The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-12
NASHVILLE. TENNESSEE. SUNDAY. JULY l2 1868
SUNDAY MORNING, JtBY "a 1868.
IsebeI Exaggerasion.


which rebel press reporters color up their
dispatches giving warnews. The Re5el
says; .'--i' ht -' -ola. o. 90
Sensational reading matter may do very
we'll for the glowing telegraphic columns
of the yankee modern neBspaperB-bu
il should be discountenanced as beneath
the dignity of The Press of the South.
Our Press reporters have been too care
less in this matter, and the Journals of
the Confederacy and their readers have
been frequently misled, by inaccurate
and exaggerated reports. pc
Take for instance reports from the
two extremes Of the Confederacy North
east apd South-west-Richmond and
Jackeon. From the dispatches fropi the
latter place Tor two or three days past,
one, not accustomed TO telegraph reports,
might have imagined that Grant ana his
army I0us 50 completely eanihilatea, that moth
ing but a q ease spot Of him ,ods len. On the
other hand, recent telegrams TO the
Press of the South from Richmond, men
toned the capture of something less than
tioo million Of yankees at Winchester, and
the number has since dwindled down
to a most Insignificant number, in eonpari'
son to the figure first stated. The effect
of all this is not beneficial. A feverish
state of excitement is created which
stimulates the public mind to most ex-
travagant castle bnilding, only too sud-
denly to be dispelled by Che very next
stubborn fact which comes inevitably
over the lines.
II is very true that tho rebel newspa-
pers and newsmongers delude the seoes-
sionists with ridiculous lies and exag-
gerations continually. The cause of
secession and Southern Rights" is
itself essentially lie, and those who
believe in it are given up to hardness OF
heart that they may believe lies and
nothing else. The very men and women
in Nashville who have for the last two
years, been confidently looking for John
MoReAv to capture this city, and been
swallowing all sorts Of absurd and
impossible e grapevine fabrications, ac-
tually believe that the dispatches which
we have been receiving for week past
recountiug National victories, were sent
by John Morgan. to facilitate the con-
summation Of his scheme for capturing
the States of Ohio and Indiana, and
sacking Louisville, Cincinnati and Indi-
Anapolis! There are scores of otherwise
intelligent rebel men and women who
believe this stuff as devoutly as ever Q
Christian believed the Bible Many per-
sons seem TO be ignorant Of the fact that
while a dispatch may be overheard
while on its way, by an interlOping ope-
ratOr, tits impossible for the interlopel
TO send message without being in
stantly detected. Every telegraph ope'
ratOr knows that the pretended conver.
satiOns held by Morgan and other wire.
cutters, with loyal operators at otheI
points, ip which the willy rebels were
represented to have obtained much useiu
information, which conversations wer,
minutely reported in rebel newspapers
were forgeries of the most absurd char
acter. Such deceptions cannot be prac
ticed Yet every rebel in this city ant
elsewhere, believed these conversation
actually took place, while they doubt th'
genuineness OF the dispatches sApnouneinl
the capture of Vicksburg and the rou
of Lee. '.- "'
But the Chattanooga paper should no
pour out al its wrath upon the eight
ning-line," for it is itself a professions
liar, and deceiver, as we'll as every othe
rebel paper. Every rebel leader, from
Davis down. is deceiveF, Fraud AM
humbug are the breath of secession
lungs. For a regular fire-eater 70 in
hale pure atmosphere of trutl
would be as fatal as il would be for
rat to be shut up in jar containing OK
igen gas. The rebel editors know yer.
well that, if they were TO tell the trutt
the Richmond Confederaoy would col
lapse like a pricked bubble. Hence, Oh
greater the danger, the louder they blow
Take, for example, the following gascon
aiding editorial from the ChattanoOg
Rebel, and reoolleet that within two week
after its publication, Lees army wa
whipped three battles in succession, wit
a loss Of over 10000 men. Vicksbur
was captured with 10000 prisoner
Bragg fed from Tennessee without al
tempting 10 give battle, and The rebe
badly whipped and driven away frol
Helena by very Inferior force, many
whom we're negroes
lFiom tho Chattanooga Rebel.l
Not any time within the last two yeai
has the horizon Of the Confederate Slats
uprisen in such cloudless splendor as nov
when from Yicksburg, Virginia and Mid
die Tennessee, the harbinger rays
peace seem 10 burst in harmonious lusti
from tho long night Of war.
To drive Grant out Of Mississippi.
TO invest tie Yankee Capitol frol
!, Maryland.
/ Aud 10 defeat R0secrans,
r Are our present objects.
Never were prospects better for Il