Washington telegraph., 1862-06-11

The NASHVILLE BooT LIcKERs.-We could
over our head. We have received the wound
which all sensitive natures experience when
those they have admired and trusted. are sud-
denly detected in some act of infamy which
| renders them despicable forever.
The nest of traitors which. raked from the
whole State of Tennessee, recently assembled
at Nashville, and under the shadow of the
Federal army, which was numbering their
kInsmen. and imprisoning their fellow citizens
fawned upon the traitor Andrew Johnson
whom they had been wont to despise ana
abuse: was composed of men who in times
past were gentlemen. The spectacle which
they now present, basely bowling before the
power, and licking the feet of the invader, is
the most humiliating scene possible to human
nature in its most contemplate moods.
VIM. b. Campbell has been an illustrious
name. He was once model of a digni6ed
brave, and sensible Gentleman. He is reveal
ed as a hypocrite. He professed once to favor
the Southern cause, and was rendered the
office of Brigadier He declined it. 1.-THE
contemplate double-dcaler) on the score Of
health. But he lay in wait amongst people
who still loved and trusted him. until
the enemy came. They came scattering fire
and desOlation amongst those who had honor
ed him. and he gives them AID and comfort.
and applaudg their acts. lie is no bold vii
ain, but n sBeaking aud heartless times server
With some few pxcen ntious of rant2aman ,vt,n
have always opposed the secession movement
amongst whom we can only designate Jno.
Trm5le; the same double infamy rests upon
the whole of them. 1t is not treason to .he
South alone, but they are doubly damned hy
treachery. They professed to acquiesce in TIE
secession movement. 1t would have been the
grossest insult to any one of them to have
doubted his loyalty to the South They would
have resented it with camorous earnestncss.
They covered before the Southern feeling
whilst it was in the ascendant, and bas,lv pre-
tended allegiance. They now fawn upon the
enemy, and lick the hands, reeking with their
brothers blood
Most of these men have been our fricn Is
some of them the most intimate we have ever
had. We have lost much to be no longer able
to respect them. Some of them have had So
great hold upon our affections in by gone
days that We would freely have risked our life
in their defence. We tear them off forever
Between them and us II great gulf is fixed
which can never be passed this side the grave
We can only loathe and dc.pise then, during
the remnant of life
As for the political significance of this
movement it is altogether unworthy of notice
The homes of Tennessee have sent forth into
the Southern armies more than seventy-scycu
regiments. Their bloc has flown at Doae,son,
their bare feet have frozen in the mountains
of Virginia, they have ianguished with dis
ease i'll the camps at Corinth. Every where
the of the old vuluureer State have done
their duty well. Can it be supposed that their
friends at home are base enough to sympa-
thise with these who receive with smiles and
fawning the bloody invaders who make these
sacrifices necessary. The whole heart OF
Tennessee beats with Indignation against her
sons oul I,,-rn.I nf tl,,.