The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-03-29

nut in durance vile for few days, until |
the Government thought it had strength |
enough TO allow such reptiles to 60 at
large. And the whole brood o! SMALL
fry po1iticiane have raised the cry, "Why |
this Ia the most tvrannical Government !
under heaven" With million traitors
in arms against it, and third as many
more at home going about claiming that
il is an unholy war Now and then the
Government arrests reptile, not for the
purpose Of executing, but Of combining
him, and the cry Is raised that it is ty
ranny too great to be borne, and the peo-
pie are called upon TO resist it. Why,
gentlemen, the very fact that you hear
men going about in such condition Of
things as now exists, proclaiming such
sentiments, is the best evidence under
heaven that he lies. Applause If this
had really been a tyranny, a thousand
such heads would have rolled from the
block before now. There is no other
Government beneath the heavens that
would tolerate such treason, for that is
the name by which 10 call such disloyal-
W. IL may not be treason il the first
grades TO be punished capitally as trea-
son, but is quasi treason IL is time that
men should cease talking in that way
Every man knows il is lie. The Gov
eminent may make thousand mistakes,
but IL is not despotic. A few weeks ago
the Secretary of War said TO me in reply
to some remark about such language,
"That Is nothing new; II happens in this
city every day." The reply made was,
"If that be true, all have TO say is tina.
I..5t bn - IL Hnnu
not do his duty" Applause If even in
the National Capitol, and in the very
halls Of the National Congress, such sem
timents of qualified treason can be ut
tered, aud III the officers of the Govern
ment, knowing it, allow such men TO go at
large day by day, sayit is proof that
it is not despotic government but the
contrary. This Government has borne
moro from its pretended friends than it
has had TO contend with from open enc
mics. Tho time is coming, and I am
heartily glad TO see this great people
waking up TO the determination, when,
whatever our thoughts or sentiments may
have been with regard TO the policy of
the country, we will come together and
act for its preservation il is due TO you
to do this. The truth is that you must
repose upon yourselves. You have been
truthfully told tonight that 1t is not a
returning sense of fidelity TO the Gov
eminent but returning sense Of your
duty under the fidelity you have always
felt. IL may have been latent in the
bottom of your hearts, but every man
who belongs TO this Loyal League has al
ways regarded himself as a loyal man,
and has always loved his Government.
not going there until we arrived in New
Orleans. There wore many Of the
people Of Texas who had taken refuge
the other side of the Rio Grande. They
had been told we were coming, and they
had taken measures to join the Union
forces as soon as they should land, and
when they learned that they were not to
be relieved, you may imagine their fate.
have no means of knowing all, but
know that some hundreds have lost their
lives in consequence of thar disappoint-
ment. ["Shsme, shameP] know they
have died deaths not heard of since the
Dark Ages until now; not only hunted
and shot, murdered upon their own
thresholds, but tied up and scalded tc
death with boiling water, torn asundei
by Wild horses fastened to their feet
whole neighborhoods of men extermi-
mated and their wives and children driver
away. And the world is still going on
ask loyal men if these things ought L
go on. History will bear me out in say.
ing that never, since the beginning o
time, have people endured more by way
Of lestifying TO their devotion to any
Government that has existed among men
II has been said sometimes that the only
loyal men of the South are the black men
am here Tonight TO dispute that asser
that more than half the white men of tina
country were loyol in the beginning o
this struggle and more than half o
those living there to- day would return
TO il with gladness and gratitude if 20,
would give them relief. Talk abou
sympathy with those men who are GOV
cred with crime, murder, arson, robbery
the dospoliation of the poor? Talk abou
the rights of property of these men
Yet not word do / hear about the or
phans and the widows that those devil
have made in the South the homes thel
have burned, The property they have con
fscatsd. And the loyal people Of tn
State of Texas have suffered also by th
action OF this Government; for they wer
ia the habit of consuming largely of Ia
products of the North, and from thir, 0
course, they have been cut of. Will
the border Of the Rio Grande has been i
the possession Of the Rebels, they hay
compelled the planters TO sell their pro
duce to the Confederate Government, tax
ing their payment in their own pape
while the Rebels could then engage it ia
gold or silver or for any required sup
plies, II does seem to me that il is tim
for the people to say TO the Government
that this has gene on long enough, Ap
plause. IL does seem TO me that hav
purchased a right TO call upon you to
night TO express your opinion upon ths
subject. Renewed applause, But
they never do il, il will not crush m
devotion to the Government although
may be the loss Of the last friend / hay
under Heaven. But shall think thi
some man who has surrounded the Gov
s,e rnment has been TO blame, if no &C
ton is taken. IL we had Ill
country in our possession ther
are rich cotton lands enough
that State to produce four tim,
as much cotton as is now produce
upon this whole continent? We have
country twice as large as France, pc,
, sessed of grazing facilities, facilities ur
told, mineril wealth beyond the know
edge Of any man living, tCeming wit
wealth in the great future, and which v
a shall nj no distant day pour into the la
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