The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-07-03

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tories among us--the partisans Of the'
JEFF. DAVIS Confederacy-in comment
ing on the acts of the Military Governor
of Tennessee, or on those Of the Prcsi-
dent. Whatever they do TO defend or
restore the Government is tyranny. IL
press is stopped which is supported by
tory patronage and is controlled by tory
editors and publishers, and is secretly
and insidiously aiming thrusts at the
Government the tories exclaim "What
astounding despotism |" II The Presi-
dent orders the seizure and confinement
Of a spy, the tories groan at this gross
violation Of haJoas corpus. If Gov
ernor JOHNSON, after waiting patiently
for more than three months, for men
who had fully identified them
selves with the tory cause during its
unholy ascedency, and who urged the ar
rest and exile or Imprisonment Of all
loyal persons, seeing that forbearance
has ceased to be a virtue, and that LEM
iency to traitors is treason TO the loyal
arrests aud confines such incendiaries as
Drs. HOWELL and ELLIOTT, rebels protest
and exclaim against the act Of depotism,
the exercise of one-man power. We
would marvel at the audacity Or the short
memories of such persons, we're we not
well aware that in times of great commo-
ton people forget tomorrow what they
care doing to-day. Justice requires, how
ever, that we shall remember that those
men in whose behalf false sympathy
is sought to be aroused were among the
chief fomenters Of the cause of rebellion
and treason in Tennessee. They had in
fuence and basely did theyspervert it,
to overthrow the government They
went hand in hand with tory presses,
which clamored like a pack of hungry
| wolves for the blood of loyal citizens.
When Judge HUMPHREYS put II. G., SEQ
VEL under a bond Of $4,000, they said
it was eminently fit and proper, and
when the same Judge said it ought to be
increased TO $4,000, they cried, Amen I!
When the Nashville Gazette called the
loyal men of Nashville apack Of "white-
livered scoundreIs" they said the epithet
was well applied. When the Union and
american said that the "heads of the
Union men of Nashville were in the South
and their hearts were in the North, and
their necks should be stretched to make
up the difference" they applauded the
elegant humor of she expression. When
r. G. PAYNE telegraphed 10 the rebel COM
mittee TO reply to the bold and true
hearted ETHERIDGE "with cold steel and
bullets" if he spoke for the Union, these
devils incamate shouted with delight.
When the Vigilance Committee determin-
ed to examine peaceable and loyal citi-
zen to see whether he had any papers
concealed about him, and IL they should
fnd nothing, to warn him that if he
ventured to remain it would be at the peril
of his life, they winked knowingly at
each other and said that was the course to
pursue towards loyal men. They heard of
the Imprisonment of hundreds of patriots
in loathsome dungeons in East Tennessee
without an expression of coincidence with
the noble sufferers who approved them
selves worthy sons Of the men who fought
under WAsmNGToE Yes, they blasphe-
mously lifted up their eyes TO God in his
very sanctuary and prayed forhis bless
ing on the heads Of the swindlers,
thieves, plunderers, delauliers, perjurers,
forgers, traitors and murderers who were
at the head of the "hell-bOrn and hell
bound Southern Conledcracy." One Of
them with the impudonce of the devil
asked the Almighty TO whiten the hills
Of the South with the bones Of the armies
Of the Union. There was vote taken
on The Sth of June 1861, on the question
of the secession of the State but only a
few daring men ventured TO vote for the
Union. They did so at The risk qfAer
liges. An awful tyranny weighed down
the souls of the people like monster Of
lead. Men spoke in whispers even in
their own dwellings. Spies and inform
ers logged the steps and scrutnized the
actions Of all persons who were accused
of the sin Of loyalty.
Such was Nashville under rebel rule,
and such was the policy upheld and
ouontenanced by those men who within
the past few days have been sent to tho
Penitentiary. And dare their friends
talk of the tyranny Of the Federal Gov
ernment? Dare they talk of the des-
potism, the one man power of Governor
JouNsoN, who forbore for three long
months TO punish these traitors Tor their
crimes For ourselves we have al times
been amazed at the lcniency and for
bearanco of Governor Johnson lie has
molostcd the rights OF no one who has
not been associated with the public en-
envy, He has violated no law, he has
transcribed the bounds Of no authority.
He has INDUCED in none Of that yiudic-
tive spirit which marked the conduct Of
the rebels. In making arrests and i'm
prisonmonts, and sending traitors beycAd
the Federal lines he has done simply