than the men, and our
children are taught to hate the North, in church, in school, and at
the fireside. Our city still presents a sullen, silent front; it
will take as long time to root treason out of Nashville us it did
the household sins of Egypt out of Israel.

'Had I my way, I would confiscate the property of all traitors,
work the slaves three or four years under overseers, on the land of
their masters, sell the crops thus raised, and pay the war debt;
this would save the people from taxation. The fifth year's crop
give to the slaves, and send them to Texas or elsewhere; give them
a governance, buy up the slaves of the loyal men, and let them be
sent to their brethren. The land confiscated, I would divide among
the soldiers of the North and the widows and orphans of those
deluded poor men of the South who fell victims to false notions of
'Southern Rights;' compel the Northern man to settle on his grant,
or to send a settler of true, industrious habits, and give him no
power to alienate his title for ten or more years. This will insure
an industrious, worthy, patriotic people for the South. One man
will make one bale of cotton, others ten; your spindles and looms
will be kept running by free men, and slavery will cease forever,
as it should do. Slavery is a curse, a crime, a mildew, and must
end, or war will blast our fair heritage for all time to come.'

Such are the views of one who seems to know what a real
Southern-sympathizing secessionist is made of. Let it not be forgotten
that there are thousands of native Tennesseeans, as of other borderers
of intelligence, character, and influence, who have offered to raise
regiments to fight for the Union; and this fact is urged by the
doughface democrats as a reason for increased leniency to traitors. We
confess we do not see what connection exists between the two. If these
loyal borderers are sincere in their professions, they have certainly no
sympathy for the wretches around them, who visit with death or pillage
every friend of the Union. But it is idle to argue with traitors. Either
we are at war, or we are not; and if the history of the past eighteen
months has not taught the country the folly of procrastinating, nothing
will do it. 'When you feel the knife in your heart, _then_ wish that you
had fought!'

_THE EDUCATION TO BE._

II.

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