The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-02-14
A Rebel Editor Spreads Himself"
on the Yankees.
From Tho Riahmond rkamner. 2Gth


The custom of denouncing the Yam
KEGS is becoming common. Under the
soft influence Of serenade, President
Davis likens them TO hyenas; Governor
Letcher, in his mild way, insists that
they are heaven -defying, hell -deserv-
ing race, and pleasantly consigns their
Chief Magistrate, Abe Lincoln, to a doom
more fearful than that of Devergoil Is
it to be wondered that Mr.. Lincoln has
had trouble on his mind ever since the
fearful doom was pronounced upon him
that he is getting gray and finds it
difficult to tell a dirty anecdote every
ten minutes during the day
The practice of yillifying the Yankees
has gotten into the newspapers Editors
spend most of their time in concocting
diatribes against a contemplate race,
whose only defeat is a proneness TO all
that is foul and everything that is evil
Why should people so despicable be
aspersed? Gwen this newspaper, careful
as it is never TO say a word that would
disturb the most placid tea party, has
been known to speak disrespectfully of
a race which the civilized world, with
last and vilest conduct" One would
suppose that creatures so abOunding in
the stenches of moral decomposition
would never be alluded TO in decent
society. But somehow the habit of ex-
pectoratiDg upon the vermin that swarm
in the Northern dunghill, has gotten the
better of gentle natures, and time drags
heavily on the Southerner, who refuses
TO indulge himself some twenty times
day in a vOlley Of direful anathemas
against the Yankees.
Rejecting persons tell US that this is
altogether wrong. We should restrain
ourselves, and be scrupulously polite
when speaking of these abominable
villains. We should recolect that these
internal scoundrels are human beings,
and bear in mind the fact that they never
lose an opportunity Of heaping the most
ungraCiOus abuse upon ourselves Nor
should it be forgotten that they have at
tanned an almostinconceiyable perfection
and deNterity in lying, so that if it were
possible for us TO match them in billings
gate, we would still be at their mercy in
the trilling matter of falsehood. We are
told by our philosophic friends that il
should serve TO cool the intensity of our
hatred TO remember that they are hourly
committing every crime known to man
and some with which even the fiends are
not familiar; that thrill of delight should
pass through us, when we recall the
pleasing circumstance that upwards of a
mil ion of these incanate demons are
hired by the year for the sole purpose oi
numbering US, burning our houses, kill
ing our cattle, stealing our slaves, destroy
ing our crops, and driving our wives and
helpless children into the waste howling
wilderness, in mid winter; that genial
glow Of the purest love should pervadC
our hearts at the thought that they can
didly avow their purpose TO exterminate
US, TO kill every one Of US, men, women
and children, TO take our possessions by
violence; in word, TO annihilate US, L
destroy Us from the face Of the earth, 81
that our names shall be no mere hearC
among men.
There is another view which SHOULD
encourage us in the purpose hencefortl
TO cherish an affectionato regard for the &C
cursed beings of war with us. To th,
well regulated mind, tho beastly prac
tices of beasts excite no disagreeabl
emotion; and il is said that the scien.
tiGc intellect finds a world Of eDioymen
in the contemplation of the disgusting
utility Of the lowest order Of creatures
Surely the feat Of the vulturo upon car
rion is not reprehensible, and occasions il
the beholder no special wonder and nevel
any animosity against the bird for graft
flying his somewhat peculiar tastes. 81
the tiger that laps blood, and the beetl
that gorges excPement, are but Yankee
of the animal kingdom, accommodating
the wants Of nature and il were folll
TO impute TO them improper motives i
pariaking Of their chastity and siekenin
repssts. II follows that our feelings 10
wards the people Of the North, the scara
, boil and vipers of humanity should b
characterized neither by rage or by nau
, seau, but by fixed cheerful christia
, determination 10 interpose sufficient oh
! siacles between them and ourselves
, curb their inordinate and bloody lust
. by such adequate means as natural W
q suggests; and, as general thing, TO ki
[ them wherever we find them, withoJ
idle questions as 10 whether they are rel
e tiles or vermin. A certain calmness
1 mind is requisite 10 their successil
+ slaughter. The commissions Of passiC
a are out Of place when one is mereI
Y scalding chinches.
n The foregoing reflections are suggest'
10 naturally enough by the accounts
4. Yankee newspapers Of Buffers triuT
a phal progression from New York