The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-02-16

before be writes again, for this is false
in so far as it applies {, OlaTksville, and
Fort Donelson, for ka0l0 whereof ]
write, when record, that for over twelve
months previous to September last, st Don
elson and four months past st Clarksville,
there has not been = ration, or sn article
of clothing issued to > negro man, wO-
man or child, except such IS have been
iegitimately employed by the Govern
ment 80 la5orers, nor has any protection
been afforded them beyond such as has
been afforded to others Of the human
race unavOidably within the military
lines at those posts. Nor have any ne
groes, except more recently, such as
were fit for military duty, been, by the
consent of the commanding officers, per
mitted to enter the lines. On the con-
trary the most stringent orders have
been issued forbidding it, and both ofi-
GERS and men have labored hard to pre-
vent it. But where military posts are
garrisoned as they have been by hardly
sufficient number of men to do guard
duty, and where negroes come to picket
posts and stay for hours, sleeping on the
bare ground in mid-winter waiting for
permission, or opportunity to get in, and
if this is not granted they steal in be-
tween the posts, running the risk of
being shot by the guard, after having
run the gauntlet of citizen patrols who
hover around our outposts to prevent
them, and who, to the certain knowledge
of military authorities here, have thus
killed and wounded numbers of them, !
sqy, under these circumstances, can any
man have the face TO say that they ere
enticed away and into our lines ? What
can prompt them to this, if, as he says,
"the institution of slavery has been =
blessing TO the bl1cL race, and a ,0iss proUi-
dental ordinance, more for the black than
the white race" They tell you that
their negroes are to them as part of their
families, they have nurtured them under
their own roofs as their own (O offspring,
aud are peculiarly attached to them, ard
they are " glorious institution" and still
" Kentuckian" suggests as a punisbment
upon "these egro-lOving abOlitiOnisis'
to have full grown two hundred FOUNDER
of their idols attached by some kind of a
lasting ligament to each of these human
negro worshippers, go that they could
have the full benefit of their sweet
scented goddess long enough to relieve
them of their mania" o! consistency,
thou art 3 jewel! But this system of
murder is legaIizad by the laws of the
slave States,-st least, it is permitted.
A slave owner or driver may beat 3 slave
to instant DEATH or to that extent he
dies from its effects, and the legitimate
education arising from the system is
such as to induce men q to say, 90 !
he's nothing but a niger, it's no mat
Ter" The negro is slowed away in
mother earth, and there's the end of it.
/ But if a negro is fortunate enough to
escape from this, che is stolen" (0
Another writer to the Journal, of tie
same school as Gan Old Kentuckian,"
"Loyal Citizen writes from Hopkins
Vile, KY, ander date of January 23d,
1864, as follows: al want to make if
known through your columns how The
loyalty of Christian aud Todd counties
is respected. There is = neat Of ac-
cursed abolitionis!s at Clsrksville, Tenn,
who are likely TO ruin our counties.
They swear every negro into the service
who will leave their masters and join
them, and then send him back 10 re-
cruit other negroes and urge them TO
bring every mule and horse they can
steal. Negroes are
leaving our county nightly by hundreds.
Oar largest slsveholder (who is truly
loyal man had forty-three to leave in one
night who left their wives and children
at home but took with them about
twenty-five mules. The lenient slave
holder sent after his mules, (and, by
the-by, found two Of them in CELLAR
and now has TO feed the women and
children" "Loyal Citizen" is not con-
tent with calling The military aulhori-
tiles at Clarksville q nest Of accursed
abolitionists," which he would render
negro thieves, but he openly charges them
with horse and mule thieving. would
not deign 70 notice his communication
st sll but for the purpose of Of showing
the bitter, vindictivs spirit entertained
by him, in common with others in bis
region, against those who are honoTably
battling against traitors like himself /
am sure he is nothing else, or be would
never charge the military authorities at
Clsrksville, with the crimes which be
does; at least no honest man who
knows Col Smith, would offer such in
sinustiOns. That many negroes come
into our lines is trus, and that many Of
those who do come bring with them
horses and mules, the property Of claim
ants and others Is equally true, THAT tie
commanding officer at Clsrksville, or any
one Of his command, or any one under his
official jurisdiction, directly or indirectly
conBives at the bringing Of such property
with them, or that any who are connected
with his command do not do sll in their
power TO restore such property is s7Bally
untrue In short, the best that can be
said truly Of tbs communication Of
aLoyal Citizen" il, that it is tissue Of
fulsel9ofs from beginning to end. Ken
tuskisns are stieklys for their. hosor" and
their "ebivalry" and perhaps if "Loyal
Citizen" will call upon any Of those whom
be SO assiduously seeks 10 vilify he may
fad that there are those, even outside Of
Of Kentucky, who claim to Be men Of
honor.