The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-09-23
NO 14l
The Confession Of Criminals.

IL Foreigners were to look at the Re-
bellion as Il is and not as their aympa-
thies would make il appeGr--if they Wero
to honestly contemplate it in It's naked
hideousness--strippcd Of the gloss which
falseh0od and sophistry have thrown
around it--thoy would be compelled 20
admit that the leaders, Judged by their
own acts aud confessions, deserve thc
death Of malefactors. They would see
that by the admissions Of the chief Con
spirators themselves, e Was the most
causeless and wicked uprising the world
ever saw; that it had its origin In dc.
PRAYED ambition; that IL was inspired
. by set Of moral desperadohs who 49,.
mined 60 ruin since they could not ralt
They would SEQ that Il was based upon
no substantial grievance that il had no
excuse in wrongs either committed or de-
signed; that ii was an 6Aprovoked, gra-
tuitOus onslaught upon Government
that had erred only in being too leniens
and too pa,riarchal. They would see
that the ringlcaders deliberately, wilful-
ly, CB6sciously disturbed the peace of The
cOuntry and doranged the commerce of
the world, with no better excuse than
that possibly at somo future time, their
right 20 supreme rule in the National
Councils would bc disputed.
Take the confessions Of the rebel chiefs
On their own evidence, rendered against
themselves, every one Of them wsuld de-
serve TO be hung higher than Haman
"Among oulprits, said Jeff. Davis, In
speech in Boston D few years since
"there is none so infamous as he who
should raise his hand againt the Union"
Albert Pike, the renegade Massachusetts
school teacher, who led a brigade Of saw
ages at Pea Ridge, thus hymned the IN.
utterabls Wiokednoss Of Diaunion, and
the rcnlorsoless doom Of Traitors
Good God what q title--what,rsmo
WIN History givo 10 your urlmo
In tho deepest abyss OF dishonor and abamt
We viii writhe till the last hour Of Tint
AZ hraggarts Who forged their own chains,
pullod down what their bravo Fathers hull
And tainted the blood IN their chlldrens youn- rs..
With the poison of slavery and guii
And Freedoms bright heart be hereafter ten'ot
For your folly and hn more d hoporct and cot
Alexander II. Stephens, the Vice Prssi-
dent Of the bogus Confederacy, in a
speech in Milledgeville, December, 1860,
paid the following eloquent tribute 70
the Government he now seeks to over
throw:
"That the Government Of our Fathers
with all its defects, comes nearer the OBJ
ects Of all good governments, than any
other on the face Of the earth, ia my set
tied conviction.
Contrast IL now with any on tho face
of the earth. England, said Mr.. Toombs.)
Mr.. Stephens England, my friend saws.
Well, that is the next best, / grant; but
think we have improved upon England
Statesmen tried their apprentice HAND
on the government Of England, and then
ours was made. Ours sprang from that.
avoiding many Of It's defects, taking
most Of the good, and leaving out many
of its errors, and from the whole con.
structing and building up this model Re
| public--thc best which the history of the
world gives any account Of. Compare,
my friend, this government with that of
Spain, Mexico, the South American Re
publics, Germany, Ireland. Are there
any sons of that down -trOdden nation
here tonight Prussia, or il You travel
further east, to Turkey or China. Where
| 'giH you 90, Joll0gia7 Tia Sun IN its circuit
round orr gIo5e to find a government G,otJa-
ter protects the liberties Of is people and Sc.
cares 10 them the blessings toe eRjoy9 IAp-
plause. ] think that one Of the evils
that beset MS is a surfeit Of liberty, an
ezuberance of the priceless blessing
for which we are ungrsteful."
And these words were uttered only
seventeen short months ago-uttered by
| ,r,c vVh, now holde tho uocnrd on,t l.. a.
| Congress Of the Conspirators against The
| life Of the Union Did You lie, then.
MIR. Stephens or are you hlood-stained
| traitor now? We're these the honest
sentiments Of your heart when the rebel
/ lion first broke out? II so, be 30 good
as 20 show cause, if you can, why a hal.
Ter should not be placed round your neck
and your crimc-blaCker than that OF
JudAs--eXpiatcd on the gallows ?--A3-
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