Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-04-25
$. Q. MERCER, EDITOR.
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1862.
keeesslon shYIoclss.

secession ShTlOchss
That the overwhelming majority Of
active Secessionists are utterly regard
less or the suGcrings Of the poorer class,
whom they have inveigled into this re-
bellion, is fact established by incontes-
tible proof wherever the fiend Of seces-
sion has passed. 1t seems as if in oil
those places where rebellion prevails,
that men lose their humanity and gem
er0sity, and seek enly 20 enrich them
selves at the expense Of whatever amount
OF suffering and oppression among their
fellow men In no country in Europe
hiss the spirit of extortion and rapacity
displayed itself so shamelully as in the
Seeded States. We published an arti-
Gle taken from the Unjon and american Of
ahis place last winter, proving that the
secession dealers and tradesmen had be-
come band Of Shylocks And now we
take a like article from the Richmond
(Fa) Dispatch, lamenting the same state
of things in Virginia Read the para
graphs
We have never heard of anything in
the history of man like the high prices
which prevail for every article of use
and necessity. Everybody who has any
thing to sell or dispose of seems TO have
no other thought than to wiring from the
wants of the purchaser the last dime
- l.
to turn the screws upon the poor victim
to the last point of human endurance
Seventy-five cents pound for butter,
thirty cents for sugar, four dollars and a
half per pound for tea, fifty cents per
quart for salt, fifty cents for string Of
three miserable fish; a shilling or TWEEN
ty-fve cents pound for beef, seventy
five cents peck for sweet potatoes, forty
dollars Tor an ordinary jeans coat, TWEEN
ty-five for an indifferent pair of trowsers,
twelve snd fifteen dollars for shoes, are
only few specimens of the gigantic OPP
pressions which the Tapacity and avarice
of man are exercising on this community.
Now, letfs make few plain reAec-
lions on these developments made by
Secessionists. For what was our Cow
eminent organized? To secure the
greatest good to the greatest number.
Who constitute the large majority--the
greatest number Of all countries, our own
included? The poor and those in mod
crate circumstances. Then what must
be the consequence of instituting a sys-
fem of exorbitant charges for the neces-
saries Of life p? The hopeless and eternal
depression and wretchedness Of the poor.
We call on the poor who have been used
as tools by crafty and cowardly leaders
in Nashville, to look at this startling
condition Of things established by the
very men who have dragged them into
the rebellion The poor are paying in
the Southern Confederacy prices for the
necessaries of life equal to those in Lon
don and Paris and we warn the rich to
look to it also, They have no guarantee
that their estates viii not soon be squan-
dered by their children, and their Off
spring thus speedily transferred from
allluence and luxury TO abject poverty,
Man Of wealth, consider how uncertain
is the tenure of your stocks, your houses
and your lands. They take wings and
fly away in a moment from their bewil-
dered possessor Beware how you aid
in bringing about state of things which
may make your offspring, now banded
in the lap of fortune, hewers of wood
and drawers Of water for some remorse-
less master