The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-26

vailed in the Democratic National Com
vention, in 1860, would to-day be Presi \
dent of the United States. Cloud ap
plause.) You Democrats who profess 70
fear that Governor JOHNSON "igiH iVure
the Union cause" recollect well that your
party, in this State, instructed its dele
gates TO vote for JOHNSON, in the National
Convention, and they did so again and
again. You approved his course then.
Who has changed since that time? III
you are candid rebel, tell me if
the President could have made a
better selection. / fear no charge Of
Inconsistency for being found by his
side, after life Of party opposition, and
laboring with him in the work Of pre-
serving the Union. The charge Of in
consistency has already been fully met
by Mr. BRowNIow. What was Governor
JoHNsoN's first act ? He issued an ear
nest and affectionate address TO the
people Of Tennessee, in which he offered
amnesty to all who had wandered from
the path Of duty, and let by. cones be
by-gones, il they would return TO their
loyalty. Has not the Governor faithfully
kept his promise? If any man thinks
he has broken it, let him come forward
and show it. You rebels know that your
wives and children were protected. You
and your families travelled back and forth
unmolested by Federal power You
came TO the city and traded freely, and
transacted your business unmolested.
In the meantime what were you doing ?
Were you also laboring TO restore peace
and prosperity to the State =? No: on the
contrary you were assembling secretly,
in back-rooms, and plotting to destroy
the very power which was protecting
you sending letters out by negroes, con-
veying information TO the leaders of guer-
rilla parties, and telling them where to
intercept wagon-trains, railroad trains,
how and when to surprise and capture
unguarded parties of cOnvalescent SOL
diers, trains of ambulances, and the like.
By your instigation the guerrillas de-
stroyed greatnumbers Of railroad bridges,
burned cars, and ruined other property
belonging to the State. You aided these
outlaws in capturing mails, and invited
the rebel army to come in and rc-take
the city. You rebels who feared "JouN-
sons appointment would injure the Union
cause" and who will stand on the
street. morrow, and bewail
the wicledness of BRowNLow "a few
days ago you were trying to make fair
weather with the guerrillas-were un-
certain whether TO prepare breakfast or
supper for Braces army, and passed by
your Union neighbOrs without recog-
milton, hoping that in a few hours the
rebel army would enter the city, and
the loyalsts be forced to hy-you
who have talked and acted with
such treachery, know in your hearts thai
you have acted rascality of the meanest
and vilest sort. Once you would have
struck the man in the mouth who had
dared to say you were capable Of such
deceit and baseness. How are wu re-
garded by all honest men? What does
an impartial world think of your con-
duct? 1t is a familiar principle of law
that when several men combine for an
unlawful object, they all become respon-
sible for every act, resulting from that
combination, which may be committed by
any one of their number, whether they
be participators in that act or not, or even
if it met their disapproval. Now apply
this principle to the case Of these rebels in
Nashville. You Merchants who have
given thousands TO destroy the Govern
ment. You women who have made flags
for rebel regiments, and helped to equip
their armies-whO have cOnspired and
acted with traitors over the South, with
desperate villains, with savages, educa-
ted it may be, but still with barbarous
instincts and purposes-tell me, what did
these fellow traitors of yours do in East
Tennessee While | was cOunselling
moderation, in Nashville, my wife and
children were at home in Knoxville. |
was charged with nothing save loyalty 4;
as for my wife and children nothing
was alleged against them, except that
she was my wife, and was their father?
But your rebel authorities issued an
edict for them to leave in thirty
hours. Scarcely was time allowed for
them TO gather up their little household
gods. My wife had two favoriie house
servants. She took them with her TO the
cars, and paid their fare, when the mill
itary authorities ordered them TO be
dragged away. Men who complain of
LINcoLN's proclamation, will be very
angry at this, and say that a LrECLLNITE
has no business to own negroes. You
will Judge that owe the rebels little
thanks. Not one week ago | saw the
children of my friend, MIR. BRowSLow,
longing and weeping to return home.
Hundreds of like barbariies have been
perpetrated in East Tennessee by these
rebol miscreants. Men have been shot
in many instances, in their own houses,
have been tied up 10 trees and inhumanly
whipped, while their wives and daugh.
ters were outraged IN their presence An
instance was related TO me, a few days
ago, in Cincinnati, by an officer ~ one Of
the East Tennessee regiments, Of an aged
Union man who was dragged from his
house by rebel soldiers, and tied 10
tree, and bru'ally murdered, while his
daughters were violated before his eyes
Who are responsible for these yiIlainies {?
The rebel government is responsible, aud
you who have aided and counlenanced
them are guilty with il before God and
your country. The time is fast coming