Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-09-27

The ISLANDERS Upon the PeOpIe-GOOd
Conduct of Late Harmony
and Peace-Kind Feeling Toward the
Northern Men = Religious ReViVaIs,
Etc, Etc,
Correspondence Of the Union and Americana
MANCHESTER, Sept. Is, 1866.-If proof
were wanting to convict BRowNLowo of ma
licious Islander against his own State and
people, it can be found in every county in
the State. Here in county that sent num-
beers Of her best citizens to the Southern ar
my-together with the flower of her youth
is one Of the queitest and most law-abiding
people 10 be found any where, you meet
every day some one of the noble band, who
we're fighting, as they believed, for their
hearth stones, minus an arm or leg-en-
gagged in some peaceful avocation for sup
port, and all are quietly pursuing the even
tenor Of their way, not thinking or dreaming
of resistance to the constituted authorities,
but rather using all their influence peace,
harmony and social quiet. The returned
rebel soldier and the Federal defend
er of the Union are here acting in con-
cert for the maintenance of social order, and
move together for the furtherance of every
object-looking to the prosperity of the coGn-
sources. Citizens of Pennsylvania are here
travelling over the country looking out loca-
tons to settle, and the citizens, one and all
show them every attention, and even leave
their business TO go round and show them the
country, and give all the information posi-
bic relating to it; agricultural, mechanical,
mineral and other sources. They not only
come and go unmolested, but are treated with
!, L s. L l.,
impression is made, and they return disa-
bused of the opinions formed from the &C
counts of the penDy-a-liner slanderers of our
people, TO bring their families and settle
amongst us.
Citizens, who occupied different ground
during the war, whose opinions placed them
in opposition to each other, are now work
ing shoulder to shoulder--the dead past
buried out Of sight-to repair the damages
of war, to build up the waste places and
start again in the road to prosperity and solid
peace. As it is here, so, from good authori-
ty, | believe it to be everywhere through
out the State. And if that dead spectre,
which BRowNLOw & Co. are trying to evoke,
could be layed, and the people be leftto work
out their own salvation politically, socially
and physically, of themselves, they claim no
right, not conceded by the COnstitu-
ton, there would soon be such an
improvement in the condition of the
country as has never before been known.
One material fact 1 must notice in this
connection. Every Southern soldier, al
most without exception, returned home a
better man, and therefore a better citizen.
During the last years of the war there were
great revivals of religion in their camps,
and permanent reformation took place in
their habits and lives, and since their return
they have shown how thorough and earnest
was the change in their walk and conversa-
ton. A deep interest is manifested by the
whole people, influenced, as l believe, to a
great extent, by the example of the re-
turned soldiers, in religious matters, and
revivals are going on throughout the coun-
try with the best of results. Can such a
people want another war? TENNIsoN.