The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-08-16

lnehl, Tue ana all Out ~ appears Nlat
we have given mortal offence 70 the au-
thoress, a sin we had no idea Of commit
ting; and the only aionement that we
can think of is TO publish her terrible
excoriatiOh Of us and our "venermous,
slandcrous, abusive, indicate, ungentle-
manly, and Yankeolied sheet" In order
10 explain an allusion in the letter, we
win say tina. the sheet on which il is
written is adorned by picture of the
Goddess Of Liberty, with her face and
arms Uac1ei, and the American flag
crossed out with ink The letter is
printed precisely as written. ".
Mr. Union am truly sorry that /
was absent in the cuntry when you pub
lished-my poor attempt at a song in
honor Of our noble hearted" MORGAN
and could not sooner reply TO your very
gallant and gentlemanly remarks, on the
verses never intended for publication
But as you have gained the unea,iaJle re-
putation of grossly insulting and SANDER
ing the Ladies of Nashville / am not
aslonishcd that you should thus seek to
insult Lady who is probably old enough
to be your mother. They were not as you
have said-written by yoang Lady. You
yourself added the yoing-thereto-as it
was not thus written in the copy. / am
also-sorry that you cannot see better
and will send you a pair Of spectacies; to
assist you in reading manuscript. that
you may not again print-moaHtiHg for
(yamtiRg) and (looI) for (aoom), The
song was written for little girl--to sing
when o1g Morgan" does come--and not
intended for the publicity which you
have given il, am an old Lady and
not Heart Broken and disconsolate
Rebel Damser'-as you have represented
l do not know how they fell into your
hands but by some dishonorable means
no douJt-and l am only sorry that they
should have first appeared in the hah
dirty union which is only celebrated fol
its low and vicious attacks on the Ladys
of our city, Morgan will assuredly com,
and il were best for you to leave ere h,
does--for he will then give you a tune t.
skedali6 by. He is not chicken thief
But the Gen" McCook who's untimely
death yoa 50 deeply lameRtsl in your dHl
anioa, Could grossly insult too un
protected females Ia Lady and he
young daughter-) because the younj
Lady refused to let one of his base min
ions shoot a pet chicken before her face
and at her door-and threatened to kicl
her out Of her own House. "Tis N
wonder, we sigh for our Heros return
But The PtJfA PP-is dead-and S
cannot kick any more Southern Ladys-
and we greatly rejoice that his legs ar
so-stih and coid-that he cannot us
them in such masculine sports for tn
pthtilb VI MS 4 dhhtt hlAhlOLS again.
l hope you will recognise an oldac
--quaintauce in the Lady who bears you
gay flag at the Head Of this sheet-whic
l have selected Gearing that in you
present greatness--amorg white people
you would forget the Schoolmate b
by whose side you first learned to spell
(as l have been informed She has Al
Handsome complexion--but unfortunate
ly TOO dark for my taste But Judge i
is the color you Yankees most admire
as | have never heard Of oneof that shad
being kcked--since you have been her
tho fairer faces receive ersry indiguity
| l have now done with you-and moth
ing you may hereafter say-how eve
teaermous siande0ous, hbUsiUe, iildelicute, an
gehtlemany or Iaaleefe}-can proyos
another reply from me But let me il
conclusion assure you that 'Johp Nor
gan" will eertaily come and olEyycsy" a
certainly have TO ga a,eag.
Your Al, ctionat
Madam Bpasrua