true men, to hob-nob over their
VINE as they reckon upon new position, new
distinctions, with their horrible guilt for.
gotten, II The Government aud Congress
10 not move Ia tbs matter, they are not true
70 their great mission.-BaA american