The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-01


Zoe ,hs Nashville uai.y Union.
M. Editor / have for long time de-
sired to write q piece for your excellent
paper; but feeling my weakness, forbore
until now. So if you think these lines
worthy of a place in your columns, You
viii oblige yours BY inserting them.
Without any preliminafics, the war u
my subject Now, sir, I am q Southerner,
born, raised, and educated in the South,
and without boasting or Dragging, am
one Of the best Southern men either
North or South. So / am for Southern
rights. But now the question is, what is
Southern rights? answer; the gallows
for the traitor, and protection for the
loyal. Now the question may arise,
what is il TO be loyal ? For there are
those who say that ABRAHAM LINooIN is
disloyal. TO this will not agree. In
my opinion, to be loyal is to obey the
laws Of the country until they are su-
perscded by Others or in other words, be
! obedient unto the administration. But
they say LINCOLN is going 20 free the
negro, and they will not fight to free the
negro. Shame on such gumps, block
heads, nay, fools. They will not fight
to free the negro, but they will fight the
administration to keep the negro in
bondage, and 10 put the poor white
| population In a worse condition than the
negro, and to bring rcproach and dis
grace upon the soldiers, who have been a
wall of fire between them and their enc
my. Bot who is it that is thus for dis
grazing their own children, neigbbors and
friends, as well as every man in these
United States, who has lifted his voice OF
extended his hand for the protection OF
his countryside best country that ever
was baptized in the blood Of an honoreC
ancestry? It is not the soldiers in the
field, neither is ii those who claimed Il
be Union men in the South, or in tn,
Border States, before Mr.. LINCOLN ISSUED
his Emancipation Proclamation. No, sir
we were for the Union before, and w,
are for the UniOu yet, and we are de,
termined TO live by and die for the UniOI
and the administration in every thing
which tends to weaken or put down thi,
satanic uprising by these hell. deserving
and hcll-bound wretches, who have raised
the puny arm of rebellion against tn
| COuutTy dllh Aut SpnHAltutuUy WHICH RNNi
them birth, and which has ever gave then
nutriment from her bosom, and rocked
them in the cradle Of ease. They ar,
they who, of all men, should be last {,
desert their country and their friends
whom they had before sent into the field
namely, the copperheads of the North
disaffected heartless, towards, nay, TO-
ries OF the democrats North.
These great men (the cOpperheads
seem to be very sensitive when they i'm
agine that Mr.. LINCOLN deviates an incl
from the old track, but they cannot SCI
the unreasonable distance TO which th,
rebels have gone No, they do not know
that war is going on, only by history
would to the God Of heaven that thes
copperheads North were transplantet
into the South; and think if they ar
not wholly destitute of all humanity
and their hearts as hard as the nothe
milestone, and scared over as with ho
iron, they would soon change their tune
Shame on the poor pitifuE rotten hearted
ignoramuses.
AN EAST TENNESSEE PRIvATE.