The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-07-24

PERISH yourselves.
Employ your Encmy's Resources.
The policy Of using the resources Of
the enemy, as far as possible, in the pro.
secution of the war against the rebellion,
a policy which the UNION has urged
zealously from its first number, is being
rapidly adopted. lis justice, its wisdom
and its efficiency are fast commencing it
to loyal officers everywhere. That in
dustrious and brave officer, Major Gen.
PORE. in his recent orders to the army,
tells his officers to live off the enemy, and
to use his negroes wherever they can be
of service. This is exactly what the
country needs You do a double work
if you can lceaken yo,y enemy and lessen
yoar olcn expenses, at the same time, by
making him furnish you with the mate
rial of war What is proper and adyan-
tageous elsewhere, will be so in this State.
Why is not this policy,urged by our lead
ing officers, Mcclellan himself included,
we are told, and urgently pressed by 10y
al men in this State, at the primary
meetings, adopted by the commander of
this department? There are in David
son and the counties adjacent, thousands
Of negroes, we are told, lolo are supporting
by their labor masters who are Generals,
Colonies, Captains, Quartermasters and
Contractors in and for the rebel army.
The masters are Off plotting to return
and seize the city and cut our threats,
and our officers here are allowing their
farms TO be unmolestcd, and their crops to
be sid. TO supply them with means to car
nv O. their treason. In some cases, yes,
many guards have been placed over the
property of leading rebels, over their
! houses, orchards, cOrnfelds etc, 10 pro-
! tect them from disturbance, Instead Of
letting our soldiers fight, as the noble
| and patriotic fellows wish to do, we have
detailed them on miserable petty pO-
| lice, TO protect property which the own
er is seeking to use TO destroy us. Now
with all modesty, and all respect to our
authorities, we say, this sort Of work has
! gone far enough Stop it, if you please
and kill the rebellion; that is what the
country sent you here for, May we not
as well begin at once? Notifications
around the city might be valuable, we
think, and We can build them with al
most no expense. We can place 800, ne
groes. who own masters in the rebel
army, very ndvantagcously within a
week, and in a very short time we could
haze this city so strongly fortified that
a regiment could hold it against ten
thousand men. While they are work
ing, they can be fed off provisions gath
cred off the farms Of rebels. Secession
lists may as well understand first as las
that they cannot be suffered TO act treas
ON and encourage traitors with impunity
When they engage i'm such work they
must abide the consequences, and pay
the heavy penalty which their crime de-
serves. Men wo have raised club to kill
their country must NOT complain if thai
outraged country TOO louy, lorbcaring af-
ter waiting vainly to see whether they
would repent, should at last wrench the
club from their hands and deal them q
terrible blow Let us make the resources
of tbs rebels subsoryient TO our own uses.
wherever we need them let us cat his
meat, his bread, and his provender; lei
us impress his wagons and horses
and seize his negroes, and make then
works for us, instead of against us, as
they are now doing, Gen, DUMoNr adj.
vanced some sensible remarks on thi,
point at the Great War Meeting at Indi,
anoplis:
In the South every man has gone Ia
the war, The CONSUMPTION takes every
body, and vet II takes nobody At all. I'm
the eye the Almighty, nobody is worth
I AS uluNh as a ItN- uthNtu MuOultchtF un-
less lac works No recruits who enter
the Southern army go there with sun
| embrowned lorcheads and hands
hardened by honest industry, The
demand for troops takes away a set of
. pamporcd men--yery good men for the
purpose-men who are a sort of walking
arsenal, not devoid Of courage or talent,
but il takes away nobody from the pro-
ducing classes-in other words, il takes
away nobody az an
Take the three Congressional Districts
lying Immediately around Nashville Go
among the people there and you will find
at nearly every house you como TO the
lady is a widow, aud she seeks protection
20 herself and 10 her property, by repeat
. ed declarations that she rs a lone widow,
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