The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Punishing the traitors.

It is said that nine hundred of the citizens of Nashville have been arrested and will be tried for treason. The punishment for what the Yankees call treason is death, and this is the fate which these tyrants will really execute upon all in the South who practically maintain that doctrine of the sovereignty of the States in which they were educated from childhood, and which no one, either in the North or South, has ever disputed up to the present war. The whole programme of the invaders is worthy the dark ages. The scaffold is to groan with victims, and the whole property of the Southern people to be taken from them. It is well that they have permitted the cloven foot to be seen thus early.--It is well that they have given the Southern people this unmistakable indication of what is in store for them. They have convinced the most incredulous that it is as idle as it is unmanly to expect compassion or clemency at their hands. When they entered Nashville, they were gentle and bland in their professions, till they had almost lulled the suspicious into security. But the threat of Mr. Cook that they would deal with the rebellion with gloves off, is already found to be something more than an empty menace. There is no hope whatever for the South except in such resistance as men make to outlaws and pirates.