The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-08-21

We are indebted to Major Gamble, of
the 9th East Tennessee Infantry for two
copies of the Knoxville Register of June
Odd and 9th. They are not very fresh,
but contain several items which will in
terest our readers.
A brutal correspondent of the Register
is furious at the delight shown by the
East Tennesseans at the approach of the
Union cavalry during their raid at
Strawberry Plains, and says:
It is time the authorities should insti-
tute some more rigid policy for crushing
out and putting down the disloyal sem
ment in our midst.
Is it not time, MIR. Editor, that the
government was abandoning that concihato7Y
policy which it has hitherto pursued to-
wards these men? Can we ever hope to
prevent the successful execution of these
raids so long as we permit these disl0yal
men TO live among us, in open and avowed
hostility to our government? While
Southern men, and innocent Southern
women, are daily being banished from
their homes in Memphis and other cities,
and for no other offence save that of being
true aud loyal to their country, these
traitors in our midst are permitted to re-
main, openly proclaiming their Northern
sympathies, and reveling in the very en-
jOyment of their tory principles. Does
not justice to our own noble. self sacri-
ficing citizens, call aloud for a change of
policy towards these men?
Uninterrupted and daily communica-
ton is kept up from every portion of
East Tennessee with Kentucky, and the
enemy are constantly advised of our
strength, the location of our forces, and
the disposition of oil troops in the de-
partment,
Now we submit that this state of af-
fairs has existed long enough, and the
policy should be at once established OF
reliepiHg tie State Of this dangerous and IN
slnYectionary element. Until this shall be
done we need not expect to escape from
repetition of the humiliation and dis
grace which these marauders have re-
Gently inflicted on us.
| w hhAp AhiSAh1c Wy y ScuilCllhn ANbl
night who participated in the engage.
ment at Strawberry Plains, that wher
the Yankees made their appearance, I'm.
ion tags could be seen floating from the l0il-
dot0S of every house in tol0l, and that tho Oh
three men actually ran out to meet and intern
them Of III; e~act disposition eff our forces.
"a MORE RIGID policy" is to crush on
East Tennessee patriotism What fend
ish cruelty have the Confederate inquis
itcrs yet in store for the faithful? w,
had thought that every refinement o
torture, and every device of oppression
had long since been exhausted by tn
Churchwells and Kirby Smiths, but i
seems that the end is not yet Yer,
we'll the Army of the Cumberland is TO
day on it's march, and we rather CUES
that the dangerous element" of Eas
Tennesseo--dangerous indeed to trait
ors, and TO them only--will remain il
the State, while the demons of the Slav
COnfederacy will fly in terror from th
approach Of the avenging army.
The Register, borrowing the epithet
of the Uoprerhead conservative presl
calls the Nashville Union "a dirt
Abolition sheet, and says: 1.-THE Lou
isyille journal has got to be compare
lively respectable by its opposition I
Lincoln's Administration. No dout
the Journal will return the complimer
at an carly day by calling the Knoxvill
Register "a brilliant and eminently abb
organ of conservatism
The Register says something abor
Dick McCann's attention being attracte
by fireworks at Nashville. The fir,
works" which should most attrA,
Dicks notice are those he will see q
HIS arrival at the place where all rebo
go. Dick will probably be caught befo
d long, and should then be horse whip,
for his thefts, just As the editor Of Il
Register was in New England a goo
many years ago, How naturally the
whipping post heroes and Jail birds Ia
TO the rebellion
Persons wishing q fine pen can zinc