Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-05-07


yet the dockets are filed with cases
which have been pending for years, with
out any adjudication being had-large
sums Of money, belonging to litigants,
are tied up in the hands Of the clerks of
the different courts-msny cases have
been taken 20 the Supreme Court by APP
peal, and many remained over upon the
docket Of that Court at the last term,
which ought TO be determined. Many
appeals have been had in criminal cases,
where the parties appealing are too poor
20 give bail, and, consequently, must lie
in Jail until they can have hearing, the
families of whom, in many instances,
must suffer all the inconvenience Of
perjury during the time. Besides this,
in all the courts there are many judg-
ments, heretofore rendered, remaining
unsatisGed for want of issuance Of proper
process. Until ali these things are ac
complished, it is impossible for business
to revive. Il is perfectly idle ever to
hope that the swSy of a Confederate
Government will ever extend over Ten
nessee and the State must be connected
with some national governmental is
part and parcel of her constitutional
existence, without which she would
cease TO be. There is no other nation to
whom she can go, under her form of gov
ernmenb except that of the United States,
and why should she hesitate q moment TO
do so? Did the United States ever hurt
the hair of the head Of any one of her
citizens, before she armed her people by
thousands and sent them to Virginia and
elsewhere TO kill the other citizens Of the
United States What injury had Ten
nessee received to justify such conduct r
Had there been any attempt to invade
her; had a hostile soldiers foot ever
pressed the soil of the State Did the
United States seek 70 wrest our Consti-
tuition from us? Did she attempt, in any
way, to interfere with our State affairs 2
or did Tennessee inst simply attempt to
secede because South Carolina saw proper
to erect forts, plant batteries and take a
fort which South Carolina did before and
at the time acknowledged belonged to the
United States? And did South Carroll
ma attempt TO excuse this conduct, except
on the ground that Mr. Lincoln had been
elected President, when she had voted for
Breckenridge? And did Mr.. Lincoln,
even in his proclamation calling for
troops, ask that anything more should
be done than the recovery of the property
taken from the United States?
Well, what has been The result? Ten
nessee has furnished sixty,six regiments
to fight against the GoYfrnmenL and
though enlisting then for one year, by
tlic CONSUMPTION act they are compelled
TO remain three years, il the war should
continue 80 long Hundreds and thOus
ands of them have persisted either by the
sword or by disease, whose deaths are
mourned throughout the State.
The treasury of the State has been alb
solutely exhausted, and the funds here
tOfore devoted 10 purposes OF internal
improvement and education, carried
away. Public property Of the most val
liable character has been destroyed by
the rapacity Of persons protesting TO be
our friends The archives and records Of
the State have either been. removed or
committed to the flames, in many in
stances unsettling the title 70 property
in some others even inhicting greater in
juries upon the rights Of the people.
But it is useless 10 undertake 20 emu
merate all Of the evils consequent upon
this attempted rebellion, or the frivolous
reasons urged in its extenuation. Suffice
il 10 say that our State treasury must be
replenishsd tlie money held by oAicers
must be paid over; our school and inter
nal improvement funds must be restored;
our archives and public records supplied;
our courts Of justice opened and our in
iuries generally redressed. To do this,
we must, have primary meetings Of the
people; we must have conventions; we