Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-06-07
Texas sim LOYAL.
Special Correspondence Of the Inquirer
WAsHIEGToN CRY, May "a, 1862.

WAsmNGToN CRY, May "a, 1862.
In your valuable paper of the goth
inst, find an article closing with this
paragraph
"0faB6ts States carried at0ay By the Sc
cession conspiracy Texas alone IS WITHOUT the
sbeheriilg presence Of the Stars and Stripes"
Being directly from that State, | can
fully confirm the above statement. No
State on the gulf contains the loyalty and
true devotion 20 the Stars and Stripes
that exists in the Lone Star State, and
why it is that we have been so sadly
neglected is more than we can discern.
Certainly the Government cannot be la
boring under the vain delusion that if
the Rebellion is subdued to Red river,
that Texas is subdued by virtue of the
same. The Rebels of that State must be
conquered in person, which can be done
in sixty days with the presence of ten
thousand troops, accompanied by twice
the number of arms. Texas at first was
carried away by Vigilance Committees,
aided by the black treason Of Twiggs,
who, more than all others, was the inn
mediate cause of the overthrow of the
State Government, followed by separa-
ton from the United States Government.
Secession was never supported by ma
jority of the voters, and to-day, if the
question could be submitted TO the peo-
pie, large majority would vote for res
tOration. Our people have suffered more
in Texas than elsewhere, from the fact
that it being pioneer State, no Difference
hos hnar Md 10 Ill l.. A
result has been where Union men have
not been strong enough to resist mob,
they have been executed without Judge
or jury. In Texas, the long suffering and
Imprisonment endured by Parson Brown
low, with his final glory, would have
been god-send; but with Texan Rebels,
the theory and practice has been shat
dead men tell no tales"
This State has about $4,000 troops in
the field, and no more volunteers can be
obtained. On the 3rd of February, the
sO-called Governor issued an order for
one hundred and sixty companies, and
gave them thirty days in which to vol
unteer and report to him. The thirty
days passed, and not a company was
reported. A drsft was thea levied, the
result Of which have not heard except
that it produced general stampede for
Mexico, she land Of The free and the home OF
the slaUe ;" all of whom would be glad to
take up arms, and, with their hearts
blood, battle for the old flag and Govern
ment.
Everywhere in Central and Western
Texas they are crying for help, and I
verify believe that if the Union men
could now procure arms, they would or
ganize and do what they refused to do
one year ago, because they loved peace
and dreaded civil war, and because we
had more Robespierres than Napoleons
With one half of the favor and aid ex-
tended to other States, Texas will be
the first star in the Cotton galaxy, and
of which she was not the dimmest before
this great crime was committed.
Wives are being made widows; pro-
tected children are becoming orpans;
freemen are made the subject of the rope;
the whole land is being made one vast
plain of desolatiOn simply because an
armed force Of ten thousand men, with
arms for Union men of the State, cannot
be procured. In every other State there
has been a shelter for the protection Of
all who sought ii; but in Texas they
have been left TO suffer and TO die. In
honor to the State, it can be truly said
that more soldiers have left their armies
and Joined the Federals than from any
other rebelli0us State. AT Fort Brown,
on the Rio Grande, nearly three fourths
Of the army rendezvoused at that point
had deserted and gone into Mexico, on
the third Of last month, Some compa-
MES did not have a private left.
We hope the Government will listen to
this appeal from Texas, and give her
such aid as may be requisite TO redeem
her from the Davis dynasty, the tenor Of
whose reign must be felt for its wicked
ness 10 be appreciated.
A CITIZEN OF Texas.
Up. S.--Gen. Sam. Houston is not dead,
but alive and well. Neither is he a
Rebel,