The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-07-06

utter denial Of every prediction The Of
iicers and men in the Federal armies will
compare in no disparaging light with the
officers and men in the rebel service the
rights of persons aud property have been
- carefully respected and guarded as any
civilized army ever did in the country Of
an enemyi runaway slaves have been,
with now and then an exception, suIren-
dered mp 10 the ownor on application or
handed over 10 the custody of iailors:
and coming with the Constitution in one
hand the sword in the other and the old
flag floating above them, these armies
have, with the approval of The President,
his cabinet and the Congress, said to The
quiet peaceable citizen, place yourself
on this Constitution and under this flag,
and we will protect you as long as we can
unfurl It's folds and 20 the misguided
soldier" ground your arms, renounce the
rebel cause and return 10 your Loyalty, or
take the peril Of dying by the sword, for
the Constitution. and Union must and
shall survive, IL an their armed foes per-
ish in the tide OF hatile'' What think
you Of this subjugaiion2 How do you
like Il? just this suhjugatioh our noble
ancestors fought and bled through sew
en- years war TO impose on themselves
and their children; nearly a century Of
unequalled prosperity, happiness aud
glory has handed il down to us; and we
may well rejoice to-day in hope Of trans
hitting il unimpaired TO our posterity.
Disrogarding the wholesome advice Of
the Father Of his country, ariful and un
| blushing leaders made most iniammatory
appeals to sectional prejudices aud ami
! mOsitics. II was war between the
North and Che South, between the anti
slavery men of the North and the pro-
slavery men of the South, between our
bittercst enemies and our bosom friends,
| thus arousing whatever feelings Of elan
ship and sympathy existed in the pOpu-
lar heart. Aud assuming all this to be
| true, they called on the people Ia trum-
pet tones 20 decide whether they would
make common cause with the South and
their friends, or go with the North and
| their enemies. Such dcspicable dbma-
| gogueism was enough 70 put tongues in the
ashes of the honored dead, who watered
! the tree of our liberty with their blood
and the remembrance Of the delusion il
/ HiNhNNNA - NAiNNAu W nAAllh AiAt UAA1ll VI
shame on the noble spirits who made this
day memorable above all.other days in our
annals, 1t is not now and never was
sa conflict between the North as
one section, and the South as anoher /;
between the people of the North, as enc
mics favoring one class Of institutions,
and the people of the South, as friends
favoriug another and different class but
il was in the beginning and still remains
deadly conflict between the friends
and lovers Of the Federal Constitution
and Union, on the one side, and ambi-
tious statesmen and wicked conspirators,
and their misguided followers, seeking
to overthrow them, on the other side
and in this crusade against the Constitu-
ton and Union Sumner, Phillips, CARR
son, Greedy, and the Abolitionists of their
school, are locked arm and arm with
Yancey, Toombs, Benjamin, Wigfall, and
other fire-eaters of their faith. IL is a
war on the part Of The General Govern
ment, and in behalf of the whole Union,
TO crush out causeless rebellion, loyal
men North and South arraying them
selves with tho Government, and the dis
loyal in both sections uniting with the
rebellion, Maryland Kentucky, Mis-
souri,, Northwestern Virginia, and East
Tennessee, stand forth as bright lights
of Southern loyalty, aud as an ample and
complete rcfutation Of the charge that tho
war is a sectional conflict. No doubt the
good people of Tennessee have bitter en-
emies in the North, and have good friends
in the South, but their worst enemies are
the persons who deceived and decoyed
them into revolt and their very best
friends are those who will get them out
Of il soonest. I
ITO be- continued