The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-03-12


the greater number will refrain on their
account, from asserting their highest in
terests in a legal mode.
We make the following extracts from
a recent letter of Parson BRowNLow,
written from this city 20 the Washing
ton Chronicle The structures on the
foolish course of certain Kentucky poll
ticiaus and newspapers are very just.
Our readers have already seen, by the
telegrsphic dispatches, that the rebels
are again preparing to invade Kentucky.
Many are disposed to regard this as sen
sation news. | tell you that il is alarm
ingly trne, and that it will be attempted
upon largo scale this Spring. have
known Il for weeks, and have written the
facts to Washington,
Less than two years ago the General
Government sent round few thousand
stand of arms to Lexington and Louis
vile, to arm the oppressed and Down
trodden Union men of East Tennessee
But Kentucky had assumed neutral
ground in this war, and would not allow
arms to cross her Sacred soil, for our
use even against rebels. Since then
Kentucky has tasted some of the sweets
Of rebel oppression, robbery, and murder
A portion Of her politicians in Congress
have been finding great fault Of the Ad-
ministra,ion, and making speeches which
have been loudly cheercd by the coppcr-
heads in that body. The leading Ken
lucky journals have been making war
upon the Administration also. These
efforts have been followed up by some of
the officers in the army, frem Kentucky,
in speeches denouncing the emancipation
proclamation All this considered, ihe
| re0els have concluded that Kentucky is
ripe for rebellion, and they have deter
mined TO give them q chance to lall into
their ranks. By the time Kentucky suf-
fers little more of what Tennessee has
suffered great deal, her Constitution
loving politicians will be willing to see
the rebellion put down by all tho means
That God and nature have placed in the
hands of MIr. Lincoln and his Army
The Parson publishes the following
striking evidence ofsecession honesty
The Hon. Judge Trigg, of the Federal
Court, will open his court here, on We'd
nesday next and will continue its ses-
sion, as | understand, throughout the
months of March and April. The rebel
merchants and others, indebted at the
North, under the operations of the seaues-
tration act of the Confederate Congress
were required TO come forward and swear
to the amount of their Indebtedness
! North, so as to enable the rebels to seize
the same and apply it to carrying on the
war. IL turns Gus now that many OF
them rendered false accounts, and sought
even TO defraud their new and glorious
government. They had gone into the re-
belliOn and advocated il with a view tC
get clear of paying their honest debts,
and it is not strange that such men would
render up false returns as to their amounts
OF Indebtedness, to avoid paying over
the money TO others. There are now
one hundred and thirty suits commenced in
this court, and by tho opening Of the reg
ular term in April, the clerk informs me
! there will be as many more suits brought
The point in the thing is this: When
some Of them made their returns to the
rebel receivers, they swore TO one, two
three, for aud five thousand dollars OF
indebtedness, and the claims now coming
in against them, alse sworn to, are t,Oc
Gnattree times as large as they represented
them to be. This is all in keeping with
the moral basis upon which the rebellion
started out and has progressed. Let mer-
chants at the North, who credited these
swindlers, come here with their claims
properly arranged, and they will recover
them. This court acts upon no case OF
debt less than five hundred dollars.