The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-08-07
THE smnNANDOAH VALLEY.
Talks with the RebeIs-A "ContrR-
bands Marriage.

Talks with the RebeIs-A - Gonlra-
band" Marriage.
Rev. j. MCMILLAN, Chaplain of the
One Hundred and Ninth Regiment Of
Pennsylvania volunteers, writes from
the Shenandoah Valley that the soldiers
are all anxious for more glorious prose-
cution of the war, lie says: .las
"Surely it has dragged its slow length
far enough. All attempts to sketch the
viper are failure. Let us now kill il, or,
in return for all our gentle endeavors to
tame the 'accursed thing into submission,
il may one day charm us into fatal delu-
sion, and rule or ruin still. | think it is
Macaulay who says; Nothing is so
cruel to a nation of lreemen as for its
rulers 70 carry on languid war Now
do let US have war in earnest if we
must have it at all"
sECEssIoNIsTs IN Tue VALLEY.
"The progress of this department of
the army creates no true Union senti-
ment as il advances. The large MAORI
ty all along our route from Harper 8
Ferry, Winchester Strasburg and Front
Royal TO Warrentown, admit and even
boast that the are unchangeably secesh.
All that we leave behind are more de-
terminedly secesh after we have subsist-
ed upon them, as of course we are oblig-
ed to do, than they are before we foraged
whatever they had that we had need of,
giving them in return receipt for pro-
visions taken, to be paid when the war is
over, if they from date play the part of
men loyal to the Union"
THE BLAME LAID ON PRESIDENT BUCHANAN.
"With scarcely an exception the peo-
pie l have met along the route (and
have talked to many of them quietly and
calmly in their own houses) charge all
these troubles with which our country is
now afflicted, upon the administration of
President Buchanan--they say that if he
had done with South Carolina at the be-
ginning of her secession procliyities what
General jackson threatened TO do in the
days of notification, a few leaders in
that State hanged high as Hannah would
have prevented any other State from
being committed to secession. But now,
they say, contrary 20 our wishes at first,
Virginia was carried out of the Union by
the Convention. Then were we threat
ened with conGscation if we did not vote
to ratify the act of secession.
"Sineo then our young men, the flower
of our families, have enlisted, have been
slain in battle, or are still fighting for
Southern rights, and it would be dis
honorable in US to turn back from cause
to which we are thus Of necessity com
mitted In short, this is the substance
of their story, We are Nirginians, and
we must stick to our State wherever she
goes"
A CONTRADAND" MARRIAGE.
Yesterday evening we had something
of novelty in our camp, for the first time
since | have been in the ministry | was
invited to marry a colorcd couple.
cor course j performed the ceremony
with due solemnity; after that you may
imagine the boys must have their share
Of fun, even it, within the bounds Of
decorum, it shonld be at the expense Of
the bride and groom.
"The circumstances of this marriage
are these the groom some months ago
ran away from his mistress (his master
had gone into the rebel army; he became
attached TO our army as teamster, and
in the Providence of God we were march
ed by the old slave home which our
teamster had left-there he met and per-
suaded the girl who is now his bride 10
Join him and come along with the regi-
ment as a washcrwoman for some Of the
officers. The ordinance, solemnized as
il was, was quite new thing in the
eyes of some Of our colored servants.
some Of whom thoaght dis was a better
wedding dan cullcd folks ginerally hab
in Nirginny; while others thought dat
tying up man aud wife so long as they
both live was little longer than dey usu-
ally expect in dis country"