The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-02-07
/. Correspondence.
omcrNNATr, Ohio, Jan. 81, 1853.

10 tnls clty, nunureos OF Ohcefsi anu
thousands of private soldiers are seen
passing 10 and fro, some of them by au-
thority and some of them without One
thing have observed. those officers who
lounge around groceriers and hotels, are,
as a general thing proud, presumPtious,
and naughty in their manners. With
them shoulder-strap is a big thing, and
especially when worn by men of their
importance ~
The political caldrOn is stirred up in
this part Of the country to degree be-
yond ordinary times. The same wicked,
despicable, forgetting, Heaven-defy-
ing, devil daring, hell conceived spirit
that has baptized hundreds of battle
fields with the dearest blood of man, dis
rupted the most sacred ties Of earth, and
carried mourning to millions Of hearts,
once joyous, contsnted and happy, is at
tempting TO SOW its discordant and dis
tructiye seed in the loyal soil Of the North
western States.
1t is failure in my opinion. The
VALLANDI0HAMs and OULDs have but
few followers who are real sympathizers
with the rebellion. There are a great
number, l am informed by the most in
telligent and reliable men, who have
been beguiIed by that supple and willy old
serpent "National Democracy" and
made 10 seemingly occupy grounds hos
tile to the war. These men are begin
ming to see the gulf of ruin into which
this Dragon of Democracy has been la
boring TO plunge every thing except the
supremacy of the Great National Demo-
cratic Party"
A prediction which ask the disloyal
in particular to mark and remember, al
though such papers as the Cincinnati
Enquirer, and such politicians as DR..
GUILDS proclaim the reasonable senti-
ments of this bastard organization in
high places, yet it is on the decline, the
people are beginning to understand its
purposes aud its power, the star Of which
loomed up so conspicuous but short
time ago, is as certain TO depart as the
voice of the legitimate sovereigns of this
land is potent to be heard.
While am constrained TO believe that
the fraud is intended to have been prac-
ticed on the government and people, viii
fail beyond peradventure, l am at the
same time forced to the conclusion, tha
there is to be found no where in the broad
limits of the Union, the same unity Olsen
timents among its friends that exisil
amid the loved mountains of long neg
lected East Tennessee.
l believe there are more Union men il
the thirty zone counties of East Tennes
see, according TO population, than Their
are in the great and unquestionable loya
State Of Ohio. / was in Cincinnati jus
an early peace. Some believed il woul,
one year ago. There every body predicte,
be consummated by one means, and SOM
: another Public opinion has undergon
change. No one now predicts any
thing in regard to the end OF the strug
| gle, so far as time is concerned. All
however, who heretofore desired the sue
cess of the Federal arms, have cease'
> speculating upon the probable results o
the war, and with true patriotism an
western courage, nerved themselves up I
the support of the Government in an
! and every contingency, trusting in Goo
I and the merits Of good cause, for fna
I triumph and national victory, which n
one but an infdel dare to doubt
a am told that some Of the Norther
( butternuts recently underwent yer
radical change, by associating bu
. short time with their constituent
/: As have predicted, the people will driy
out at least majority of these traitorou
leaders into the Union ranks. Their
never has been as much sympathy ex
listing in the free States for this child q
the devil, secession, as the politicians q
the South have labored 10 induce us
# believe. Far from IT,
A secession sympathizer in the Mort
= is moulded after the same fashion Of th
y scessionists Of the South. SO you ca
n easily imagine how one dislOyal man, i
r. free State, can make more noise than
= full dozen loyal citizens.
= noticed another important politics
il item developing itself in Kentucky, q
II well as Tennessee, and other slave Siatel
i The war has SO utterly demoralized III
negroes that they are worthless as slave
Old prejudices are hard to overcome
but, with a man who has the good of b
- country at heart, think there is b.
one course to pursue, and that is, get ri
Of the peculiar institution as early I
practicable, in a Constitutional wa
He who does most 10 relieve the natic
e Of this complex issue, is entitled to Il
: gratitude Of a grateful people, as is
10 philanthropist. Southern sympathize
m do much TO make the negro a Hiasaa,
&. / am told they are known TO "thrasl
B. their negroes, aud say to them, you a
not free yet. I'll learn you that you b.
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