Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-12-14
The Emancipation and tho Aiming
OF the slaves Opinions OF Admin.
isfratiOn Organs.

AOcCh.iy pA' O6AicIoHy liHCOlu DeC-
rotary Of War, made speech in which
he enunciated the doctrine that the slave
property of the South ought to be for
feited to the Government, and the slaves
so forfeited should be armed and used
in crushing the rebellion. Referring to
this speech, the Louisville Democrat used
this language: t}
1t is reported and believed all over
the country that he had countenanced
and approved the arming of negroes, and
the Black Republican and Democratic
papers have been discussing it for the
last two weeks. We have expressed as
strongly as we can our utter condemna-
ton of the scheme. 1t has not even the
excuse of aiding in quashing the rebel
lion; but is, in fact, more hostile to the
Union than a million jeff Davises in
arms, and equipped from top to toe. 1t
is savage and butcherly, and, like all saw
agery, the instructive outbreak of cow
ardice. If Mr.. Cameron can relieve him.
self of the suspicion, well and good
but he ought not to hold the position in
the Government which he does when he
is suspected of it. 1t changes the whole
aspect of the contest-from a relief of
the oppressed people of the South to
war of conquest, subjugation, and assas-,
sination. Mr.. Secretary Smith did right
in so promptly reproying andc undermining
it on the part of the Administration, and
we foreten prompt action by the Pres
ident.
"The loyal men of Kentucky, those who
have the interest of the Union at heart,
should use every effort to prevent any
such fatal action On the part of the Gov
eminent as the Cameronian idea,
ave speak it plainly, the scheme for
general emancipation, or arming the
blacks, will lose every slave State in the
Union. 1t would take a standing army
of zoe, 600 men to retain Kentucky in the
Union, and then the soldiers would be
compelled to aid in eXterminating the
black race. If they are emancipated,
there is but one thing to be done with
them; they must be wiped out-utterly
obliterated. 1t must be a merciless, saw
age determination of the whole tribe.
There will be no question of humanity,
or Justice, or mercy. 1t viii be natures
first law-self- defence. The two races,
as has been amply shown by the whole
history of the world, from the days of the
Egyptian to our ewn times, cannot exist
in the same country, unless the black
race is in slavery. 1t is no question for
theory, argument, or discussion. 1t is
the direct law of God, final and conclu-
sive. The President, himself Kentuck-
ian, knows and appreciates the condition
of affairs, and will act for the best, and
it ought to be the duty of the State
Legislature to aid him by expressions of
condemnation of the Cameron policy" E
This doctrine, said the Democrat, would
"c7sange the aolaoEe aspect Of the contest--frons
a relief Of the oppressed people, Of the South
to a acar of conquest, sUBJUGATIoN, AND
ASSASSINATION" sssr
The effects of the adoption of this
doctrine by the Administration would
be, it said, the loss of every slave State
to the Unions" and it added, that if that
policy were determined upon, sit would
take a standing army of two hundred
thousand men to retain Kentucky in the
Union, and then the soldiers would be
compelled to aid in exterminating the
black race" RS rs e1 % sf- =
This strong language was used we be-
lieve on the very day the official report of
MIR. Cameron was read in Congress; and
in that report he took pr ecisely the posi-
ton the Democrat was condemning; and
the President, SO far from repudiating it,
as the Democrat believed he would, in
dorsed and approved it! r. esq
This article from the Democrat was
copied into the Louisville Journal of the
9th inst, by which paper it was then in
dorsed and adopted in the same column
with declaration that the president is
no better than the Secretary; and the
Secretary no worse than the President"
in the same column with full and une-
quivocal admission, that the policy which
the Democrat said, if adopted by the Pres
ident, sOoun change The s1hoze aspect Of the
contest-.trOn relief Of the oppressed people
of the Sotah-to a sOar Of conquest, sUBJUGA-
TIoN, and Assassination" had been as
sumed by the administration!
Men of Kentucky remember that both
of the leading organs of the administra-
ton in Kentucky have said that the pol