The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-26
Sketch of the Remarks Of Hon,
Horace Maynard, in the Method
ist Church, on Friday Night.

address, the audience called loudly for
Mr.. Maynard, who responded in sub
stance as follows. We regret that indis-
position prevents us from writing out
our notes as fully as we would wish
Mr.. Maynard remarked that if there
were any secessionists present, they were
doubtless painfully exercised in their
minds, lest the speech just delivered
would iniure the Union cause The
welfare of the Union cause appeared TO
be an object of deep solicitude with men
whose hearts overfowed with bitterness
towards the Federal Government These
revilers Of the Union and the national
flag were continually admonishing loyal
men to be prudent and cautious. Well,
we intend to be prudent and cautious
Twice before have / been in Nashville
since the Presidential election. In the
spring of 1861, before any State action
had been taken TO authorise secession,
came TO Murfreesboro, on my way TO
Nashville. On the way | saw soldiers
passing and repassing. Armed troops
were on the march everywhere. At Muir
freesboro met regiment Fastening on
TO fight for the South. Old friends, who
had hitherto protested the most ardent
loyalty, and united with me in my fore
bodings, and in deprecating the awful
calamities of disunion, met me on the
street, and turned coldly aside, with
averted looks, and some even .counselled
violence to me. Arriving at Nashville, |
! found soldiers marching, and the people
intensely excited. The big rebel organ,
the Union and american, in whose tracks
the other papers of the city servilely fol-
lowed, advised the people to look after
me. The man with whom l had can
vassed the State during the preceding
fall, as Elector, came TO me by night and
admonished me of my peril; and those
who had spoken loudly with me for the
Union, passed me by, in public, as
| leper--as one smitten with the plague,
whose touch would be contamination
and death. Even then they had raised
the flag of treason, and branded with
dark suspicion all who protested against
the deed. They who, in coming years,
shall read the history of those days, will
be apt to conclude that there is some
truth in the old doctrine of the transmit
grafton of souls; so exactly do the
events of one period reproduce those Of
another You have read in the history
of the French Revolution, how MURAT.
RoBEsPIERRE, and DANToN, under pretence
of asserting public rights and liberty,
enacted the darkest series of enormities
of all kinds, that the world ever witness
Il c. L. L. IS
made the plea of Southern Rights, the
justification of the blacklist vilainies ::
all who opposed their wicked usurpations
they called abolitiOnists and Yankees.
Whoever dared question the conduct of
IsHAM G. HARRIS and his Military Board
was denounced as traitor to the South,
and forced to fly. Many men who dis
approved their acts as long as they dar-
ed, now joined in the hue and cry of
their minions for fear of suspicion. All
this you know, by sad experience.
speak of facts with which you are ia
miliar. These rebels went on from ty-
ranny TO tyranny. You dared not hold
back, lest you should be scourged and
banished This city was filled with men
of Northern birth, who had carried on
business successfully here, and amassed
fortunes, and these men either had TO fly,
or by excessive zeal in the Southern
cause, and in the work of persecution,
obtained the privilege of remaining and
leading a dogs life. Too many alas
chose the latter course, and forfeited
their claim to manhood. Such was the
Capital of Tennessee in the Spring Of
1861. 1t was an awful period Look
over an old file of the Union and .An,eri-
can, and be astonished at the despotism
and thrall then established over you.
came again to Nashville last Spring,
when the Federal army was here like a
guardian angel to succor and protect
The boastful rebel army had vanished.
HARRIS had deserted you, and fed like
miserable coward, and many fed with
him, chased by the angry spectres of their
own guilty cOnsciences. Atlarge concourse
of citizens, / was called on to speak
l appeal to the published report Of my
remarks, in confirmation of my declara-
ton that l then advised the Federal,
civil and military authorities TO practice
moderation, and Cancellation; that | urged
our soldiers not to modest private proper
ty, or turn aside TO crush a flower,
upon their march, that l eXhorted my
Union friends to be fOrbearing and for
giving in their hour Of triumph, and al
though they had been insulted and trod-
den down,tO be magnanimous and mer-
ciful. And these consels were HEARTH re-
sponded to, for such were the feelings Of
the Union men; they had no disposition
to punish their oppressorsin kind. Con-
scious Of the overwhelming power of the
Federal Government, and knowing that it
could crush its puny enemies to powder,
they pardoned, like generous victors
Frhe President then gave us a Military
Governor. You all remember who he
was Had received that appointment
might have been charged with a feeling
OF political vindictiyeness, and the same
charge might have been preferred against
Governor CAMPBELL. Mr.. BELL he'd fled
from the city-is flying now-though
kyhy, no man can divine, for there is not
ID soul, within or without the Union army,
kyho would think Of raising hand
against him any more than OF a. saudng