The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-12
what has the Rebellion done for
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a secret treaty, made BY three unauthor-
lied, and irresponsible, professional POI
Iiticians, TO the Cotton COnfederacy, asf
II plunged the State, at the first step
into debt Of FIVE MiILIoss OF DOLLARS.
It surrendered the State to the military
possession Of JgFF. DAVIS and his Gen
erals.
1t robbed the State Treasury Of the
entire Common School Fund, being TWO
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. oaf1mos
Itswept away the commerce Of Nash
Vile, Of Memphis, and other cities and
towns. agosg aslim sg8 r3idi aa BY
Il flooded the State with millions Of
irredeemable Confederate money, whose
circulation was enforced at the point Of
the. bayonet,sa hiqeg va f 3 81
II destroyed hundreds Of thousands of
dollars Of railroad property, and burned
large numbers Of railroad bridges, which
were built by taxes collected from the
people, and ruined the trade of she yari-
GUS railroad lines, worth millions ofdol4
lars. ....f .,..g :. +, ,... t-.
ftwickedly and wantonly, and stupidity
destroyed the railroad bridge and the
suspension bridge, which crossed the
river az this place two Of the finest
structures Of the kind in the United
States. ROW 80 ~ 9iaa 81 D 30 - gml
II has dragged away from their homes
and friends, into the rebel armies, some
fifty thousand Of our fellow-cidzens, and
seeks TO make the desOlation still more
frightful by enforcing the infamous Con-
scription Law.
1t has robbed the farmers Of millions
of dollars worth of corn, hay, beeves
and sheep, without compensation.
1t has filled the woods with rowing
bands Of guerrillas, who lie in ambush
along the public highways, forbidding
farmers to sell their produce, and robbing
travellers, like professional foot-pads and
Eighwaymen.
II has arrested and carried off to loath-
some and sickly prisons in the South,
thousands of peaceable citizens, for the
reason that they acknowledged allegiance
to the Federal Governments
II has been accessory toithe cold blood
ed assassination Of hundreds Of citizens,
and revolving outrages on helpless fe-
males. sgrln. alI .Nff gs1e iirn
It has burned the dwellings of multi
tudes Of the best men in the State, and
driven their inmates forth, to seek refuge
and asylum among strangers,
1t has suspended the Legislature, abOl-
ished the courts, deprived US of our due
representation in the councils of the ma
ton, and pushed us adrift upon a sea of
the widest anarchy and disorder. Our
churches are closed, or else their pulpits
are profanod by disappearing wrotches
whose God is gain, whose Bible is trea-
son and the slave code, whose sacrament
is banquet Of human flesh, and whose
baptism is blood; the school-bell no more
invites to the pursuit of knowledge the
youth of the land, who roam unrestrsin-
cd, undisciplined and unoorected, de-
bauching their tender and uniformed
minds with the vices Of dissolute and
Iawless manhood and science bows her
fair head in immortal sorrow, as she
PAGES her desolate halls, and mourns with
agonizing eloquence the unwonted alb
sence of those aspiring souls, who once
about her and learned wisdom
from her lips. n
Tits enough
Over a thousand monuments of public
and private sorrow-through anarchy,
RIGHTEOUSNESS and erime--oyer the wreck
Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT the awful shadow Of
approaching despotism, and through the
Valley Of the Shadow Of Death itself
behold the path Of rebellion
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