The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-10-02


ing to the 9th ult, we extract the fol-
lowing:
The Examiner says: "There was
rumor afoat yesterday, said to have
been promulgated by "those in author
ity," that Gov Brown and other promi-
nent men OF Georgia, had determined
to hold piece conference with Sher-
man, and were going to Atlanta for that
purpose. We mention this ruTaor as
one of the on dis of the day The
same story was sent here by telegraph
several days ago.
The Richmond Dispatch thinks that
there is no mistsking the object of
Sherman in desiring TO hold confer
ence with Yice-President Stephens and
Gov. Brown. at is TO detach the State
Of Georgia, if possible, from the Con-
federacy, through the agency Of these
two gentlemen, when, from their course
with regard to the habeas corpus act
and other measures, he takes to be at
heart well disposed to.promote such
measure. The Dispatch is confident
! that Sherman will find himself disap-
pointed in his estimation Of these gen
tlemen, yet it deprecates their advocacy
of a line of policy which Yankee gen
eral could by any possibility have thus
I
interpreted 1t is to be trusted that
the meeting will not be accorded as it
can answer no good purpose, and be de
signed for no good end
But the tribulation of the rebel press
is not greater than that of the Copper
head press The papers of that persua-
sion have SO often asserted that the
rebels would not make peace while a
Northern vandai'I was on Southern
soil; that the war was failure; and that
there never would be peace while Mr.
LINCOLN was President; and they have
so ardently desired that their predic-
/ tions should be fulfilled, that they cry
out with horror at the rumored nego-
tiations with Georgia. To show their
tone, we give the following from the
n. Y. News:
Mr. yicePresident Stephens is a man
of reflection His temper and genius
are of the class that pass into the closet
in the stormy days of revolution. A
student, an orator, statesman, he,
when lines of battle rushed at each 9th,
er with bloody steel, sank into a suborS
dinate place among men of action. The
soldier-intellect and stern spirit of Mr.
| Davis have flashed out during the
! struggle of the COnfederacy FOR iffe, =,
to splendor that has obscured all 9th.
er lights. The ambition of Mr. Steph-
ems made the mistake of accepting this
as a slight Wounded pride appears to
have stung the spirit of the Confeder-
ate Vice President Party recollec-
tons, too, may have quickened his
sense of wrong, and may have widened
brooding dissatisfaction into morose
alienation, and morose alienation into
violent hostility. Mr. Stephens felt il
his duty, last winter, TO assail, at pub
lie meeting in Georgia the Confederate
Administration, and, in doing so, was
sustained by considerable number of
the legislators of that State, under the
leading of Gov. Brown
Governor Brown, of Georgia, is man
of honesty. Narrow, however, in his
views he is naturally disposed to be
crotchety. Imporious of viii, he is in
clined to assert what he conceives to
be the rights of his position, with ex
acting intolerance. A State rights man
of the most rigid sect, one might con-
clude from these considerations that he
would be found, as a representative of
sovereignty in an association of indie
pendent States, somewhat impractical
BILE Such has proved TO be the case.
His proud temper chafes under the
leadership of central executive.
Working expediences exasperate his
erotehety judgment as'harness does the |
shoulders Of an unbroken horse. As
liberty is mistaken by the unenlight-
ened for license, so are the sovereign
rights of his State mistaken by Gov.
Brown for an independence as ume-
strained as that of the untutored saw
age. In this way, and to this extent,
AtaAo tAAotA AAOAANoN bOlACf0l III llit 6OftI-
eighty of Georgia, drifted into temper
more or less impracticablc OHense to
his extreme views he has allowed TO
deepen into discomfort; and that dis
content he has permitted to grow into
opposition until, finally, he a we'll
meaner, and we believe an honest man,
has exhibited in his relations to the
Government at Richmond, spirit of
hostility to the plain necessities OF
public faith.
The discomfort of Mr. Stephens and |
Gov Brown has given volume TO what |
is known in the Confederacy rs " the |
Georgia policy" That policy has, how
ever, not originated with those gentle |
men; neither does it take form or color !
froIa their relat ons with the Govern |
ment at Richmond. But even though |
it has or does, II must Be recoRccfca hat |
hey are both men Of self,respect, a,id inca
pdbe Of lGa&iHg their State. ,oidsr eccn the 1
chqf6lg Of anger, into an act Of outrageous
bad tdiH. "Stats action they certainly |
neuer Interpreted IN mulRef 10 inU0l5f |
Stat ilfamH The withdrawal of Geor-
gia from her sister States of the Con |
federacy in the hour Of their supreme /
trial, Is a superstition that involves /
depth of baseness which dispassionate
witnesses must admit conflicts directly |
with all the teachings of the political |
history of the States of the South. |
That explanation of the Georgia poll
c." is not more infamous than absurd /
dc &c. &c
From this we can understand what
the Copperheads mean by advocating
peace; they would have no peace that
did not involve the destruction of the
Government, and the humiliation of
the loyal people that would not open
the way for Northwestern Confedefacy.
COnspiracIes.
Our MCCLELLAN contemporaries are in
a peck of tribulation On every hand
Al L