The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-25

on the Stool Of Repentance

From The Baltimore American,
Virginia on the Stool Of Repentance.
Virginia is Just now particularly I'M
fortunate; not alone in being eaten ont.
burned OUT plundered, robbed. her citi-
gems slain in battle, and cursed by the
presence Of partisan rangers Neither
is IL enough that she has incurred-as q
Staie--some ten or fifteen million dollars
Of indebtedness; her capital made one
vast hospital; her trade altogether ruin
ed; her ancient fame furnished. All this,
It seems, she might stand; but horror Of
horrors she is not qppycciate1 BY her WIS.,
itors, the Cotton States magnatesi
In a late correspondence between. The
rebel Secretary of War and Gen. John b.
Floyd, the former takes occasion 10 ar
raign the latter, and through him the
State OF Virginia, for Interfering with
Confederate enlistmenfs. Ia other words.
the central tyranny al Richmond hauls
Virginia over the Goals because the latter
viii not suffer il 20 come into her camp
the Virginia line and carry OIL
men, Floyd being the representative Of
State Rights in the scullle concerning ju-
risdictiOn. But let us hear the Richmond
examiner in relation 60 the grievances
suffered byNirginia, when il comments
on Floyd's brOadside fired at the rebeg
War Department through Gen. Rich
ardson. We quote from the issue of the
9th of the present month:
"Gen. Floyd's retort is of such char
acter as to set the matter at rest. But
the whole correspondence is an apt illus
tration of that opposition and annoyance
which this States authority and army
has to suffer from those who abuse he
po'oer Of he Co'yederaey at Richmond. =
Such piece of arrogance would never
have been ventured on had il not been
encouraged by the submissiyeness and
trucking temper of some persons in the
Legislature. Such correspondence, for
instance, between the State of Georgia,
which quietly prohibits the enforcement
of the conscript law in its limits, and
the Confederate Government which pook-
eted the prohibition, will never see the
light, for il will never be undertaken. On
the other hand, the earnestness and sim
pl'city with which Virginia has sacrificed
everything for the success of the Confede-
rate Government in this war has been
grossly abused. Virginia is the object
of endless imposition. But there are
limits to everything, and the patience Of
the State t0iB not stand much longer the re-
petition Of o9T0Ias. This Commonwealth
has poured out its blood and treasure in
the present war as no State is recorded
to have done in ancient or modern histO-
ry. But that same pride and courage
which has caused her to make and sup
port these sacrifices are the very traits
which render such insults as these less
suppoortable here than would elsewhere
be.
Virginia furnished nearly all Of the
arms, ammunition, and accOutrements
that won the battles of Bethel and Ma
nassas. She gave the Confederate SER
vice, from her own armories and stores,
10000 rifles and muskets, 233 pieces Of
artillery, a magnificent armory contain
ing all the machinery necessary for man
ufacturing arms on a large scale Yet,
now, when Virginia, after draining her
arms bearing population 10 the dregs in
the service of the Confederacy, raises =
force Of her Ol0n pe9pLe to drive the enemy
from her western border-what the Con-
federate Government has been either un-
able or unwilling TO dO--she is not only
without the slightest assistance from the
magazines Of the Confederacy; her agents
are not only compelled 10 search every
town, village, and country house for old
arms, which they must repair in the best
way they can in temporary armOry,
but her constituted civil authorities are
subjected 10 dolly impertinence and con-
tinual opposition of creatures who were
never heard of except while engaged In
that occupation endorsed by men who
were holding commissions in the Union
army long after Virginia seized on Har-
per's Ferry and GospOrt"