The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-09-18

Prise buutNltAN W MANI At4AA N"AAl 'ANh
the terror OF tho law would compel him
And we assure bo'h tho negroes and the
anti. Emancipatonists that the United
States Government, and the state of
Tennessee, will be abundantly able to
keep black vagabonds and law breakers
in complete subiection. II any worth
less negro fanoies that when set free he
can live without labor, he viii end 70 his
sorrow lhat be has made 2 sad miscal-
culalion.
Acknowledgement letter 90 GcorR
VT.Iuhnson thc Rebel pr vIsionai
Governor OF KoutuclEy
"AoArE," the correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Gazette, writing from India
nspolis, makes mention of a leltor which
he WAS informed was written q short
time before the fall Of Fort Donelson, by
Hoa. @. l.. Vallandigham Of Ohio, TO
General ABoit Sidney Johnston, giving in
information respecting military opera
lions at Tho North. Agate relates the
story as related TO him by a gentleman
who said he obtained il from Mr.. Carter,
proprietor of the st. Cloud Hotel, in this
city. Inasmuch as there are some errors
in the statement SO il appears in the
Gazette, we give the version Of it which
We have obtained from Mr.. Garter. A
day or lwo af.er Tho fight fight % 81 the rebel
army from Nashville, courier came from
Bowling Green bringing several letters,
directed 70 various persons in this place,
90 the care of Mr. Carter Of the st, Cloud
Hotel. One Of these letters Mr.. Carter
recollects contsined q small sum Of
msney directed to Dr. Atohison, and
another contained a $40 bill directed TO
some one not now recollected, which Mr..
Carter returned TO the person RENTING it,
in some town in Ohio. a third letter
was tho one referred TO, written by Mr..
Vallandigham, not to General Albert
Sidney Johnston, but 80 George w.
johnson, The rebel Provisional Governor
of Kentucky, directed to him at his seat
of Government in Bowling Green, and
forwarded 70 him at this place Before the
courier reached here, the Provisional
Governor had fled, accompanied, we be-
lieve, by the notorious George N. Saun-
ders. We will state, IS the reason why
Mr.. Carter opened these and other let
ters, that q large number of let
ters brought in by couriers, and left be-
hind by tho rebels in their hasty flight,
had accumulated on his hands TO such an
extent, that he found il necessary to ex-
anime them and save only such as con-
tanned money and other valuables. The
great bulk Of them were, Of course, as
worthless as most old letters are. When
Mr.. Garter opened Vallandigham's let
ter, he took il to the family room and
read portion of Ito his wife. He does
not recolleot any specific statements, or
the language Of the letter, but the inn
preston made upon him was that it was
was written by warm friend and par
tisan Of the Southern Confederacy, and
he remarked, while reading il, that If he
had written such Letter 90 any one in
the North, and the rebels had discover
ed it, they would have hung him with
out mercy. II YVES a letter to a rebel
leader, from a partisan Of the Southern
cause. This impression was made deep
ly upon Mr.. Carter's mind, whose char
acler for veracity and integrity is unim-
peaehable Not being a politician, al
though a decided Union man, and know
ing but little Of Vallandighsm, he sup
pissed that il was the letter of some pee
wish politician, and threw il into the fire,
little dreaming that its au-
thor would soon be so notorious
AT the time Vallandigham wrote the letter
it was believed in the North, as well az
al Louisville, that Gen. A. s, Johnston
held Bowling Green with over 10000
rebel troops, instead Of $1,000, which
was the actual number of his force
George w. johnson had been inaugurateC
Provisional Governor of Kentucky, ant
serious approximations were felt that Ia,
rebels would overrun and occupy all tn,
State. The prospects Of the Nationa
cause were exceedingly gloomy, and W,
have no doubt that a movement was OF
foot to invade Ohio, occupy Cincinnati
and annex that State into the Copstitu
tional Southern Democratic Confederacy
by the aid of Vallsndigham and th
Knights of the Golden Circle George W
johnson was one of the very worst an
most unscrupulous Of rebels. We knoN
personally that nearly all the intelligen
secossionists Of Southern Kentucky be
lieved that the organization Of the rebC
Provisional Government in that Stat
would only increase the suiforings Of th
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