The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-05-21
From the Chattanooga Febel. Of May 9th.
End of the war,

The crisis of the revolution approaches,
We are, and for sometime past, have been
impressed with belief that the enemy
is making his last grand struggle for
supremacy in America. As the last
throes and cOntortions of the dying SER
pent are the most violent and terrible,
so, in its final agony, the Anaconda of
subjugatlon, writhes, and struggles, and
rears its horrid front against its impend-
ing but inevitable fate. The thirty DAYS,
the sixty days, the ninety days term
have expired. 1t is now to the impa-
tent and impoverished North and North
west give us until the summer closes,
and if then we have not crushed this re-
bellion, all efforts to that end shall be
abandoned"
One more season is allowed them TO
persevere in their great undertaking; and
no stone is to be left unturned in the ac.
complishing thereof. The disloyal are
to be sent beyond the lines, the farms
and farming implements are to be render
ed useless to the sympathizer with the
rebellion, the rivers are TO be turned
from their natural currents, the negroes
are to be armed and hurried into the
Held, the infantry are to be mounted and
sent in heavy columns in several direc-
tions through the Southern country,
burning and laying waste the factories
and growing fields of grain. in short,
the Southern people are to be extermina-
ted under the same old fanatical cry of
"the flag" which the AbOlitionists have
wrested from the hands of the Ameri-
can people, to fold about the sacred form
of the "citizen of African descent"
How far the enemy has advanced in
this undertaking. the lessons of Charles
ton and of the Rappahannock conclusive
ly show. The first was an absurd fail
ure, the second resulted In an inglorious
defeat and their gunboats, instead of re-
ducing Vicksburg, have been sunk and
blown almost out of the water by the
angry guns of that impregnable little
city of bluff.
The cavalry raids have so far proved
fruitless. The raid into Northern Mis-
sissippi was barren of results. The raid
into the neighborhoOd of Rome, Georgia,
resulted in heavier loss to the enemy in
point of its moral effect than they could
possibly have risked in general engage
ment with one of their grand armies.
They have been industrious for the
last two weeks, and in the summer to
come we believe they will be buster still.
Necessity, true, may compel them to be
active, while the opportunity affords.--
Every demonstration Of such a charac-
ter upon their part, but stimulates and
strengthens our cause the more. The
Southern men are being driven to a TER
rible earnestness. They are beginning
to understand and appreciate the nature
of the war tbsir enemy is waging.---
Everywhere, we rejoice to notice, the
citizens are prepared and organized for
defense. There is, too, disposition
manifest on the part of all, whether the
participant Or the non cOmbatant, to
press back the invader and fight him up
on his own soil. The enemy must be
made to feel the war in all its horrors
before be will fully appreciate the bles-
sings of peace and if we should have
his visits into the very heart of our coun-
try less frequent the fe,Oer prisoners we
take the better.