The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-08-14

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will be that Of your country.
Do not ialter, then, or hesitate, but for
the few days required for labor show
that you understand soldiers duty.
am no alarmist, nor do / seek unduly TO
excite your apprehensions bu! In sober
ness and truth l tell you, that If this
road is carried by the enemy, you will
no longer enjoy the homes Of freemen,
aud the fate Of Middle and West Ten
uessee and New Orleans will be yours. |
An inferior race, and their agltatOra, the /
Abolitionists will thrust you from your /
farms and enjoy the fruits Of your felds; |
aud your lot will b., either abject sub |
mission 70 q vindlctive enemy, or the |
life of fugitives In the woods and |
swamps. For all that you hold dear and
honorable, then, labor hard az the work
the engineers will lay out for you, and
give no thought 70 leave or furlough I'M
ell IL is done Then / will cbeerfuly
grant the indulgences authorized by the
Commsn der.in Chief, and you will en-
Joy them the more from the conscious
ness of safely that your labor has Sc
cured. Until then, | trust that neither
regiment viii aend up an application for
leave or furlough, except in extreme, ur-
gent cases Of absolute, indispensable ne
ceasity. HEERY Q. WAYHE,
A. and In. General in Command,
wHIsG1Hc AGAINST THE WIND.
From The savannsh Con titutioDalist, august /.
We cannot be conquered until our ar
mics arc destroyed and the people be-
come dispirited. Our armies may be
forced 10 fall back, aud invasion may eX-
end itself, but what of IL? IL is only
the temporary loss of the country absn-
dOned, and the outrage and insult and
injury 70 which its inhabitants arc sub
ieCtsd. And we must never forget this
most important truth, that to the extent
the enemy peuetrates our country, with
q hostile and unconqueFed people behind
aud around him by just SO much is he
really weakened. Every town be cap
ures must be garrisoned, and the army
Of progression thereby weakened. And,
most important OF all, there are natural,
| physical difficulties which must ever
prevent the penetration Of the interior
Of the COME deracy and its permanent
occupa ion by the Abolition hOrdes. No
army dare venture upon such an under
taking without vast numbers, and the
very vastness of its numbers is ito We ak
ness.
II cannot penetrate at all unless it
Outnumbers our forces, and then its
numbers must be so great that / cannot
subsist itself on the country through
which it advances; and failing that, it
must occupy AZ a base some large river,
always open for transit, or must posses
the most ample and perfect railroad fa-
cilities. The Mississippi, Cumberland,
and Tennessee are the only great rivers
by which the COnfederaoy can be peno-
trated by large armies, or used as base
for such, and the two latter cannot be
relied on tor more than six months in the
year. Why have not the enemy overruu
and occupied Florida? Because &c has
no great river, and is protected effectu.
ally by the sparseness of its population
the poverty of it's soil, and the soanti-
ness of its subsistence stores. And as
the enemy steals all from our people
Whenever he does penetrate, il is the
best policy 70 destroy all provisions
which cannot be removed before be
comes, as otherwise he will use them, and
our people driven thence, must subsist or
the stores accumulated from other soil:
or ply steal causes, while brave army
and defiant people remain, absolutely
preventing the enemy from overrunning
occupying and conquering The Oonfed
eracy.
HAVE WE LOST OUR sPIRITf
From the Hontgom ~ (Als) Advertiser, Aug. l.
IL is matter Of surprise that there il
so little zeal manifested in this city anC
the surrounding country in making pre-
+ psratiOns for our immediate defence, anC
especially by those who have the mos
atstake.
To be sure, we have frequently me
and passed very patriotic and self-sacri
Gcing resolutions, but where are the fruit
of them The army has not been 10
! creased, and we are to-day as defence
, less az we were before any meeting wa
called.
Have We lost our spirit, or did the val
| liant young men and old who volunteered
at the beginning of this unhOly war TAX
, all the honor, chiValry and manhood
with them?
Neither speeches, resolutions nor un
, ending talk can do us any good Withou
, action. What we must have is a thor
ough organization; aud every man capa
BILE Of bearing arms should join il
There are now few companies here hal
: made up, or perhaps with a full quota o
names, but who do not muster more thal
q respectable squad, while here shoul,
{ be ia this city at least a regiment, an,
4 they should turn out at every drill. !
our oldiers can devote their whole tim
t to the service, we certainly ought t
I spend a few hours of each week in pre-
pairing to defend our homes.
Z Montgomery is one Of the Wealthiee
e. cities in the COnfederscy in propuFtio
e Co tho number Of inhabitants, and it Ger
u tainly seems TO be the most defenceles
# TnADNa WITH PRIsoNERs-THE Rec
. ELS LOVE GREENBAoKs.---A practice q
10 humilisting TO good citizens as IL Is dis
r. graceful TO those who eucoursge il, ha
O lately become one of the most eager pas
70 sions OF luore-lOving lily-liVered men !
b our midst. No Yankee can ESCAPE then
they actually scent their prey when It
&, an hundred miles away, aud the den,
II by which IL arrives is besieged accord
e ingly. Yesterday morning, upon the al
10 rival of the Central cars, bringing ov,
j. seven hundred Yankees, some ten or d
Ia teen Of these traders met them at the q,
n pot and begged for ''greenbscks" in e.
y change for Confederate notes, giving
% high as six dollars in the latter for OF
10 in the former? Such men deserve TO
l. hung. They are worse than traitor
N meaner than towards, baser than brute
d Every man who trades at all in these 81