The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-06-13
,TITpn.y MoRNINC, JUNE is 1858
The Louisville JOurnai on :
.NhslsrIuc Unton. 4

Within the past few days two anony-
NOUS letters, purporting to come from
this place, have appeared in that noto-
rious sewer of apprehension and |
calumny, the Louisville Journal, pur-
porting to show up the editor and pub
fishers Of the UNION. The first Of these
letters was published in the Journal of
the 9th, we believe, and the second on the
lin inst. The letters were filed with
absolute and scurrilous falsehoods, and
: malignant calumnies against not only the
pattiey mentioned, but against gentlemen
employed 10 Governor Johnson's Office.
Several gentlemen, who are opposed 70
' US, in some things, politically, and whose
names had been mentioned on the streets
7 in connection with the authorship Of the
JoUmqps letters, came to us voluntarily,
} and not only disavowed The authorship,
but spoke Of them as being tissue Of
atrocious calumnies, aud the production
Of cowardly villain. 0ne Of these
gentlemen, who is a welI-knOwR news
aphper correspondent, expressed his belief
that the author Of these communications
was too cowardly TO assume the respOn-
sibility5 of their authorship, and had
apprOpri ated his initial letter IL" 70
divert suspicion from the real writer
which was doubtless the fact. Asno
author was 70 be found in this locality
we sent TO Mr. Prentice, The editor Of the
Journal, and demanded the name OF the
cowaydly, Iiboller. lie few into a rage,
and said that " he os0ed no courtesy to the
puJlisEevs Of lie Union nor 10 Mr.. Smith,
NOR anybody connected viii tho q1ice." II ia
not our custom 70 pay any attention, or
give any reply TO anonymous attacks,
but Mr.. Prentice has assumed the author
shipof these letters, entrenched as he is
behind old age, palsy, and drunkenness,
aud we therefore denouneo him as mali
eious defamor Of men who have never in
iured him, but who have been his friends;
as low-bred poltroon and a sneaking
villain. His charges are too calumnious
and baseless TO require a moments notice
at our hands, but we have a few plain
words to sayabout the malignant and mer-
cenary creature who calls himself the sem
iOEeditorof the Louisville Journal. Short
yafter the establishment of the Nashville
UStoiS by us, It rose rapidly into public
favor, and, as it rose, the Journal fell, both
with Tennessee lOyalists, snd the Army
Of the Cumberland One Of the propri
etoFsof Che Jotonalipmediately proposed
that their firm would take partnership
in the paper, and place an editor here % help
Usr eaiL and give tone 70 ne paper, 50 that il
and the Journal might always aet togeth-
er, in opposing all The war measures of
the Administration, and building up Cop
perheadism OF course we declined
promptly. Not satisfied with this re-
pulse, and alarmed at tho rapid decline
of their subscription list and sales, in
this quarter, they had an interview with
friend of ours, connected with the Ar
nay, Post Office Department, and urged
min ~ use his influence with usin estab-
fishing a Louisville journal : Nashville
UhiOha paper, 80 that they might share
the profits Being a radical, although
Ksntuckian, he hOoted at the idea, and
minated that the formal had better get
ustO edit that paper. Not diseonoertsd,
Mr.. Prentice then wrote a letter to
PaTson Brownlow, the distinguished
editpg of the Knoxville WAig, and
urged him 20 join them in starting con-
servativel newspaper in Nashville; but
Parson BrpEnlOw, not belonging to the
JoFraFs sehOOlOf politics, gave them a
prompt refusal. sloo1i l'o Ea naiA' -
The Joaytat finding its Publishing
schemes all fail, next opened tremen-
: dous newspaper war, deF6ting almost it's
entire editorial space to the demolition
Of the NASHVILLE UNION, which demo-
lition resulted % swelling the daily cir
culation Of the uEEes from about 5000
to 5000 copies, and its weekly circa-
lation from nothing to over IL, 900 copiea.
Completely defeated in open warfare, il
has resPrted finally to the publication Of
anonymous h5els, by which il hopes 20
eiTectuAlly crush out the UNIoN, ~,
Like hound who has been cudgeIled
in the streets, he leaps over the fence
and yelps wrathfoDy in supposed SEGA
rity He is welcome to all tho advan-
tage which he can derive from mode Of
warfsre which is employed only by the
dregs and ol-scOurings Of society.
tits easier TO invent ISLANDERS than to
argue and hence his present stock OF
weapons Is without limit Tie can coin
new ISLANDERS every day. His long ex-
perieneO as a political night-scavenger
will direct him to the fouIest cess pools
where be can stuff his mouth with 9th
and spirit and spew ID upon the NASH
WILLIE UNION. Mr. Prentice says that he
owes no one 10 our Office any courtesy.
We arc happy to hear il for if be did he
never could pay the debt as he has
long been bankrupt in the courtesies
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