Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-06-04
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contempt when, II they had adopted
them, there would have remained but
the one immaterial issue Of slavery in
the territories.
O. You were also assured that if YOU
would join the Confederaoy, arms Of the
best quality would be furnished Won
that the leaders themselves would head
the army and lead you TO victory and
independence, or Idle in the last ditch"
Under these assurances your sons Joined
the army to defend their State-but
having been already sold in advance for
the arms that had been promised and
which were never paid-they were
turned over like so many sheep in the
market, to the Confederate States, and at
Mill Spring and Fort Donelson, were
compelled to fight with squirrel guns
and fiint-lock muskets, against men
with the best arms and equipments that
modern science and skill could supply.
and the leaders themselves, many Of
them, either remained at home and sub-
mitted to draft with the hope of hiring
substitutes--or they entered the army
as Commissaries, Quartermasters Paw
masters, assistants or clerks, taking ALI
proper care to keep out Of harm's reach
under the plea Of supplying food and
clothing for the soldiers, Thus vera
your sons tricked and duped into tbis
miserable and disgraeeful war, and Thev
are to be sacrificed al all events; but il
any escape, they are to be those who
hold the purse strings Of the army. with
facilities for escaping beyond the reach
OF danger, or who remained at home not
having brought themselves within the
provisions or penalties of treason.
q 1t was also represented to you that
the South would certainly get her rights
and gain her independence, because
France and England would acknowledge
her independence-break up the block
AIDE of the Southern ports and render sucb
assistance as would ensure success. And
this declaration was ruug in our ears
from day TO day for more than a year
when it was well known by the Confed.
crate government and the secession
leaders from the beginning, that il was
untrue, and that as far back as the mid
die Of last August, Lord RUSSELL had dis
tihetly announced to these same Com
missioners, YANcY and others, that the
independence Of the Southern Confed-
eracy could not be acknowledged nv
Great Britain.
8. To justify this secession consnira-
cy, its leaders and advocates insisted ON
what they termed State rights"-de-
claring themselves in favor of the riobt
Of the people Of State to mould.
modify or change their form of govern
m,nt at pleasure, and to decide what
their relations should be with each ne
the other States and with the Federal
Union-and declaiming against and on.
posing, with the bitterest declarations
and denunciations, the idea that the peo-
pie Of any State should be forced 10 re-
main in the Union against their will. bv
coercion Of the General Government.
And yet we have seen these same leadera
ruthlessly invade our sister State, Ken
lucky, for tine purpose OF forcing her peo-
pie out Of the government to which thew
legitimately and Of choice belonged--and
with the wicked intention Of coereing
them into a mock government which they
knew they abhorred well knowing too
that these same people Of Kentucky had
but few months before, on two occa-
sions, decided in fair elections, By ma
jorities of at least fifty thousand votes.
to stand by their old flag and maintain
tbs government Of their fathers. And
the sad effects Of this uncalled for ASSAULT
upon the rights and liberties Of free
people may be seen in desolated fields
aud dilapidated yillages-prostrate for
ests and pillaged arm-houses--and ~
ruined families and bereaved households;
and the healing influences Of a hundred
years will not repair these unproyoled
injuries.
o. Knowing yout to be opposed 10 soces.
sion, as evinced by your vote Of Februa-
ry 9th, 1861, your Tennessee leaders
giIded the nausealing dose by calling Il
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