The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-07-11
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elimination going on between The so-csll- |
ed conservative and the so-oalled radical
press ofths loyal States, in regard to the
above question. With the exception Of a
few corrupt leaders who.are hopelessly
stranded unless their sails be filed by q
propitious wind from the Southern Con-
federacy, and handful of agitators
whose nature IL is to be forever reforming
and reyolutionizing, we believe that the
people Of Che loyal States desire that The
rebellion be quelled forever, and the Fed
eral Government fully restored. We be-
lieye that 0,is is paramount object Of
the people. The Louisville journal Of
late date well remarks;
II iswell that clear notions should be
had on this point" to wit: A vigorous
prosecution Of the war The Journal
adds eNothing surely but confusion Of
thought can beget difference of opinion
in the matter between men ,oto dbl5r So
oession and national dissolution more than
dey 40 Slavery 1 aaf Fl f
We agree With the Journal and will
even go farther and declare that nothing
but confusion Of ihought can begct DIFF
ference Of opinion between men 1Oho Lore
ac Uaion and its glorious nationality more
Than bey Do any species 81 property Or insh-
tuition, slgvery INCLUDED. ~
What, then, 10 a more vigorous prose-
cution Of the ware The Journal says
that the conservative solution to this
question embraces the idea Of "disciplin-
ed troops in superior numbers" If this
be true, we are free to say that oOnser-
vatism has had precious little to do with
the conduct Of the war heretofore. The
rebels have outnumbered us at almost
every point. At Bull Run and at Rich
mond oil accounts concur in stating that
the prepondorance Of the rebels was alb
soluiely terrific. Our soldiers, after
fighting like lions-like demi-gods, rath-
err for HOMER never sang Of loftier prow-
ess In his immortal song-the army Of
the Republic was driven back by supo-
rior numbers. LYON, SEIaEL, BANKS, HAL
LICK and MCCLELLAN have all been for
days and weeks in the presence Of rebel
armies, numbering sometimes half as
many more, sometimes twice, sometimes
three times as many more. We have
been fighting the rebels with per-
haps fewer men than they had 10
the aggregate. Their force has been
about squal TO ours all along, and
lis no doubt now much larger We have
been acting as unwisely in this respect
as one hundred men would act who should
attack ten men with detachment of an
equal number, when united attack
would have crushed out the weak adj
yersary instantly, The ten may fight
until half or two-t thirds of the one hum
bred are killed by this mode Of warfare.
If the President, in making the new
levy last week, had called for six hundred
thousand, instead Of three hundred thou
sand men, il would have been an econo-
my of both lives and money. We have
been, in the words Of the homely proverb,
hitherto Saving at the spigot and
wasting at the bung hole" We are OF
Che opinion that the war may be more
vigorously prosecuted by several other
important additions to our policy. And
il appears perfectly clear to us that we
should avoid impoberisHing and ,ocaEeaing
our friends, and that zee should impOv-
erish and weaken our enemies. We
should relieve and aid the loyal, aud we
should cripple the tlisloyal in both cases,
for the safety Of the Commonwealth
This Rebellion was unnecessarily and
Wickedly brought on against the earnest
entreaties Of the loyal Il was plotted
and planned and preoipitatcd by nAen Of
fortune, aud the sufferers are the loyal
who comprise ninety-nine one hum
dredths of the mechanics, small far1ners
and laboring men Of the nation. On the
other hand, less lgn enc hundred and mn
thousand men oloa fue-sirtls Of DE slaues
Of The Cotton States aud Hese are al but
unanimously traitors to The government.
We know something of this personally.
Now, hitherto we have been burdening
the loyal people TO elothe and feed an
army made necessary by the conduct Of
traitors, aud on the other hand SO far
bave we been from making rebels feel
the burden of the war that MCCLELLAN,
Buell., and hundreds Of other Federal
officers have guards ouer he field, and cribs
ofnotorom relel' TO protect them from the
depredations Of our soldiers. What JUS
tioe is there in this When party brings
suit in Court and loses II who pays the
costg When A assaults B. is not BIS
property c0nflscated to certain amount
Why do we not subsist our armies on the
provisions of the rebels and quarter our
soldiers 10 their houses Why is il that
we treat the vilcst traitors who ever cursed
the globe with moro leni'y and even
awning seryiliy than was ever seen be-
fore 10 any contest? The Journal regrets
what il calls the radical idea Of impoytr-
ishing tho enemy, and calls ii "insane
and rpinous.' Wen, in reviewing the
course Of some Of our Generals there are
several other things which might be more
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