The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-10-31


Of stopping illegal traffic The prayer
which Christ taught bis disciples was:
soar Father who art in Heaven, LEAD Us
NOT INTO TEMPTATION p but here we see
Truosdail and his tools with deyilish in
gsnuity, first tempting, and tken plum
dering q woman. Mrs. Ysatgin did
wrong, but what being, who has the soal
Of a man, or even the spirit Of dog,
would not ten thousand times rather act
the part she was tempted to perform,
than stoop - the degradation Of
Trucadail?
just about this time while TruesdAil
was using extraordinary vigilance to
prevent woman from carrying medi-
cines and clothing, bought at his own
urgent request, q lotof dry goods TO the
value Of nt,le HouSdna dollars was shipped
from this place TO MurfreesborO, 10 firm
of army traders closely connected with
Truesdail's Office. The goods were sold
freely 10 the rebels around MurfreeSborO,
and doubtless found easy access to the
Southern Oonfederacy.
The army, IS we'll as citizens, was
under Trussdail's Espionage. "Whst
do you think Of Truesdail's Police ?" we
once asked of . Kentucky Major of high
character His response was "When l
catch one of his spies in my camp, / i'm
mediately put him in The guard house"
We asked the same question of an Ohio
officer of untarnished reputation, and he
replied !" IL is did swindling, thiev-
Ing organization, and a curse to the
army. Il is q perpetual insult and
annoyAnco 70 any gentleman" The
Police was popularity spoken of 10 the
army as TruesdaiPs Forty Thieves"
OF course Truesdail was cunning
enough 10 employ acme very re.
spectacle men TO give character to his
gang and gull the public, but they never
were allowed to fathom the mysteries of
the office. II was his intention to bride
Lieutenant in every company, \ Major
in every regiment, Colonel in every bril-
gade, clerk in every quartermaster's
Office, a subordinate in every hospital,
and an employee in every Government
Office or headquarters in this Department,
to act as spies, infOrmers and detectives
upon theil' fellow officers, and giys him
such information as would enable him to
hold every man in the army completely
at his mercy, although he himself held
no commission, and was totally unknown
on the rolls of the army
The Army of the Cumberland was to
be under the control, not Of the President
Of the United States, buliof VIM, Trues-
dali, ex.member of the ST, Louis police,
and its officers and soldiers were to be
the humble servants, tributaries and
trembling vassals Of sharper, who had
been disgracefully expelled by General
Grant from the Department of the Mis-
sissippi for his raseality. The official
business, social conduct, and private
morals of The Major Generals, Brigadisr
Generals, Colonies, Captains, Lieutenants,
non commi ssioned officers and privates
Of the United States army, were to be
secretly scrutipized by the censorship Of
this man Trnesdail, who SO prided HIM
self on bis success in cheating and rob
bling a woman that he had the stupid
effrontery to publish his infamy TO the
world in q gilt backed book embellished
with steel engravings! Army of the
Cumberland, what think you Of your
Censor Morum 2 hnf ft}ta
Rvon this was not All Of che gigsntic
web-woFk Of iesuitieal intrigue. A pro-
position was actually made to Governor
johnson to proclaim martial law over the
whole State, so far as Our lines extended,
and TO have Military Triumvirate es-
tablished, which should begin forthwith
the work of indiscriminste confiacation,
exile, imprisonment and execution. They
assured the Governor that matters would
progress much more rapidly under this
arrangement than they could by endeav-
orlng to re-estAblish the machinery OF
the courts, and tho supremacy of civil
law. Governor johnson Indignantly re-
spOnded TO the impudent and infamous
proposal that be had no power to pro-
claim martial law, and that if he had he
would not exercise il, as it was his sole
aim to restore civil authority as soon rs
it could be safely done. Beyond all
doubt the plot was 10 introduce an era OF
plumber and blOOdshed into Tennessee,
under the veil Of = mysterious inquisi-
ton, such as would have delighted Philip
IL of Spain, and his ministers of death
Cardinal Granville aud Duke DeAlva,
during the devastation of the Neither
lAnds. The rebel Vigilance Committee
Of Nashville expands and rises to sOms-
thing Of decency, justice and dignity by
the side Of Truesdail's proposed Trium.
virate, which would have been greater
scourgc TO our State than "war, pestilenc,
aud famine" This triplSsheadsd 0erbe,
rus, linsal whelp of "the three headed
dog of he'll" would have bAthed its fang
in the blood of all classes of society, AnC
madn Tanneaaea from Nashvilla 20 Chat.