Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-01-18
The True QuestIOn-e-Tho Non. SlavehOId-
erss InIerest.

From the Columbia Herald.
Among the many admirable points and forcible
arguments made by Mr.. Sykes on Monday last one
struck as being so especially pertinent and so
particularly well put, that take the libertysof
attempting give the substance without pretending
to give the language precisely: s.F
Mr.. Sykes said The object of the Black Republi-
can party was to destroy the institution of negro
slavery in the States. True, they do not intend to
do this immediately nor by direct means; but as Mr.
Lincoln las said, they intend to place it in condi-
ton where the public mind shall rest satisfied in the
belief that it is nIthe of ultimate extnctior}
They intend TO confne il within its present limits
and to render it insecure. by the hostile and I'M
friendly legislation of the Northern States This is
the open and ayoWed purpose Of even the most con-
sentative. as they called, of the Black Republi-
can party; and this is the great issue which the
south has now to meet 1t negro slavery is to be
abolished it well for it to be abolished now
when there only four millions of negroes as to
wait until the Northern States have increased in
numbers, in territory, and in power, until they
shall become four or five times as strong as we are
and until the black population shall have increased
to eight or sixteen millionsg What will then be-
come of that vast number of emancipated slaves,
idle. imprOvident, and worthless as they will be-
Will they have to be exterminated, shall the fair
fields of our loved South be given up to them?
The policy open and avowed the Black Republican
party, announced by Lincoln in their platforms to
say nothing of the speeches of Seward and Sumner
who are the representative of that party is
nsidous but no less dangerous than that of the alb
oiInonlsts of the Garrison school, 1t puts off the
evil day of negro emancipation, but makes 1t more
awful when it does come. In proposing to abolish
negro slavery, they intend to substitute white
slavery in its stead. They unwilling to see the
negro the slave of the white man. although he nav
be and is happy. contented and prosperous in that
situation; but they are willing to see the poor
hard-working white or white woman at the
mercy of the proud and heartless aboitonist
They desire tha slavery of labor TO capital and
rran IL.
gro to tae white man. Wherever negro slavery
exists capital can never Cypress labor because the
owners of negro slaves interested in having the
price of labor high and in this respect the interests
OF the laboring white man, who has no slave, are
identical with those of the owner of negroes
whereas, in countries where there is no negro
slavery the interests of the wealthy capitalists are
IN direct opposition to those of the laboring man
the former desiring cheap labor, and the latter
anxious fer remuneratng prices The most detesta-
bic species of slavery is the slavery of labor to
capital, and this must and will always exist to a
greater or Less extent in all countries where negro
slavery does not exist. Again. where negro slavery
exists; all white men are too proudsplrited to do
mental SERVICES
Mr.. Calhoun has well said
There Is no part of the world where agricutu- |
raj, mechanical and other descriptions of labor are
more respected than in the South with the excep-
ton of two descriptions of employment-that Of /
mental and body servants. No Southern man-not |
the poorest or the lovest-will, under any circum-
stance, submit to perform either of them. lie has
too much pride for that, and rejoice that he has
They are unsuited to the spirit of a freeman With
us the two great divisions of society are not the
rich and poor, but white and black and all the fors
mer, the poor well the rich. belong to the M
per class, and respected and treated as EQUALS
if honest and Industrious; and hence have posi-
ton and pride of character of which neither pov-
erty nor misfortune can deprive them"
No man or class of men is more interested in
maintaining the institution of negro slavery than
the laboring men Of the South who are non-slave-
holders, and almost without an exception they are
among he most devoted friends of Southern insti-
tutions.
Mr.. Sykes said that in country and in no States
of this Union were the people more upon an equal
ity, truly democratic and republican than they
werein the Southern States and this was the result
of the institution of negro slavery. He gave it as
his opinion that people could long retain q Re-
publican government where labor was the slave of
capital. and where white men and white women
were under the control of concentrated wealth.
The existence of republican institutions in the
Northern States was, in his opinion, greatly owing
to their political, social, and commercial connection
with the Southern States. When the Black Repube-
lican party succeed in destroying the Institution
of negro slavery which they will do unless the
South "knews her rights, and knowing, dare MAIN
tain them;' there will infict the greatest blow up
On the cause of humanity, and viii bring upon the