The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-27
PICTORIAL correspondence.
WASHINGTON, Nov. u, 1863.

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The city is alive with the stir and hum
incidentto preparation for the approach
ing Congress, which will soon open wha'
will doubtless be memorable session.
The gentlemen whose names are named
in connection with the Speskership are
Colfsx. of Indiana; Washburn, of Illi-
nois; and Davis of Maryland. The pros
poets of the first named seem to be the
best. That the Administration will elect
its Speaker | have no doubt whatever.
Ii certainly ought to. 1t would be a
shameful thing for Congress TO vote for .
Copperhead when the people are every
where voting for the unconditional Union
ticket. see it estimated that the popular
msiority for the Administration cAndi-
dates cast within the last few months is
near half a million. / find the most
radical men here are fully assured that
there viii be no backing down" on the
part of the President.
4. ]. Meigs, Esq, 50 well known in
Tennessee, few years ago, as one Of
the ablest jurists of that State, and one
of the Compilers Of her last revised Code,
who was 50 unyielding in his devotion to
the Union, that be chose to make his
home among strangers, in his declining
wears, rather than to submit TO treason,
is in this city, employed from morning
till night, in his newly created office, the
Clerkship of the District Court, whose
duties are peculiarly burdensome, owing
to the complex character of the Court. /
need hardly say with what deep solicit
tude he watches the course of his former
fellow citizens in Tennessee, and how
profoundly his feelings are enlisted in
their behalf The experience of more
than half a century has made ineradic-
able in his heart his old conviction that
the public safety can no longer tolerate
or compromise with slavery, and that it
is one of the widest of mortal follies for
Tennessee to hope for peace or prosperity,
until she destroys the last vestige Of
negro slavery in her borders. He is Of
course radical and immediate emanci-
pstionist who is enlisted heart and soul
with the noble snti-slsvery men of Ten
nessee, and who will pray for the
coDsummatiOn of their victory as the
greatest blessing which heaven could be-
stow upon us. The men who would per-
petuate the curse of slavery, under any
pretext, he looks upon as the foes of the
best interests of the people, whose policy
if adopted will doom our State, at an
early day, to another saturnalia of blood
far more terrible than the present. When
one so eminent for his legal abilities and
knowledge, and so long esteemed for all
the virtues which adorn private life, thus
feels and speaks, surely people may we'll
pause and reflect upon his counsels, in
stead of drowning them in the senseiess
cry of " fanaticism."
The solemn rites of concreation are
over at Gettysburg. The panegyric of
Everett, and the brief, but singularly
eloquent words Of the President and Mr..
Seward, have sunk deeply into the popu-
lar heart, and made music upon its finest
chords. Not ia vain have you died, o
dead of Gettysburg Nor less molly
did you fight and fall, 0 illuslrious
shades, who glide in solemn pomp before
me, from your wildwood sepuIchres at
Stone River and Ohickamaugal And
you, patient, heroic survivors, shall we,
can we, forget what you have wrought
and suffered, and bssely fOrsake you
Who dares counsel peace? Who dares
advise submission Who would yield
his birthright to traitors when his kin
dred have resisted them so nobly? Long
has been the night, but the dawn is
nearer.
High hopes that burned like stars sublime
Go down the heaven q freedom,
And true hearts perish in the time
We btterliest need them
But never sit We down and FAY
There's nothing left but sorrow,
We walk the wilderness to-day.
The Promised Land to morrow.
Build mp heroic lives and all
BE like a sheathen sabre,
Ready 10 flash out al Gods call,
ohiysry Of labor
Triumph and toll are twins and aye,
joy, seems the cloud Of sorrow,
Aad rs he martyrao1a o. day
Brings ric,ory to-m0lrSu."
S.C.M.