The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-07-13
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To hear rebel, particularly il he or
she is fresh from Yankee land, talk Of
Yankee avarice and meanness, and Of the
noble generosity Of the Southern chiyalry,
ono would suppose, if he believed the
speaker, that all the sordd passions were
conferred in New England, and all the
magnanimity and liberality in the world
were confined 10 the South. The chivalry
have been wont TO say that Southerner
can't cheat. Alas, for this fancy sketch,
when we compare it with the facts in the
case. By the testimony OF the Richmond,
New Orleans, Memphis, Mobile and Carles-
ton papers, for months past the rebels
seem TO out-Shylock Shylock in extortion
and meanness. Wealthy rebels and large
Shareholders who melted the rebellion,
stay at home 10 coin money out Of the
blood Of the wives and children Of the
Confederate soldiers, by charging them
enormous prices for bread aud meat.
Like some rebels in Nashville, who are
large land and slave ., e, they would
snatch biscuit from nth of ahaIf
famished mother, and4th it for a five
cent shinplaster. Read what late
number Of the Atlanta bteHgncer, which
we have in our possession, says on this
point:
THIS FLOUR MoNoPoLY.-I has become
evident that the stock Of Flour in this
part OF the Confederacy is fast becoming
monopolized by few spccul otors--men
l0io hare made their hundreds If thousands
Of dollars By his tcar, find IL easy az this
time TO buy up the scanty stock Of any
article and 10 hold II for e1orBita1t prices.
The small stock of -four and the failure
Of the wheat crop renders speculation in
bread stulls tempting mode of invest
ment, and the harpies 1olo prey on tl,e people,
take advantage Of the dispositions of Pyovi-
| dence These are the men who arc eager
for long war, that their gains may accu-
mulaie. No matter If their flthy Llc,e
comes 10 them scaled in heblood Of The pctins
| Of The battle feld--it is money! and they hrlotO
that the IaUiA respect aiat men pay to Uealb
lCiH soon cause The manner Of It's accumulation
10 be forgotten and cleanse them from all un-
righteousness " IN the eyes Of the tcorld.
So the Htelhgencer confesses not only
that there are plenty of the chivalry who
seek TO become rich of the miseries of
the destitute, but when they have accu-
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INFLATED a treasure Of blood, rebel ma
mas will intrigue to win these "harpies'
as suitors for their daughters, and rebel
girls will practise all their seductive arts
to become the wives of bloated, heart
less, foul mouthed, and dastardly rebel,
who has filed his pockets with five cent
pieces, literally wrung from the pale thin
hands of the widows and orphans of the
South. We have such rebels in Nash
vile. Oh chiyalry, chivalry, Of all the
cheats and impostors the world has ever
seen thou art the greatest Without
brains thou hast strutted in the robes of
craftsmanship; without wealth thou hast
boasted of the Golfers of Cresus without
strength thou hast claimed the strength of
Hercules; without heart thou hast profesed
generosity; sordid, penurious, avaricious,
unfeeling, and devoted to gain, thou hast
profcssed to be profuso, liberal, warm
hearted, magnanimous, and humane,
above all others. And now the stern
hand of truth has torn the mask off thy
hidoous face, and nailed thy ears TO the
pillory of everlasting shame, to be booted
and ieered at by the world as the Prince
of humbugs and hypberiles.