The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-17
A large number Of our correspondents

express q JUST ana natural lnulBnaNloh ~
the censures cast by the Louisville Jour
ae1 upon nearly all the soldiers in the
Federal army, for d%enouncing the treas
enable conduct and language Of the
Northern copperbeads. The Journal has
repeated these censures again and again,
with an air of intolerable impertinence
and presumption. Shortly after the pub
LEGATION Of the eloquent address Of the
Army Of the Cumberland, a document
breathing only the spirit Of simple and
earnest patriotism, the Journal dreading
its influence on the fortunes Of its con
servatives allies in the North, said !:
"Let us have no more Of this. Let the
public, irrespective Of party, rebuke what
we have had. Ana zee think General Rose
sans would be doing Juthis duty 10 his army
and his country il he yebuked ii TO-. We
marvel thdL he mas not done 50 ere nolD."
General R%osECRANs not only did not re-
buke the patriotic action of the soldiers,
but endorsed it in a glowing letter. The
Journal did not venture TO assaiI bis let
ter, but when General MILRoY, Of Indiana,
endorsed the address of the soldiers, and
General R~osEcRANs' letter, it denounced
that officer as 3 " black hearted abolition
fanatic" who deserves TO be dismissed
from the army. This slave organ a
1--WE have looked, not without con-
sern, upon the adoption and publication
Of resolutions in regard TO public affairs
by our troops"
And has it come to this, that when
Northern traitors and factionists are as
sailing in the rear, the citizens who have
enlisted in the armies Of the Union, our
soldiers must be denied the privilege OF
appealing TO their countrymen to rally in
defence of the Government ? More than
this, the fiery yet single-hearted patri-
ots Of tho army have not done. They
have not dictated political measures to
Legislatures or Congress. They only
called upon the nation to put down at the
polls, the base partisans who were Grip
ping the Administration in carrying on
the war, and were calling Armistice and
Border State Conventions, and Legisla-
tive Conferences in Louisville and no.
bly, has the nation responded to their
call. The appeal undoubtedly contribu-
ted largely to disperse the conservative
faction, aud hence the rage of the Journal
Had the soldiers published an address
d%enouncing the President, the Conlsca-
ton Act, and the Emancipation Procla-
nation, it would have Landed il to the
skies. But as the soldiers are for put
ting down the rebellion at all hazards,
the Journal. alarmed for the safety of its
pet negro slavery, sneers at the material
Of our armies. 1t says:
Considering the large proportion Of
foreigners and ~REcKLEss, L~ANDLEss, REso-
LUrEs Of our oi0n country, composing our
present army, it has, with the conside-
rate, been matter Of the deepest concern HOW
sUon A VAST BODY OF ARMED MEN WERE TO
m GOTTEN RID OF AT THE END OF TIN
WARp
How very complimentary TO American
soldiers! They will doubtless appre-
eiAto tho compliment Of a newspaper
which is evidently moro anxious to get
rid Of loyal soldiers than TO get rid OF
rebels. In order TO show the eminent
fitness of the Louisville Journal to act
a. dictator to the National Army we
publish q few choice extracts from its
columns, its lively comments upon the
Presidents proclamation, calling ont
troops to suppress the rebellion. On the
18th of April, 1861, itsaid:
The Geographic report Of the Presi-
dents proclamation has reached us. We
are struck with mingled amazement and
indignation. The policy announced in
the proclamation deserves the unqualified
condemnation Of every American citi-
sen. 1t is unworthy, not merely of n
statesman but Of a man. 1t is q policy
uAAcflI nhAE" bIdintu anu IuAnhuHs II
Mr.. Lincoln contemplated this policy in
his inaugural address, he is a guilty dis
Bembler; ii he has conceived il under
the excitement raised by tho seizure of
Fort sumter, he is a guilty holspur. In
either case he is miserably unfit for the
exalted position in which the enemies Of
his country have placed him. Let the
people instantly take him and his Ad-
ministration into their own hands, if
they would secure the land from blood
shed, and the Union from sudden and
irretrievAble destruction.
Again;
No man can protest too earnestly and
Vehemently against what is called "co-
srciOn." Even IL the U. S. could subju-
gate the seeding States utterly, and
establish the National jurisdiction there
by the presence of a standing army, no
purpose could be accomplished that any
patriot or@ood citizen could desire. The
old Union might exist 10 name, but only
In name. There would be nothing of the
vitality Of freedom in the conquered por-
tion Of il, and the victorious section
would be in the condition Of the Roman
eonvie,s, who were sentenced to have
dead bodies chained to them and TO drag
their loathsome partners about with
them till they became dead themselves.
And yet again:
The present indications are that, in
less than ten days, the voice Of the peo-
pie Of Kentucky will be raised with a
unAnimity never before witnessed in our
hlaLnru In faYnr of the nrmnl nnnLrnEA-