Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-05-20

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TUESDAY MoBSING. MAY 20 1862.
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Southern BennitiOn Of an AbOli-
tiOnIsts,
The Southern rebels and their North
ern allies, Vallandigham, the Cincinnati
Eaqujrer, and that ilk, use the term Abo-
litionist so frequently that it is very i'm
portant to have a definition of il by one
Of the Immaculate order Of chivalry.
The editor of the S2atdeya Literary
Messenger, a monthly magazine published
in Richmond, Virginia, and devoted to
Literature, Science and Art" found oc-
casion recently to give his definition of
the much misused word q5olt'om5t--
"An abolitionists," says he, ais any man
who does not love slavery for its own
sake, as diUine institution; who does not
,gorsbip 10 as the c0yRer-5igne Of ctyH liberty;
who does not adore d as The o,lly possible social
condition on whicha permanent republican
Government can be erected and who
does not, an his iaalod soul, desire to see IT,
EXTENDED AND PERPETUATED
OVER THE WHOLE EARTH, AS A
MEANS OF HUMAN REFORMATION
SECOND IN DIGNITY, IMPORTANCE
AND SACREDNESS ALONE TO THE
| CHRISTIAN RELIGION. HE WHO
DOES NOT LOVE AFRICAN SLAVE
| RY WITH THIS LOVE, IS Az AEO-
| LITIONIST."
Let the land breathe easier uoW
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| WAsuNoroy, May 1.-THE French
Minister has received intelligence from
his Consul at Richmond TO the effect
! that the Rebel Government had notified
! him that, should it be necessary to evac-
uate the city, the French tobacco must
be destroyed with the rest. At the
same time the Rebels offer to pay for it +;
a proposition not much relishcd by the
Brenchman.
The French Minister discredits rumors
of European Intervention in our affairs,
and it is generally thought here that,
whatever purposes may have been enter
tanned by England and France, the news
from New Orleans will cause their inde-
finite postponement. The 8S5 prisoners
recently released from Richmond prisons
will arrive here via the Potomac to-mOr-
row few, who came through Balti-
more, arrived to-day. They say the
Rebels are determined as ever, and be-
lieye that, after the two great impending
battles they will, if whipped, band to-
gether in small guerilla parties and fight
to the very last
They represent the treatment of oul
prisoners as barbarous in the extreme
and that our officers, who alone remain
in the prisons, Gall the privates being sci
free) will not be released at all. Col
Corcoran's healthis good. He is anxious
to be released, and contradicts the state
ment, made sometime since, that he said
he would prefer remaining where he is
believing that he could be of more SER
vice there, and adds, that the only wUy
in which he wishes to serve his country
is on the battlefield. Col Bowman
health is failing rapidly, and his eye.
sight nearly lost lie can survive his
present treatment but a few weeks longer
His long confinement has affected hi,
mind so much that he is at times looked
upon as insane The Rebels offered eve,
ny inducement to prisoners to join thci
army, but only two have done SO, viz
John A. Wicks, Qusrtcrmastcr Of Tia,
Congress, and private Of the 1th Ohio
named Wilson. As soon as IL becam,
known to the prisoners that Wilson in
tended 10 desert them, they proceeded t'
hang him. The guard, however cut hin