The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-12-02

A Mr.. j. r. DAWSON, formerly editor
of that ferocious rebel sheet the Memphis
Unisn appeal, has recently published
long letter in the Jackson Mississippian,
in which he makes some statements
worthy Of notice. lie says:
81 make the bold assertion now-and
coming years will know it truism--
that the people, with the exception of the
out and out Abolition districts in Ohio
and Illinois, are as truly the friends Of The
South and its institutions as any people
on earth. Nay, more. honestly JelieUe
that if an invading army could reach Indiana
on Illinois to-day, Hey 10ouJd be welcomed as
deluerers from the seyVhty and tyranny that
Is nom qoading that people 10 desperation.
The sentiment and The actions Of their people
should not be moderated By he S0,ttb. THEY
are her natural allies. GeograptioaHy tie
West and South are insepayable. They mud
4. .selghbors, kinSmen, friends and may zoe
not hope that tie same Tag that the one up-
holds may get protect the o9ierF'
The statement that the people of the
great North west, who are referred to in
the extract, are the friends of the South,
is correct. All intelligent men know it
TO be so. The assertions of the rebel
journals and leaders that the people of
the Free States cherish anything like
malice, envy, or jealousy towards their
South nf tIa nktn nj
sissippi, is as malicious a SANDER as the
devil ever uttered. 1t is not so we know
it is not so. Not irreverently, or reck-
lessly do we declare that we would not
fear TO stake our eternal salvation upon
the truth of this. The Southern people
have been awfully deluded, on this point
by such politicians as HARRIS, PILLOW,
Polk, EwING, and BELL and such news
papers as the Nashville Union and Apaeri-
can, the Banner, the Patriot, the Tennessee
Baptist, the Christian AdUocate, and other
organs of the devil. If the above TO-
mentors of strife, and breeders of mis-
chief among brethren were roasted in
hell for the space of thousand milleni-
ums, the awful lies which they told the
people of Nashville, and Tennessee, about
the hatred OF the North, would not be
burned or purged away.
The ex-editor of the Memphis appeal
deludes himself if he really thinks
that Indiana or Illinois would wei
come a rebel army. in any other way
than by Mexican welcome. Look at
the rally of the Ohio militia to the de-
fence of Cincinnati. But the writer says
wisely when he advises the South not
to underrate her natural allies of the
West, who, in spite of the Vaccinations
and plots of ambitious and corrupt poll
ticians, who would betray Christ for ten
pieces of silver must forever be united
in the bonds of commerce, of thousand
natural interests, of marriage and of
blood, aud remain, as now, one and in
separable. They cannot be sundered-
as easily might the attempt be made to
dig a channel through the central tide of
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. After
all our strife, all our angry words, and
heavy blows, the loss of precious lives,
the squandering of hundreds of millions
in fietting out armies and fleets, the de-
struction of thousands of millions Of
private properiy-we must come together
again. tits the irreyocable decree of fate,
which man cannot repeal by his wicked.
ness or folly. One we have been, one
we are now, and one we must be forever.
The United States is natj0a-this war is
war for nationality The question at issue
is, shall we hold place among the ma
tions of the earth, or shall we be
wrangling community of States, having
no unity, no nationality, no citizenship,
and no allegiance? Not only the West
and South are inseparable, but we will
not let one State go out Of our Republic,
whether on the Atlantic or the Pacific
Look at California, the far Off State.
whose soil sparkles with virgin gold. and
whose children drink in the health-giving
breezes that have swept the broad Pa
ciGc from the shores of the Celestial
Empire Her heart is all on fire With
loyalty. Her soul swells with the
mighty inspiration of patriotism. She
prays, weeps, and fights for the Union
More than two thousand miles separate
her from our battle-felds; but she can
not be weaned away from the national
flag. And if California can be wrested
from our embrace, how can Tennessee
and Louisiana and Georgia be torn from
us? It cannot be. Aud the rebels are
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