The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-07-06

toVN anu Otnef5 OenOunce President LIN
lFpLNas worse than JHla Dly1s. From
ihe hands Of the e. int tndiarles on beth
sides the people htqst tesses the Union.
qherfis srsal middle ha9ty between
fheso two extremes. 5fho- must main-
ltain the government The work must
ibe done by the people. Don't wait
for your leaders TO guide you.
know the people of Nashville well, and
know the feeling which controls them,
and know the men who have been your
leaders; for ] have been with them for
years as, a member Of DE lIngislaiute,
as Governor of your State, and as a Sem
ator in Congress You have relied on
these leaders Jas oracles whose bidding
you must obey. You ask where are our
leaders, the John Bells, Ewings, Neil
Browns, and the Union and -4nie5oah 9-
You seem to cease TO act. and speak for
yourselves. Are you, Intelligent free
men, dependent on the arm Of a leader ?
Are you incapable Of acting for your
solycs2 rIf 50, then, you eoncede The
/ very thing for which Die tories of the
South are contending, and admit that
you are unfit for self-goyernment. Cast
off this unmanly and degrading feeling
This is the peoples government they
received itas a legacy from Heaven and
they must defend and preserve it,. if il is
to be preserved at all / am for this
Government above all earthly possessions,
land if IL perish, / do not wish to survive
t3t, lam for Il, though slavery should be
struck from existence and Africa be
swept from the balance Of the world |
believe indeed that che Union is the only
proteclion Of slayery--its sole guaranteed;
but if,ybu persist il forcing the issue Of
slavery against the Government ! say in
the face of Heaven, +" Give memy Gov
e.nment, and let the negroes golR -
f~.Tbese traitors who are perpetdally
clamorihg about Southern rights and
slave property as If there were no other
rights or property in existence, manifest
tile uimos tbit,erness, bigotry, and mar
row -mihdtd seetionalism. ..., They are
perpetually calling out slavery, Adolf
litionist, Yankee, and Lincolnitet How
malicious aud invidious are all these
/ slang phrases. Are we not all Ameri-
leans, descended of one blood, and com
lposing one great family? recognize no
such mserably narrow and selfish feel
ing as that which refuses fellowship to
the legal aud just Of all sections of the
Republic scorn the francis and fet-
ters of sectional bigotry. claim this
world as my home, and every honest
man as my brother, sg love my
country, her Constitution, her laws,
and her free institutions. love her his
tory and the memory Of her glorious
ldead. ] love the precepts and teachings
of her illustrious founders. / love my
Estate, and pray for her happiness and
prosperity, which must be found in
the laws and under the flag of the Union.
looking around me tonight, say 10
the gallant and patriotic soldiers who
bear this flag, "Welcpme, welcome, thrice
welcome, defenders of tho Union - On
with your glorious work, and in the face
Of all opposition, even ut the point of the
sword and bayonet and amid the roar
and crash Of battle let the Government
Of Washington be defended. We have
heard these troops called Northern in
vadors and Hessians, but we have seen
and compared the rebel and patriot arm
les, The first spread horror and desola-
tion among US, the latter have been law
abiding and orderIyi and have been
kprotection to the people. 49,. =
This rebellion is animated and con-
trolled by the worst spirits That ever filed
the bosom Of ma1. With singular au-
dacity Or ignorance, some persons pre-
tended 10 compare the rebellion Of 1851
with that of, 1916 How preposterbus
and absurd. There is not the remotest
analogy between them. They were, on
the contrary the very antipodes of each
Ilothcr. Tho old revolution was 70 estab-
Iilish and perpetuate freedom, but this ono
was to subyert and destroy it, and make
us the yassals Of France or Great
L Britain. The modern revolution would.
if possible, reduce us TO the very
seryitudc from which the former
delivered as. The spirit Of rebellion
was icndish, proud cruel and lawless.
TWAS so from the day when the Devil
raised the standard Of revolt in heaven,
and varied with MIcHAEL the Archan-
| gel, for the suprcmacyo the skies. We
are told thnttthe Devil was conquered,
and chained in thciniemal pit, but that
he was TO be ict loose for season. If
ever the devil was lcl loose in The world,
l believe that now is the time, and that
he is actuatius this Southern rebellion.
Yet men who had aided this diaboleal
rebellion now pretended to talk of ".
ranny and oppression How long has IL
been since you lad your Minute Men,
Your Vigilance Committees and your
passpor, Committees How long has it
been since men were driven from ihem
homes for the crime Of loyalty? was
driven from my own home, and for what?
What crime, what offence had / done