Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-07-18
nETrER FROM NASHVILLE.
Icorrcspondence of tho Cincinnati Gazetts.l

LETTER FROM NASHVILLE.
correspondence of tho Cincinnati Gazette.l +.4
L NASHVILLE, July IL. ss
Ihaye never known men of unquestiou-
able loyalty SO desponding as are those
about Nashville just at this time. And the
dampening effect of our reverse before
Richmond, is one of the many weights
which burden their spirits. While they
see around them convincing evidence that
/ treason is deepening in malignity, nospeck
ofpromise in the horizon tells Ot u more
earnest war upon the rebellion. It is true,
/ the iuexhuustiblc patriotism of the Anti
/ Slavery North comes forward with offers of
more hundreds of thousands of dauntless,
long suffering men, to be wasted in camp
and slaughtered on the field, protecting the
main spring of tho revolt, aud its main
I prop-Slavery. BGt what of that? When
these have spent themselves, they too will
lbe gone. Tneir career will be as n tale
tha; is told. Their unprotected widows
and berett mothers willweepand don their
weeds. They are but theiproP of families
and of free people. Slavery is an inStftW-
tion-thelsta and support of n privileged
aristocracy. Our treacherous foes within
the lines call il tthe constitution" And.
we begin to fear the powers that be recog-
nize their claim.
No other Government would suffer SO
powerful a foe to besiege its cit9deleone
! day. Yet We have seen it Efurnishiug the
| siuews of war to our enemy for more than
n year. We have seen it cultivating un-
told thousands of acres of corn aud wheat
for our enemies to eat. We have seen it
making clothing accoutrements aud weap
ons for them. We have seen it giving the
enemy his entire white mail population, to
| make war upon US. We have seen it fur
nish tens of thousands of laborers to build
railroads TINT troops might be rapidly con-
certrated upon our army of devoted pat
riots, to overwhelm it. We have seen it
furnish swarms of athletic laborers, TO
| build Notifications, that the armed and
disciplined whites might refresh them
selves, aud be ready to butcher our SOL
diers and mWtiLdfe their dead bodies. We
have seen all this, with complaisance, and
and yet have said it was property too
sacred for confiscation. To coniscate ii
slave would violate the Constitution; but
to drench half continent with the pre-
cious blood of free-born Anglo-Saxons, in
/ guaranteeing to rebels the cause, and the
means of their rebellion, is no violation of
the Constitution. We are worse than the
| hypocritical Jews, who feIgned to think
man should starve on the Sabbath, rather
than gather food us he passed through the
fields. Though slavery is warriug with all
its might against the Constitution, and de-
lpreciatfng all other kinds OF property, yet
neitherfor its damage to life nor property
must we touch it!
But over and above all this, We now be-
hold the same conspirators who organized
the war upon the basis oil Slavery, organ
izing party on the same basis in Congress,
and extending its supporters in the press
Traitors who boldly aud deiantly sustained.
/ the rebellion, are permitted to publish pa
lpers, printed with the very same types
fused in printing their treason, which are
tenfHld more effective in aiding the rebel
Islion thnn those they issued in the name of
JEFF. Davis And we see scoundrels with
Eepaulets in the Q. S. army, who boldly af-
fliate withthem, and protect them in their
lvillainy. Have thefew of US in these Slave
States. who were dlpdys loyal TO the Gov
ernmeut, merited this only; that we should
be bound hand and foot in the midst of our
enemies who drove US fromiour homes, and.
4 be delivered up TO them by men whom we
hailed as deliverers Will the Govern
ment never awake from its dream, that the
rebellion can be broken, while its cause is
I prupped up2 fall other arguments have
4 failed, will not the Depreciation of our
national paper convince our rnlersi
1 Ono great impediment to the vigorous
difficulty and tardiness of transportation.
i Provisions and munitions must be wagons
4 led, over difficult roads for scores and hun
ldreds of miles, parallel to railroads DANA
sged by the enemy. While these wagon
trains are plodding along, the Government
lis spending nilliouof dollars per day
Along the course of the railroads are thou
sands of able-bodied slaves, laboring in the
fields for stiff. .necked rebels. These could
easily be collected and set to work on the
broken railroads 10 complete them. The
4 timely completion of railroad Transports
tion would enable. our armies to ocoPCeu-
trate rapidly, Us those of the enemy do
But we have periured knNves IN command
ll-LocoFocos of the Golden Circle-who
will not allow us to deprive the enemy of
his resources. These officers were put
where they are by the device OF traitors, to
aid and comfort the enemy, and sacrifice
I our army Ia any other country they
\ would be court-martialed and shot. Bnt
lin ours, they are imPudent, by aiding a
] liband of eonSpirators in Congress to over
4 throw the G Government on whose treasury
ithey feed. They make our patriotic SOL
4 diefs protection to the enemy, and yet
have the audacity to call themselves Con-
servatiyes.i
In this State murders increase. The life
of a United States soldier is worth no more
4 than that of q dog. But do we punish any
8 of the lurking assasinsI o, yest We adj
s mfnister the oath Did not JEFF. Davis
himself take the. oath? Did not Breckin-
A l,ridge take it2 Did not thousands of other
Wretches take it who went about the coun.
sltry preaching sA united South And
there is q considerable representation in
Congress today in the interest OF The re6-