The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-05-30
Aashrille alniun.
sArURDAY MoRNNe MAY 80. lses
Photograph OF a Rebol EaIto,
FditoT oftle NasiviNe Union.

Editor of tle NashviHc Unioql:
Your issue Of the 2sth contained an
extract from Southern paper, rejecting
on the Unionists of Nashville, which, 10
my apprehension, smacked of the style
of certain individual formerly assooi-
ated with the present copperhead editor
OF the Louisville Democrat, in conduct
ing the Nashville Republican Banner.
Having resided here ever since the
breaking out Of this bellish rebellion,
and frequently desoended to the desra.
dation OF perusing the lying editorials
OF this despicable sheet, both while Ba-
Der conducted il alone, aud after the
acquisition of bis above associate, be
came, per force, tolerably familiar with
the style Of writing of the miserable
little skunk, who now dares TO vilify
loyal men. Other considerations which
it is needless to enumerate, contribute
to satisfy me that my surmise is correct.
The yelping cur to whom belongs the
authorship of the precious mersel Of bill
ingsgate above referred to, lin its hip-
pancy and in the loathsome moral rot
tenness of its utter perversion of truth,
as well as in other respects, so closely
resembling the aforesaid excrementitious
effusions-is an outre looking one-eyed,
little mongrel, yclept Henry Watterson.
Let US gaze for moment at fair
specimen Of the humak offal whose abuse
helps to glorify tue objects of its filthy
venom.
This noisome little abortion came here
soon after Tennessee became secession
ized from Washington, where he had
been connected, probably in some menisl
capacity, with the States newspaper, and
where he is said to have enjoyed the
salary of a sinecure clerkship.
He is said by one who well knew him,
to have declared that at first he desired
10 see the rebellion crushed That the
salary of his sinecure, together with the
scrapings of his situation, exceeded any
thing to be reasonably expected in Dixie,
which never could have any literature,
and knew not how to honor men of let
ters-GOd save the mark But the
Government could not put down the re-
belliOn, and after the war, owing TO the
violent sectional prejudiCes thereby en-
gendered, he would be in bad odor at
the North, on account Of his Southern
extraction and so he had TO bid sad
farewell to the National Capital, where,
unless his account Of his sinecure salary
was as false as his editorials and his
abuse Of loyal men, he had bat
tened on official corruption, and betake
himself to unappreciative Dixie. This
young paragon has been heard 10 declare
that II was his chief aspiration to be-
come .fctionist." His aoquaintanoes
can swear that he belongs to the happy
category of those who completely realize
their ideals. He looks upon an editor as
a mere mouth piece 10 express glbly the
sentiments of those who subscribe to and
pay for his paper. While at Washington
he published some lines of patriotic
rhyme, execrable rs poetry, but full of
loyal mortal fury. Once in Dixie and
presto elange, no rebel sputtered ranker
venom.
His chief recreation was to look over
poetical dictionaries, and make extracts
for future piiering, and his aim In wri
ting was chiefly to find occasions for
pungent quotation. IS.
Perhaps, however, be was not to blame,
for he inherited his moral nature regu-
larly. His sire is Harvey Wauerson,
who ran for the Confederate Congress in
bis District, yet when the national army
arrived, was a staunch lOyalist declar-
ing in the hearing Of the writer, that he
ran only as blind; and now he is 10
Dixie, an intense rebel, getting drunk
with rebel officers daily, they paying the
scot.
What could be expected from the cub
of such beast; and this is the stink pot
whose stencil would strive to taint
the reputation of men like John Hugh
Smith, and John Trimble, and Russell
Houston, and Francis D. Fogg, and Ed
ward II. East, and Van Lindsey, and
Horace Ii. Harrison, and ]. s. Fowler
Men for whom TO perform the lowest
menial offices were a transcendant
honor for such a reptile as their ma.
ligner.
This is the style Of men that vili6ei
loyalisis. En- Vno disco omnes. II is on
ly to exhibit the class, that have conde-
scended TO draw attention TO iDsignih
canoe, and to break butterfly upon the
wheel.
CAMP SPEARS, NASHVILLE, May 2S, '6S.
Ed tor Of the NaslviLe Unioa:
II would be ungratsful indeed to re-
main longer sileut, after the many fAyors
received from the Sanitary Agency Al