, 1863-02-10
From thu Nashville Union, 1th
Fhc mails brought us the following news

From thr Nashville T.sion, ash.
Fhc mails brought us the following news
some days ago:
IxDJASAru!ls, Jan. .s9-SENA7K.-Mr Brown Of
Wells introduced Il resolution demanding that
Consreas thall provide for convention Of all the
falling TO proyidcoz such aconycntIon tile StSte Of
1ndiana will invite every State In the Federal
Union. including the so-ca1led Confederate States,
to meet delegates from the State Of Indiana In
ycntton. at Nashville, Tennessee, on the 15t OF
June, 1863; each Statcto send as many delegates
eaid convention as shall cqual the number OF Stn-
entitled in the Congress Of the United States. and
providing for the election of delegates to said con-
ventton from Indiana, OH the first Manday OF April
next: also the delegates to have 500 per dry
mileage ont Of the State Treasury, &C,
The above comes to IFS by telegraph. Nash
vile LAS lad quite enough of treason enacted
within her limits in tic last two years, and
desires no more, and, God being willing, in
tends to submit TO no more.
Now let Mr.. Brown, Of Wells, and his Cop
rerlcad brothers, come Or 10 Nashville on
the 1st Of June, 1853. Let them meet here rs
Representatives, such fellows as Vallandig-
ham, Cox, Voorhees,, Gondy, Merrick, Jesse
Briglt-Nayward Sistcrs-Van Bufcn, Pow
I'll, Brooks, Of the Express, Salisbury, Fer
naitdo Wood, 1shan, g. Harris Sterling
Price, Benjamin, Toombs, Cobb, Rhctt: IN
Ehort, invite the Richmond Congress. This
last could be safely done without serious
da1nngc to the political reputation Of tho
whole body. and would only he I'm addition
In numbere and talent, not in treason or po-
litical mcnnness. Let them all come, VIC
have several regiments Of loyal East Tcnnes-
sceans here juet nox, TINT would be glad to
men Of Tennessee, These loyal Easr
Tcnncsscans, who hare been driven
from their homes whose wives and children,
left behind, have been insultcd, their prop.
crty pfliagcd, their farms robbed, their homes
desolatcd, tl4eir friends sent off to Southern
prisons, where they now lan!uisll and die,
fed upon rotten pork. Many Of their compa1l-
fous died while wandering through the noun-
tains, going into Kentucky, many hung upon
railroad lines to be seen hy passengers, them
selves prescribed and eyiled, never again to
10 see their mountain homes, save By
some such ignominious contsiyance, as
this convention could cffsct-terms
That 10 MIN who Ind one particle Of self
respect could accept. Rather than such terms,
better far, would he social and political
he'll. Come on, gentlemen, these men would
bcin gool mood TO entertain you at tho capi-
tol Of The State. Now, aftera long absence,
they have been enabled to get thus near
home. You arc fortunate In the selection Of
Nashville, as 4 suitable place at which to
hold this convention. The graves Of Jackson
and Polk being here, doubtless aided you
greatly tHaettIhl~ lA!H tlItASC AAA l4Euf +pO,
Wc have II largn number of Union refugees
from Various counties VI Tennessee, men who
hare Witnessed cunscfiption, who have beer
tried before Vigilance Committees, whose
property hhs been the prey Of inaraudine
c:ayalry, whose houses Imvc had guards
]'1accts ever them to see that the women
did not communicate with the husband OF
son, who had lied to the woods to avoid death
Or 4 Southern prison, many Of these me-,
have been roeled, too, Of thoir money and
watches, when they venturcu beyond Federal
lick.ts 10 catch glimpse Of their homes 0,
,crsi, ;norr ;Scn tHn II '}'ir lYe; f ana dauEh
| las. threat or the dcstitution to which th'
family were daily coming. Those would con
I; stitutc an audience worthy Of the gratdes
! orator among you.
| Such convention would be more mcnlora
i bic in tic history Of the nation, than any as
| sc,nl,lagc Of traitors that ever met at Nash
/ vile OF elsewhere, and VIC doubt not gtea
| good would coIuc Of it.