The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-07-30

A correspondent Of the Atlanta In
teliigeneer enters q protest against emf
grafton from Georgia to Brazil. He
thinks all citizens should return to
their allegiance, remain at home, and
discharge all their duties to the country
and society. That he may not be i'm
properly judged by those who differ
with him, he says at an advanced age
he entered the Confederate service
was severely wounded; was among the
last who surrendered onthis side Of the
Mississippi was stripped Of everything
and his family left houseless. i is not
likely, therefore, that there should be
an improper bias on his part in favor
Of those who were the instruments Of
this suffering.
He then reasons with the proposed
emigrants as follows:
Let Us look coolly at the facts in the
case. We had q quarrel with the
North. We threw down the glove by
firing on Fort Sumter We submitted
our cause to the arbitrament of the
sword. We were conquered. and with
what results As honorable men. we
must do our former adversaries the jus
tice TO say that History contains no re-
cord Of terms so magnanimous and 50
liberal as those accorded to our armies
upon their surrender. If we had been
successful, our struggle would have been
a revolution-unsuccessful. il became a
rebellion, and We were rebels We
we're at the mercy Of Che vietorF In
anticipation of such q probable event
did any Of us dream that we should be
allowed to 90 to our homes, even with
our horses and side arms, and other
private property, remain undisturbed,
and be restored to all our rights and
immunities IS before the war, saving
those classes excepted in the Presi-
dents proclamation, without anypun-
ishment whateveF2 If they bad dealt
with Us as our fathers dealt with
those in Georgia who took up arms
against the colonies, cur condition
would have been terrible one
What is now required Of us2 To swear
that we viii obey the laws and Consti-
tuition Of the United States, and GER
tain procIama4ions of the President
Can we not do itq The two-questions
which divide the North and South are
iaaliy at rest To enquire how this
was done, Is not pertinent 1t is the
present and future we are to consider.
Is there anything in those laws and
constitution against our conscienees7
There can be nothing in the proclama
lions as they refer to a matter now set
tied.
If conscience does not stand in our
way, shall we allow Pride, Revenge,
Humiliation or any kindred sentiments
to cause US to desert our State, in this
her extremity2 Shall we leave those
noble women who suffered and dared
80 much, to exc out a wretched exist
ence among strangers? Is our beloved
State to be peopled by Foreigners? VIII
cur young men, who are our only hope,
forsake us3 In rebuilding the waste
places; in the reconstruction of our
State Governmen; in the reorganization
of our social fabric, in nqEelling disorders
which must inevitably occur from the
abolition Of slavery, are We to lose their
aid2 lsit manly2 Is it iust2 May il
not be cowardly2
Mere physical courage is a quality 50
common among gentlemen, that il is the
exceptional absence of it, rather than
its exbibisioa, which attracts attention.
There is 3 higher and nobler courage
which IS not 30 general. It is that
courage which faces disaster and rises
above it which encounters difficulties
and oyercemes them; which, in the
discharge CT duty, meete privation, hu-
initiation, and obloquy with calnsness
which, never whining over the melan-
choly past, steadily contemplates what
ever may be unwelcone In the future,
prepared to meet it with f0rtitude
which never finches from q friend in
adversity, bat BY pariicipation with
him, divides aud then mitigates his
s0zrows, and which, above all causes its
possesaor to cling to his native land,
sharing her sorToWs and hunsiiiations.
- well Is rejoicing in her tFiumphs,
leads him b exclaim. Ny country
God do 30 70 me, and more also, if
sught but death part thee and me"
This = true courage. Conscience
may induce us 10 abandon our native
land moral can or may do the same
thing. Let us be snre that the noble,
and net the ienobie, motive sctuates ua
Sc far from abandoning home, i is
now the duty Of every Georgian 70
stand 70 his post Il has been predict
ed Eneerinely b those opposed 70 rs
that many Of our infuential claazes
would hide their mortiheation IN for
sign lands occupied in bewailing the
past and il railing Is those who have
overpoaared IA Lett falsify the pre-
dicticni We have foueht together, We
have been orerwhelmed togetherf let
NJ If need be. suffer together - the
end
Eat no cause Of suaeFing exlla The
pol;cT inaicaled ~ President Inhnsou