The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-06-23

with thab paper arc f"ii'oAe"' b'NN
for declining his favor.
prentice and FaIs Nan Truman.
Some days ego there appeared in the
louisville Journal several lettera, dated
at this place, sigued L." aasailing our
paper with series Of the erossest and
most impudent calumnies. The name OF
the author was twice demsnded Of Mr..
Prentice, aud twice peremptolily refused,
In the most vulgar and insolent manntr.
But one of the letters bore unmistakable
marks of its source by its coarse slang
phrases, and other striking peculiarilies.
The let ers were evidently the produc-
ton, in part at least, of some one inter
es,ed In the Nashville IreSs newspaper
The first one pulled the Press as having
the largest circulation in the city, and
another one suggested TO the Editor Of he
Press, Mr. Truman ,oho has no go9d toiH for
Ge parsimonio,is scamp Of the Union, the
propriety of rpublisling his and ny other
letter." The whole series OF letters
abounded with calumnies indicative OF
intense malice. We have nscerlained,
from half q dozen sources Of the highest
respectability, the authorship Of these
letters. We have ascer,sined that Mr..
Prentice, Senior Editor Of the Louisville
Journal had long conversation with
Mr.. Truman, the Editor Of the Press. not
long since in this city, at the ST. Cloud
Hotel, for the purpose Of supplying him
self With means for breaking down the
UNION, in which conversation, Truman
told Prentice substantially what ap.
peared In the L" letters Of the Journal
This fact Truman has acknowledged 10
several persons.
Beyond all controversy these infa-
mously lying attacks were the joint
production Of Truman, and Prentice
himself. The reason for Withholding the
name Of the authors becomes perfectly
obvious, as the exposure Of the fraud,
and conspiracy to destroy this paper,
would utterly disgrace Prentice and his
paper, If this had not been done already
Now let us refer to the "L" letters
0ne of their charges Il ttat Mr.. Smith
our local editor, who never wrote one line
of politics for the UNION, was at one time
one of the editors of the Patriot, a rebel
paper in this place, and was the author
of the most bitter attacks upon the
Union men of Tennessee. So says
Truman the editor Of the Press. We
will let him answer this charge himself
An original letter before Us reads az fol-
lows:
Pass OFFICE, NASHVILLE, uno 16
Mr. Smih deaire TO act as corres-
pendent for time, and l0o4h Lke 10 have
you prie a Trading ARTICLE Jor me EvERY
DAY. You know about what l want
anything that is for vigorous pTosecu-
tiOn OF the war. | do not desire - use
the word negro or Alottioni,m fl or against,
Answer Immediately. You're,
BEvJ O TnUMAN
1t thus appears that at tao very
time the editor OF he Press was az
lacking our local editor, Tor being =
rebel, he was trying 10 obtain his
services as a w,ita Of lead ng political ar
tiolss for his papsri How exceedingly
high-ioned and honorable Beside thi,
effort, at the imc the Press was started
this Truman made several efforts to en-
ploy Mr. Smith as his associate aud wri-
ting editor The inference Ia that he
thinks a rebel plenty good 70 DO Editor.
in-chief Of his own paper, but not good
enough 10 be tho local editor OF the
UNION.
ST" charges that tho editor Of The UNION
and the publishers arc all Abolitionist Is
and rebels zone or two Abolltiouists Il
about a dozen rebels" Wall il be believed
that this humla, who has so great q
horror for Abolitlouiss aud rebels, 80
great, indeed that he wont use the
word "negro or Abollloni,t {. either fot or
against, made repeated forts for month,
to got our publishers aud ourselves IL
employ him as assistant editor Of The
UNIoNl Such Is positively The fact Bt
bored us on al oeosGiOus. Ho hipied
that il we did not employ bin, be wsi
going to publish "Gut-clsss pspoF'
and that in consequences Of his Immense
popularity with Toe officers and soldiers
In the army, he would soon reduce th'
circulation Of our paper to almost noth'
ing, He assured Us, on our hstinlervicW
on this subject, that he would give Us
three days to decide whether Wo would
accept his services or not, aud that ii
we did not he would accept Paron