The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-07-04
5. Q. mERCEH, EDITOR.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1862.
me ulr,h.day Of tho Nation.

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our nations great anniversary. Eighty
six years ago to-day the bell Of INDIE
pendence Hall proclaimed that the sages
and patriots Of the American Colonies
had declared themselves free from the
despotism Of British monarch and pro-
claimed to the world the great truth that
all men are born free and equal, and that
they possess an inherent and inalienable
right to self -government The Declare
ton Of Independence was a declaration
against any form Of tyranny; and it de-
clared that the Colonies were nation.
And to-day is the anniversary Of that
noble proclamation Of the FREEDOM AND
NATIcNALIrY OF THE CoLoErEs. No more
are we to be the poor dependents Of
throne, but we are to be zone of many"
This is our national motto Let us join
in the celebration to-day, not as
thoughtless crowd running giddiIy into
glitiering pageant pompous spectacle
OF streaming banners and well drilled
soldiers, and gay uniforms and sonorous
music Far higher and manier should
be our feelings than any mere love Of
pomp and show. Let as rejoice that we
are citizens Of nation; that we are one
people; that we have country worth
living and dying for; and LET us feel that
the name Of American citizen is indeed,
IL we are true 10 ourselves and to the
teachings Of WASHINGTON, FRAELE and
HAMILTON, prouder name than ever was
the boosted name Of Roman citizen in the
age of Abausrus While thousands of
our deluded and crazed countrymen, false
to all the teachings of the past and false
TO the Republic, seek for the favor and
recognition of foreign power, and after
lifting the black flag Of treason, dispatch
Commissioners to stand like fawning
courtiers at the doors of royalty, be it
ours TO scorn all foreign alliances, and
exclaim with WEBSTER, "Thank God /, /
too am an American citizcnw
This is a solemn anniversary. Civil war
RACES in most of the Southern States, and
thousands who once joined us in com
memorasing IL, now seek to lay in ruins
the strong house whose friendly roof so
long has sheltered us. Blind with re-
yenge, and infuriate with rage, they are
making the loyeliest portions Of the South
a solitary and desolate wilderness. A
column of smoke like that which rises
from the altar Of some demon, surrounded
by heather worshippers, ascends from
many field in the Gulf States--yes,
even in Tennessee--and tells Of indis-
criminate and mad destruction. Rowing
troops Of robbers and murdcrers prowl
through the country and prey upon the
land. The loyal men of America to- day
bless the memory Of their fathers for
freeing them from the tyranny Of Great
Britain; bnt alas there are thousands
Of rebellious people among us who are
praying for an alliance with that very
nation whose yoke our fathers cast of
eighty-six years ago. We rejoice to-day
at our deliverance from the rule of
British monarch; but our disloyal citi-
zens, secretly and openly pray that a
British feet and British army may de-
stroy the Government which WAsHMG-
TON made. The men Of 1776 placed a
rope around the statue of GEoRaE III,
and dragged il down from its pedestal
to show their hatred Of royalty, but the
Southern traitors Of 1862 would shout
for Joy IL the miuions Of Queen VICTORIA
We're to land upon our shore, lay the
Federal Capital in ruins, slaughter our
loyal armies, and make the American
Union a mere name in history. To-day,
then, draws the line distinctly between
the loyal and the disloyal, The first win
Join enthusiastically in the celebration,
aud thank Con for the richest temporal
legacy ever given to a people-THE
RIGHT OF SELF GOVERNMENTS
and the latter will sullonly sit at home
or stand coldly of, and hope for
the advent Of an army Of red-ooats
10 erash cut twenty-five millions Of
American democrats. We pray that
the Capital may stand for ever--theY
pray that Sionewall JACKSON may apply
the torch 10 IT, as Ross, the Brit
ish General did in 1912, and make its
stately columns and superb halls a mass
of HACK and orumhling ruins. To- day,
then, the line viii be drawn between
treason and loyalty, Patriots Of Nash.
vile, You will not be oyorawed to-day
by rebel insolonoo. You have tcmporized
zoo long already, and have been too fear
ful Of offending your neighhors by man
iGostations Of loyalty. The man or igoman
wlo IS offended attss insignia q loyalty IS Hot
IL to b treated as a nsig9bor. Let all such
person know that their feet cannot pollute
the free soil Of Tennessee. Her lovely
hills and plains were designed asthe home
of freemen, not as den Of slaves and
traitors to the noblest government that
was ever revealed by heaven to mankind
II the spirits ofthe dead ever revisit the
scenes OF their labor while on the earth,
surely we are encompassed ebay by a
cloud Of illustrious witnesses Tous the
Air seems vocal with the voices Of our
immortal dead WARREN rises from the