The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-06-30
A TenncssecRn on the Nashville
Union and Free Discussion.
NASHVILLE, TENN., june &c, 1868.

NASHVILLE, TENN., June 90, 1868.
Eltoy Uaion II have been a constant
reader ofyour paper since its very com
mencement in this city, and have been
more than pleased at its manly, out
spoken sentiments. Thank God the day
has passed when negro ocracy can at its
beck and nod put down the free thought
Of the people Of my own native South.
Long have I Tell its tyranny, and now in
its dying throes and commissions Chat
you have helped TO indic) like good old
Simeon, / thank God that I have been
permitted to live to see it.
/ see in certain prints, vide Louisville
Journal ct onlm genus, that only the Fede-
raj bayonets sustained you in the express
sion of your sentiments Ienvy you the
proud admission extorted from an IN
willing enemy; it is The ptoudest wreath
woven in the chaplet presented you, for
manly, outspoken sentiments. Yes, IF
teen thousand brave Tennesieans stald
ready with fixed bayonet5 to maintain
you and all other freemen in the expire S.
sion Of never dying hatred against an
instit1tion that has caused them all their
ills incident to this unholy and un-
natural war. 1t is they who have come
through many ifibulations and have
made their garments white in the blood
of patriotism--tbey who, because they
would not bow the knee to king negro
ocracy and say, that it was by Divine
right that amorous capitalists could stock
Harems in the South, bought with price
from the growers aud sellers of human
souls, that stand with bayunets and say
to the tyranb your uSurpations must and
shall end. They who, because they
dared to love the lrec snd hpppy govern
ment Of the fathers, and who have been
driven from their homes and the graves
all of contumely and wrong from this
Baal of Southern intolerance, stand to-
day to sustain you Are you not proud
Of it? Yes, aud let me tell the enemies
Of free thought and free discussion, that
the day has passed when the blood of
men offered upon the altar of their god,
slavery, will go unavenged. The Union
soldiers Of the South have no compro-
misses for elavery--they can have no
compromises with it. They look to their
" tves and children in rebeldom, sad and
woe -begOne, and swear that the author
of their ills shall be exterminated.
Well do they remember when, like the
louisville Journal, who has raised against
you the cry which was raised by the
secessionists, Abolition" which set
the populace mad, and incarce-
rated loyal men in filthy dungeons, OF
forced them into woods and marshes,
where life was worse than death. Do
these jackals of slavery think that the
lion of freedom will crouch him down
before their howl? No Fifteen thou
sand swords have leaped from the scab-
ards of Tenneseeans, and they can strike
as hard blow for the right as any man
dare strike for the wrong, Long have
watched the system inaugurated by the
slave power 10 brow-beat into acquies-
ence Cor assassinate through tools as I'M
worthy as unprincipled,) those who
dared 10 have and express the opinion
that slavery was not Of divine right, anC
the first social blessing. Such a system
l apprehend they desire 10 inauguratt
against you, but when they turn theil
eyes towards these "Federal bsyonets,'
their cowardly hearts grow sick and theil
souls die within them. Go on, most 10,
bic Mercer; it was they who sowed th,
storm; twas they who gave edge unit
this sword that makes such waste il
brief mortality. Go on, say, and Will,
you are battling in the sanctum, through
the prees-personally and mentally will
uaariHed foes---we will battle those NOR,
manly, (but not spotent,) who may NEE
us upon the field Of battle, and then, a
heretofore, bleaching bones will tell how
freomen dare to welcome the usurpe
and the tyrant. The soldiery are begin
ming to wake up TO the assaults made
not only upon you, but upon all who dar
TO say that Mr. Lincoln is an honest pa
triot. The Journal hae, and is, DOM
more TO sustain the rebels than all tn
sheets published South The one idea o
the rebellion was the extension and per
petuation of slavery; it was that tina
gave il bone and muscle; it was that, an,
that alone, that caused the great body o
the people of She South 10 take up arm
against the Government. Why Becaus
those who felt an inward consciousness
that they were not, mentally or morally
better than the negro were jealous, Will
the slave owner who knew his mental su
periority, loved his lusts and pecuniar.
advancement better than he loved th
good of community. l am whit
mans man, and never will l consent 1
see all laborers reduced TO one class, anl
labor owners to another, as the.
aimed to establish in the South Let u
have a free expression of opinion-let u