Year: 1861

The following appears as communication
in the Nashville Democrat


Go it, old Snuff, def Da7is.) Are you
mad2 Have You gone beside yourself, that
You show your hand thus early in the gamer
have read, with scorn and contempt, the
outburst OF your reasonable soul at Steven
son, and can hardly be brought 10 believe
that any portion of the people OF this land
could stand and listen to such an outburat as
they say you uttered there. Is it possible
that IA heart so black beats in the breast OF
an American born citizen?


Where were the hemp and the ls7gman
when you talked about carrying war where
il was easy to advar ce, where food for the
sword and torch await your armies.


Sir the arm of retributionis on your trail!
God is Just His vengeance, though slow, Is
sure to meet YOU "The sword and torch !
Madman if | had thee on shipboard, thy
neck should know the strength Of an eigh
teen inch ratlin. | would hang thee like
Parker, the mutineer to the fore yard arm
with yellow flag to look at. My country
men what are you about, that treason stalks
naked and unrebuked among us? Where
are we drifting, with traitors at the wheel?
Awake, or we are lost forever!


"1he sword and the torchl" Would be
Attilla; let me tell yon, the first shot from
your ranks is your death knell, and that OF
the Gulf States, over whose destinies you and
the Montgomery clique hold power by usur-
patton Have you heard the voice of Ten
nessee-eighty thousand majority for the
Union? Why, man, it is a congestive chill
to the seceders here, and the writing on the
wall to traitors everywhere.


viii you heed it? If not, let me tell you
when YOU lift your arm against 900
Of free people living, as You say, in cities
and towns which took years Of industry
and millions of money "to build u say to
YOU and to your fellow madmen, lift your
arm against these, your brothers and sisters
-" bone of your bone and flesh of your
flesh You sign the death warrant of the
Gulf states and their institution you inaug-
urate system of wholesale abolition, and
carry ont the wishes of the most ultra mad
men of the North and you know it. Yes,
you and your clique know it but like the
alllighted buffalo, you shut your eyes and
rush headlong over the precipice to certain
destruction.


Go out to war! Oh, yes, go out Gethot,
mad-raving mad Everybody go, and leave
at home one million seven hundred and fifty
four thousand black frebrands, to he played
WIN bJ every lHCcbulaIT lid1 coiHCH "Ioi'S
to know your weakness and their strength
to burn your fields, your barns, your dwei
lngs your cotton and cotton gins. to butcher
your wives and your children, and to make
utter desoation where peace and comfort
now dwell; TO render accursed the very
name of Davis and Rhett, Yancey and Pick
ems, Stephens and secession, and all concern
ed therein TO make the name of "Southern
Congress and "Southern Confederacy"
Synonymous with blood, murder, desolaton
and unmitigated ruin; and last, though not
least, to see those very negroes, about whom
all this ruin has been brought about, butch
cred il every field, on every hill, on every
streaw-for insurrcctioa. This will be done
10y Union workingmep. They will be your
last fororn hope. They will have to crush
out servile war at your tircsides so that you
after defeat and disappointment in every
form, may crawl home and die in peace
among the fragments of your family altars
This will be the end Of your plottings. Re
member st. Domingo; read its history.


Is is said that correspondence has taken
place between the Provisional Governor of
! A 4 l a.