The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-08-30
.no,ber Lot,or 20 Ien. Dnvls.

Every day adds new proof that the
Southern pro-slavery leaders plotted dis
union without provocation.
The following letter WAS found in the
house Of JET Davis brother Joe, in
jackson the original is in the hands of
an Illinois soldier. II is printed just as
IL is written:
PLATTE CRY, May 10th, 1853.
HON. JEFF DAVIS Permit me TO intro
duce my friend Judge Saml Treat, Of
st. Louis in this State. Judge Treat is
q Gentleman Of Talent and a politician
Of the Modification, Secession and High
Treason school to which belong. lie I'M
deTstands the true position Of parties
and men in this State { desire that you
will receive him with kindness and cour-
tesy, listen 10 him and act as you think
best Yours truly
(Signed) ID. r. ATcnIsoN.
Atchison was Q Kentuckian who re-
moved to Missouri. He is q fair speci-
men of the men with whom the Govern
ment is asked, nay, imperiously and in
solently ordered by the selfish, cold
blooded and reckless conservative fac
ton, TO oompromise- offer an amneSy.
The argument Of the sword, or the halter,
only can convince the prO-slayerJ rebels,
the RssAilants of the national flag, and
the meters of the Lawrence massacre.
The Atlanta Appeal grows furious at
tho idea of restoring the Union, as may
be seen from the following.
Reconstruction.
To entertain the idea of recC Instruction
at this time is little less than criminal
He who hArbors IL is not only an enemy
TO bis country but foe to himself The
deed, if accomplished, involves the sacri-
fee Of our manhood, our liberty and in .
dependence, as we'll IS every right and
principle we have been taught TO cherish
1t is, in short, nothing less than subju-
cation, humiliation and perpetual slave
ry. We could not, If we would, occupy
the same position we did in the old
Union. The stamp of inferiority would
be fastened upon us, and we would be
perptuAlly subjected to the tAunts and
expressions of our Yankee masters.
Aside from such humiliations as these
and supposing the difference between the
North and the South accommodated OF
the basis Of reconstruction, the country
will only emerge out of this war into
another with England or France, or prob
ably both, and the South will be called
on 20 do the fighting and to foot TN
bills. There is no greater delusiOn thar
TO suppose that peace and tranquility viii
supervene upon the restoration of tn,
Union. The North, which in the even
of reconstruction will be both the coun
try and the Government, has . long scor
of grievances to avenge against England
aud she is FESTIVE under The occupation
of Mexico by France. To reassert AM
maintain at the point of the bayonet th
, supremacy of the Monroe doctrine, will
be her bound n duty. And besides
would be her policy to engage at once i
foreign ENVIRONMENTS, in order TO sooth
and heal, as speedily "a possible, tn
D bitter enmities and fostering wounds en-
4 gendered between the two sections b.
the present war
With these facts glazing US in the fac,
o superadded TO our experience dearl
8 bought in this war, the oroaker for re
, construction, or for peace on such terms
> ought to be kicked out of decent societ
. and driven from the country.