The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-02-22
All for war.
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1t IS totally impossible to take much
iaterest in anything but tho war. Peace,
and the things which belong unto peacey
must positively be deferred 10 future day.
The sole business -four country, since
the enemy will have il so, is war Cer-
federalo Congress, Cabinet, Judiciary,
Executive, State Goyernments, Legisla-
lures, Banks, Railroad companies, and
all society at large, are useful or tolera-
BILE to us at this moment, only as they
promote lhe great purposes of our present
existence, namely: men and money for
the war, to give TO our war (Which is our
life) the highest possible development
and most perfett organization TO give
our foul invaders their fill of war, in 9 ich
sort that at the very name Of war here
after their gorge will rise.
There is b be no peace-there can be
none--until Lipcoln's terms shall expire,
unless those Northern States break up
andscOllapse before that time, in bloody
agony Of revolution. This may come;
hut If so, it will be by and through our
victories on land and sea. Not the Dem
ocrats in their Congress, nor Western
politicians on the stump; but our soldiers
on the field, our sailors on the quarter
deck, will make that gracious revolution
to ripen and to burst BY successful de-
Tense Of Vicksburg, and Charleston, aud
Savannah, VIC shall cast new and bitter
elements into their cauldron Of anarchy.
By running the armies Of Rosecrans and
Hooker, we shall break their banks and
confound their. politics. By sinking
their war.ships and burning their
freighted merchantmen, We shall cause
such revolution in tho entire Yankee
system, king the whole heart faint and
the whole head sick, shall so blister and
dose the patient with misery, poverty,
mutual rage and universal Bankruptcy,
and disgrace, that he will cry out to be
delivered from the active treatment Of so
fierce physician.
This is what he wants, and this is all
he wants, TO cure him forever. Talk Of
the recuperative energies Of nature that
is, the uprising Of the old Democratic
party-restoring vigor TO the Constitu-
tionl We tell you there would be no
Democratic party at all, and no whispers
about tho Constitution, but for the whole
some cannon of Vicksburg and the bold
phlebotomy of Fredericksburg. 1t is our
generals and soldiers who cause them to
remember that they once had C0nstitu-
tion, and give them the heart 10 say so.
The gracious black mud Of Stafford
Eills--we call il Black Jack-miring
their troops TO the armpits, and swallow
ing trains Of cannon whole, gives rise, in
the Democratic mind, TO constitutional
scruples--the Palmetto State and Chi
cora, OFF Charleston bar, as they wave
their ayenging flags, with three thunder
ing cheers, over the sinking bulls Of the
Y nkees, are, at the same moment, al
unconsciously releasing a Philadelphia
editor from his prison.
As 10 Iutervenlion," meditation,
recognition" sympathy" or my 9th.
or action or intention OF foreign nations
needless 10 say all that depends upon
US, too. Foreign nations have no opin'
ion upon this war save what we MAKE
for them, and we make IL not at Paris Of
London, but on the RappAhAnnock OF
the Mississippi. TO develop their gush'
ing sympathies and kindle their chival
RUS friendship, they wait TO see wheth-
or we shall want those articles, ant
whether we can ever pay for them. 81
il is also with the "Grsat West" Thu
Great West will love us and sympaihiG
with US, and be ready 10 ;svow itsel
into our arms, and abuse aud abandon
New England for our sake, IL We cal
but thoroughly soourge them out Of Ar
kansas, and up the whole line Of TN
Mississippi. IL not why the same mag
nanimOus Great West will rob the plan
tations, eoniseate the property, viOlAt
the women, and brand US all as basl
traitors before the world,
What wo mean 10 say, then, is tha
we have no friends here below but on
own army and navy, and thai the sol
policy aud business of the country ist
enable that army and that navy NOR
and more diligently TO chase, burn, sinh
lombard, ride down and cut 10 piece
every thing that flies the Yankee ilag
aaoat or ashore, around all our border.
Would We encourage aud take adyaut
age OF kentncky's revolt against Lin
coins proclamation, let US reiniorc
Johnston aud enable Rim TO destro
Rosecrans Would we avail ourselves q
the nascent friendship Of the chivalrou
Northwest, let us leave OF appeals an
intriguss, and thrash the said Norlhwes
IN Arkansas and Mississippi.