The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-10-15
SATURDAY, OCTOBER =, 1864.
LEFT Dayls' late Tour.

JtH Uallo- ihtC AONAs O.
There we're some who questioned the
genuineness OF the speech ofs,JeR Davis,
which we published asday or two since,
alleging that the application ofthe term
sooundrel, to Gov. Brownie could have
referred only to him-and the damaging
declaration that, two-thirds of the rebel
army were deserters, stamped the docu
ment as forgery In brief review
Of the speech, the other day, we think !
we satisfactorily explained why it WAS
necessary that the statement relative
10 deserters should be made, let the
result be what il would lie was com
PEELED 10 tell the truth, to allay the dis
content Of the eieoFgians, who were on
The brink of mutiny. go
As 70 any doubt Of Jeffs readiness to
apply blacl1guard epithets, we confess
ourselves notamong the number who ey-
or entertained any, His Jackson speech,
long ago, has suFlieed TO satisfy any one,
who ever read ii, on that point In
that, he declared the NORTH TO be low,
trsditionless race, and his only wonder
was that The gentlemen Of the South
had ever consented to associate with
them as long as they had. To the sol
diers OF the North, he has applied all
the epithets that billingsgate vocab-
ulary could contain and being a man Of
most violent temper, heleould not con
cesl his hatred Of Governor Brown, but
rather took delight in calling him
scoundrel.
Buff any one entertained doubts on
this point, they are, certainly, by this |
time, dispelled At other points, he
delivered himself of harangues Of |
character similar to the one which we
gave in full, the other day; and from
one end Of the bogus Confederscy to
the other comes up wall over the aw
ful disclosures they contain. Can they |
be really true9 is universally asked
The worst rebels are denouncing Davis |
for revealing them, but the majority |
will put to themselves very different |
interrogatory they viii say: If these
are faets-and Davis certainly would |
not exaggerate our misfortunes-had |
we not better lay down our arms? We |
have good reason 10 believe that Gov. |
Brown, since the visit Of the rebel Pres
ident, has opened negotiations for a re-
turn to the Union-something he |
declined doing before that time.
JEFF, in his old capital, Montgomery, |
addressed the very people who had
witnessed his first inauguration, OF
rather the few of them who were left,
and the papers there report SIS follows
He would not attempt 10 conceal |
the fact that we have experienced great |
disasters of late, The enemy have |
pressed our armies backward into the |
center of Georgia, threatened the Dor
ders of Alabama, and occupied the Bay |
of Mobile 81. eos -.
Headmitted, too-indeed, where was
the use ofdenying it2-that he had been
disappointed in all his calculations in
Northern Georgis:"
After sending forward to the army
at Dalton All the reinforcements he
could collect from every quarter, in
eluding the troops from Northern Mis-
sissippi, he had confidently expected a
successful advance through Tennessee !
into Kentucky" H
This is statement that throws some
light upon the history of the great
Georgia campaign Here is another
still more significant, and that may
contain valuable hint as to the present
sitnstion
HAD be thought that, instead Of the
forward movement, our arms would
have retired to Atlanta, he would have
left his old, lauIented and venerable
friend, General Polk, 70 hare assGiled
Sherman apoa his flank BIZ North Alabama"
Now, Jefferson Davis must have found
himself in very critical and peculiar
relations with the people he was adj
dressing to feel constrained to discuss
the management of the campaign with
them in detail That the people of the
South west are deeply dissatisfied with
hipa, there is much evidence. Even the
troops of Hoods army, called 10 him
the other day, while he was reviewing
them, demanding their old commander,
Joe Johnston. He also found it neces-
sary to declare
In the same hall where be sWore
before high Heaven 70 support the
Constitution oil his country, that 50 help
him God, he had never been induced 70
any course, public OF personal, by any
consideration Of the past" =
Who viii aftlT that, assert that the
Confederacy Is not dying2