Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-26

pail that hangs over our families from
many month"; Of hunger and nakedness2
Allow rs to say 10 say to you, sir, in all
sincerity, that neither official station nor
the interesla of party can Justify sueb an
outrage upon the rights Of the hufnblest
man IN the land. We wrote you on bust
ness, and decsncy at least required that you
should have replied to US, leaving out
your piece about Rebels, "YourvpieceD
about Rebels may bea vsrx good Thing if
a man was not hungry, or his wife and
children naked, bat fancy sketches d0n,t
do hungry man any good. Besides, We
have read 4your piece" about Rebels iusll
your messages and proclamations; and in
fact, il is stale. il was very well gotten
up, bat you know thing gets old, no
matter how good il is. II so happens that
nearly all Of us who participated in the late
struggle, and that is the larger number,
fought or worked on the side of the gov
eminent, and hence, "your piece" if ne
were not hungry, would be laughable.
When we we're engaged in fighting Rebels,
your piece" would have been a very good
thing, and in the next war one side or the
other may use it /; but permit US to say that
the war is over, and what we want now is
some money that your man Iunes owes us.
The facts are simply that, under your in
structions, he hired up to work and promised
to pay us ont Of our own earnings. The
money We made was paid 10 him as Re-
ceiver, out Of which, if We had our rights,
we would have been first paid; but this
money (and the amount made by us was
large) together with 100000 of other
money went into the hands of Innes, and
we have not got one dollar. sss sYai
Monthly reports land especially when
neither the Secretary ofState nor the Comp
troller can understand theml do not amount
to anything--there being no money paid
over. We were entitled to be paid FIRST, as
we made the money. Yous see at once that
'yOur piece" has. nothing to do with this
question nor has it anything to do with
the question behind which you seek to hide
your Receiver, ofinjunctions BY Rebels, etc.
We do not see how the injunction by
Kentucky stockholders has anything to do
with the question We make on lines. We
simply say that he collected nloney which
we we're entitled to, and that he refuses to
pay 1t over 10 US. The injunction bill, as
We understand it, raises the question and
asks TO have it settled whether the bonds
provided by law for buying rolling stock,
and nothing else, shall go into the hands of
the Receiver on the Board Of Directors.
We understand the Judge announced his
opinion that the bonds belonged to the
company and not to the Receiver, but you
say these bonds, but for the injunction,
would have enabled you to Eay as. To
this we make answer that your Receiver
did get 500, 900 of these bonds, and we did
not get one dollar of them or the earnings
while he was spending them. a
Now, if 100000 of bonds and the pro-
ceeds OF the road for five months do not pay
one laborer, don't you think that three hum
bred and fifty laborers would have a bad
chance to get pay out of the remaining
$3.50, 900, if put in lines hands?
Now, Governor, you will pardon us when
we say to you, as plain laboring men, that
no WORDS or even written monthly reports
can relieve yonr Receiver. He got all the
earnings of the road for many months, and
had one hundred thousand dollars besides,
to keep up his rolling stock. The law con-
templates the payment of interest AFTER
paying laborers-but he has paid neither.
Governor, You can't shelter him. John
son, Burns, and the stockholders ia the Pa
citic road may have Endorsed him, but these
are facts, and our Information is very dis
tInct that they have opened tho eyes of
everybody but yourself. The general inn
preston is, Governor, that Innes is pulling
the wool over your eyes, and il may be
true but we wish to say to You plainly,
Judging from the tone of your letter, that
you are Winking. at the great wrong done
us You authorized Innes to employ US
he did so; welabored faithfully; LINES has
treated us Ike dogs, and you, in substance,
tell us that you are going to help him keep
as out of our money, Ia answer to our APP
peal for bread, you say "Rebelp !, - -.
We have no money to 60 to law with
you and your Receiver, who has grown
rich upon our earnings, and we contem-
plate no such thing, but, sir, there is
court just ahead of you as we'll as of u.s.
Yherethe cry of Rebel will not deceive, and
at whose bar you and your Receiver, strip
ped of official superiority, will be required
70 make settlement Here you may insult
the poor laborer, and, protect the man who
has appropriated; his hard earnings, and
cover him over with the robes of your Office,
and thereby hide from view bis wrongs no
on a large number of helpless laborers bat
thank heaven, at that bar official robes will
conceal nothing, and that the cry of Rebel
viii be no answer to a breach ofthe seventh
commandment. -5--..- h-.--. aIf r.
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