The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-08-10

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The "vile proletarian" who edits the
Richmond Enquirer, tho great month !
piece Of rebellion, in It's issue Of July |
20, gives long dissertation, which in its
6rst portion contains as many lies as
words, and in the latter portion some
threats and admissions deserving Of
attention. The Enquirer says
The Confederate States government has
pursued q policy towards malcontenis
within lite own Jurisdiction which has
been generous to toeakaess. The Union men
OF East Tennessee nevey have been subjected
TO restraint, punishment, on violence o., account
Of their being Union men. The policy Of
the government towards them has been
mid and coTioiliatofg. We will venture the
assertion that no government dc facto,
much less de jure, ever tolerated 80 much
open, turbulent, and coutemptuous re-
sistsnce 10 its authority,
Tie psoDle al Tennessee had declared for
separation from the United States and
annexation to the Confederate States.
This government had extended its iuris-
diction, its laws, and its protection, over
the people Of Tennessee.
Here is an astounding succession Of
bsrefaced lies. The people of Tennessee
far from voting for disnnion, voted ii
down by $4,000 majority, and the State
was Pycf1ssealy annexed 10 JEFF DAVIS
dominions by midnight treaty, con-
coeted in secret session, under locked
doora and closed windows, by that triad
Of traitors and villains, GUsTAyrs A.
HESEY, TOTEM, and Gen. BARROW. The
so-called Confederacy was never able 10
protect Tennessee IN any degree; all IL
did was TO persecute, imprisOn, arrest,
browbeat, insult exile, shoot, and hang
her loyal citizens, impress their slaves,
and steal their horses, mules, cattle, hogs,
and crops, Our people were already un-
der the protection of the same good gov.
eminent which had protected them for
ssysnty-nine years, and had positively
refused the proaered protection Of such
thieving scoundrels as JEFF. DAVIS and
IsHAM HARRIs. We don't want their pro-
lection, and won't have IT, The idea of
such a swindling, robbing, lying, sham
and imposition as the Dixie Government
"tolerating open resistance 10 ITSELF is
the rarest impudence we have met with
in twelye-month. The Eaqare is as
magnanimOus as the old fox inthe fable,
who, being at the point of death, claimed
il as great virtue that he always spared
the lives OF the tough old hens, II con-
tinues thus ..s
No testige of the Federal Government
remained, and its very name had been
expunged from the laws, forms, oaths and
courts of Tennessee by the solemn acts of
ite own legislature. Yet, there were men
in considerable section Of this State
who boldly advocated the cause of the
old government, and took up arms in its
cause who organized complete system
Of espionage for the aid and benefit of
the public enemy who bushwhacked"
the Southern soldier in the lonely woods;
who alarmed, infatuated and excited the
people with false statements in relation
70 our government; who deprecated our
currency, openly recruited for Lincoln's
army, burned our railroad bridges, cut
down and destroyed our telegraph lines.
A few Of them, and Bat te,0 oftlepi, have
been subjected 10 punishment; We repeat,
no Union man who has not acted treason
20 the Confederate States, who has not in
some form, been in open, factious rebel
lion against its Laws snd authority, has
been subjected to he slightest inoolUenie,lce on
account Of his sentiments. In all commune
ties, even the most enlightened and Chris
tan, there will be perpetratcd individual
acts Of violence during turbulent times,
aud especially when the State is in the
throes of revolution. Our country in this
respect has not been more fortunate than
others; but instances of this violence
have been very rare, aud generally pro-
voked
The fact that political party, styling
itself the Union party, still exists in
East Tennessee, intact dominant and
defiant which, in the month Of May last,
elected hco circuit judges and one chancellor
as Onion mel against competitors iuk0 acre
run as loydl Southern men, is a forcible
comment upon the charge of perlecutian
and severity in the administration Of the
Confederate Government in Tennessee.
our Government caiulOt q6o,d b lose East
Tennessee; and when il does secure its
authority there experience may teach il
the necessity of a .6ymer j net harstsr
policy to keep turbulent and ,nigeRerous
people in subsection q the lave, This
,coiion Of country is tie keystone Of The So,ah-
err arch. II Is u0w in great peril
Whether the great srtery through which
the lileblo0d of the SSuth now circulates
the East Tennessee and Virginia Rail-
road-is to be surrendered Whether the
only adequate supply OF salt is to be lost,
whether the only hog crop in tho Sorth
is 70 DO surrendered, whether that army
Of undisciplined vengeance and indis-
eriminate slaughter, from which so much
is hopeh by Brownlow and his northern
friends is 70 be permitted to burst across
the devoted land with the desolation OF
volcanic fire, are questions Of vast aud
pressing importance
The testimony which the Enquirer
bssrs alone to The noble stsadfastness Of
East Tennessee 70 the Union cause, is Of
the highest character, and will exalt the
constituents Of JoRNsoS, MAYNARD and
their compatriots, TO the loftiest niche in
the temple Of freedom Il shows, too
how important East Tennessee is regard
cd by the i,Sitors At Richmond; they
call II the "KrYsSoSE or rms SOUTHERN
al