The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-12-23
The RebeL Refngee. IN Sew York.
From ths RieAmond Wing, Dec. 10.


L gives Us q great deal II PLEASURE %
obssrVe thai The Yuikees are about 10 make
their country too hot to hot he Southern re
Jugees, who have resoFted TO it in the
hour of their country's distress, to get
themselves out of reach of danger In
the city Of New York especially-the
main resort of these Tene9Gdes, on this
continent at least-GeneFal Dix, scarce
ly inferior as 3 theif-taker and inqUisi-
tor to Butler himself, is giving them an
immense deal of trouble. He has put
the detective police upon them, and
they are following them up as a black
snake fellows up a rat, from one hole
to another The late attempt to set
fire to the hotels Of the city-with
which, we suppose, these poor creatures,
'Cko have not The spirit to Get fire to a lone
caJin on prairie, hundred miles from
human habitstions, had about as much
to do as they had to do with the last
eruption of Mount Vesuvius-is the
pretext for this extraordinary rigor
We wish General Dix the most thorough
] success. Let him not be choice in
making his arrests, but cut green and
ripe. He has a right to presume, priBla
tdcie, that every man Of them is guilty
of something bad for tie presumption
Of gstih IS aaoays strong against a fellob0 0ho
IS found IN an eSieHlgs country IN the midst
of such logT as this. We hope the Gen
eral will put the law upon them with
all its weight If there be none to suit
their several cases, he may make one
to suit each, and just such one as he
pleases. If he can make anything by
the transaction-and few Yankees will
undertake job that does not pay-we
shall hear Of his success with great
pleasure We shall be delighted to
hear that these renegades have not been
able to save their money by playing
traitors to their country and deserving
Der in the hour of distress. So, fire
away, General You can hardly go
wrong in this matter, and you have the
hearty sympathy of the whole confede-
racy.
II is fatal delusion for any man to
suppose that when his country is en-
gagged in a war for existence he can re-
main neutral with impunity. We care
not what may be the circumstances IN
Ter which that country first entered
into war, whether she were right or
whether she were wrong in dong So
the moment the foot of the enemy
presses her soil, the moment the blood
If Der children begins to flow, from thar
moment neutrality becomes treason,
snd The neutral man is q traitor in his
heart, how careful soever he be to ab
stain from the commission Of the overt
asA As long as war is imminent, 10,
actually raging, solOng has the citizen
the right 70 warn, to deprecate, to re-
monstrate. But the sound of the first
cannon takes away all such right The
relations of the parties are from tr4t
moment completely changed, and he
Who is not for his country Is against l..
Ny country, was the famous toast OF
Decatur-"My country, may she always
j,- IN the right, but my country, right
or wrong" That is the true doctrine,
and those who think otherwise, and act
ccording 10 their sentiments, will find
themselves wofully deceived 1t is
fatal mistake to suppose that indiffer-
ence to the cause of ones country can
ever be forgiven. Look to the tories Of
the old Revolution, even at those who
did no more than sympathize with the
public enemy and rejoice at his success.
10 a man, they went down to the grave
in cloud, Stunned by their fellow citi-
zeus as though they had the plague
about them And such viii be The
fate of all such as in this war have
taken part with the enemies of their
country. Let none such hope to avoid
it?
The case is no better of those rene
gades who escape from service in the
army by flying to the enemys country
or escaping through the blockade 10
Europe There they hope to enjoy
themselves, while here at home every
man, woman and child is suffering pr
vatiOns from the war, and our brave
soldiers are encountering unheard OF
tolls and Drawing unheard of dangers
All such will be noted, and noted only
to be despised. We wish every State
in the confederscy would pass laws to
confscate every atom of property they
possess, and to forbid their ever return /
ing as citizens By abandoning their
country in the hour of peril they for
felt all claims they could ever have had
to her protection. Let them stay
among those they prefer to their own
countrymen, where they might be Of
some service by staying at home, We
hope the Yankees Will pass laws to
confscate the property OF every man
capable of scting rs soldier who halls
from the South, and who is now resi-
dent in any OF the Yankee States.