The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-12-13
NO. 600.



The exhausted condition q ths States
in rebellion, and their utter Inability b
long maintain the struggle upon Which
they madiy vsntured, is strongly exhib-
tied in latter from lady aWhoss nams
would guarantee ~ once her patriDtism
and Der trathfulncss," which sppsars In
the World Of this morning. Toe lady, IL
is stated in the World, has spent year
in the most prOsperous and wealthy part
of AlAbama, and her statements are the
result Of her own Immediate Obscrva-
items, extending net merely over Ala
bam3, but throughout other States Ia
which she was permitted 70 travel. OF
all faese States she writes; Their
desolatiOn beggaFs description, dsstiiu-
ton Is every whsre men thai we're Worth
hundreds Of thousands are reduced -
uitoF poverty. As for the auxuries q
life, formerly 90 abundant in the South,
there are none. Persons formerly the
wealthiest have nothing 10 sustain life
but what the country affords, srd not
enough Of that, fer By inpressmeni IL Is
taken from them for The army. Their
garments, even their shoes, the families
have to make themselves; they spin,
weave and dye their cotton, and hons
spun clothes rich aud poor. Tee, coffee,
and sugar are not 10 be had milk and
water are the only beverages; Indian
corn is their principal food"
This, as . picture Of the rstribuiion
which has Overtaken rebel passion aud
slIEeholding treason, is In Itself sufllci-
emily conclusive and terrible, but the
writer does not stop here. Net only il
society compelled 10 fall back upon the
rude appliances and barb.ric life Of
the dark ages, bat even the domestic con-
ditiOn, the louniain-head Of life In the
state, has ceased to exist. " The fam
ilies,P says this writer, " are broken up
and ruined" You seldom meet with a
male inhabitanb and il VOC do, be h
either infrm or q cripple. A large part
of the male population are killed in bat
tie, many Union men died Of broken
heart. What remain are in the army or
in the employment Of the government.
Nevertheless, press gangs cross the coun-
try in all directions in search Of men for
the army. AL ties Of social life are
completely Dissolved. No courts OF justice
and equity are heid-justice is melted out
by the military. Universities, colleges
and schools are ali suspended. The
country in many places resembles . viii
derness. Wherever the armies march
there everything is ruined - shs crops
destroyed; fences burned; trees Gus
down; domestic animals killed, robbed
or taken foF the army"
This is a terrible picture. The hsry
sweep Of Attila left 10 its track no great
er desolAion than this rebellion has be-
queEthsd to every state, every town, sv-
cry acre upon which IL has set is foot
Yet these are the horrors which nur Vail
llndighams and Seymours are willing,
il not anxious, TO bring upon every nor
thern community in vengeance f0f eur
determined thought and purpose.
Oae other significant remark is made
in the letter from which We have quoted,
namely, that ''ihe southern people have
little hope OF success" Those amonE
as who insist that the rebellion is still
sustained By the hope Of triumph viii
find in this Statements from one whose
eyes have seen whereof she writes, am
pie food for rehection-M y Ad0, ga