The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-04-29

Tine PATIENT FEvERIsH SrMPToNs.--Tht
suffering Times-to which the statement
made in the Union, Of the fact that print
: ing obtained from the Legislature ostensi
blv for the Times, is really done by an OPP
position paper, the Press-haI proved irri-
Eating and tormenting, showed yesterday
as consequence, symptoms of fever, at
tended with delirium. The last distressing
malay led it to publish the following:
From me Nashville Union, Dec. Is, 1ss3.
10 OUR READERS.
Mr.. S. C. Mercer has published card in
one Of the city papers in which he says /:
al have not discontinued the publication
ror relinQuished the control Of the Nash
Vile Union. That gentleman never pub
lished one number OF the Union, nor did he
over coatrol its publication. Mr.. III. was
suffered 10 write his own peculiar views.
and have them printed IN ourcolumns, and
81 the commencement of his services As a
/ writer, a gentleman Of high official position
[ agreed 10 relieve us Of 50 much expense IS
pertaiaed to the payment Of Mr.. Ms sala-
~. w. CANEkoS Co.
On this the patient, in its rawlings says
Gould any disclaimer Of sympathy with
the Union doctrines and sentiments which
made the Nashville Union 50 popular IA
the 8 N and with loyal citizens Tor twenty
months, be clearer, palmer, or more en-
phaticg"
"They yirtuslly disclaim all sympathy
with the doctrines, opinions and sentiments
which we advanced during the impudent
prevalence Of treason IN Nashville"
The Nashville Union publish, in reply 70
an impudent card-not that they disagree
with the lrign sentiments Of It's author
not that they are wanting in sympathy
with his expressions Of loyal feeling, but
that they are not responsible for his "pecu-
lar vices" But the disordered imagination
Of the feverish Times believes, in its in
coherent wanderiugs, that the peculiar
not the Union-sentiments, opinions, and
doctrines of g particular individual, are
the measure of all loyalty, the test Of al
true Unionism. Admit this outburst Of
egotistic delirium for serious matter Of
fact, and it follows that not only the Nash !
vile Union, but all other papers and per-
sons, must be tested by the standard ofthe
peculiar views the cards Of VIM. Cameron |
i Co., alluds to. CoHquering GraRt-stesd- |
last Johnson--Inartyred Lincoln, have your |
doctrines, sentiments, and opinions" al
ways squared with the peculiar views Of the |
publisher of an impudent card in the Nash
VILE papers? if not, you are all "neutral |
milk and water!" A modest assum ption-
but who can be modest in a fever, and self |
during delirum?
That the actually unhealthy condition of
the patient may be better understood, we
will contrast the raying copied above, with
the utterance Of the same card publisher
when in more healthy condition, in the
summer Of 1863. On June the 3rd Of that
year, he wrote as follows in the Union, at
the time be was engaged upon it:
"The publishers Of tho UNION are all
printers, and poor men, depending on their
daily labor for a livelihood. No one has
ever breathed aught against their charac-
ter. Several OF them are as decided anti
slavery men as the editor Of the UNIoE, and |
all Of them are abundantly qualified to in
struct Mr.. Prentice in the department of d |
gentleman aud the duties Of patriot"
Quite difference, the reader sees, be-
tween the sanity in June, 1869, and the
fever Of April, 1865. Sanity finds the
same men good anti-slavery people, quail
fed to give instruction in the duties Of the
patriot and the department Of the gentle
men, that delirium denounces as neutral,
milk and water, partners Of a rebel editor,
and SO on. The diagnosis is complete; an
carly resort to quinine treatment, admins
tered in Louisville Journal doses, is indics-
ted a. probably necessary.