The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-11


False P5ophets--our True Leaders.
How can the rebel leaders Of this State
look their misguided followers in the face
after the base deception which they have
practiced upon them ? They boasted
two months ago that the Federal army
was retreating, never 10 return. Make
one effort more, they said, and Tennes-
zee win be free forever. The programme
had ali been fixed. HARRIs said in pub
lie speeches, at various rebel muster, that
Nashville would be theirs in few days;
90 said Ewrse, and FooTE, and ASDEn-
SON the fugitive, and FoRREsr the black
leg and negro-trsdeT, and DICK MCCAIN
the bighwaymsn. Not only Tennessee
was Buellirsd, and virtually reconquered,
but from her soil Kentucky could be eff
fectually redeemed. We have before US
. proclamation issued by one of these
false prophets, TO the people Of this State
and Alabama, in which he says: 1.-THE
enemy has been swept from your midst
like chsf before the wind. Never let
the Yankees return--make wall Of adj
amant Of your stout hearts, strong arms,
and rusty guns, and bid them defiance
follow them up in their retreat"
The people Of Tennessee Row know
how utterly unworthy Of confidence these
braggart rebels are. They made ridicu.
lous promises which they have been
wholly unable to redeem. They misstated
and misreprcsehted facts, and having
dragged their fellow citizens into great
peril, have, like towards and traitors,
abandoned them. Win the people wan
der after such POLITICAL gamblers longer ?
We beseech them to consider that these
rebel leaders, these Architects of ruin"
are hopelessly lost unless the rebellion
succeeds. Selfshness prompts them to
support their imposture as long as posi-
BILE, by every species Of fraud and false
hood. They may make their condition
better; they cannot make it worse, and
they care not how many lives may be
lost, or Lhow many millions of dollars
worth Of property may be destroyed in
making the awful experiment. What will
. desperate man not dare? What is the
happiness of Tennessee's million of in
habitants TO HARRIS who sees set before
him success and supreme power on the
one hand, and defeat and the gallows on
the other? People, these men who first
sold you to treason, then fed from you
when vengeance came, then returned with
lying promises on their lips, and again
have fed from the Union army, are Surely
unworthy TO be your leaders? Far better
had you come back TO JoBNSnS, and
STOKES, and CAMPBELL, and MAYEARD,
who stand noao just where you stood few
short months ago, under the flag and by
She Government of our fathers-faith-
ful and fearless seamen who would
net desert the ship of the Union, although
others shouted that she was lost, while
they leaped over into the yawning pillows
of rebellion. They ask no new thing of
yOu. We implore you to return to 10y
atty, and obedience to the laws, apart
from which there is no security for life
or property, as you have learned by bit
Ter experience. Let Tennessee once more
become State, in the full and free ex-
ercise Of all the functions of Common
wealth, with her Legislature, her Con-
srsssmen, and her courts. The first step
to the enjoyment of all these ancient
rights, is loyalty, and that step performs
the journey. The path is straight one,
a plain one, broad one, and a short one
well beaten, without bog, or a hill, or
even aruttOimpsde our progress. Friends,
let rs lock arms, and travel il altogether
Once more with hearts elate, and bright
ened eyes, we will "carry the flag and
keep step TO the music of the Union"
The loyal States are to-day peaceful
busy with the arts Of peace, prosperous