The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-08-16
A Remarkable Article from tho
Richmond Enquirer.
OUR HEIRS FokEvER.

feeble knees and pallid livers, have been
deluding themselves with the idea that,
in case of subjugatiOn by our enemy, the
worst that could happen to us would be
merely to go back into the "Union as it
wal" with the Constitution as it is"
sc, u as time for them to male from That
dream. For us, in case of being overcome
in the field, there is 10 be no Constitution
and no law.
The entire possession of the whole
Southern country, with every house and
estate; the absolute fee simple of all the
land with its woods and waters, mills
and iishings, TO have and TO hold unto
Yankees, their heirs and assigns; :" this
is the prize for which our enemy fights,
and without the prospect of which he
would not strike another lick. To fully
attain this, il will be necessary for the
Yankees to abolish the Constitution en-
tirely, so far as regards MS Con derates.
We must be left without rights without
legal remedies, an inferior race creeping
on the face of our own land.
Our domestic traitors who can prove
their "loyaP' treason will have the bene.
ut Of the law and probably retain their
property, provided thoy can give very
distinct evidence that they aided our
enemies, and did their ut,eTmost TO bring
ruin on their neighbors and on their ma
tive States; but for us there is TO be no
right, citizenship, franchise, or legal
status; we shall then be precisely in the
same position which the Supreme Judge
in tho bred Scott case assigned to the
negro race; and thus, in Yankee cant, n
striking retributi0n for our sins and sub
lime moral effect, will be combined with
the profitable business of Selling upon
the earth and the fullness thereof, to re-
ward the saints and their heirs forever.
Surely, IL our people fally understood and
lad 10 heart Tie real nature oftle Styuggle IN
achich age are engaged, there a0Oaldbeno 7Clis-
per heard aayoie,e of any possible te,min-
alton ofthat struggle except Sn Victogy opsg
orr enemies Any who should hint a
peace, and urge our Government to make
peace would be at once marked as y
traitor, devising how TO deserve we'll of
his country's enemies, TO win indulgence
for himself by abandoning the common
cause, and TO merit rewards out of the
plumber of his neighbors. We do
believe Hiat8 Conteaeyates ,miaasally COM
pretended his, men would be afraid TO
speak of peace or compromise, lest they
should meet on the spot the doom of a
traitor.
One may observe sometimes in the Con-
federate newspapers phrases which we
regard as of ill omen. Hhas become com.
anon 10 talk SaycaSiicaHy Of The "2ast ditch"
men, and "lQst drop.of-Jloo9" glel-name-
ly, those who declare that, rather than
yield TO Yankee rule, they will shed the
last drop of their blood, and die in the
last ditch. Has this become ridicu-
lous sentiment then 1t is possible
that bar-rOom orators, or even The very
gamblers, may have been heard TO blus.
ter in this sort of way without for mo-
ment meaning TO shed the first drop Of
their blood, or to die anywhere, save in
their beds. But that does not make the
idea in itself by any means ludiorous.
On the contrary, if there be not now
within this Confederacy several hundred
thousand men, each one of whom is a
" last drop" man, and a "last ditch"
man, then, indeed, il is i'll with us this
day-with us and our heirs forever. If
that " cOnfscstiOn act" ever comes TO be
applied throughout our country, those
who shall live TO see il will often wish
they had died in any ditch at all.
The phrases may haze Leaome cant and
mean nothing IN tie mouths Of most wlio ,tae
mem, but the thing itself-the firm geso-
luton TO perish rather than submit upon ann
terms lohatever, is precisely 1hat is vanted,
and all that is wanted TO keep that ia :
nous ConfiscatiOn act forever in abev-
ance, mere ornament to the Yankee
statute book, and to transmit our boun-
teous soil, and our unstained honor along
with 1t, to those unborn heirs forever
whom Washington law DEGREES to be horn
paupers and slayes.--Riclmona ENQUIRER.
lig G. f''"N''