The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-03-26
.. Q. nEEROEIs, Edisor.
THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 20, 1868
The Louisvillo Journal Of TOesday

THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 20, 1868
The louisville Journal, Of Tuesday,
contains an editorial commencing ave
(the senior editor Of the Journal having
Just returned" &c. The editorial occupies
something over the third Of column in
the Journal, and is probably the longest
article the senior editor has contributed
70 that paper for twelve month; at
least we hope so, for his own credit. Mr..
PRxNToE is surprised that we re.publish.
cd a dispatch sent from Cincinnati to the,
Chicago Times stating that the rebels
wers about to invade Kentucky in heavy
force, that they would HAYS possession u
that State within a month, and that he
(Mr. PREST1cE) was going to Europe
followed by comment OF ours, that If
such were the fact he had no doubt OBJ
tanned bis information from his son, who
Is Major in the Confederate army. We
saw the same dispatch in substance, in
several other papers, beside Che Chicago
3 Times. Within an hour after the
publication of the Uaion containing
tho dispatch, w. saw gentleman
from Louisville, who assured us the
story was untrue, and we Immediately
wrote correction, which we published
the next morning, before denial had
appeared in any other paper The senior
editor says he is at loss to imagine how
any one could fancy "an humble Major,
In the Confederate army" could comnu-
nlcate such information. The history of
all wArB furnishes repeated instances of
information of the most. important nature
having been communicated by persons in
positions far more obscure than that
Of + an humble Major" The conspiracy
ssOf CArALINE against Rome was COM
municated to CIcERo by FuBrA, q
common prostitute Our superstition
was one which every sensible per.
sOn would naturally make. 1t is surely
no impu,atiOn on mans loyalty to sup
pose that he had received such warn
ing from his son, who, although he had
b renowned his loyalty, still retained the
virtue Of 6lisl Affection; and We cannot
conceive Why a loyal man should take
exceptions to such a natural superstition.
The = senior editor'' next denies our
lcstatsmpnt thEt be does not control the
seoutse Of the Journal, and asserts, that
cit has never been impelled into any pol
10y. Of public moment without de-
irving from us (himself) portion Of its
impulse" Very well this sweeping en-
dorsement and inlpriaatity, which be has
thus affixed to the tortuous, inconsistent
loJsl and disloyal emancipation and
ultra pro- slavery editorials of the Journal
IL all tho worse for himself. If he can
endure his own endorsement, we shall
certainly not trouble ourselves about his
contradiction. The conversation which
we had with him was not "at his home"
as he would seem to believe, but in the
Journal Office, and wo never repeated any
portion OF it for any "unkind purpose
What we said we said for his own good
For personal considerations we regret
that he socordislly endorses the swagger-
ing ihsolenee, and shallow mpertinenee
which The Journal has 50 repeatedly man :
ifes,ed In It's controversies with various
loyalnewspapets of late, and especially
with the Nashville UNION. We would
notice more fully its disposition for ILL
hammered dictation, had not tho late
Union Convention of Kentucky given
evidence that the spell Of the dictator is
broken. We personally know that hun
dreds Of the most devoted and enlight-
ened patriots of Kentucky believe that
the journal for months past has been a
curse to the Union cause in that State,
and we know too that nearly every loyal
Tsnnessean whom we have met in n ASH
willie enteriains tho same opinion.
When newspaper professing fidelity
20 the Government, in time of perilous
and tremendous struggle for national
existence, assails AL the war measures Of
those who administer it, with laborious
vshemence and acrimony, and an earnest
ness which betrsys a love for the I'M
gracious occupation when IL allies itself
with partisan opposition, whose leaders
In State Legislatures propose armistices
and peace conventions, and whose mem
bers exalt scoundrels who have been
Justly arrested for treason, to the rank
Of heroes when its columns furnish au-
thority for every mAlcontent who wishes
70 justify himself in rebellins against
government which, In tho language Of
ths Journal disregards call the laws Of
civilized warfare" tho public has good
reason to doubt the sincerity Of that
newspapers fidelity.
skirEaIshIng near Tranllln, rem,
The city was fall Of rumors yesterday
Of some hot skirmiahing said to be going
on In the violniigof FrRaklin, and there
were various reports as to the result Of
the nshiing, one abatement being that
thre0 hmm dred If ans troonc snare ,.a pt,,r-