The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-10-11

T. II. Watts, Governor elect of Ala
bama, is an intense sample of fire.
eater. He can think of nothing but fire.
II he chad the power, he would build a
wall of fire between the Confederacy,
and Yankeedom;" so he says. He ex-
presses the humane desire to see all the
Southern States "desolated with. fire and
blood" rather than have them restored
to the Union. The desolation would
cost Watts nothing, so he can easily sf-
ford it, but what will the Southern people
say? He wants TO call out the t0omen Of
the South to the battle field, to ride in
cavalry charges, storm batteries, and
have their legs and arms, mangled by
grape shot, and musket balls! Alabama
must be poorly off, indeed, to elect so
crazy brute Governor.
From the Atlanta lntelligenoer1
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, }
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
hlChmOND, DtpteuUPT L. J
Hon. Ira Foster, Quarte1maSter General of
Georgia, At anita, Ga
DEAR SIR have to-day rec sived your
letter of the 1st inst, forwarded from
Montgomery, Alabama, and hasten TO re-
ply. You say that my name, since the
Alabama election, has been freely used
by many IN connection with "reconstr7tc-
ton" meaning thereby that some people
in Georgia suppose am in favor of re-
union with the Yankee Government of
the North. / am surprised and morti-
fed that any body in the SOUTH should
so interpret the Alabama election.
1t is due to the gallant people of my
State to call attention the resolutions
of the recent called session of the Legis-
laiure, passed un animonsly, pledging all
the men and resources Of the State TO
prosecute the war until the Independence
of the Confederate States is fully estab-
lished. For myself, will not forfeit my
self respect by arguing the question Of
'recOnstructiOn" He who is now, de
| liberately or otherwise in favor of Ere
construction" with the States under
Lincoln's dominion is a traitor in his
heart to the State of his residence and
| deserves a traitors doom. 1t | had the
power, would build up a aOaH Of fire be-
tween Yankeedom and the Confederate
States, there TO burn, for ages as a monu
ment of the folly. wickedness and van
dalism of the Puritanic race! No SIR I
rather than reunite NTH such PEOPLE, I would
see He Confederate States deSOlated Nth fire
and Sa00rd When the men of the South
become such base towards as to wish for
such reunion, let us call on the women of
tho South TO march 10 the battle field,
and, in the name of God aud justice,
bid them fight under the banner of
Southern liberty! The call would not
be made in vain. Let the patriotic sires,
whose children have barred their breasts
to Yankee bullets and welcomed glorious
deaths in this struggle for self govern
ment, rebuke the foul spirit which even
whispers reconstruction" Let the no
BILE mothers, whose sons have made sa-
cred with their blood so many fields
consecrated to freedom, rebulSe the fell
heresy, Let our blood. stained banners,
nnw nnfurled to the battle and the
breeze" rebuke the cowardice and cupid
ity which suggest Reconstruction" The
spirits of our heroic dead, the martyrs to
our sacred cause, rebuke, thousand
times rebuke, reconstruction" In any
event, let US prefer death to a life of
cowardly shame.
Your Obedient servant,
7. IL. WATTS,