Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-06-15


The work oil" restoring the Union" in
Tennessee is making steady and satisfactory
progress. Gov. JOHNsoN's administration Is
marked by tirmnts5 and prudence. He aims
TO concilale Union men by showing them
that, in spite Of the war, the National Gov.
| erument has no thought Of interfering with
| their rights or Of doing anything but restc re
10 them the right OF self government under
the Constitution Of the United States. AT
the same time be treats VITA just and relent-
less rigor all who persists in wagiug war
| upon the Government, and who make them
selvs active pariisans OF the rebellion long
after they can plead anything like coercion
| or c0nstraint in excuse therefor.
We copy, In this mornings TINES from
recent number Of the Nashville Union, very
pithy and telling speech, made by Ex-GOv
Brown at recept Union meeting held in
| Columbia. 1t is very strong appeal TO the
good judgment and common sense OF the
peOple-based not so much upon any argu-
| ment on the original merits of the policy of
secession, as upon the clear and unmistaka-
BILE fact that secession is a fdilEe-that it is
utterly Impossible for the South to establish
Ian independent Government against the IN
land that every hour ofpersistence in the war
llonly adds 10 the loss and ruin which il must
M
pLqved out. Looking vt the whole subject
with cool and dispassionate judgment, be de-
clares it TO be utterly impossible to continue
the war with any hope of success. The only
effect of doing so will be to increase enor-
mously the burden OF debt which has already
been incurred, to PROSTATE still more com.
pletely the industry and business of the
State, to drain it still more thoroughly of
the youth who shed their blood in a fruitless
aud inglorious struggle, and to incur the
risks of a sweeping liberation Of the slaves,
with all the rain which such an act will, of
necessity, involve. Upon these grounda
Gov. BROWN appeals to the people of the
State to aid in putting stop to The aoar. 1t must
be done or the State is ruined.
We flnd also, in the Unioa an able addrss,
issued to the people of the State by Com
mittee appointed by the recent Nashville
Convention, argaing the case more elabor-
ately than Gov. Brown, aud exposing, by
clear historical argument, the fwretohed So
pbistries and falsehoods by which a portion
Of the people Of the Stale have been betrayed
into The secession ranks. 1t is very forci-
BILE and conclusive State paper, and cannot
fail to carry great weight with all who read
it, whatever may have been their PROPOSES
sious and preiudices upon the subject.
We have also a very strong and excellent
speech of Gov. JOHNSON, in which he eniOr-
ces with great power The same views and
denounces with unsparing inactive the rvb
ell leaders who have been foremost in false
hood aud deluding the South Into The guilt
and ruin of secession.
Many persons at the North nre dscOur-
aged by the tardy developments Of Union
feeling in the Southern States. This is an
unreasonable. though not an unnatural, feel
ing. 1t must be remembered that for year
the rebel Government has had full and COM
plete control of these States,--that it has
not only controlled their action, but shaped
their public sentiment, inculcated. by steady
aud Infamous misrepresentation, bitter and
envenomed hostility toward the National
Government, and branded, in every possible
way, Unionism as a crime and reproach.
Such efforts, steadily pursued and backed by
the pow Of 40 arbitrary Government, can.
not fail 10 produce an effect. The natural
result of such a regime, sustained By the pres
ence of armies and by the whole current of
active public sentiment Is to a general COL
formity of opinion to the Government stan
dard, II is not at all strange, therefore,
that accession sbonld have apparently abJo-
Lutte possession OF the public mind in the
Southern States. and some time will of ne
cessity, be required to conteract the teach
ings aud Influences which have led to these
results.
But time and wise policy on the part of
the General GoveTnment,-a policy at once
considerate and firm,--wil produce the res
ults desired. AS soon as the military siren
9Th Of the rebellion is throughly broken, its
armies scattered and their reorganization
rendered impossible, public sentiment will
begin TO canvass the question from differ
ent poinl OF view, aud 1t will ultimately be
decided with reference to the interests and
permanent welfare Of the communities cou-
cerned rather than the passions and resent.
ments which the events Of the war have or
reused ~ T. Times.