The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-05-05


editorial from the Louisville Democrat, OH
The Presidents call for $4,000 men TO
put down tho rebellion, written by the
senior editor Of that paper, long before
Mr. BABER entered chat Office. We re-
produce a portion Of that article, which
is as disloyal as anything Mr.. BABER
ever wrote:
The authorities AT Washington are
now for raising 1000 troops and fancy
they viii do exploits. They ought 10 re-
fleet that the few that they can spare TO
the South, 20 far from home into an in
tensely hostile country, and 10 them most
unpropitious climate. They will have,
after the excitement is over, little heart
in the business. There Willie no la,vels to ]
Din. 1le rest Of mankind ,0iH giUe them no
credit.
There is q sentiment In this country
that all just Governments are founded on
the consent Of the governed. III a whole
tier of States seek other arrangements in
government; il their old Government is
odioua TO them, and they seek TO release
themselves from IL, and resist with de-
termination the old Government, what
shall be done about 10? There lie
our Declaration Of Independence, and
the strong expressions Of States when
they entered the Union, which il they
do not recognize the right OF seces-
sion, squirt so much that way, that
they arc eaoily applied TO that purpose.
u Is an oaious task 10 force a Government
on an ua0idiHg people. Resistance be.
comes a patriotic virtue.
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Tile terms now used in all these irte-
pressiblc prints Ii. e. the local press)
are rebels, traitors, and empty threats 10
punish them. THE DLUsTER AND GAS
CONADE ABOUT AvING A GOVERNMENT,
ONLY REMINDS n or GEORGE III, WHO
USED EMPTY WORDS AFTER THEY
HAD LOST THEIR MEANING. George
e. Co. thought the colonies had no mere
reason than the Southern StateR now
have, and the latter think they hare more Yea-
son 10 rebel than their fathers had, and hej
knQlo That these hrrats against Them are more
%inilecile than the Hreatsof his Majesty against
the Colonies. DEPEND UPON 1T, MEssRs.
LINCOLN & Co, you II WASTING TREAS
UnE AND BLOOD TO NO PURPOSE"
1t strikes us hat Mr.. BABER need not
have attempted to take the odium of his
own articles from an editor who could
write such sentiments as these. When a
newspaper which took such a position as
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into its editorial corps one who edited an
avOwed rebel organ in Nashville, The
public will be prone TO conclude the new
association will not be troubled with any
scrupulous loyalty. We are certain that
newspaper, edited by such men, has no
business TO denounce citizens Of Nash
Vile, who, in spite of vigilance commit
tees, threats of violence, hanging,
and bloodhounds, remained loyal, as
"traitors to the Union cause" I" fol-
lowers of the Federal army" wishing
the destruction Of the Southern people,"
and a stumbling block, in the way ofre-
wing the Union Sentiment" Mr.. BA-
Der thinks that the +" dead past" should
not be brought against him after his
public recantation of treason, and illus
trates his idea by referring to the church.
Well, if a sinner be penitent the church
should take him in. But what if, after
being received into the church, the sin
ner gets up in the church, and denounces
the preacher as ca stumbling block in
the way Of reviving religious sentiment
because he preached against theft, MUIR
der and perjury? The congregation
would cry out "The dog has returned to
his vomit, and the SOW that was washed
to her wallOwing in the mirel" The
illustration is very pertinent if carried
out.