Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-06-04


-s-Fhe- soutileru- pcvpfe rf1t-u0thavc-
gotten through successfully, with this
struggle alta cost Of less Than thousand
millions Of dollars. This is low esti-
mate, as we believe. There are eleven
States claimed to be in the Confederate
States. We had as well claim New York
as to claim Missouri and Kentucky. Ten
nessee is over the average in the eleven
States and would have TO bear at
least one-tenth Of the expenses OF the
the government. This thousand millions
of dollars must be discharged by repudi-
ton and disgrace or it must be funded
and the interest paid annually The IN
terest at six per cent per annum, whichis
less than will be the true rate, would be
SG0,0O000O, which would make the pro-
portion of Tennessee S6,000000. Then
the Confederacy is without an army and
from her position in reference to the
Northern States and on account of the
bitterness growing out Of the unnecessa-
ry separation and war, in which they
have been involved, this army can
not be be less than fifty thousand
strong, costing an additional sum per
annum, of S50O0O,0OO and of this sum
S5,OOOO00, or one tenth, would be the
-
share of Tennessee, making S11,000,000
per annum from these two sources
Then the Confederacy must have navy
&c guard her three thousand miles Of
ocean and gulf coast, and her large
fiotilla of gunboats to protect the navi-
CATION of the Mississippi river, costing
not less per annum than S2O,0O0,000, to
say nothing of the immense cost of its
construction; for in this age of naval i'm
provements and increase in the maritime
strength of nations, to occupy position
of responsibility, will require powerful
navy; and this will add 100000 an
nually to the S11, 100000, making $13,-
00O,OO0,and TO this may be added 81, o0O,-
600 per annum for Tennessee's share of
the yearly expenses of the civil, foreign
intercourse and miscellaneous services,
making all of her annual burdens on ac-
count of her position as member of the
Southern Confederacy $14,000000; and
to this may added 100000 as expenses
for carrying on the State government.
These large sums must be paid by taxa
tion in some form, and even upon the
supposition that these estimates are too
large by one half, which, however, can
not be true, our State could never pay
them. What a proftless bargain, she
made when she tied herself on TO this
shameful attempt to break up the Govern
ment In any view of the matter, there
can be nothing but ruin to Tennessee, in
a permanent dissolution of the Union.
Fellow citizens Of Tennessee-We
come before you claiming no privileges
over the humblest citizen. We come as
equals only, having a common interest
and common destiny with you and with
our beloved country. You have been de-
ceiyed by bad men into war for the
destruction and dissolution of the best
Government ever .youchsafed TO mana
Government known and felt by its citi-
zens only through its benefits and bless
ings-a Government that never imposed
feathers weight of oppression upon
you or your fathers before yOu--a Gov
ernment giving you honor and respecta-
biity among all the people of the whole
earth. Why win you destroy such a
Government? Is it from passion? Re-
member-passion is insanity. Stay your
hand then, and call back reason to her
throne. Give heed to the advice of the
best men who have lived in this country.
Hear what an honored President from
our own State, JAMES X. Polk, has said
about the value of the Union and the
crime of assailing it. Said he, in his
Inaugural Address "Who shall assign
limits to the achievements of free minds
and free hands under the protection of
this glorious Union ? No treason to man
kind since the organization Of society
would be equal in atrooity to that of him
who would lift his hand to destroy it,
lie would overthrow the nobleststrueture
Of human wisdom, which protects him
self and his fellow man. He would stop
the progress Of free goyernment and in-