The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-10
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1868.
OUR ANNIVERSARY.

OF the Nashville UNION was published. |
II was not backed by friends, and had |
not enc subscriber on the day when it
first saw the light. Fortunately it was
received with public favor, and enjoyed
from the first a highly respectable sup
port To-day its combined daily and
weekly circulation is not far from ten
thousand, and judging from the present
growth Of our subscription, will soon be
double that number, As newspaper
success it is wholly Unprecedented in
the annals of Nashville. It's circulation
10 rapidly extending over the Northwest,
and in other portions Of the Union, while
tits heartily welcomed in the army, and
by the loyal men Of Tennessee generally.
At the time the postoflices beyond our
lines were cut off last summer, the cir
culation Of the daily UNION at some
email county post-oilices was as high as
thirty and forty subscribers. Wo be-
leve that the whole secret of its success,
consists in its high Union grounds; its
hearty support Of the Administration;
its Incorporating hostility TO that
emasculated, misshapen, imbecile, and
hypocritical faction called conservative
Democracy, whose leaders plotted with
foreign ministers 10 force the Admiaistra-
ton into peace convention with the
wire workers Of the Southern rebellion /;
its opposition to the consolidated land
monopoly and political slave oligarchy
Of the South and its advocacy of the
great principles of freedom, as
taught by the Fathers of this
Republic, in those golden days when
the slave trade was branded as the
blacklist of crimes, and slavery itself
denounced by Henry Clay, as "the great
eat curse of all human evils" Young as
the infant UNION is, within its brief date
of twelve months. il has passed through
many eventful scenes and many a day
of severe trial. II has seen Nashville
left with less than two thousand sold
iers, while its environs swarmed with
the troops of FORREST and MORGAN, and
10 go beyond its limits was death. II
has heard the sound OF hostile guns in the
very suburbs of the city. Ii has seen
the artillerists standing by their guns at
the capitol through the sleepless night
awaiting the expected attack. Twice
has il seen all communication from
abroad cut off by the enemy, and our city
isolated from the outer world for the
dreAry space of ten weeks, while only an
occasional newspaper Struggled in from
abroad told us what was going on with
out. During the blockade the publioa-
ton of the UNION was uninterrupted for
single day, and an examination of its
files, will show that its Unionism was as
bold and incorporating then, as it is
to-day.
We cannot foretell the events of the
current year, but If II be true that
"conlng events cast their shadows before
the are the signs Of the times most aus
piciOus for the triumph of the principles
advocated by the Nashville UNION and
the leading loyalists of the South. We
have faith in the final triumph Of patri-
otism over treason, Of progress over big =
Ot'ed intolerance, Of freedom over tyran-
ny of all kinds, of the people oyor selfish
classes and factions, of democratic gov
eminent over anti democratic institu-
lions, of truth over error, of right over
wrong. We believe in the providence of
God and the justice of heaven, and to us
the skies which tighten our natal morn
ing are full Of beauty and of hope. In
spired with this feeling, we intend to
labor on, defying opposition and disre-
garding obloquy in maintaining what we
believe TO be THE CAUSE OF THE PEOPLE.
The tolls Of daily journalist are inces-
SAINT, painful and exhausting, but the
support of an approving conscience is
strong, the words encouragement which
greet us at our daily task are like sweet
music to our ears, and faith aud hope arc
eternal. Soldiers! citizens brethren all
in the holy cause Of our country, we bid
you adieu, and resume our labors.