The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-07-08

out its assistance, and if its cultivation
were suppressed tomorrow, the sun
would perform its regular circuit in the
heavens the solid globe turn on its axis
as usual, and earth's babbling millions
find bread and raiment What single
one Of the Wanted promises has cotton
redeemed? Confederate notes and bonds
have TO be forced into circulation by mill
itary edicts, the army is badly clothed,
half fed, and poorly armed; the blockade
is cifectual; the Union has still ample
means, with Unlimited credit; the sWoll-
en- streams Of gold and silver arc turned |
into foods of spurious bank notes; EN- |
peror Napoleon would deeply regret, in |
view Of the equilibrium Of great powers, |
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of the Union and |
the destruction Of its rising navy, and |
Queen Victoria would be glad 10 see the |
institution of slavery destroyed and the !
main growth of cotton transferred TO her |
India possessions, neither one Of them
having the remOtest idea Of linking the
peace and prosperity Of their people to
the sinking fortunes Of an almost OK
hausted rebellion. Indignant wrath and
revenge have entered the bosom Of the reb-
Nl ulHdolN anu AuulNluuhA ADIluuIs UluhN
perish, and wanton distress be visited
on hitherto prosperous and happy homes,
because, forsooth, Queens and Emperors
will moi bow down and worship the cot
ton king. President Davis and his rebel
Congress have applied the torch TO the
palace Of the imaginary king; and so
the cotton cheat and humbug, the great
est among its tribe, vanishes, literally,
into thin smoke and air, leaving its dupes
TO gaze in vacant wonder on the ridicu-
lous delusion
Such were the means i'm the hands of
demagogues and designing men by which
| the loyalty and patriotism of Tennessee
were overcome, and her people deceived
| and misled into rebellion. Ambitious
| politicians, influential judges, preachers
| Of every persuasion, editors of religious
and secular newspapers, party hacks and
political fossiles of all faiths, were CO.
laborers i'm the work Of deception and
fraud. Who does not remember with
sense of horror the whirlwind of folly,
delusion and madness, which the "spec-
killed. and piebald conclave" of dangerous
men aroused in the country, bearing
down all opposition, and overlurning
the sturdiest loyalty? 1t was criminal
TO indulge in liberty Of thought; it was
expulsion from the country, aud in some
localities death, to exercise the freedom
Of speech. Respect for the Federal Con-
stitution was disloyalty TO the South I;
devotion TO the Union was high treason
against the Confederate States; reverence
for the old stars and stripes was down
right toryi ism, and kind word for the
free institutions of our revolutionary
fathers was open and defiant antagOnism
TO the higher civilization Of the new Re-
public. Disunion struck deep its roots
and spread wide its branches, and the
eiiluvia, distilled from its rank foliage,
maddened the brain and poisoned the
pure waters of the heart. Loyal conser-
vatiye newspapers were excluded from
the public eyc-inhammatory Abolition
sheets allowed unlimited circulation
olr own political press muHzled or placed
under a despotic espionage-iree discus
sion ON the stump met and frowned
, down by vindicliye denunciation and
threats Of violence--menaces of death, OF
some persanal injury, whispered in the
ears of timid and non complying voters
D hte tickets of Unionmen threatened will
marks as indelible as the spot on the
3 brow OF Cain, and in some places the
, business of voting placed under the con.
e | troll of bayonets Does some inquirer ash
J how came this Juror Of madness and fol-
| "? Tell us first how Peter the Herml
70 shook Europe 10 its centre with tht
r phantom idea of redeeming the sepulchrl
. Of Christ; how the South-Sea bubble in
toxicated all England, from the palace u
n the cottage, with dreams of untol,
e wealth, or how the Laughing Dane
e spread its disgusting follies over ever
n neighborhood in which it made its APP
e pearance. And 10 this state of the pub
f lie mind Tennessee was wrenched frOr
r her honorable position in the Union &C
L cording to the theory of secession, an
r her conGding and generous people, wit
% all they held dear and valuable, wer
10 committed TO the impeiuous winds an
Is waves Of revolution and civil war.
o The country has been engaged in thi
G unnatural war something over one yeal
d and you cannot turn the eye in any direc
q ton that il does not meet sad memories {
- its presence. At quite an early perio'
e the arch conspirators in the Cult State
e uttered the warning, that if war iolioWe
J. secession, and they knew il would il
lc seat would be transferred and confined
n the border States, and they have bee
r sometime, and are now engaged in Il
,e pious work Of invoking high Heaven
d shield them and their States from it's d
ir rect ravages and hardships by visitir
le the Union armies with the fatal malar
r. and epidemics Of the climate. Trul
be Virginia, Missouri, Tennessee aud Kei
liz tucky present in every walk, Ryocatio
rs and pursuit Of life, and In the face Of Il
s. country, shocking evidences Of the fult
L. ment OF the d abolical prophecy; and q
III blood spots on the hitherto stainless rob
nj OF these brave and noble States, mo
d. numerous than the guilty drops on {
Mt hand and dagger of the murderous Ma
he beth, viii not out at the sanctimonio
of bidding Of the Lady Macbeths Of 1
les times. All the ambitious PARTICLES
nd the bloody tragedy now being enacted
Of the prandest theatre OF the world, Ia
no more cause, 40 the mangled bodies
nd fathers, brothers aud sons, with 10
on trains Of weeping mothers, widows. q
g- tiers and orphans, pass in multitudinC
tic numbers before their scared cye-balls,
n cry out with chatioring teeth.
1el Thou c.u'st not fa7 we dd 20 ua,yr shake
le- Iul Eury locke a. us
rs than did deyilish Macbeth when
'sk ghost of murdered Banquo rose from
nat cath and pushed him from his BANG
O'l seat
me This civil war has taken a broad q
no dooprange through our political, religic
ron civil and social Institutions, and iis tr
leu can be as easily traced as the ayalan
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