The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-23
NO 1914


their owa business and, also, tell her IN
this anecdotes A Dutchman, who was &C
the battle Of New Orleans, had heard
that WASHINGTON was very pious man,
and never went into Eight without maxi
ing it the subject Of special prayer. So
he stepped to one side, and prayed: "Oh
Lord Gott we are in a tight sehnap.
Please COON town and help us Won time.
But II you can't help us, don't help der
British, but shoost stand on, and we'll
show you te tamtest fightever you sawp'
Tell VICTORIA if she will Just stand off
well show her the d--dest fight ever she
saw. We will show crowned heads that
we can put down rebellion; and | tell
you rebels we will put you down with
il. | feel glad for Tennessee. that
the Government is crushing out this
internal rebellion. / love the whole
Union, but confess 10 peculiar tenders
ness for Tennessee, especially that por-
tion looking to the sunrise, where men,
for their loyalty, have suffered thousand
deaths, by hanging, by shooting, by tor
ture, by imprisonment by being brutally
tied to trees and scourged till thew per-
| ished in agony. Still, amid this fierce
and relentless persecution, though SEEM
ingly forgotten by their countrymen, and
abandoned by the Governments to the
rage of men whose tender mercies are
cruel, they have held fast TO the faith of
their fathers. Though tracked by spies,
though dragged at midnight by traitor,
from the bosom of their families, cast into
dungeons, hung on gallows by the high
way, shot down like wild beasts, vet
neither vigilance committees, nor armies.
nor scourges, nor daggers, nor dungeons.
nor exile, nor death, nor devils, nor
p.incipalities, nor powers, nor things pre-
sent, nor things 10 come, nor height, nor
depth, nor any other creature" has been
able to separate them from their love 10 the
| Constitution and the Union of their fa-
thers. We are going forward Send my
respects to General Gideon Pillow and
tell him TO dig ditch on the other side
of Murfreesboro He rendered me the
chaplaincy of rebel regiment | sent
him my respects and told him, that when \
wanted TO go to hell, | would cut my 1
throat at once, and not go round by way !
I of the Southern COnfederacy. And
any rebel wants to go to hell, and
/ arrives in the Souththern Confeder.
acy, let him begin TO look after
his baggage, for that's the last depot
4 before he gets ohis destination. We have
six East Tennessee regiments here and
on their way. These brave fellows
4 footed il all the way from Cumberland
Gap. They have fed from the tyrants
of East Tennessee. Their relatives have
been hunted down and murdered, or tied
to trees and cruelty whipped. And
I warn the rebels that these soldiers are on
their march homeward. Yes they are re-
turning home, each man with a devil i'm
his bosom as big as a half bushel. L
want them to parole no rebel, but hang
them up on every tree by grape. vines.
They will be led by the gallant Rose
Grams, who is fighting General; who
chased that anointed thief, Floyd, over
the mountains Of Virginia, and tanned
the Butter-nuts" at COrinth and Iuka.
| want the Tennessee soldiers TO 20 in
front with you gallant boys of Indiana,
Wisconsin, and other troops of the great
Northwest, TO back them. They are 90
ing to take a terrible revenge upon the
traitors who forced them 10 fly from their
families and homes, and have committed
every species of outrage. The rebels
came 10 the jail where ! was confined.
and took out loyal men, and hung them,
two at time without trial even by a
drum-head court martial, and for no
other reason than that they were loyal.
The rebel women attended the hangings,
and giggled and waved their handker-
chiefs in delight over the dying agonies
Of these martyred Union men. don't
know how rebellion affects the women
here, but in East Tennessee, when wO-
man turns rebel, she gets more devils in
her bosom than were cast out of Mary
Magdelene. The only General who has
come up TO my ideas OF justice in this mata-.
ter and serve these she rebels right, Is
Picayune Butler. II were a General, I
would suffer none of these creatures b
come about me | would treat them as
enemies If they have no respect for
themselves, have none for them.
But now come TO the religious branch
Of my subject; aud / wish 10 say at tho
outset, that if ] seem 10 use harsh Ian
guage ] do so after the most mature
deliberation, and with personal knowl-
edge Of the matters which shall mention.
And here ] declare, that the worst class Of
men, 80 help me God, on Southern soil,
are the Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian,
and Episcopalian preachers. They are
unmitigated scoundrels. Some noble
exceptions exist, but as a body, they arc
corrupt treacherOus, and vile. Last
month the Methodist Church, Of which
have been a member thirty five. years,
held Conference in Athens, which was
, presided over by a hoary headed old
man, Bishop EARLY With one sweeping
resolution, they expelled from the min
istry all the Union preachers Of the HOl-
ston Conference. / know these Union
preachers well, and they are men Of
piety and talents. One of these is an
+ old man who has been preacher for forty
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