The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-02-28

We nave ana al re can 90, belongs 70
the country and TIE GeTernment. These
are not the times for the accumulation Of
money or tho piling up ct fortunes
These heaps Of wealth will prove worth
less trash If we fail 70 achieve our hber-
ties and Independence. 70 conquer in
this strife Is with as an absolute neces-
5itY. We cannot afford 10 fail. There
fore is it that all our thoughts and Lahore
should, with q singlenezs Of heart and
oneness Of purpose, be directed to thS
achievement Of the great end in view.
il we bu. feed and clothe our armies and
steadily hold our own, We shall come oui
conquerors. Time is fighting cur battles
for us, aid experiences viii yet teach the
i Northern vandals The folly and madness
Of their longer continued tfsTts st our
conquest and subjagasion.
The Appeal hopes By this to counter
act the effect Of the Presidents Amnesty
Proclamation; but the faIsehOOd Is too
! glazing to effect much.
DETERIORATION.
IF secession is successful, other dis
! solutions are clearly 10 be seen in the
future" Such, says the Montgomery
Mail, was the language used by Gen.
Mcclellan in . letter 10 President Lin
coin, dated 9Th July, 1862 Immediately
after the grand series Of battles below
Richm nd, which raised the siege of that
city. The letter itself was q letter Of
advice and suggestions. Mcclellan was
evidently afraid that the terrible disast ?
which his army had just suffered, would
produce = reaction ~ the North in favor
OF peace-and among his other reasons
for continuing the war, was The one
above cited, that "if secession is sue
cesslul other dissOlutions are clearly to
BE- seen in the future"
On this point be is assuredly right.
And i. is not the least of tbs May con-
sideraiOas which impel cur enemies to
prolong their war upon us, that the in
dependence Of the South will be only the
forerunner Of the disintegration of the
North, and the distress aud perhaps ruin
of all the New England States.
Ia the old Union New England lived
and hOurishsd by plundering the South
and West; now she lives by plundsring
the West and the Government. Let the
war once cease, and there will bs no
longer . chance to plumber the Govern
ment There will remain then only the
West ; and it will be . short time only
before the agricultural West, refusing to
submit to the exactiOns of New England
tariffs, and to bear the enormous load Of
the public debt, will seek safety as the
South sought tin absolute separate
political independence.
The West is almost exclusively agri-
cultural, and, like ourselves before the
war, paid steady tribAts to the Yankee
manufacturers aud importers Of the E asst
The West ought never to have gone into
this war against US, for, with the excsp.
ton Of the slavery question, she had
reason to make common cause with Us
against Yankee rhpaeity. When tho war
is over, and the debt comes 20 be audit
ed, Yankee trickery will cOntrivs 10
pus on the West the most of the burden
Yankee tariffs viii extract what little of
her substance is left by Yankee taxation.
Too late tho West will see the folly of
fighting with Yankees 70 subdue as, in
stead Of fighting with US to put down
Yankeedom-bat not too late to ssselt
her rights, which she is abuadantly able
to do, and seek refuge in an independent
Republic.
The close Of the war, too, will be the
signal for the whole Pacific coast to
to slough of, California, Oregon, Wash
iDgton and the territories west of the
mountains, have territory and resources
enough to establish a magnificent Pa
cifc republic. Brigham Young will
seize the occasion to 90 what he has long
desired-revolt against all authority,
and establish himself civil as veil as
religious sutocrat of his dOminions.
Thus, then, the Eastern States, deprived
of the agricultural wealth of the South,
the manipulation OF which brought them
so mach gain, aud of the Southern mar
ket for their Acknowledgment Of
the bFeadstuffs and the meats of the
Northweet-Of the golden current which
flowed to them from Csliforniz-wiil be
left out Ia the cold" and viii meet the
fate Of bankruptcy and beggsry which
the whole world viii witness without
feeling one emotion of sorrow.
These are but specalations, but fore
cast of the future shows it TO be, we
think, the result which will follow the ts-
Enlistment ofour independence. In such
az event, the Confederate States will be
the dominant power upon this continent !
the largest in territory, the richest in |
agricultural sRd mineral wealth, with |
the finest climate, the best institutions,
the best form of Government, and the |
noblest race of people that ever lived. |
The day ia coming, and not so far off |
either, when to be 3 citizen of these Con-
federate States will be = prouder title |
than was the title Of Roman in the days |
of the iwperisl clty's greatest splendOr
and prosperity.
TENKEssLEs HAVE TINE.
A letter from Dalton, gives an account
of dinner, at which number of Ten
nessesns were present. There names
viii be familiar in this vicinity.
After The dinner had been "diecussed"
70 the satisfaction of sll present, Major
T. G. Rsndle, 5lst Tennessee, one Of the
msrshRis Of the day, arose and said:
Gentlemen: Although We have no fow-
ing wine with which to season our senti-
ments, yet I have one to propose, which
know you will eli drink, in your heart
of hearts. "Msjor Gen. Chesthsm, the
brAvess Of the brave BE is Tennessee's
hope, as the leader of her bysve troops
for redemption from oppression"
The sentiment was wildly cheered,
aud General Cheatham was loudly
called for TO make = speech. BE was
conducted to the table by Capt. z F.
Lee, assistant inspector general, one of
the marshsls, when he announced to the
brigade that in about two weeks he ex-
pected again TO marshal his old brigade
under his leadership. He said he con-
sidered the troops Of one State as good
as those Of another. They had proven
it. He regarded it high honor to com
nand any of them, but he had been in
the habit of commanding troops from
his own State, ana he confessed be pre-
ferred TO command them.
Brigsdier General VIM. B. Bate was
next loudly and with one accord called |
for.
he appeared on the table, looking the
daugueFEeotype of brave soldier, true
patriot and an accomplished orator,
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