The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-10-31

then giving bis work to the Dispatch of
fee, and paying them large amount Of
money for IT, The Dispatch, for con :,
siderable while, il will be, remembered,
polished his reports, several of which
had previously been sent TO this office,
aud rejected without note OF explanation.
We were satisfied that he was . swim
dler, and made his money dishonesty.
Finding that his advances were not
only repealed 81 the Union Office, but that
paragraphs occasionally appeared in our
columns not at all hAttering to him, he
did his utmost 10 suppress the circula-
of the Union in the army altogether. He
drove the newsboys ont of the camps
when they brought II for sale; packages
Of our paper which many Of the soldiers
bought to retail in the army W, re seized
and burned up by him; and many let
tiers addressed to us in reference to the
Union, containing money, never reached
our office. When Brigade POsimasters
and others ordered copies of the Nash
Vile Union, HE underlings insultingly
replied that they had no copies Of the
id paper on hand, and tried to force
of cOpperhead newspapers upon their
indignant and swindled customers, who
had paid in advance for the Nashville
Union. Letters came to us daily asking
what was the reason that the newspaper
monopoly would not let the soldiers have
the Nashville Union. These things need
no comment; they speak for themselves.
When Othsllo was about to murder
Desdemons, he soliloquized:
''Tpi out the light and then put out tie light"
So reasoned the Inquisitor General of the
Army Espionage Corps, whose dreams
were Of cotton and Jlacl stations. First,
crush out or subsidize the press, and then
to plumber! The Louisville Journal ex-
tolled Truesdail to the skies, asserted that
his enemies were the enemies of the
country, and averred that his noble SER
vices were indispensable to the army, and
must not be dispensed with on amy ac-
count The Journal, consequently, cir
culated without difficulty, although in
consequence of its bad character its
circulation was meager. In multitudes
of cases it was forced upon dealers in
the camps, who had paid beforehand for
the Union. p5dii yllaaes ssi io "a
That the Army Police did no good to
the national cause is the belief of all
candid and dispasaionAte loyal men, and
that II benefited the rebels greatly is
equally certain. Ii ia not at all unlike
ly that many Of the Wanted spies were
the paid 6missaries Of Bragg. Besides,
it was continually fostering thorn in
the side Of Unionism, which blushed for
very shame at the simple mention of the
name of Truesdaips Army Police, II
has been our stumbling stone and rock
of offence In the Department Of the
Cumberland, and we thank God deyoutly
in behalf of oppressed loyalty for its alb
clifton. An investigation into it's action
will show that among its favorites were
some of the most odiOus rebels in Middle
Tennessee. Trading and speculation,
like misery, make strange bed-fsllows.t
In conclusion we will say that Sc
cret inquisitorial organisation must al.
ways be dangerous and oppressive to a
free peaple, but when it is armed with
military powers, and shielded by strong
military patronage, it becomes the most
appalling engine of tyranny and corrup-
ton of which the Imagination can con-
ceive. Neither our loyal citizsns nor our
brave soldiers are the men to be logged
black mailed and slAhdered by hum
cry pack of bloodhound informers, whose
noses are keen to snuff the prey, and
whose tongues are eyer ready to lap the
blood OF the innocent ss well as the gull.
ty. A secret inquisitOrial police in the
hands Of an honest man is exceedingly
dangerous; and In the hands of knave
il is utterly diabolical, ..,,...t..r.
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