Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-06-13
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of the humanity of the she-rebels, as
they are happily styled. The Fayette-
vile Reveiie reports one instance, which
we shall copy. 1t says
One Of these that came under our own
immediate notice while in Athens, Ala,
IL becomes our disagreeable task TO
chronicle. During the illness Of one Of
our comrades, even when the hand Of
death was upon him, Lieut.. Dorsey APP
piled to a Mrs. Hobbs, the occupant of
an elegant and commodious dwelling, for
a bed and shelter, for few short hours,
for the dying boy. Mrs. Hobbs listened
passively TO the Lieutenants request
made in polite and gentlemonly man
ner. When he had finished, she raised
herself upon her tip-toes, stretched out
her neck like ganderin mOulting time,
and replied, mo sir not for one moment.
1 will never willingly consent that any
Northern man, be he soldier or civilian,
shall remain under my roof for an in
slant" Then wheeling majestically,
she, with the air of Juno, swept grace
fully into the house and slammed the door
after her.
This was worse than rudeness, it was
revolving inhumanity and brutality. 1t
showed either that no benevolent feeling
ever rested in the woman's bosom, or else
that the fiendish spirit of secession had
frozen the fountain of kindness, and
made her blood as cold as that of SER
pent Alas, Athens is not the only place
where such deeds occur, and such an un-
generous spirit exists. We have in
this city en,-mothers, sisters,
daughters and wives--professing to be
christians and to follow the precepts of
the Blessed Savior; women who kneel
at the family altar and ask God to for
give them as they forgive others; who
go to the sacramento table and partake
of the holy symbols of the love of Christ
in the face Of the awful admonitiOn to
beware lest they eat and drink damna-
ton to themselves. These women, too,
have husbands, brothers and sons in the
prisons and hospitals of the North, who
are now receiving from the hands of their
captors, and from the hands of loyal
ladies the comforts, and often the deli
cacies and luxuries of life. Their ia
bles are graced with little delicacies,
sent by Union women; their eyes are
cheered with the sight of boquets from
the hands of Union women; when sick,
Union women have watched like sisters
at their bedsides, and when they died,
the gentle hands of Union women scat
tered flowers over their graves. We
have known sick Rebel soldiers fed
by Union people. Mrs. LINCOLN has
repeatedly left the gaiety of the White
House to perform the offices of humane
ty towards prisoners who had been in
rebellion against the Government. And
have these women Of Secession sympa-
thies been moved by these displays Of
kindness towards their loved ones :?
Have their hearts been melted at the
generosity of their foes, until a noble
emulation impelled them to perform like
acts of kindness towards sick and
wounded Federal soldiers? Oh, mol
They have manifested no such angelic
feeling. Let the many hospitals of our
city tell the tale. Here have been for
weeks pale and emaciated sufferers,
stretched on beds of agony, on cOnches
which were blessed with sweet repOse
neither by day or night-far from home
from kindred. from familiar voices and
friendly faces. Their grOans are all
unheeded by these christian women
their low means Of anguish half stiaed
by their pale, thin lips, have only prOvok-
cd sneer from these pious mothers.
No parched lip, no burning, throbbing
brow has been cooled by cup of cold
water from these benevolea sisters-no
pleasant refreshment has been prepared
for these sufferers by any of these mer-
oifM wives. Yet if Rebel prisoner is
brought in, they burden him with ca
ressss and services. They sweep con-
temptuously and unfeelingly by the
bedside of a Union sufferer, and taunt
his misery by lavish words of kindness
towards the Rebels. Treason seems to
have scared their hearts as with red
hot iron. 1t has, perhaps, not changed
their dispositions, but it has at least
revealed an astonishing depravity ana
hardness of heart in many who once
passed for angels. How can these
thoughtless and wicked creatures expect
70 obtain mercy at the hands Of God,