Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-04-25
secession shylocks.

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J. : - That the overwhelming majority Of
~ active Secessionists are utterly regard
less of the sufferings Of the poorer class,
whom they have inyeigled into this re-
bellion, is fact established by incontes-
, tible proof wherever the fend of seces-
3 sion has passed. $ 1t seems as if in all
those places where rebellion prevails,
that men lose their humanity and gen
erosity, and seek only to enrich them
selves at the expense of whatever amount
of suffering and oppression among their
fellow-m In no country in Europe
hiss the spirit of extortion and rapacity
displayed itselfaso shanaefullya as in the.
q Seeded States. Wepublished an arti-s
Gle taken from the Union ana. Aaae,ToGn Of
this place last winter, proving that the
secession dealers and tradesmen had be-
come band of Shylocks. And now we
take like article from the Richmond
kEa.) Dispatch, lamenting the same state
of things in Virginia. Read the para
graph helssapss ~ ! sgfa -sa ns
We have never heard of anything in
The history of man like the high prices
which prevail for every article of use
and necessity. Everybody who has any
thing to sell or dispose of seems to have
no other thought than to wiring from the
wants of the purchaser the last dime
that can be squeezed out from him, and
to turn the screws upon the poor victim
TO the last point of human endurance
Seyenty-fve cents pound for butter,
thirty cents for sugar, four dollars and
half per pound for tea, fifty cents per
quart for salt, fifty cents for a string of
three miserable fish; shilling or TWEEN
ty-fye cents a pound for beef, seventy
live cents peck for sweet potatoes, forty
dollars for an ordinary jeans coat, TWEEN
ty-five for an Indifferent pair of trowsers,
twelve snd fifteen dollars for shoes, are
only few specimens of the gigantic OPP.
pressions which the rapacity and avarice
of man are exercising on this community.
Now, let us make few plain refiec-
tions on these developments made by
Secessionists. For what was our Gov
eminent organized? To secure the
greatest good to the greatest number,
Who constitute the large majority-the
greatest number of all countries, our own
included ? The poor and those in mod
crate circumstances. Then what must
be the consequence of instituting a sys-
tenn ofexorbitant charges for the neces-
saries Of life !? The hopeless and eternal
& depression and wretchedness of the poor.
We call on the poor who have been used
as tools by crafty and cowardly leaders
in Nashville, to look at this startling
condition of things established by the
very men who have dragged them into !
the rebellion, The poor are paying in
ihe Southern Confederacy prices for the
necessaries of life equal TO those in on
don and Paris; and we warn the rich to |
look to it also. They have no guarantee
that their estates viii not soon be squan-
dered by their children, and their off
spring thus speedily transferred from
afhuence and luxury to abject poverty.
Man Of wealth, consider how uncertain
is the tenure of your stocks, your houses
and your lands. They take wings and
lily away in a moment from their bewil-
dered possessOr. Beware how you aid
in bringing about state of things which
may make your offspring, now handled
in the lap of fortune, hewers of wood
and drawers of water for some remorse-
less master.