Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-06-17

"Our fathers Of the revolution were
rebels, and so are We" This is the Lam
guage we now and then hear from the
lips of traitors. So our fathers ,oere
rebels, and so are you. But against what
did our fathers rebel? Against kingly
government, which had become tyranni-
cal and oppressive, which imposed tax
es without allowing representation -
which did more than this, but this is
enough to name. Against what do you
rebel? Against free goyernment--one
which never oppressed you--one in which
you were most abundantiy represented,
and which scarcely taxed you at all
one under which you had waxed fat and
wanton. You were too full of sweets.
You must needs taste the bitter. Per-
haps our government was too good. Like
our first mother you desired to learn the
wisdom of evil also.
Hon did our fathers rebel? When they
deemed themselves oppressed, they peace
ably protested. They sent Populations
to the far distant government to lay
their grievances before the throne. They
were repulsed, but still they negotiated
and forbore for ten years. At length
when additional wrongs were heaped
upon them, they took up arms Still
they did not essay to overthrow the
Government, or its dominion over the
colonies, but only to obtain that redress
they so long had peaceably sought in
vain. And only when they had been
forced to resist the arms of Great Britain
for year and more, did they at length
declare their independence of the mother
country.
How did you rebel ? Your cry was
precipitate Immediate secession! Mod
crate men called for pause, for delibera-
ton, for negotiation. They proposed
compromise. But the response was,
''Let us go out of the Union with hip
hip! hip hurrah hurrah hurrah !"
Our fathers went into their rebellion
reluctantly, carefully, gravely, prayer
fully, and they came out with songs and
shouts of rejoicing. You went into your
rebellion with levity, with rejoicing
with bOnfres, with music and the sound
of the cannon. When President LIN
coins Proclamation reached Montgome-
ry, the telegraph told us it was read in
"Cabinet council" amid "roars of laugh
ter" president DAVIS" sent message
soon after to the Confederate Congress,
which was read in open session. al
elite audience of both sexes filed the
galleries. The idea of war was anus.
ing. AS the message drew near the sub
ject, "a spile' passed over the counte.
nances of the assembled beauty anc
chivalry of rebeldom. When it spoke o.
the army Of $4,000 men which LINooLH
proposed to raise "for the subjugation o.
the South" an audible "titter'' passed
round the assembly. But when it spoke
of the order for the armed ferces of JEFF
DAVIS to diperse, the sitter" burst forth
into "a hearty gufaw." No gravity OF
praying then. But within the last few
months your levity has been laid aside
and it is moved "that we have prayers
Our fathers separated their connection
with Government thousands of miles
away beyond the seas. 1t was an un.
natural Union. God had decreed the
separation. You attempted to separate
the parts of a country whose union il
natural. God has decreed it one.
Our fathers threw off government en-
tailed upon them by the usurpations Of
past centuries-to establish one calcu-
lated to establish liberty, and ensure
domestic tranquility, prosperity and
peace. You attempted to throw off this
free government which your fathers had
made and which yOu had thankfully in
herited from them,-and to supply its
place with the most loathsome tyranny
of a class.
WASHINGTON was the great leader OF
our rebel fathers. Is JEFF. DAVIS yours
What fall 'Hyperean to a satyr" ia
a weak phrase. As is gEFF DAVIS 70
WAsHNGToN, so are yon to our rebel
fathers,