The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-19

originated IN selfish and criminal an
bition amongst themselves.
On a subsequent occasion. another de-
bate was had in the Rebel Senate which
did not tend 10 relieve the conspirators
of the difficulties which environ them in
their constant quarrels concerning estate
Rights" &c, the occasion being a bill 10
punish insurrection against the Confede-
rate States" Whilst they were unable
to settle anything, or to determine upon
what should be done, there was little
diificultyamongst them of concluding that
"insurrection" should Je punished sonsloto !.
and this, too, whilst ready at all times
to denounoe the Federal Government for
taking measures 10 suppress that great
one they have themselves inaugurated.
We quote the Rebel Sanator Haynes, of
Tennessee, on this topic:
"Mr Haynes, of Tennessee, said there
were in various parts of the Confederacy
many persons guilty of oGenses, which,
though not coming within the definition
of treason, were deserving of punishment.
And he held that Congress had the right
TO pass laws to punish those persons. In
his own State there had been many en-
gagged in S'i'riny up rebellion and inSurTec-
ton, though they had not been guilty Of
treason. He thought the Senate should
pass this bill, declaring the crime and the
punishment of these and other similar
rebellious subjects"
Taking their own declarations as the
rule by which TO proceed in dealing with
them, what complaint can they make
against the Federal Government for met
ing out to them the measure they would
mete out TO others In this case they
have pronounced sentence against their
own iniquities, and let no friends of the
Union in arms to put down the rebellion
have any scruples hereafter as to what is
called for by crimes so flagrant and so
self-cOnfessed. DenOuncing coercion"
in the outset, they have become themselves
the worst of tyrants, and driving the
people of the South into rebellion at the
point of the bayonet, they now propose
TO go through with the farce of attempt
ing TO Iegalize crimes of the darkest hue. In
the instance under notice even the noteri-
GUS Yancey shrunlI from committing him
self further, telling his fellow -conspirator
that " the bill was, he regretted to say,
more full OF unconstitutionalites than
any that had been presented to the SEN
ate. Opinion could not be changed by
the thumb -screw and the halter, and he
advised lenieney as the true policy TO be
pursued towards the discontented within
our limits" When we remember that
this man Haynes, thus rebuked, assumes
to represent East Tennessee--the region
subjected in the past TO the tender mer-
cies of the rebel Secretary of War; Ben
jamin, where the bodies Of Union mer
were TO be left hanging" as a terror &c
their felloWs-we may the better appre.
ciate the point of the rebuke thus adj.
ministered by the man who, of all others
is answerablc for precipitating rcvolu.
ton" 1t is possible that, in view Of the
horrors that have been brought upon his
section, be is sickening OF the fearful
work and, although at the eleventh
hour, would wash his hands of further
guilty completely.
Let the country concentrate all III
available force, and every energy, to clear
out completely and speedily the blood
stained gang who cumber the earth will
the results of their wicked plots. lie
them no longer be permitted TO sacrifice
the millions of their poor dupes in scheme
not more remarkable for their weakness
and incongruity than for their blood
outlines and every horror almost known