The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-03-31
NAsaTILLE, TENY., "a. lS. rs

NASHVILLE, TENN, Feb. Is, 1868.
Dear Sir: ] see by the papers that
some Of you people at Trenton are still
higgiing over the "constitutional
Amendment Not your Senator SEQ
vel; nor some Others, thank Heaven
but some of your SHOULDERS and Hols>
mans and Randolphs, Ct ii o1sse 9silas,
that huFe already sulEed your fair fame.
almost forever.
l take the liberty Of dropping you
this note, not supposing that ! will be
able to Influence them in the least, but
with the hope of iucitIng yeu, and 9TH
ers such as you, to renewed earhestness
and energy in pressing this great mea-
sure through. do this because 1 TOO,
am Jerseymam, born and bred there
-nny father and grandfather before
me. There, lie the bones Of my ances-
tors for three generations, and there
also expect to lay mine when LIES
fitful fever is oYeT." But should feel
for all eternity, and it seems my bones
would turn in my cotfin, if vent
hon1e to be buried in New Jerseys soil,
should she reject this amendment for
Human Freedom, after having already
twice voted substantially for Human
Bondage.
Those of you at home probably feel
the condition of our State pretty con-
siderably; but you have no idea Of
what infamy it subjects us TO, who are
serving in the army Not content with
disgacing herself In 1876 60, in 1861
she sends Stockton to paisley with ffai-
tors ia South Car0lina, in 1853 refuses
to let her soldiers vote, in ls64--alone
of all the Free States--v0tes for the
cowardice of Chicago; and noE. when
even Maryland and Missouri are wheel
ing into the ranks Of freedom, she still
higqles and hesifstes about the Consti- |
tutional Amendment Officers and sol
diers, believing ia. the republic and /
fighting for the Union, taunt us with |
these facts every day here, and the on
ly answer New jersey will suiler us TO |
make is to hang our heads for very
shame's sake
Is there no help for this, my dear |
Senators2 Is there no ivirtue-or love /
of liberty-left in, our people2 Are |
they stricken with judicial blind |
ness in regard to the '-exeerable sum |
of villaniesY Have they forgotten |
that God rules and reigns, and that |
some time they have got TO pay for /
such apostasy? Don't they know that |
they are now making history and that
during this very winter, they have ei- !
ther to gibbef themselves ia infamy /
forever or crown their State, at last,
with immortal honor2 Ies; those are /
the words. They cannot escape--theI /
is no halfway; it is either lasting infa-'
my or immortal honor, and they must
choose noW.s
am kept here by important public
business, and cannot get home and
don { know that oonld do much good |
if / were to l have dropped 50 COM
pletely out ofsight by being ''oH to the
wars so long. But | beseech YOU by
all Jerseyman holds high or dear, to
do your utmost, in season and out Of
season, 10 Sare me and my comrades in
the army from this new and deeper
disgrace, never to be washed off or
atoned for, that Copperheads and trai-
tors at home are now seeking to fasten
upon our State, and upon us al. n
p a sYeurs, for the country,
JAMES r. RUsLrSG.
Captain and A. @ NJ, Chief Assistant
Quartermaster, Department Of rthe
Cumberland
Richard Golden, whose friendship
has almost made US forget the enmi.y
Of other nglishnnen, recently address
ed a letter to Hon. B. r Wood, our
minister at Copehsgen,I IN which he
stated theory which events are now
confirming:
at seems to me that there are IN
rnistakable signs Of exhaustion in the
Confectionery, and it would not be rash
10 predict nov that the iamous ninety
days viii witness very decisive events
in the progress of the war. JEFF Davis
rules in Richmond, but the Federal ar
mics CONTROL his dominions hold .
theory that in these times, when armies
require vast appliances Of mechanical
resources, and when they are 50 much
larger than in olden days, il is impossi-
ble to carry on the var without the
base of large cities. If the seaports be
taken and Lee be obliged to eyaeuate
Richmond, there viii not be town. left
in he Conlederaey vita twenty thou
sand white inhahitsnts It will be i'm
possible 70 maintain permanently large
armies in the interior Of the slave
States, amid scattered plantations and
unpaved villages. You cannot, in such
circumstances, concentrate the means
Of subsistence or furnish the necessary
equipment for an army. Ierpsct there
tore, b zee he ioss ef fhs targs ioisns lead 70
a dspsTsia1ef tie So,akerH armies =
From the fear Of this result Lee did
not longago Attempt to eEaeuate Rich
mond The stand made BY the rebels
at that city has been partly enforced
and partly voluntary, but there ca n be
no question that the enemy has held
his capital only By sAesikeiBg State az
ter State
Mr.. CLARK Mills