Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-07-30
The Tennessee UniOnists.

The tennessee
TIE Union men of Tennessee recently held
state convention, in which every part of the
state was represented. Those who ignore the
southern Union men, and talk perpetullly of
going to the rebel leaders at Richmond to
seek peace and restoration of the Union,
should read the record of that convention and
study carefully the views it announced.
These Union men Of Tennessee probably un q
derstand the south, the rebellion, and the
methods necessary to re-establish the Union,
quite as well as any of the northern frlehuS
and allies of the rebel leaders. The following
are among the resolutions adopted by the Ten
nessee Union state convention =
..Resolved, that we believe the existing re-
bellon is causeless, unjustitiable and inta-
nous; that its suppression is sacred duty
imposed through the providence of Almighty
God upon our generation, and that the whole
moral and physical power of the nation
should be concentrated in the hands of the
administration to accomplish that great duty.
Resolved, that while in theory we recognize
a distinction between the government and the
agents constitutonaly appointed to administer
it, yet practically, every denunciation aimed
at the administration now, is a stab at the ma
tons life.
"Resolved, That men who profess loyalty
to the Union, but increasingly denounce the
administration and its war policy, are danger
Gus hypocrites, at heart false to the country,
and should be vigorously dealt with by the
arm they seek to paralyze.
"Resolved, That we are unequivocally and
irrevocably, now and forever, opposed to all
compromise and concessions to rebels in arms,
and we believe that no permanent honorable
peace is attainable, except upon the basis of
full and complete submission throughout
every seeded state, to the authority and laws
of the United States"
These are Union sentiments uttered by
Union men; and how different they are from
that talk in behalf of the Richmond traitors
which we frequently hear at the north. Val
landgham states in his manifesto from Cana
ada, that every man in the southern states is
vehemently in favor of rebellion. He could
not find or hear of an exception. He went
through Tennessee but heard nothing there of
Union men. But he omits to explain that he
held communication at the south with nobody
but his friends, the rebels. OF course they
were very confidential in their intercourse
with him, and gave very free utterance to
their treason. The southern Union men, who
consider northern copperheads and southern
traitors as all belonging to the same traterni-
ty, were not likely to hold communication with
Vallandigham. None but the rebels would
seek his society, and talk with him on terms
of cordality and confidence. What could he
know of the Union sentiment that remains
alive and earnest, though cautious in express
sion, in the southern states beyond Tennes-
see, where he travelled? Union men there
would as soon reveal themselves to JEFF Davis
as to Vallandigham.
Every loyal man has heard OF great many
HMM men in Tennessee; and now thaf tho
rebel military power Is crushed in the larger
portion of that state, we begin to hear them
speak in conventions just as their representa-
tives have been heard to speak here at the
north. The Nashville Union states that the
Union sentiment has become very prevalent
in every part of Tennessee; and it also ex-
presses surprise and qualification at the great
change that has come over the people of that
state in regard to slavery. There is general
anu growing IeelnS III FAVOR OF emancipation.
They have learned and freely admit that
slavery is the great troubler of the nation, and
that it must disappear in order that the Union
may be restored and made permanently Sc
cure. So will every man think and feel who
considers how steadily the influence of slavery
has tended to undermine republican principles
and destroy the republic. No true friend of
the nation will desire to retain such an insti-
tuition