Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-04-18
neb,l Llberallty to the poor.
S0ME .'OLD TREASURES THE POOR
Used AS CATsPAws BY RiCI
REBELS.

In the Nashville Union and american of
April 22d, 1861, the bloody minded Sc
cession organ which called for confisca-
ton, Punishment, Imprisonment and
hanging for all who remained loyal to
the Union, we find this exceedingly
magnanimous and stirring offer from
one Of our citizens The editor Of the
Union calls it-7
The VoIeE or a VENERABLE PATRfoT.
.-R. O. Foster, ST., sends to the Patriot
the following patriotic proposition, which
we gladly publish:
NAsHv1LIE. April %. 1861.
10 the Editors Of the atriot From age
and infrmityI ana unable so do service
90 Che battle field for the rights Of the
South; but am a volunteer with any
number of Tennesseans under like dis
ability, to pay annually TO the Governor
Of Tennessee two hundred dollars for
the comfort and support of the wives
and children of the citizen soldiers of
Tennessee, whilst serving in defence of
the constitutional rights of the South.
r. G. FOSTER, Sr.
Noble, warm and generous PROPOSE
ton! II does credit to humanity. The
promise held out is splendid. We have
no doubt that many poor mechanic,
many a needy laborer as he embraced
and kissed his wife and children before
going into the rebel army pointed his
family to this generous card, and consol-
ed them ii their bitter bereavement by
exhibiting its all -cOmprehensive philaa-
thropy What about the fulflmem ofR'e
promise Has it ever happened ? Who
has heard of its being done What has
become of this fostering care so kindly
pledged to the poor? Why, it has turn
ed out like the other promises of rich
rebels 10 the victims whom they have
trapped in their damnable net We
published the other day list of cards
from wealthy Nashville rebels, similar to
the one which we have given above, in
the magniiicence of their promises and
the nothingness of their fullillment.
Yes, coniiding and misguided men have
been seduced from their country's flag,
and' their dependent families, and are
now wandering utteri y deserted, FRIEND
less and penniless, in distant States,
abandoned by the very temptcrs whose
poisoned tongues and hollow professions
corrupted, misled and ruined them The
Secretary Of the Sanitary Commission at
st. Louis wrote to Gov. JOHNSON ON the
10th of March, that citizens of Tennes-
see formerly belonging to the rebel army
were wandering through the streets of
that city without the means of living Or
returning to their homes" Gov. JoHN-
SON called upon the men Of this place
who had made so grandiloquent promises
for aid, but not one dollar has been
giyenl There is the real spirit of the
Secession leaders. They are eager to
use the poor as tools TO do their work,
and then cast them contemptuously
away when they have got into power.
The rebel organ itself, the Nashville
Union and American, could not refrain
from rebuking the extortion praeticed
by the wealthy upon the poor, and de-
nounccd it in its issue Of September Is,
1861, in these terms
We have an army Of womeo in our midst.
with an average of three cbildrqE eacA,
whose husbands are fighting orr D. les.
These mothers earu about thirty c4nls day
when they eau get ibe work 10 10 Their
helpless offspring arc clad IN ihe thin eud
worn garments Of laat spring, shoehss and
stoekingless. They are 20 be shud and
clothed Tor the winter, and itd, eyoi. if 10 W.
upjn cheap bread alone. Yesterday emini
cd us thar they must have iires ga protect
them nom ''wiutsrs chilly hlasis.' There is
within the limits of the city sulfcieucy OF
coat. IL economically used, 10 last uull
spring. Fhis coal cost aaiy peace prices %
mine and deliver " here, aud t@culy days
ago, as we aye iniui mod, 10 could have bees
bought AZ twenty cents peg haEhsi, and
handsome pouu- would have b On lmid 20
the b6,son vi BIO would have found a pugehas
er. because Il would have haen q goud ,pevu
latiou on ibe part Of holdsIs % have sold
out %, that ratb. Yesterday ihirty I've aud
forty cents per bushol were dgua lle,i, with
an in.imatiou. thai 20 diy The pic3 may be
|fhy cents.
la the name OF humanity, sbal III 8 army
of women sud helpirss chilireu Tho wives
lud children OF lhe 6rsvr moo whI are per
Ilmg thtir lives thlt VIZ naiy have peaoe aud
slniig ppndruc,---il,ez hecsu-e The eAorbi-
ni prices demanded by hollra has placed
bel out az the reach 81 lhtir liniiCd mpans?
"A more giujmy pro,pact for wiult CERTAINLY
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