Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-05-31
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HOW 60 Dispose OF Noisy Rebels
within Our Lines.

gestion has been made to Gov. Johnson,
having for It's primary object th' speedy
return Of our people 10 their loyalty. II
Is suggested that Gov Johnson take into
custody all noisy, blatant, spiteful seces
sioniHs, able to bear srms or make good
nurfes 10 hospitals, send them TO General
BEAUREdARD under flag Of truce, and ex
change them for Union soldiers from this
State, who are Disguised with the war, and
wish 10 return to their homes and their al-
legianee to the Federal Government
We venture to premise that Il will strike
all correct thinking men as eminently wise,
just and polite, at this stage Of the Rebel
lion, end we ask our readers 10 reflect on II
calmly before they condemn il. Who have
contributed most to the extent Of their abil-
ity TO embark our hon est people 10 the Re-
bellion, and who are now doing most to
suppress the development of Union senti-
ment, and to rrolong with increased horrors
the bloody conflict All candid men will
say, the very class OF persons whom it is
proposed to send to the camp and battle
field. In city, town, and country, these
persons used all manner Of means, unfair
aud false, 10 foment sectional hate and ami.
mostly, and to engender in Union-loving
hearts reasonable sentiments and feelings /;
they resorled to humbug, deception, false
hood, menace and intimidations to get plain,
honest, good people into the wicked move
ment they have adroitly managed in the
midst of volunteering, drafting aud con.
scription, to rave their sacred persons :"
from the disease of the camps and the perils
of the battle.felds; many of them having
neither "kith nor kim in the army Of the
Rebel States, and they are still n our midst
having grown more vindictive from the leni-
ency of the Federal authorities, and their
apparent security from being forced into the
service. They hang about street corners (;
sit knowingly on empty goods boxes, and
infest crossroads, doing all in their power
to suppress any expression of Union senti
ments on the part Of their neighbors, aud to
promote the further effusion of blood and
sacrifice OF life in hopeless and unhallowed
cause.
II will not be very difficult to ferret ont
these noisy, pestilent fellows in any com.
munity. Whilst they have no ear-marks or
brands on their persons, yet they may be
seen day and night busy in the line of their
trade and may beknOwn. by the fruits Of their
lahore. They are the manufacturers and
retailers OF grapevine" falsehoods, put
a1oat to bolster up sinking cause. They are
the wire-workers, behind the screen, who in
cite clever, but impossible women to utter
malicious calumnies against their neighbors,
making she social circle a filthy sewer
of low slang and malignant abuse They
are the friends and abettors of maraudiDg
bands, which occasionally infest peaceful
communities ior pillsge and Islander
Does Northern soldier who has been delu-
ded or forced into rebellion, return home to
ground his arms and renew his allegiance
No sooner is Il known, than these noisy Sc.
cessionists begin course of systematic ly-
ing aud intimidation to drive him back
into the rebel army. They FIJI him
with fears that Yankee troops will
arrest and send him 10 chains to a Northern
prison, that his own comrades in arms will
return in force or marauding bands and hang
him as a deserter, that in any event his name
will be rendered Infamous through all time
| Such is the excitement and alarm produced
by these falsehoods and threats, that In
many instances the returned soldier finds no
peace or pleasure at home with his family
and friends.
Who are the persons that are to be return
ed to their friends, families and homes p
They are noble young and middle-aged men,
sons Of loyal farmers mechanics, doctors
and lawyers, who yielded in an evil hour to
the pressure Of surrounding circumstances
and enlisted in the rebel service against the
conviction Of their better judgment. They
went reluctantly into the bloody work; they
have had misgvings Of conscience at every
step they have takeni they now zee that ut
ter ruin and destruction ovethang the rebel
| Confederacy, ready TO fall and crush 1t for
ever, and they are impatient to fly from the
inevitable doom aud teek safety and peace
and life in the noble old Government Of the
stars and stripes. They merit our warmest
sympathies in this hour Of their humiliation
aud chestsement, and we can do no greater
act Of kindness than TO rescue them from the
iron grasp of their leaders, and restore them
TO the Government they have yeuerated from
the cradle. Some Of them were shamelully
deluded, others virtually forced into rebel
lion, II is a crying sin and shame that such
men are still held under a most desp,cable
| eonseIiniion law, and driven In fear OF I'm.