Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-04-25

: titled TO q vote who was not a oitlZen OF
the same. r Now that she is lawful
member of tire Confederate States, nc
one ought to-be entitled to vote who
was not a citizen of the same, and is
ready to declare his allegiance, when
4 challenged. Otherwise rebels against
y her authority, and traitors against the
Government, may exercise the great fran
chise of voting. Let the inspectors OF
elections see to this important point
| The following is the communication re-
\ feiTea to:I17iesg 9I9d Eaw Ell ,e'1eH
I VIC ma COUNTER REToLuT1oN. Ls'5 T.
An enthusiastic William H. Polk man,
1 writing from this city TO man in the
country, seems anxious to get up coun-
ter revolution against Governor Harris.
He says, in his letter: 9Out of the full
ness of the heart the mouth speaketh, but
! / feel such an interest in the election for
Governor, that cannot remain SILENT
| If my views do not accord with your
own, burn this sheet and excuse me- an
write in sincerity. have no ends teiac-
complish but the good of my country.qI
| feel sure, if you were to see what / see,
and hear what / hear, it would astound
you. In nay opinion, we are on the verge
of despotism!n l look for an inquisition
to be set up in the event that Harris is
elected at the August election bHg
| %90Q* 9g9E X noi .siiJ4tf *uaq4
Col. Polk will not have time toyisit
----- during the canvass he is now in
the field. If you can think as / do, i
pray you to do all you can to promote
| his election. He is worthy. If East
Tennessee will give Col. Polk their usu-
al.maiority, have no doubt of his sue
cess in the election, and We have the best
assurances that East Tennessee will be
almost unit for Polk" Bs gi1 soioia
| If the writer of the foregoing letter
will only reflect that Union banners were
allowed to fly in the city, after the with
drawal of Tennessee from the Union, he
will be satisfied that he has done Cover
| nor Harris wrong, and that no despot-
ism" orala inquisitionP would ever be
dreamed of in Tennessee, unless the fol-
lowers of Abe Lincoln should succeed in
| their darling wish sof reinstating that,
| ruthless tyrant in power, whose mercen-
aries murder women and children, burn
towns and pillage and murder the popu-
lation, as they have advanced into the
country tits to seffectually checkmate
despotism and the inquisitotial dynasty
which has robbed the telegraph offices of
private dispatches and seized the papers
of private citizens, without warrant of
law, that Governor Harris has effectually
labored. He has but poor thanks for his
patriotism if any considerable number
of citizens agree with the gentleman
whose letter we have quoted. But this
cannot be-. Governor Harris has his re N
ward intthe grateful appreciation of his
countrymen, as will be demonstratedob by
the overwhelming majority he will re-
ceiTeon Thursday nextadi sggu HIuc9I
They will say, Eve want mo better
man than this = swell done, thou good
and faithful SERVANT Whatever may be
the merits of Mr.. Polk, the people will
say, we have. one that we have tried in
great emergency; We know him toIbe
true, and we wilhinot exchange him
now, especially as we have requested
him TO serve us again, because we know
that the State is safe under his guild !
ahce. aoEast. Tennessee1 may do as she
pleases; we do not wish to control her
people. But Middle and West Tennes-
see will stand by the manwho has sus-
tanned them and their brave volunteers in
the great crisis through which we are
passing. tssI l.os ni ama -no38E
Consider this calmly, reader. Here is |
proposition, seriously urged, to deprive
man of the right of voting-a Tennes-
SEAMAN Old citizen of Nashville. And
what provokes this proposition? Why |
an old man writes a letter to friend, 7
and the letter is broken open at the
Nashville Post Office, probably, and it
is found that this old man, who had
been voting as he pleased for half a
century here, had actually said that he
thought Col. Polk was ,worthier of the
Governors Office than Governor Harris.
This was the head and front of his
offending" He, grey-haired Tennes-
seean, dared TO question the fitness of
King Harris to rule the peoplei Wonder
full audacity !! And who was this old
man? Col. r. H. McEwen. Presump-
Iuous old man, not to bow your honored
head in the dust before the awful maies-
" of King Isham! And now let us hear
some insolvent rebel open his mouth to
plead against the tyranny Of Abe Lin ,
coin, and for the mild and liberal sway |
Of jeff. Davis. Speak out, rebels I