The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-03-21

primitive virtues and patriotism natural
10 men, az not tONhave q single spark 10
rekindle the original iia me. II il, indeed
against all probability that men, arrived
at the highest possible pitch of degener-
aoy, the preferring Of tyranny 10 a free
Government, should, except by a miracle
Of Omnipresence, be ever capable Of one
single viriuous impression. They have,
by kind Of gigantic effort Of illainy,
astonished the whole world, even that Of
transcending, in the enormties of desc
lation and bloodshed, a race ofmurderers
before unequaled, and without Compel
itOr.
"These have already been sworn and
foreswOrn, will, without ceremony, repeat
their perjury whenever IL appears con.
dueive to the. introduction of tyranny
To screen such characters from popular
resentment and personal insult, j pre-
sumo no prudent man would choose TO
| become surety. Those of own citizens who
have from tho very beginning Of the il
lustrious conflict, hazarded their persons
and property, will think IL inequitable 10
receive such malignants into full par
iicpation Of all the blessings resulting
from that independence, which, with the
smiles of Providence, has, by their CO.
operation, been so gloriously contested,
and at 50 great expense and peril battled
ont the very Jaws OF tyranny.
"The disgrace these men have brough,
upon their native country can never be ex-
plunged but by expunging them. Let them
therefore, rather SO into solitary Danish.
ment, and settle on some uninhabitec
island, rocky, if they please, as theil
, own hearts, and scared as their con.
sciences where, not having one honest mal
among them, but being all in the sam,
atrocious and insuperable crime of par
ricide, no one traitor can upbraid bro
,her traitor with his treason nor AM
individual of the whole cuprit frater
nifty point to greater villain than him
self There let them establish a system
Of vassalage most suitable 20 their owl
, slavish dispositions--and erect an inta
nous monument in putrid memorial O
those apostates from from reason anl
converts TO despoiism, who fled from jus
tice for an attempted assassination Glib
: erty.
AS to humanity, could never per
suade myself that it consisted in such
lenity towards our adversaries, eithe
British or domestic, as was evidentl
productive Of tenfold more barbarity o
} their part; when such barbarity wOul
have been prevented by our retaliatio
upon them the first preparation; an
consequently our apparent inhumanity
, in particular instances, has certainl
been humane in the final result. Alas
F how many lives had been saved, an
, what q scene of inexpressibe miser.
prevented, had we from the beginnin
, treated our bosom traitors with prope
severity, and inflicted the law OF rctalia
I ton upon an enemy too savage to b
, humanized by any other argument!
There are many thoughts in the abov
quotations from the message of tha
sterling patriot Governor Livingston ex
ceedingly applicable TO our own unhap
, py condition, and confirmed, as it's sug
gestions have been in our own expert
ence, II would be well for our governmer
to lay aside that strange clemency whic
!, restores the most malignant rebels to IL
. bosom of that society whose peace the
have destroyed, only for the purpose
rene wing their villainies.