The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-08-08
49, 1onpon - aoAn19rp.



FROM the st,r. 2ist
Those credulous Brioro by whom The
Times ia reg srdcd aasul Ilihle oracle
ON 40 that fei4tss Do ih. Amercan war
must have found ihelr 'a.l, eossly tried
Yesterday The Tim tecn show
5n4 fur weeks back lba must oYer-
whelm every resists1c.. aud march uyon
Wasbineiot; aud Zee hos himself been
overwheimed, aad rs marching another
way. The limcs bee been proving for
montbs back ilat Nir. burg is absolute
iy impregn DO. ana f.b q Vi,ksburg
Gas suueDdered BOO eaf eAdins
journal" and some 0i .he rsp-f wh'ca
do their best tn iD.'ne i. ..lH, $3.50 pui
10 sad shifts Yesl crdaytbG iutnn q d.
cent chow oi composure da consisi nc!s
Oae or tR0 oil iho latter adopted the
clumsy snd dul, artIicp Of affecting not
{ believe the ne ws 80 I'll; but this sort
Of trick war 500 open 54a and pslpa-
hls for the Iim1 Therefore, in
estimating ,be client Of The RE-
cent event. 10 adopted char
acterisic nude Of breaking its own fall.
IL ignored, or almost Ignored, the cap
ture Of NicksbutR, which 10 glsnced at
aa an event scarcely worth mentioning,
and i. argued that whether the second
Southern invasion is 90 be regarded as q
failure, depends entirely on the purpose
with which ii was undertaken" To be
sure, Lee may have invaded merely foe
The purpose of being driven back, and
in taia light bic repuIse ought NO doubt
Go be regarded az tOntederaie victory.
Indeed The gentleman who telegraphs
O. Che Times I $ special cypress ffou
New York, eravely assumes this point
OF view ties be suggests that Gen, bee
never Intended 70 make the action at
Gettysburg q decisive victory for his
own side, and therefore, of course, tSio
f1i'ure was partcf is plan.
Nothing could be more surprising 10
rational Eagliahmen than the manner in
which the Times and some one or Two
other journals have endeavoFcd to delude
the public of EnglaDd regarding the
character, The objects and the events Of
of the war. They who blindly took
he leaders and tie correspondence Of
tie Times for gospel, must have believed
three days ago that the Federal States
at the feet Of an Omnipotent c0uqueror.
Nothing in the history Of imposture has
been more gross and monstrous than the
| astounding audacity with which the
Heading journal" and the correspond
ent3 have been trying TO gnlI the public.
! Fhe adventures Of Baron Muuchausen
were not more extrsyagsnt than the pic
| lures Of Confederate triumpbs given by
the gentleman who wrote from the South.
! Of the gentleman who did the cores
| pondence from the North We can on =
| Is say that be might have taken
| very rcsrectabl rank as g lyric poet, if
while ENGAGED In the production of the
mild litHo ballads and harmless scraps
of popular uiEshei5y be ones affected,
he had disp'ayed bot spark of the bold
and poweifd, imaginatiOn which bis
American letters baye exhibited The
general plan adopted by the Times was
simple. II merely consisted ia ignoring
altogether every federal success and
magnifying every Confederate forav into
into a grand pitched battle and stupen-
d us victory TO DO sure, the journal
had iis special tllegrame, which, Of
course, gave different views of every
event from Reuters carefully prepared,
! reliable and impartial dispatches. Civ.
en- q narrative of events drawn up
| according to your own taste, what
/ difficulty can there be in extracting
from them 9 moral to suit your
own purpose. The Times certainly
found no such difficulty. Regularly
every week, for tho last twelve months,
and more, il has been proving that the
| Federals had 81 ent their last dollar, and
had seen their last soldier run away;
that they were bankrupt and beaten;
| that they could not fight any more, and
would not even if they could, and that
in fact they themselves detested their
own Government, aud only l}nged to be
conquered by the South II ia scarcely
q week since the correspondence in the
Times from Washington assured the
public Of ENGLAND that the enthusia stio
longing of all in the Northern Capital
was that Lee and Davis might enter in
triumph
Readers at a distance may perhaps
feelinclined TO doubt whether any paper
could have been found bold enough to
pint, whether any people could have
been found idiotic enough TO believe,
such gross and extravagant fctions. Yet
THO, and nothing better, was the kiad
of stuff the Tines Kept persistently pub
fishing about the American war.
II the defeat of Lee aud the fall Of
Vicksburg do MT convert some of the
b believers in the ne', then we can really
have no pity for such credulous aud easy
dupea, and can wish them no better fate
than stir TO be lied tendeely by the
nose--as asses 5rc'
TENNESSEE REFuGGEs Nearly three
hundyed refugee pennesseans arrived a.