The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-09-27

A few days before its Office was sacked
by rebel soldiers from Georgia, the Rail
eigh IN. o. Standard published another
remarkable article urging the inaugura-
ton Of some steps looking toward the
conclsuiOn of a peace. II was written
as q reply to some structures made by the
Fayetteville Observer. The following
extracts will show the spirit of the ar
ticle
REBEL DEsPoTIsM.
Seizures of persons and property have
become as common as they are in France
and Russia. Personal property has been
made dependent on the mere will of army
officers appointed by the President. Hum
dreds have been arrested for opinions
sake immured in dungeons, denied trials
before the civil tribunals, and released
only when the military power choose TO
do il. Our Courts, when they have in
terfered TO protect these unfortunates
aud to uphold the law, have been disre-
garded in many instances, and their in
tegrity reflected on in gross terms by the
War Department at Richmond. The
Confederate currency, which is the life
blood of the system and the emanatiOn
of plighted public faith, has been to some
extent repudiated as a matter of cOnve-
nience; and portion Of it in one instance
has been refused by Cabinet officer, on
the same ground, in open violation of a
law of Congress.
Our patient, uncomplaining, heroic
soldiers, have been placed in the van of
every battle, and in the rear of almost
every retreat, and when they have fought
with the ardor and steadiness which
would have reflected credit on the Old
Guard of BonspArte itself, just praise has
been denied them by journals suppose d
to speak for the Administration, and their
fathers and brothers at homo, who are
conservatives, have been held up as dis
loyal, and unfriendly 10 the cause.
Brigadier and Major Generals from
other States have been placed over them
in many instances; and when such officers
have been appointed from our State,
they have been, almost invariably, of the
same politics with the Administration.
Prescription has thus been practiced over
the very bones and blood of our people,
Superadded TO all this, has been the ap-
pointmeDt of surgeons, enrolling officers,
and the like, from other States, over our
regiments and over our people at home
until the crowning outrage was reached
by the appointment of Maj Bradford, oi
Virginia, TO collect the tithts. This led
to the first public meeting held in this
State and, but for this and other meet.
! ings and the earnest remOBslrsnce o.
Gov. Vance, Major Bradford would still
be tithing man for this State.
FOLLY AND DECEPTION OF JEEF. DAVIS.
The counsels of every great Statesman
and good man who did not believe tha
Mr.. LincOln's election was not suificien
Cause for inaugurating civil war, havt
been as efectually excluded from the eai
of the President in his practical admin
istration of the Government as if they
bad been exileg in foreign lands. TIT
idea that secession would be peaceAbl,
is the great mistake that underlies tn,
whole movement. The President wat
urged at Montgomery TO purchase thr
stock of cotton then on hand as a mesni
of procuring ships, munitions of war
and other necessary supplies, and also
basis for our paper currency; and alst
to call for and accept five hundred thou
sand volunteers.
He declined to do il, and his Congress
ordered fifteen thousand stand Of arms
and borrowed fifteen millions of dollars
Seeing his mistake, but not admitting /
by calling statesmen who had thus ad
vised him TO his aid, he adhered 20 hi
party policy and ran TO the other ex
treme Of general oOnscriptiOn of seve
hundred thousand men, without due re
gard to the productive interests, on whic
successful prolongstion Of the wa
must mainly depend. Under the lead G
pet Generals, whose iEcompetenoy
now known to all, the great valley of th
Mississippi has been lost to us, our ow
sea coast has been lost and but for th
genius of two or three of our generals /
Virginia, and the sublime courage OF OF
- veteran troops the Confederate capiii
itself would have passed from our hand
Meanwhile the people have been deceive
By the promise that cotton would brin
8. | peace; that France or England, or bot
IN would interpose that the Northern pee
10 ple themselves would divide and arret
the war; that inVasions of the enemy
territory would 80 distress them tn
they would force their Government
negotiate; that Providence seeing OF
cause TO be just, and our enemy's alt
gether wicked, would speedily lead
out with His strong right hand into II
light Of independence. None of the
hopes have been realized. On the 9th
hand, our armies are not materially Il
Of crossing, wAile our enemies ars recrui
ing from twenty millions OF their on
people, from thousands Of emigrAn
from Europe, and what is infinite
, worse, from our slave population.
\, No one, il seems 10 us, who will lo
NJ, dispassiOnately At the facts, will der
that the foregoing is true.
the TUE COTTON STATES sUBJUGArED.
DO Mississippi and louisiana are prostra
csc sullen and silent. They have ceased,
The far as their people at home are concer
ed, both to fght and talk for peace. IN
are powerless. South Carolina aud al
ga bama must soon be in q sigsilar posiii'
I'D Must We await the action OF these Stat
ia And If We DO are we, with arms In {
{s,oy, hands. unsubdued with the port Al
en- spirit Of ireemsn still charactsrlzlng q
people, 10 be bound by what they %
sgree 70? They are In no condition