New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-21

but it is the truth nevertheless, and must not
fall UNDECIDED.
On the part Of the Rebels, there is no dis
puise and no hesitation. They are fighting for
Slavery, avowodly and earnestly; their Vice.
President Stephens has publicly declared that
Thomas Jefferson and all his compeers were mis-
taken with regard to essential Human Rights
that men are created anequal-that black men
are by nature the slaves of white-and that the
Southern Confederacy is based upon that as
sumption.
The following recent act of the Confederate
Congress at Richmond is further illustration of
the truth herein illustrated:
BILL tn b. entitled an authorize the President Of the
Confederate States ant commission. to raise volunteer
regiments and battaioas composed Of persons pho are OF
have beer residents Of the states Of kentucky Missouri,
The Congress of the Confederate States Of amer
ica do enact That the President Of the Confederate
States be- and he is hereby authorized TO grant COM
missions to officers not above the grade of Captain to
such persons as may think fit to raise and command
volunteer regiments and baltalons for the service Oh
the Confederate States said regiments and ba taiions
to he composed of persons who are or have been resi-
dents of the States OF Kentucky, Missouri, Mary Hand
or Delaware, and who have enlisted, or may enlist
under said officers upon the condition. however, that
| such shall not bold rank or receive pay until
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| tered into service.
Why are the four Stntes of Kentucky Mis-
souri,, Maryland, and Delaware. especially named
in this net Why ore they peculiarly relied on to
swell the ranks Of the rebel armies ; The South
ern Confederacy has many more partisaHs to-day
in New-York or in Pennsylvania than in Della
ware, and they are far more active and efficient
Yet every one knows that the above act is neither
blindly nor blunderingly drawn-that it names
the very and only States it should name, though
every one of them has repeatedly and empbati.
cally repudated JEFF. Davis and all his works,
and has proclaimed by large maorities its devo-
ton to tho Union. But these four are Slave
States-they are the only Slave States not in.
cIuded in Jeff.'s present dominions; and right
well does he know that in so far as they are
Pro Slavery, they are at heart dnloyal Not
that thcre are not slaveholders-many Of them
among the largest-who are firm and zeal
Gus Union men, but they are Of the school
of Washington, Jefferson and Clay-holdiDg
sIsves, but not desiring the diffusion nor the
perpetuation Of Slavery. But wherever you find
devotee of Slayery-one who believes IN 1t,
olores in il, seeks to extend and fortiy tho
matter whether he personally holds slaves or
not, you have there the raw material Tor a
thorough traitor, and it does not often lack COM
plete making up. Hence we see that, while
Western Maryland, being rugged largely peoPled
by miners and holding very few slaves, seeds
Frank Thomas to Congress by unanimous vote,
st. Mays, the lower county Of that State, with
n population wholly slayeholding or slave, give,
for Dsunion ten votes to one. And so it ia
neary everywhere. Eastern Tennessee, North.
Western Virginia, being mountainous aud pas.
toral, have few slaves. and these are for the
Union; while those sections of the same States
which live by slave labor are unanimously fol
jeff Davis and Disunion.
Snail lot these truths sink deep into the Ma
| tionnl heart