The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-14

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WREN the kicbmord ~1o1tinsl, MarUh 81 :
,p~EcUIATons IN EooD TO BE PUNISHED ron !
y97q~ri N1sDEMEANoa.
The following bill has been presented
in the Virginia Legislature. II is clear
and to the poinb and rings like q dinner
bell. Tho mover has struck the right
idea. We hope it will prevail
Be It enacted by the General Assembly
Of Virginia, Thatif any person buy any
article Of food (including salD for man
or beast, and withhold the anne from
market, or ask and receive more than five
per eentum commission or profit on cost
and transportation, such person shall be
deemed gully Of misdemeanor, and shall
forfeit The article so bought One half to
the ipformer and the other e. the Com
monweallh: Provided, That this act
shall not apply 20 market men collecting
supplies for daily city consumption, or
10 any person bringing such food from
beyond the Couf5 derate army lines, or
purchases for family consumption.
This act shall be 10 force from its pas
sage and continue during The war.
And then this:
Fra the Richmond Dispatch.
CALCULATIONS AT THE ~soUTH-HIGH PRICES
WHAT THE PRESS TIE PULPIT
SAY.
The most complete excoriatien which
these sinners nave ever received, is In the
late address of Rev. DR.. Stiles, on the
subject Of "National Rpctitude tho only
true basis of National Prosperity" The
spectators furnish a fruitful topic. il
is one which is as inexbaustible as their
own greediness. Like the daughters Of
the hprse-leech, they raise an eternal
cry of "Give! give!' but, unlike leeches
in general, they never feel full enough TO
drop off. All the denunciations they re-
ceive seem TO whet their appetttes, and
the gtOans of their victims, and the whist
. ling of the winters wind 20 people seat
ed around a comfortable fire, heightened
| by their own enjoyments by the force of
9 contrast.
/, A cotemporary observes that mankind
are always fond of considering them
} selves ill-used, and ever ready to lay the
, blame upon the wrong shoulders which
5 be illustrates by the outcry against spec
~ulators, when the really responsible par
ties, those whom we ought TO abuse, are
the Yankees, This is certainly the keen
= est and bitterest thrust that these rob-
{ beers and murderers have received during
this war. We have heard good deal oil
pleasant sarcasm at their expense, and
have exhausted our own vocabulary of
Q bard names long ago, but we knock IN
der to our inbenious contemporary. The
N Yankees responsible for the crimes Of he
SPECTATORS? We thank cur cotempara-
ry for discovering a new point of resem-
d blance between the Ytnkeos and the
i" devil. The devil, who has v]ileness
n enough of his own TO ansWer for, ia often
n charged by sinners with being the re-
sponsihls agent in their rascaliiies, when
be had just as little TO do with them as
i the Yankees have TO do with the price
te of wheat, corn and potatoesl No doubt
many men are tempted by the Devil, but
y there are a good many first rate villains
who require no temptation, and find him
a great convenience in accounting for
l. their transgressions. The Yankees are
70 monsters enough to starve us 10 death il
they could, but they can't; whilst IA.
spectators can and are doing IL, and then
lay the blame upon the Yankees
, In sober earnest, the Yankees have nj
moro TO do with the enormous prices o.
articles of prime necessity than the mar
/ in the moon. 1t suits The self. delusior
ie Of spectators to lay all their sins upor
"a the Yankees but there are no Yankees 6,
10 mean, mercenary, and devilish as tn,
s. ny pocritical wretches who are eternally
,e bawling out yankees" TO divert atten
"a tiou from their own robbery, murder ant
treason. Those hideous crimes which
ST Yankees practice upon their enemies il
war, they practice upon their friends il
TO ptace-picking their pockets, starving
he them to death, and exposing tho South
ern cause TO greater peril Of destruction
' than the combined armies of Yankeedom
: And this in conclusion:
[from Tho Macon Ga J Mss'eager1
60 shOemakers in Ihe \ uth-Exempt
he Ion and ExtOrtfOn.
TO Very liberal priviledgcs are granted {
We this class Of mechanics for the beneh
their labor would confer on the soldiers
, but with a certain penalty, intended I
D prevent exlortion. The public will bea
r US witness, that no class Of mechanics, 0
ID any other exempts, have so much abuse
r their privilege as shoemsktrs.
Their charges generally are the ex
treme of extortion, and nearly every on
b, Of them capable Of bearing arms shout,
=. be in the Scamp Of Instruction" in con
formity 10 the law applicable to then
With the poorest materials and work
OF manship, and half tanned leather, tn
n charges usually are, for soldiers shoe
rs from ten to thirty dollars, But TO give.