The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-09-08

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The very tigress will fight the hunter to
the death for the sake Of her whelps /;
and surely the love Of woman for her
offspring cannot be less. A father who
loves not his children is regarded a. in-
human mother who is destitute Of
maternal affection is little better than o
fiend. II is hard to imagine being 60
cruel and degraded, Greatly do we fear
that there are some mothers in Tennesecc
who are suffering their prejudices TO not
only blind them to the future happiness
Of their sons, but even to prompt them
10 instil into their minds moral poison
more oorroding than the
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f-ii BE lGproua distilmeui
which the usurper Of Denmark poured
into the ear of the father Of Hamlet:
Whose effect
Holds such an cnmty with blood az msn
That swim asqu 'cksilvcr, It courlcs through
The natural gates and allies of the boty
And with a sudden yigo-, il doth pos.et
ANA curd, Ike eager droppinrs into nj, +,
Tho thin and Wholesome blood
And most insap, letter Jirlr I'd aJnm
An NE smooth Jody"
AS much as the poisoning of The soul
is worse than the poisoning of the body
so much worse than the "juice of cursed
hebenon," whose potent yieor gave
Shakespeare the theme for his immortal
drama, is the "leprous distilment' Of
treason, whose influence taints and cor
rupts, and blights the soul with moral
death For the first is
Murder most foul as 10 the best it is.
But Ais most fou', strange and unnatural"
Are there any mothers in Nashville,
who having taken the oath of allegiance,
or given their parol of honor, not to talk
seditiously against the Government, are
yet habitually talking, with bitterness,
a. their own homes, in the presence Of
their children, against the Government
its measures, and its officers? Are there
any mothers who are by their own ex-
ample training their children to hate tho
Union, and to sympathize with and adj
mire the men who are in rebellion? Are
there not households in this city whose
heads, although they have "taken the
OATH" teach their thoughtless but highly
impossible children TO hate the Presi-
dent, the Cabinet, and Union officers and
soldiers, and to admire jeff. Davis, and
Stonewall Jackson, aud Lee, and John
ston, and Forrest and John Morgan?
Alas! we have written interrogatively,
what we are well assured are facts.
Treason is the daily mental and moral
food of children in many ostensi-
bly, loyal families in this community.
A terrible responsibility rests upon the
souls Of mothers who make themselves,
in their own households, the nursing
mothers of treason. Boys thus iudoc-
trinated at home, to hate the Government
and to love and admire traitors, can
hardly grow up to be abiding, good
citizens. A boy educated in treason will
in manhood become an outlaw and a
traitor. "Just as the twig is bent the
trees inclined" These embryo Champ
Fergusons and Dick McCanns will in
course of time attempt to put their early
instructions in practice, by lawless deeds
on small scale, and will either look
through the narrow windows of felon'e
cell, or dangle in the air, undera scafFold
do mothers desire their sons 10 meet
such fate, and will they not see
their own hands rcd with the blood of
OF their guilty progeny, when Justice
Furnishes the son who sucked treason
from tho breast of a disloyal mother ?
The mother, the insiruciress Of treason,
VIII escape human punishment, while the
son who was the pupil OF that instruct d.
ress will perish UNANIMOUSLY; but who
will say that the mother is not the more
guilty of the two? The mother herself
will not say it, Conscience will scourgo
her with whip of fire. A punishment
more exquisite, and more enduring than
that Of the rack awaits her
Leave her to heaven,
Aud those thorns that 10 her bosou l-t,
To prick ana sting hor"
Oh, reckless mother often in years
long after your son, the wretched victim
of your own teachings shall have