Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-12-15
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We have devote q much space of late to
., development of che policy of the Adj
mfnistration rei'ftfTe to slavery.
49, That policy was fairly indicated in the
Inaugural Address of President LINCOLN,
the selection of hrs Cabinet, his message
to Congress, the out-giEings of his secre-
tary of Var, and the declarations of
leading statesmen like EDWARD EVERETT
and JoHs CocEE ANE, who were known to
possess his confidence and understood to
reflect his opinions; but it is so atrocious,
inhumsn, and suicidal that many intel
ligent Kentuckians believed il impossible
that even ABRAHAM 1INcoLs, and the
Abolition sgitators he had called around
him, could contemplate it without horror.
We cannot but hope that The accumu-
lated evidence of the purpose Of the Adj
ninistration at Washington to convert
theirs into free negro government, which
we have from time to time placed before
tine public, had, prior 10 the appearance of
the last message of Mr.. LINCOLN, con-
WINGED the people of at least Southern
Kentucky that the success of the North
ern Armies In their State would make
them the subjects of a centralized des-
potism in which equality of the races is
cardinal doctrine.
If, however, there was one reader of
the Courier who still doubted whether the
North was given over to utter madness,
and hoped for moderation, justice, and
constitutional government in connection
with the free States, the Official enuneia-
ton of the policy of the Administration
through Presidents message, which we
have published in full, and commented
upon at length, must have dispelled his |
hopes and burned upon his brain the fear
full fact, that the people of the South, not |
now fighting for liberty, the right to
govern themselves, their interests, their |
honor, and their independence alone, |
are engaged Il = desperate struggle for
existence, for should freedom be given
10 four millions of slaves and arms put
into their hands, then the question will
not alone be which shall be the superior
race, but which shall be exterminatedi
The Presidents message is fearfully
clear upon this subject, asw have shown.
It indicates only too clearly that not only
is it intended to proclaim freedom to the
slaves, but that social and political equal
ity is to follow.
And now comes the official report of
Mr.. CAMERON, Secretary of War, elabora-
ling, discussing, setting forth with more
Particularly the policy of the admins
tration-a policy so internal that the En-
glish language contains no words to ex-
press the adherence it must excite in the
breast of every human being over whose
mind aecursed fanaticism has not estab.
lished its, sway. Men cf Kentucky, in
whose veins flows the blood of gener-
GUS and noble ancestry, whose fathers
would have persisted at the stake rather
than submit to degradation, whose moth
ers would have torn you from their
breasts aud dashed you from the highest
peak of your glorious mountains had
they ever dreamed that you would be
such, spiritless and craven things as to
consent to live on terms of equality with J,
the emancipated slaves of your fellow
citizens, resd the recommendation of the
Secretary Of War--of the Administra-
tion;-and then prepare to meet the proc
lamation for your degradation, the dis.
honor of your mothers, wives, and sweet
hearts, and the indiscrimipate massacre
of the old and the young, the innocent
aud the guilty, the unsrmed, defenceless,
and helpless, as those whose names you
bear would meet it could they burst the
eerements of thu grave and stand in your
places!
Canada war Mcvsn.ents.