The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-12-27

newspapers in his model common
wealth. He asks for a law empowering
him at any time 10 dispose, dethrope,
and, maybe, decspitate the genuine,
original editor, and to pu4 in his place
some gifted and knee-crookins crea>
ture of his own. Nor is this all Here
Jofore the men of the newspapers, in
consideration Of their cheering and
rousing and stimulating productions,
have been exempted from military duty.
Ng they are not only to be depOsed but
drafted. They must lay down the pen
and shears, and take up the musket and
saber. They must pass from bloody
theory TO CORY practice, and no longer
indulge in the dulcet consolation of
Strengthening the knaYish Yankees in
the abstract Imagine the consterna-
ton in the Richmond sanctums.
Nor must Mr.. Davis refinement. of
despotism pass unobserved. He snatch
es an editor who is so unfortunate IS
70 displease him from the embraces Of
his beloved journal marches him
off TO the cruel wars; and, to clap the
climax Of indignity, he puts a stranger
in the place Of this victim Of compulso-
~ abdication- He delivers over to the
interloper the inkstand, shears, pens,
paste-pot, and all the remaining uten-
sis Of the prescribed He contiscates,
as it were, his types, presses, and other
paraphernalia Of the craft He causes
the newspaper to say things compli-
mentaFy to himself and abhOrrent TO
the soul of the lawful proprietor. This
ill-starred individual, no longer left to
superintend his machines, thus grossly
perverted from their original purpose,
is cursing and swearing his soul out in
the camp, eating little or nothing, and
drinking only water-marched here
and there, his brains, which are his
only remaining stock in trade, extreme
ly exposed, and his very legs, upon
which in time of emergency ne must
solely rely, liable at any momentt to be
rendered useless by the sharpshooters
and the surgeons. 1t is a Pidable case.
No wonder the Governor of Georgia is
righteously indignant
The Confederacy is already feeling
the evil effects Of an ideal Union which
shall in no way trench upon the person
atty of the States, this requiring as
nearly as possible, in theory, absolute
independence and practical ignoring of
the copartnership whenever convent
ent Mr.. Davis government with all its
buster of nationality, is already upon
its knees begging the States for recruits,
3 I'D at least in the case of Georgia, it is
contemptuously denied the boon. The
Confederate Senate had before it, on
ID inst, joint resolution proposing the
appointment of special committee, to
"memorialize the Governors of States
and the State Legislatures in reference
10 the exemption of able-bOdied men
for State purposes" Mr.. Graham of
North Carolina saw at once the mis-
chief which the resolution might do,
and protested against it, " 1t would,
he said, get up quarrel which would
! do much harm" Resolution or no res
olution, we are Satisfied that the quar-
rel will come, at no very distant period
! The Confedereoy is bound together only
by rope of sand The fugitive States
| have taken intoit the same selfish ends,
the same uncomfortable passions, the
sa ne acrid ieal, u les the same sleepless
suspicious, which made them in the old
Union unreasonable associates and con
| tinually troublesome neighbOrs The
Davis and Brown feud, cannot fail to ex-
tend itself The mischieYOus doctrine
O. secession, 10 which the Confederacy
owes its existence, will prove fatal to it
in the end-A y Tribune