The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-11
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ance 10 the holy or imprisoned thoughts
that swell his heart. The current opin-
ion Of the poltroon ~demagOgues Of the
country is that the great and intelligent
mass OF citizens who rallied In defence
Of the ribbed emblem Of our national
glory should be mute and silent while
they be permitted to turn the prejudices
of a yitiAted public opinion to partizan
and pernicious advantage. While they
clamor for " free speech" in their mobo-
cratic conventions and pow-wOws, they
would Austrianize an army-seal the
lips, lock up and atagnate the blood of
the fearless many who forsook home, and
family and friends 10 save our country
from the ruin, decay and death their
vicious scoundrelism invited upon it'll
Too long and pa iently and silently
have we Of the army submitted to the
slurs and insults Of these political hsr-
lots, and the sooner they ATE forced 10 re-
main ~eIoquen.ly silent in our regard the
better. The brain, blood, bone and
marrow Of the nation Is in this army Of
ours, and the soldiers Of all other citizens
(for CITIZENS we yet are), have the beat
right to say who shall govern and con-
troll the destinieS Of the Republic.
A few months more will pass, and
with Gods good blessing and the labor
Of our strong arms, this rebellion will be
recorded among the things that were;
when we will all lay aside our belts and
oartridge-boxe and meet our villifers
face 10 face. 2hen-well, we will be cit
zens, will we not?
The weather for the past week has been
like The news from the army of the Poto-
~mac-good, bad and Indifferent; now
bright and promising, then uprosrious'
squally, again decidedly calm aud epi-
p%hureously hot. The usually philosophic
clerk Of the weather must have got on a
tearing slender" Recommend him for
the agency Of the Associated Press
he exercises no censorship.
Franklin, once the quiet aud beautiful
home OF industrious citizens OF the United
States, exhibits bat the ruin Of its former
greatness. DesolatiOn and decay have
passed over it, and the iron hail of Fed
eral and Confederate artillery has orum-
bled lite nOblest mansions. Residences
that cost their former, now fugitive, own.
ers many dollars, and the skiufuI srti-
san many days of anxious labor, have
been swept away churches dedicated to
the service of Almighty God, are desert
ed ruins; and the stately Female Acad-
envy, lately the nursery of education,
morality and religion, is now the resort
Of owls and bats. The people have most
ly left it, and those who remain and have
withstood the simeon that has swept
over it, look wOe-wOrn and detected.
Pity are they, for they have not been the
willing architects OF their own ruin.
franklin lie a deserted village"
Negroes innumerable are here. 1t
would puzzle Linnss, the great natural
list, TO classify them, They are of all
ages, sexes and sizes, and As variegated
in color as Jacobs cattle. Tho tar
black, the half black, the part black,
and the "soiled' white, are to be found
amongst them, ranging in sizs from the
Lancashire boor TO a young stoye-pipe.
Many of them are in seeming want, for
the Government does not provide for all
of them.
The doctrine that "they have no rights
which q white man is bound TO respect"
seems to be literally carried u toward
many OF the poor and most unfortunate
creatures. fear this negro question is
apt to prove al interminable subject. 1t
would be well for some of the members
Of the "ChristiAn Association to inter
est themselves in their behalf. Foreign
Missionary Societies need not 60 10 the
Loo Choo Islands or the Joliba for sub
jects or objects of their piOus labors and
charity; here in this town aud on the
shoras Of the Big Harpeth Is a splendid
field for the development Of their piety,
here, too, is a magnificent opportunity
Tor the shoddy and shoe contractors OF
Massachusetts 20 save themselves from
the possibility OF a draft. Let that hu-
name philanthropist, Gov. Andrew. dis
patch one Of his enrolling officers forth
with-his State has not yet filed her
quota Of troops.
Deserters from the rebel ranks are
coming in daily. They represent the
cause Of the COnthieveracy as hOpelessly
lost. Bragg, they say, will leave ten
AousaRd deserters and strSgglers this
side tho Tennessee river, three thousand
Of whom are now scattered in the bor-
deriDg counties here, TennesseAns and
K%entuokians are sick and tired Of the
war they want 70 return home; Bragg's
whole army Is not only d~isorganized,
bat disboartened, dispiriled and demon.
aliEed,
There ID no force 81 Columbia, excop-
ting about sixty eonseripts, under a fell
low named Nicholson Il believe) who re-
port daily TO tho Commander OF the
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