The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-04-21
A WORD.

V j ne mhfkeu improvement IN Browns
vile, morally considered /, since the ad-
vent of Gen. Getty TO the Rio Grande.
is deserving of serious comment We
do not know, however, that this i'm
provement is in any way due to the ex-
ertion of the present military COM
mander, and, at best, may be only the
calm that precedes another storm of
disgraceful, murderous outlawry. We
do not know though, that, not the
reign, but the loossness, of Mai. Gen.
Weitzel, could produce none other than
the unbridled anarchy which we have
witnessed for months past. We unhes-
itatingly assert that during the so-called
command of that General, SO mobbish
8 state as that witnessed on the green
back side of the Rio Grande was never
before known; and we further know
that since Gen. Getty has been in COM
mand, a wonderful change for the bet-
ter has taken place.
It is customary to bestow all censure
and all credit upon whoever happens to
be at the head of affairs, when in fact
the immediate head may have literally
nothing to do with producing order or
disorder, and here we MAJ be doing
wrong in pointing to Gen. Weitzel as
the cause of the infernalstate of affairs
alluded to. We are morally certain,
however, that pure waters never flow
from corrupt fountains; but at the
same time, Is ia equally true that pure
fountains often become converted into
stsgnant cess pools,
Its apparent however, that the form
/ er commander winked at all breaches
Of neutrality, while the present one is
duly watchiul to prevent them. Under
the rule of one, disorder reigned un-
der the other, order has come out of
chaos. But, as we said, the good order
on the other side, for the hour, may be
only the forerunner of the most in
fernal disorder, yet known. There is
a possibility that Gen. Getty will find in
few days that the price Of order is
eternal vigilance. Possibly he will
find that the almost silentrumors aaoat
mean more than the louder and noisier
talk of previous times
In this connection we beg TO state,
that had the present watchful com
mander been here from the time the
FedeTals resumed command on this
line, the work Of OutlsWry on this side
Of the line would not have been known.
For the information Of our neighbors,
we will say that the forces of Gen Ne
iia have remained inactive through
fear of that IRE in the rear. There
has been no time when Gen Melia
could not have marched with his vete-
ran troops eli over the frontier, and
easily have put the outlaws 70 fight
but the tilhbuster attitude Of our
| ueighbors, the recklessness Of Federal
officers and men, the general work Of
robbery and pillsge emsnating from
that side, have stoOdup like grim mon
sters to warn our distinguished chief
tain 70 watch well this city of wealth
and dry goods.
The Bagdad pillage shows how sound
was the Judgment that decided to pro-
tsct this place, though the country
meantime should be overrun with rob-
he's The court of inquiry al Brazos
Santiago, which perpetrated that string
of monstrous hbels tells lust what
would have resulted from the efforts OF
Ger. Meiia to save the whole country
bv weakening his forces here
| At any time Gen. Mejia could have
| marched from here 70 81 Passo, and
have left behind a sufficient force q
guard this city against the augmented
forces Of the enemies 10 all government
but the Internal state Of affairs on the
greenback side kept him here while
the robbers ravaged the country. Bui
now that Gen Getty has shown bis
hand, the phase of affairs IN rapidly
changing. What Was but yesterday
as it we're, the greatest cause OF alarm
having been renewed, a correspondinl
change Of policy has been ana u oeinl