The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-03-20
Governor Johnson's Tone-Rally Of
the Observation-Disclosures Of Ten
nessee Patriots.

the Observation-Disclosures Of Ten
nessee Patriots. n
The cordial reception which Governor
JoHNsoN has received everywhere in the
North, and the profound attention anden-
thusiastic approval which his appeals for
the Federal Union have received, must
be deeply gratifying, not only to himself,
but to the incorporating, uncondition-
al, and earnest Union men of Tennessee,
Of whom he is SO truly representative
man. Without pretensions TO what is
popularity termed oratory, perhaps no
q other speaker has more aptly embodied
in bis speeches the idea Of patriotism,
rs held by tho Union party. Spurning
the usual trammels Of party, be has de-
voted himself TO the single idea Of Union,
the whole Union, and nothing but the
Union. His visit TO the North, while it
has filed the Coppefhead Democracy
with dismay and idle rage, has inspired
aud aroused the souls OF The Union men,
1t cheers the heart of the patriot, and
fills it with fndomitable hope, to see such
Democrats as Senator WRIGHT, DANIEL S.
DICKINSON and ANDREW Johnson, de-
nounce the heartless partizanism of
Governor SEYMOUR, VALLANDIGHAM, JAMES
BUCHANAN, and hisnOtorious Secretary
OF the Navy, ToUoEY, brand the pro-
positions for Kentucky peace conven-
vcntions and armistices, as reasonable,
and lock arms together around the ma
,ional flag. All the merticious laces, aud
gauze Of reasonable rhetoric, which the
old harlot of copperhead conservatism
flaunts before our eyes, are consumed like
gunpowder by the simple yet fiery power
of Johnson, WRIaHT, and DICKINSON.
At crisis like this the people, if not SO
debauched aud corrupted, that they de-
serve 90 perish from the face of the
earth, like the inhabitants of Sodom and
Gomorrob, readily detects the manifold
hypocrisy of treason, and are drawn
as by magnetic attraction to the
plain spoken friends of the coun-
try. The patriot orator need nc
polished and sweetly rounded pc.
RODS 10 fire his audience. The plain.
er and holder his words, and the simpler
his sentences, the more potent they viii
prove. When PATRICK HENRY shouted
In the dAwning of the Revolution (" Cir
8lsAJsrty or give me death I" the hearts o.
the people were thrilled, as though an
angel had spoken from heaven, and they
leaped as leaped tho waves of the sceat
when tempest rushes down upon Tn
deep. When ANDREW JACKSON said
"0ur Federal Union must be preserved ?
the nulliier Of South Carolina turnet
pale and his knees smote together, Will
the nation applauded the sentiment.
Quite as plain, as fervernt, and appa
-fsntly as effective have been the word
which Governor JOHNSON has spokel
within the past two weeks through tn
North. When he began, the Copper
heads of the Northwestern press, AM
the conservative organs of Kentucky
who feeling that they were too close t.
the Ohio river to be openly rebellious
attempted to compel Kentucky to hob
BILE through this tremendous crisis "upol
The crutohes of neutrality to us,
Judge HoLT's expression-and forgeifu
of the ancient glory Of that State relus
ed to allow the gallant ROUSSEAU to organ
lie his camp on Kentucky soil, all thea
organs, sneered, Kissed, or were silent
The Copperhead Democrats Of the Penn
sylvania Legislature attempted 20 shu
the door Of the Capital in the face Of
man whose fidelity to his country ha
stood the test of too severe a trial to b.
doubted, for he had staked his all upo
the issue. He had no quarter, or favor
TO expect from traitors. Bot il was essen
tiAl 10 the success Of the Copperhca
programme that he should be throttlet
The Administration was to be bullie
down by fierce invectivo from every stun
against the arbitrary arrest of traitor
against the confscation Of the prop
erty of rebels who had sought to murde
their country, against a proclamation
which its Assalants admitted was of n
ssect iohateuer-and the bloodhound or,
Of a pack of hearliess political gamblers
would, as the conservative fuglemen wei
knew, be silenced il such men a
Johnson, HoLT, and others, the yer,
flower of the Democratic party shout
rally the people like Macedonia
phalanx
.r..l can toueutw with projected spears"
around the Administration of Abraham
Lincoln. Yes, it is a lamentable fact
that many who prorcssed to be Iowa
used all influence to destroy the reputa
iion Of the Administration, TO dishearte,
the army TO impair national credit an,
20 strike the flag of the old Union shi
10 the long, LOW black Alabama of IN
Southern Rebellion, at is no use irwin.
any longer we can't subjugate tn,
South - cried these treacherous mariner.
Thank God, that bold patriot rushe,
10 the rescue, cut down the sympsthizor
with treason, and set the old ship ono
more steadily on her way, until now