The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-02
which win necessarily result in the de-
sfy,,rtion ~ tha Gogarnrnont

which will necessarily result in the de-
struction Of the Government
THE POLICY OF the AUTHORIZATIONS rEM.
roRARY THAT or rHE coNFEDERAoY
PERPETUAL.
And suppose the scheme of ibose with
whom You 81 mpathiZe succeeds, what
have we gained? The policy OF the
Union Administration is temporary
merely, but the policy Of JEFF. Davis &
Co, 10 not a belgerent policy merely,
Their policy, in breaking up the Union,
is 10 establish Southern rule and ruin for
all time TO come. We exchange a Gov
eminent, wherein all our rights and
privileges are we'll guarded, for a species
of despotism that will perpetuAte itself
in violence till liberty perishes from the
earth. This is the nature Of the struggle
between those who would maintain free
government aud those who would break
IL up. IL this rebellion prevails, il breaks
down free government for all time TO
come for he would be an idle dreamer
who should maintain that man is capable
Of free government if he can not main
tain this one so we'll established, with
all the experience we have had, and with
all the glorious memories that have come
down to US TO inspire us with devotion
10 10, aud reverence for H. II, under all
these influences, we can not maintain it,
il is idle to talk about self government
hereafter.
The policy of the Confederacy, which
we must accept if we reject that of Mr..
| Lincoln, must prove perpetual and it
will bring upon us endless curses of
/ tyranny in the multiplied forms growing
out Of sectional strife and wasting wars.
Our once happy and united country will
be split up into wrangling independent
| States for this is the legitimate end of
secession and disunion. If we triumph,
how long will Lincoln's measures last
He is only elected for four years and
his policy is only for the rebellion. When
the rebellion shall be put down, his meas
ures pass away with it. They are extra
ordinary measures, and only put forth as
such, to meet an extraordinary emergen-
| cy. Rather than perpetuate this Govern
ment; with all its blessed memories, by
a policy you can not approve, you will
submit to the terrible alternative of
bringing upon yourselves the lasting evils
Of wasting and perpetual wars. Are you
q patriotP Are you man? IL you would
he true and just TO yourselves and to fu-
ture generations, will you thus act? Can
you be wise men and thus betray your
high trust? You know you can not
HOW 10 GET RID OF THE oBNo xIoUs POLICY
Once there was a man of taste who had
. magnificent residence, in the front of
which sprung up an ugly thorn tree. 1t
grew up rapidly, and the proprietor
thoughtlessly neglected to cut it down
till 1t became so formidable IL was Diff
cult to get at IT, To make it more hid
eous, there fastened upon its branches
here and theirs unseemly tufts of the
| mistletOe vine. These he could not en-
dure, and declared they must be removed.
| A friend advised him to remove the tree
that fostered ia, m, aud be would get rid
| of them at the same time but no, that
| would De to !, cogniZs the right of the
mistletOe - attach itself to the tree, and
| 10 might continue TO grow there before he
would lend hand to remove the tree.
But if he had, in the language Of the
Scripture, "laid the Ak at the root of the
tree" and taken il up root and branch,
the whole evil would have been removed
The rebellion is the thorn tree in the
way Of our peace and prosparity; the
mis,lstto is the Presidents policy,
which has no life in and Of itself, but
derives IL all from the hated secession
tree. Destroy it, and you need not be
concerned about the policy.
But the truth of the whole matter in
regard to these Constitutional Union mer
in Kentucky, and the Southern sympa.
thizers everywhere, is, let the President
do as be may, they are against the Gov
eminent still. They have never ye
struck blow for 1t, and never intend to
All they want to do is to confuse Union
men. Let all such men be cast
out and placed where they ought TO be
among disuniOnists and rebels. Breck-
inridge was at their head before he wen
his way TO his own people, and thOs'
remain behind should be still classet
with him.