The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-22
minor Feature. 81 tho war.

AAAArN OF Am0
Under this caption the Knoxville Req.
lister gets of an editorial which Is emf
nently l~aughable. Read 10 and and be
jolly;
All civilized mankind are familiar
with the gross and bestial exercises Of
power by Brute Butler at New Orleans,
and all Tennesseans are acquainted
with the petty tyranny and annoyances
of Andy johnson at Nashville bat
there are certain other features of this
war that are not 80 palpable, which de-
serve to be chronicled and remembered.
The cold-blOoded tyrany with which
Gen. Banks surrounded, and backed by
his bayonets, at New Orleans, laid down
the law to the generous planters of
| Louisiana az 10 tho manner and terms
upon which they would be permitted to
work their slaves and cultivate their
farms, or s~tarve, was a piece Of tyranny,
under the circumstances, as degrading az
ever a minion of a bloated tyrant exer-
cised in the most barbarous age of the
world. So Gen. Rosecrans (the quon-
dam soap dealer of Cincinnati) is ex-
hibiting a remarkable of gallantry in
Middle Tennessee, in his vocation of
commanding armies, by ordering his
soldiers 10 collect allthe agricultural i'm
plements in that section and burn them.
The Yankee is so degraded and sOrdid
in sentiment that we are at a loss to
know whether this plan of Rosecrans is
adopted for the purpose of preventing
the people of that section from raising
provisions and starving them out and
subjugating them by this slow process,
or whether it is that he expects the war
soon to close, and calculates the Yankees
may be able to drive q small speeula-
ton by selling us agricultural imple-
ments, or importing provisions into the
South from the Northwest, after peace
has been made.
We have read Of grain being destroyed
and fields devastated TO weaken an enc
my during a campaign, and we can see
the v ariike necessity for this; but the
idea of burning agricultural implements
never occurred TO any one but a Yankee,
and was never before practiced by any
belligerent power. There is a degree Of
vindictiveness and revenge about it that
can proceed from none other but a cow
ardly heart and a p~usilanimOus spirit.
Ii Gen. ROsecrans, by this means, ex-
poets TO stsrve the people of the South,
and thus subjugate them, his gallantry
and invention is only equalled by that of
the inquisitor, who, TO inflict a lingering
torture upon his victims, conceived the
idea of conhning them to a solitary cell
and causing single drops of water to fall
upon their heads at short intervals, until
reason was dethroned and they became
idiotic. But we hope the quondam soap
dealer will not prove as successful in his
cruel scheme as his prototype of inquisit-
orial memory.
The sch mes of freeing slaves, arming
them against their masters, and organ
izing them into regiments TO create a
famine to aid the Yankees in putting
down the rebellion in the South, will
figure most handsomely in future history
as an evidence of the civilization and
prowess of the Yankee puritan in the
middle of the nineteenth century. We
know that there are some people in the
Northwest who are opposed to wsging
war in this manner, but if they do not
wish TO be involved in the damning repu-
tation which the Federal President and
army is making for their nation, il be-
M them to do something more than
to protest and pass resolutions in oppo-
sition to toe manner in which the war 10
waged.
We see that the old dotard, Crittcnden,
whose second childhood has become pal
pable, and is no doubt more fruitful of
folly than his first, has written to his
f.ta,1a - VEavfrotpr - Hrkf IfrnolE11
Government with protests and resolu-
tions, and the South with bayOnets.
"Piy the sOrrows of a pocr old man,
To what a point Of humiliation and de-
graduation has he brought the Once proud
aud chivalric State of Kentucky. Nei-
Their he nor his State IN their present at
titude, have the respect of any one either
North or South. The charity Of future
generations may pity his weakness, but
they can never forgive the mercenay
spirit he has exhibited in filling the
pockets Of his family and relations with
filthy lucre from Yankee Golfers, and the
zeal and perseverance with which he has
urged the blood-houDds of the North to
destroy the men of the South, as the
consideration for the traitors gold he has
received. He and all men with Southern
blood in their veins who now side with
the Yankees, or under any pretense
Whatever, assume an attitude of neutral
ity in this contest, will become more de-
spisod than open enemies. The reptile
like features of this Yankee war will
characterize all who tolerate them, as
we'll as those who invent and actively in
augurate them. And the Southern man
who can look complacently and indiffsr
emily on them, separates himself from his
blood and race, and must inevitably be-
come an outcsst Of Southern friendship
and society. This is the natural conse-
quence Of the choice he makes, and the
, position he assigns himself.
Poor Col. Webster. hung by he rebels