Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-06-01

that we might make few truthful and
serious words ring in the ears of him in
whose hands is placed the mighty charge
of ruling this republic. The words which
we shall speak will be re-echoed from the
lips of every thorough, energetic, uncon-
ditional Union man in Tennessee and
Kentucky. We tell the President then
that in regard to the measures TO be en-
ployed TO crush out this unholy rebellion
speedily and utterly, the people are tar IN
uolvauce of most Of their rulers. Plain men
who pay no attention to the ambages,
bubbles and hair-splitting arguments on
constitutional powers, Of special plead
err, and who don't value all the fine rhe
toric in the world a straw unless II ayriUes
at valuable practical result, wonder why
it is that notorious traitors whose hands
are black with robbery and red with
murder, are let loose on parole Of honor
by our government and that other traitors
who are now, all through the Border Slave
States, holding midnight meetings in the
Lodges of Knights of the Golden Circle,
TO aid guerrilla chiefs in ravagiDg the
country, and to point out to them their
Union neighbors who are actively loyal,
as objects Of vengeance, are allowed by
the government to live unmolested. Yes,
incredible as it may appear TO sensible
men abroad, it is nevertheless true that in
Louisville, in Nashville, and in other
Southern cities now held by the Federal
Government, traitors boldly proclaim
their insulting and outrageous sentiments,
express their hope of a speedy return of
the rebel army, pray for guerrilla in
vasioie, and exult like devils at tidings
of a1evcrss to the loyal arms and the
butchefy 5f our wounded soldiers in the
streets Of q perfdious town. Il is so.
We have heard IL. We know it, You
cannot quench The fire of rebellion by
pouring oil upon Us flames. Whenever
its flames burs o1t or even its glowing
embers still sparkle with ill-repressed
rage beaeafn che gray ashes Of seeming
aoquiescence but real opposition, the fire
must be fiuenched--in blood if needs be,
or else we all shall perish in a general
conffagration. Are the lives of rebels to
be put in the balance against the lives of
tis loyal? Is the existence of traitor
70 be tolerated when it imperils that of
loyal, upright citizen? Are we to sub
NIT to the impudence of rebels lest we
infract some ambiguous article of our
Constitution? Must we be so scrupuIous
about the sahctity of one clause that we
must suffer the whole to perish in order
TO save the part? Whatwould be thought
of man who valued tooth so highly
that he would not let it be drawn, though
by not doing so he would certainly for
felt his life?
Why in many counties of Kentucky,
as we were informed yesterday, by
gentleman holding high civil Office I'M
der the Federal Government, and as we
know TO be true in some counties, notori-
GUS rebels are coming out as candidates
for office, and while breathing treason ex-
press their intention TO take the oath of
allegiance to the Federal Government
Loyal men look at such insolence and
contemplated perjury with amazement,
and ask will the Government tolerate
this? Are we to have a band of traitors
returned TO Frankfort to sit in the Legis-
lative Halls 1t is a fact that the word
has been sent out secretly by the leaders
of the yebsl Home Guard which now in
tests that State, to their clansmen, the
minions Of GEORGE BIcELY: 7le Fsae-
eral Government feels that 10 dare not modest
those t0ho have not taken up arms u ,OiH be
neat to impossible ever to convict any Of rs
Of treason, because tbe crime must oonsistof
an 0uert act, and That act must Be proved By
TWO WITNESSES. So we can talk
treason and run for office, and snap our
fingers IN the faces Of tFe Union men,"
Bonds and Oaths, and paroles Of honor
are prescribed by our ender-hearted
rulers for such cases Bonds and oaths
forsOOthl Place = skulking, cowardly,
ferociOus hyena under bonds to keep the
peace, and then turn your back on him
for pleasant sleeper administer the
oath 10 a rattlesnake as he prepares to
Dart bis deadly lngth
And hurl at once his venom and hss,rongth."
And then, if these merciful measures
prove successful, employ like means
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