The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-29

And listen how this weeping jeremiah
mourns over the hard fate Of

And listen how this weeping Jeremiah
mourns over the hard fate Of
"wy Maryland"
To-day this once proud Common
wealth is The subject of ~proioundest
sympathy among all lovers Of Cohstin-
tionaI freedom. Her once active limbs
are shackled, aud the chains OF tyranny
may be heard ~clanking throughout her
borders. Her brave men, beautiful wo-
men, and even her I'M ocsnt children, are
humbled beneath the cruel irowns OF
despoiism. There is nan no hbqty "a
MARYLAND. The whole State has been
brought by an overwhelming military
power. under the relentless dominion Of
Lincoln. > = We believe that If her
heavily burdened limbs were unloosed
for a moment by the interposition OF the
Confederate Sta es, her brave people woUd
gladly strike for independence,
The cloud Of oppression cow darken-
ing the cities and the once fair fields Of
Maryland, cannot always hover above
that State. The new Sun OF Liberty
whose enlivening beams illuminate the
Southern sky, will finally drive them,
away, when her grateful people, inspir-
cd by the memories Of their colonial
history, will rise 10 their olden pride to
greet the Joyous dawn Of freedom. We
shall look with anxiety TO the progress
| of this Revolution with an eye directed
with especial interest 10 the fate of
Maryland. The shackles must be torn from
her limbs.
But, again, the Banner spouted tremend-
ously oyer
KENTUCKY A CONFEDERATE STATE.
We learn, from good authority, that
Kentucky has been admitted into the
sisterhood Of Confederate States. One or
two local questions are TO be adj usted,
before the fact ia officially announced;
but, TO all intents and purposes, the ar
rangement between the authorities az
Richmond and the Commissioners from
the Russellville Convention may be con-
sidered an fat acoomph.
AL hail, therefore, Kentucky! A warmer
greeting md closer embrace will welcome
no State, nor receive any people, than the
greetings and embraces which will re-
epond, all over the South, TO the coming
Of Kentucky. No fairer wreaths will be
woven, no blither songs will be sung, no
saintlier prayers will be said, than those
which shall mingle with Christmas holly
and Christmas bells, in honor OF her new
birth day, by every Tennessee Preside.
Rentuck1 is 10 be born again. Her door
posts have been sprinkled with blood,
but her regeneration will be white as
snow. Ours she shall be, forever and
-. L.u.xcLA-. -. - II - & -.
aesh-one heart, and one soul, beating to
the echoes of that not forgotten music,
which sung from our rifles around Kings
mountain, nearly a century ago, Ten
nessee responds, with one united South
all hail, Kentucky!
We shall look now with hope to the
speedy redemption of her sons and hel
soil from bondage. No qualms Of con.
science, 10 points Of lao, can nolo be urged
We are free 10 extend cur protection
wherever it is needed, and God knows 4
10 needed almost everywhere over hel
broad territory. We must open th,
doors of her jails into which her villages
have been converted. We must unbinC
tbs hands Of the captiyes who are con-
fined prisoners in their own homes We
nnuet OENn ~ HAoo~ way w tAO INV "a
ercise of will and duty. There are thou.
sands Of hearts now burning to leap in
70 the saddle and ride to the rescue
There are thousands of eyes, waiting
and watching for a speck Of light. Al
all hazards we must strike the fetterS from ".
thousand hands, which are ready to GRASP
The weapon of self-defence.
Kentucky's rightful, most c%ongeniaI
place, is in the Southern cause-thC
cause Of Constitutional freedom and
the light Of this truth Is breaking fas
upon the minds Of her misguided people
They seem awakened to the morn oftheil
independence. They have heard the
clanking Of the despOt's chains anC
now the names Of Morehead and Helm
imprisoned as they are within a friend
, less dungeon, will be watchwords Il
them in the day OF battle, which shal
stir their hearts TO deeds Of gallant dar.
ing, such as already immortalize the an.
0 mails Of the State. But a few days more
can pass away before the thunder o
battle will be heard throug bout the Com.
monwealth, and we trust that its solemn
tone, reaching The sodters Of he Ohio, loilI
J p,oVe he aeath-diyge Of Lneohism IN Ken.
taeky.
We must do the Louisville DemOcra
the justice to say hat IL is trying t.
keep the promise made In the last extract
II it is not to-day the organ Of Kentucky
traitors, then the Louisville Courist
and Nashville Bonner never were treas.
enable newspaDers.
Here We might afford to stop, havin,
thoroughly exposed the malignant treason
, Of one Of the editors oftho Dem0erat, an,
c villiGers of the Union Club Of Nashville
: But wemay as well finish our task Will,
we are at il, and expose the record O
the Democrqtitself, at that dark hour whei
President LINCOLN first called in trumpe
tones to the American people to rally I,
the defense Of their country. Here Il
|. what the Democrat said of the call 70
. 10000 Federal ~bsyonsts" to fight tn
e damnable Southernrobellion
The authorities at Washington are nov
for raising 10000 troops, and fancy the,
will do exploits. They ought to relee
; that the few they can spare 10 the South
= go far from home into an intensely hos.
tile country, and to them most unpro.
nitioua climate. Yhev will have -,