The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-07-18


We hope that every laboring man,
every soldier, and every true democrat
will cut out the article appended, taken
from the Wig, the leading journal in
Richmond, and carry il with him as a
constant companion. The article was
published on the 18th June, when the
weeks battles opened, and is most la
dicrous exhibition Of rebel braggadocia,
being brimful Of that malignity, ignor-
ance and vulgarity so characteristic Of
rebel editors he tone Of the Wig
changed wonderfully when NcCLELLks
had hllcd Richmond with dead and dy-
ing Rebels, and took a position fatal to
the rebel capital and impregnable 70 as
sault. But here il the article:
Tue MASTER RACE.-Sihce the great
battle at Shiloh, and including il, we have
had an almost uninterrupted series Of
victories. We have encountered The enc
my generally with heavy odds against
us, and frequently behind Entertainments,
but in no single instance, unless il be the
unexplained affairs az Lewisburg, have
Southern troops failed to exhibit supe-
rior manhood 10 the mongrel and many
tougued enemy.
Indeed, the whole experience Of the
war is an attestation Of the truth long
since discovered by impartial obserya-
ton that he master race Qf this continent
is found IN he Southern States. of bet.
ter stock, originally, and babiluated
TO manilier pursuits and exercises, they
have rulea IL affairs Of tie State BIZ force Of
The stronger ,oiH and larger ,ois3ou, Hiatper-
tain to and distinguish superior races ofmen,
while on the field Of battle they have in
every contest held priority OF place,
conceIea to them By their present adUersarles.
This natural d0DlinaHcy Of the Southern
people has had much to do IN bringing on tie
icar. The inferior race, grolOn strong in num-
beyS and ambitions from prosperity, haze re-
vOlted agaiRa and non seek 10 ouertlro0 and
destroy those whose superiority ,0as con-
slant source Of e,Uy and Set -repr0ath There
is no fiercer malevolence than that of
caste, and it was this which has SO long
stirred the Yankee bile. Al,cays, IN he
psesaIce Of the Sol,thera gentleman he has JeH
q strong and painfully represse3 impulse 10 take
eli has hal. This conscious inferiorty has
CALLED the jealous aud malignant crea-
ture, until he has broken out in servile
insurrection. He has gainly concluded
that his numbers can overWhelm and ex-
terminate the subjects of his envy, and
that he, succeeding TO the broad acres
and liberal habitudes Of the Southern
| gentry, will come TO be looked upon as
| gentleman too
With us the contest is one for heredi-
tary rights, for the sacred things Of home.
| for the old repute of the better blood
with the Yankee it is rebellious and
| infatuated struggle for a place he is un-
worthy of, for privileges he would de-
| grade, fot property he would barter, and
for institutions he could neither compre-
bend nor enjoy. u is The old and neuer
ending strife bet,CeeR pyaiioidn and proletoridR,
Jst,0een gentle and Uile, II is the offer OF
battle on a new field of muscle against
spirit-numbers against courage. 1t is
not upon Southern soil and among the
descendants of Cavaliers and Huguenots
that the battle will 60 in favor of brute
force.
1t may be that the armies in front of
of this city are about to rush into mortal
wrestle. Wheu they meet it will not,
perhaps, be upon such unequal terms as
we have generally encountered. But
should there be as great inequality OF
numbers as on other fields, it may and
will be neutralized here, as it ever has
been, by the superior courage and con-
stancy of our troops. True to their
lineage, their fame, their pledges, THEN
principles, true TO the expectations and
prayers of all who love them; true
to the unreasonable interests that hang
on the issue the soldiers who fight for
liberty and native land will never give
back, never weary, never cease to strike
till certain and glorious victory perches
on their banners
This is the bullying language of a
drunken overscor, whose highest ambi-
ton and choicest pastime is to "whiT
his Niger" Assuredly the snob who
wrote this essay on the "Master Race,
would be in his right place if set among
boot-blacks and solutions. We dom
know that KETT, Brooks, TooMns, ant
WIGFALL, these fine representatives Of the
"master race" ever manifested "largei
wisdom" in every department except il
drinking hogsheads Of whisky. 1t isl
singular fact, too, that most of the dis,
tiuguished men of the South have no
been descendants of the Cavaliers az all
but Of Connecticut and Massachusetts
stock, The most striking part of tn
Wings Article is the declaration that thi
war is the old and never-ending striri
between patrician and pr0ltlnan, between
gentle aud Uiel The man who comes GU
from New England and peddles clock
for few months becomes overseer 70
some drunken hog who can neither rca,
nor write, and then on the death Of afore
said hog, marrics his widow and become
the owner Of few negroes, is, in the es
timation Of the Wing, a cavalier Of ia
master race, possessing larger wisdom,
and is worthy 10 be enrolled as a "gend
patrician,n before whom BEN. FRANKLIS
/ DANIEL WEBsrEH, EDWARD EvEBET1
BANCROFT MOTLEY FuToN, AERwRIGH1
and such other "vile proletarians" mus
take Off their hats We will wager
new hat that the writer Of the Wing neye
tasted anything else but rye bread an
Newfoundland Goldfish until he ran ava
from home to escape the penalty for rob
bling a hen-roosi.