The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-09-19
The Sham of Two Nations

by which the great north has been peo-
plcd Every "reliable" man from the
South, who retails his stories here for
our edilication, repeats the same tale,
that the South is terribly in earnest: that
there is not q Union man In IL, and that
so powerful and insuperablc is the an
tagonism Of the two nations that no
Union can ever exist in future. The
desperate men of race foreign 10 us
may he eXterminated the last man will
die in the last ditch, and after that the
women will continue the war with such
success as they may, but never will one
OF this fierce nationality submit again to
the laws Of the United States.
As to the desperate purpose, the ha-
tired Of the Union, and the violence Of
most Of these people in arms against us,
there is no doubt Of the truth Of much
of what is said. Bad men are always
desperate and conyicts will often fight
with true last-man and last-ditch fe-
rocity, perhaps killing twice their own
number before they can be subdued.
But this pretcnce Of diverse nationality,
and Of impossibility Of further associa-
ton with us for that reason, is a sham
and a humbug Of the first degree. Rem.
cgade northerncrs are everywhere the
head and front Of the rebellion. Who is
Slidell? a renegade New Yorker. Eus
tishis Secretary Of Legation, is q rene
gade from Massachusetts,, and son-in-
law lof Corooran, a parvenu Washington
banker, of Irish origin. Quitman, one
of the earliest and most active stimula-
tors of the rebel policy, was another
renegade New Yorker. Gustayus II.
Smith, late Street Commissioner in New
Holk city, is one of the best of their
Major Generals. Albert Pike is a rene
gade from New England. General Rip
ley, in command at Charleston, is a rem
egade native of Ohio. Stonewall Jack
son is son-in-law of Rev. DR. Junkin, an
able and inhexible Union man of Penn
sylyania. Mason has family connections
in this city as have thousands Of the
leading secession families here and else
where in the north. There is scarcely
an exception TO this intimacy of asso-
citation in blood and origin with the
north over the south. AS one after an
other of the rebels is killed, his obituary
recites some tale of progressive apostacy
from the cause in which the State of his
birth is shedding the blood of its citi-
zens freely. General Ruggles, lately
killed near Baton Rouge, on the Missis-
sippi in the rebel service, was born in
Massachusetts,, entered the national SER
vice with honor and ended life a traitor.
Turning to the incipient naval list, and
there is still the same rehearsal of north
ern renegadism TO ill up the ranks of
"Cavaliers" and "IIuguenots" Captain
Tatnall, OF the Savannah and Port Royal
mosquito fleet first, and afterwards of
the rebel Merrimac, is of northern birth
The number of naval renegadcs is less, it
is true, but. the principle holds good here
as well as an other classes. The mer-
chants of New Orleans are half of them
of northern birth, and their zeal in seces-
sion has been prompted by fear of being
prescribed after a government they
dreaded had been set up The rampant
secession editors of the entire South are
half of them Of Northern origin, and this
is particularly true Of the New Orleans
press. The senior proprietor Of the
Charleston Courier, recently deceased,
was a northern man. The senior editor
and proprietor of the New Orleans Com
mercial Bulletin, recently suspended by
Gen. Butler, is a Northern man. There
is no limit to this personal citation of
proofs that the prctcnce Of distinct
Southern nationality is a sham, a false
pretencc, made 70 cover the desperate
purposes Of desperate men.
The sham fairly exposed, rs a mo-
ment's attention at any time will expose
it, the question recurs, what is the cause
of this desperate hostility to our gov
eminent and the national unity it pro-
tects? Why do so many man turn dew
lis, almost, in their hatred TO it? Why
is the son of quiet Northern farmer
Transformed, at the age of thirty five, in
to an armed enemy of the free institu-
tons that gave him life Why is a
Union General of such origin-and there
are several such that may be named
ready TO declare that the South is right
that the two sections ought 10 separate,
! and that the sccessiOnists can never be
subdued? These are grave questions
they deserve thoughtful consideration
II is not n difference Of origin, not a diff
ference of ordinary interests that inctcs
! this rebellion. In business associations
as in famiyrclaions, we belong together
now, as always heretofore. There is some
especial poison that enters the heart of q
| man in the South, not because he is OF
! Puritan birth not because he was borr
in New York or in Ireland. Nor is il
any more because he is a cavaliers greaN
grandson, or is descended from n Protcs,
! tant French emigrant of two centufie,
| ago. These are not the reasons. W,
! have every one of these classes-cavalier,
and Huguenots, and Spaniards included
in the loyal States, and no one cas- dis
cover differences between them and Othc
! citizens here.
The real truth and real basis OF there
hellion we wish every one TO find out by
logical deduction, but we will venture
hint at il here. There is false socia
state into which the new resident Of In
South enters on going there, and it oftel
very olten-turns his head and make
him the enemy of the simple society il
which he was born. lie becomes iilibus
ter, slavery culogist, and seccssionist b.
the most natural processes The old resi-
dent Of the South can hardly escape th
like consequences, living always in asso
Citations which tend to develop such fea
lures of character One especial and pc
culiar interest there Oycrshadows ever
other: 1t is the ownership OF labor b
capital, as the blind dogmatists OF. sla
very phrase IT, An labor should !
owned by capital, they say, and then III
r bloody bread riots of Northern citi,
would be unknown. The crack braine
its-Hughes and DE Bows only put
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