Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-05-10
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NAgaEVHLIU.


all time Let the young men OF this
city who are just entering upon the great
voyage Of life ponder deeply on these
words Of the dramatic philosopher
There is now tide in Tennessee sweep
ing grandly on, and its resistless flood
is swelling far and wide, increased by
numberlsss accessions from every valley
and mountain in the Commonwealth.
lt is the tide Of awakened democracy,
rising in all the power and sublimity
OF the ocean in q storm, 20 sweep down
the puny dams erected by a corrupt
aristocracy 10 check its current As it
moves along every billow shouts victory
victory in voices numberless as the
clamOrs OF the sea. The people are
aroused TO a sense Of common danger,
and they pour forth TO save the institu-
tons of their country, Twenty five
millions of intelligent freemen have
sworn that the Federal Union must
be preserved" And they are the wisest,
the strongest, the richest, the most fiery
and resolute people Of the globe To
think Of resisting such a popular move
ment is an idle dream as foolish as il is
wicked. IL is foolish because it has
not the shadow of = hope for success,
and it is wicked, because when a nation
rises to save its life, its constitution and
its laws, then indeed " the voice of the
people is the voice of God" and it is
blasphemy 70 gainsay its sublime and
holy utterances. Young men of Nash
vile the grand crisis Of your lives has
come. That
Tide in The afrairs Of men
Which taken at the food leads on to fortune
and neglected leaves your bark stranded
in shadows and miseries, is at your feet.
What will you do I? How do you mean
to act? Win you prove yourselves he
rOic spirits equal to the grandest conflict
Of all time, or poor, efeminate, listless,
irresolute trihers hating and lingering
in doubt--pOOr creatures Of prejudice
and fear--un'il the tide has left your
vessels stranded forever Take your
choice now and forever. On the side of
the Rebellion you have defeat perjury,
distress and eternal infamy on the side
Of the Union you have victory, prosper
ity, private happiness and public honor.
II is the choice between nationality and
anarchy, honor and shame, strength and
imbecility, progress and decay, happi-
ness and misery, Heaven and Hell.
Will you follow Washington, Webster,
Hamilton, Jefferson, Jackson and Clay,
in the proud old flagship Of the
Union, or JEFE. DAVIS, FLOYD BEAuBE-
GARD, and IsHAN G. HARRIS, in the ILL
omened and piratical vessel Of treason,
--'Vhal pcrn ious bark
Bsit the eclipse and rugged with curses duk.
Win you choose 30 be a citizen Of a
Union whose astonishing growth, enter
prize and power have filled the world
with admiration, or will you ally your
selves with little clique of bafiied office
hunters, who are seeking to place the
Southern States under French or Eng
fish protectorate, for the purpose Of con-
Verting them into cotton patches for Eu-
ropean manufacturers Many of you
are fresh from your classical and histor-
/ ical studies Remember how brightly
al history CLOVIS with the names Of those
patriots who gave mp their lives TO pre-
serve the integrity Of their respective
nations. Remember how unity gave
strength to the nations Of antiquity, and
made them illustrious, and how disuniOn
brought into their borders anarchy and
every form Of woe Remember the names
Of these ancient traitors who plotted the
ruin Of their country, and reflect that as
thousands Of years have not eilaeed ths
memory Of their treason; so coming
ases Mill only deepen tlis hue 81 sh=a:e
that hangs like cloud of Holl over their
dishonOrod names.
Many of you have travelled in distant
lands; and when sailing on the bosom Of
the Mediterranean or the Adriatic, what
ensign did you hail as the symbol Of
strength and glory Was il the flag of
Tennessee, or the flag Of the stars aud
Stripes Did you boast of being Ten
nessesns or Americans ON the streets Of
Paris, LONDON, and Venice? When you
met an American citizen in stranger
| crowds, did yOu stoD 10 ask If he was a