The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-08-21
The states in sbpIltOn--It, COM


opposed to secession
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Ths states in "a bpIlion--t, COM
structi n,
rrrom Correspondence Of the Mob lie Evening Views
"'The games up tie useless calling
for as men up TO forty-fve, for we can't
90. Reconstruction on whatever grounds
we can get it, say H. These startling
words, uttered in brisk, confident and
shameless tone, awOke me from my after
dinner torpor as lay back in my chair
at a public house Ia Tuscalooea The
speaker was a hale, hearty, old young
fellow Of forty-two His auditors,
numbering half q dozen, were mostly
younger than himself and apparently as
fit food for powder as any class OF 70
bust 'exempts' as have come within my
vision. The various replies in answer
to the speakers discourse were hattering
enough TO him. One of the admission
lists exclaimed: You're right John.
- old Mississippi refugee, with his
family aud fifty negroes, stopped al my
place Yesterday, aud wanted supplies
Told him I'd see him in purgstory hrst;
TO 90 home and def nd his own state,
and not run Of aud eat US all up. IL
having 10 run off and leave every hing
TO the Yankees amt subjugatiOn, I'd like
TO know what is. It's time this thing
was stopped: and now I'm ordered out.
although my substitute is with Lee, and
must leave my property to take care Of
itself I'll be - first
"Such ideas as these have heard re-
Gently 80 frequently advanced by men of
property, who, for various reasOns, are
exempted from military duty, and who
have never shouldered a musket or car
ried sabre. that wealth and patriotism
seem Incompatible. Now, when 10 be-
comes imperative to lend the aid Of their
strong arms in supper of the cause, re-
construction, sing they all, sooner than
expose their precious per ons, or relin-
qush an acre OF their cherished lands.
"Our President promised that, If the
darkest hour should be forced upon us,
wheI our Capital should fall, when our
last military organization should become
scattered or expire, he would Join the
patriot band of heroes who, from behind
some friendly tree, would continue 10
greet the invader with the crack of the
rifle, and make his track one Of blood,
famed ever after in history as the last
staod OF the freeman. When the last
armed man shall retreat TO the Gulf, when
every mile of Southern soil shall be
watered with the patriots blood; when
even the buzzard shall fl from the stencil
of our putrid foes, then subiugatiOn may
oome hor orally, but submission, recon
struction, never >"
THREAD CURRENCY.
In some places in the South, COnfed-
crate money is not very highly esteemed.
There is one dark spot in the region
about Tuscaloosa where produce cannot
be bought for the notes of JEFF Davis.
The patriotic farmers wives only receive
thread as . currency, and the result is
that the thread factory in Tuscaloosa
becomes bank for that community.
There is a regular day and hour speci-
fed for the sale of thread, and al those
times the eagerness to get bundle" of
thread in exchange for $40 is as great as
was the desire of your traders to get the
hrst issues of postal currency. This is
described by "N'Importe" thus:
"The wealthy lady stOops from her
carriage, and directs her escort to tell
Mr.. Kirkman that Mrs. Electromagnetic
buy-you desires q bundle, as enc returns
at once 10 the country. But as the dis
tribution lie made by honest citizens no
parhality is observable, During much
wranglIng and dispute, the fifty bundles
are sold, the country people having the
preference, and the crowd Of n hundred
or 30 unsuccessful persons disperse to
try fer better success upon the ensuing
distribution day. You see now the
sequel. A wagon laden with vegetables,
etc, calls at every house: How much
do you ask for butterP "A dollar a
pound for thread I'll give you elk
hanks of it for as many pounds of but
ter The offer is eagerly accepted, and
4 hank Of thread, which costs forty
cents, buys s pound of butter. Such is
the origin aud operation of our thread
currency. 10 keep your table supplied
you must present yourself at the thread
distribution, and continue 60 do 90 until
successful, and then you have the
psnAcea tor ali wants"
RETALIATION a FAILURE---COvERNIEN
WEAK
Richmond correspondence Of th5 Mobil, Tribune I
The exterminsting despot has announ
ced his course. lie has refused TO receive
a commissioner from "a, or enter ain the
proposition TO conduct the war upon
the principles of civilized nations, il be-
ing deemed inadmissible. lie permit:
his generals to murder indisoriminateIY
our citizens aud soldiers, aud whenever
our President attempts retributive JUS
tice he is threatened with tenflld ven
geance. What / that but war Of ex
termination? After the brutal murder
of ten OF our innocent soldiers in Mis-.
souri, by the assassin McNeal, President
Davis issued a spirited proclamation in
Mississippi, IN which he declared NJ
further exchange o officers should take
place until MoNeal was surrendered, and
declared that all Yankee officers found
tampering with, or running of slaves
should suffer the penalty Of the State
laws. After the battle Of MurireasbOrc'
in which we took some 5000 prisoners
Lincoln refused % receive the paroled
prisoners unless we also sent the officers
with them. That was the time we should
have stood up 10 the letter Of the bond
We did not, however; the officers were
released-aud McNeal's ten fold murder
stands unavengad.
When Burnside murd rs two Of our
officers in Kentucky, the Yankee IA GERS
(prisoners) at Richmond are MADE to
draw lots. Two are condemned TO suffer
in retaliation, and to-day Lincoln threat.
ems that, II we dare % touch hia men. he
will qwecute Gen. Rodpp, ... ,,.l q, ~