Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-02-24
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Editors of the Union and American:
DEAR SIEs--I wish to give tie citizens of my ma
tive State. Tennessee, warning of the intended
Black Republican encroachments. through the col
umns of the UNION AND AMERICAN. l discover from
reading some of the leading journals in the South
and Southwest that there is large portion of the
citizens, and by the by, very respectable portion
that are grossly, and fear 6esignedly mislead in
regard to the sentiments, opinions and ultimate de-
signs of the masses of the Black Republican party
Of the North. or se-called free States, towards
Southern people and Southern institutions. l am
aware of the fact that there is certain party that
teaches the masses in Southern States that it only
the politicians and Office seekers In the free States
that entertain those ultra Abolition sentiments; that
when they come to take second sober thought,
that they will give their brethren of the South their
constitutional rights in the Union The facts in the
case are that they mere fanatica and have more
prejudice against the institutions of African slavery
than their Acknowledged leaders, Lincoln, Seward,
and the whole fraternity of Negro Equality fratern
izing thieves, from the great Mogul Sumner, of
Massachusetts,. down to the most diminutive Chr of
the whole canine breed from the simple fact that
they are necessarily ignorant Of the Negroes char
aeter and, capacity for freedom. They look at the
negro as a black white man; that all the difference
in the two races Is that is white and the other
is black. There are hundreds and thousands of men
and women In the North that honestly believe that
African slavery exists in the South is the great
would be justiiabe in the eyes of God and man, to
abolish slavery at all hazards; If, by so doing,
blood should run to the horses bride, and two
thirds of the American people should perish IN the
attempt When asked if they would be willing to
sacrifice twenty five or thirty millions of the most
enlightened and brave white citizens that on
earth, for the poor boon of placing three or four
millions of inferior negroes in position contrary to
the viii of God, their answer is invariably, that it
has to be done. You need not wonder at such SEN
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dies in the common schools in their sabbath schools
in their colleges. from the pulpit, from the stump
in the court room, on the street corners, and st
the family altar-it is taught in nearly all OF their
school books-in all of the Sabbath school books
YOU will find them full of stories about some little
black child having been whipped, abused, and been
made to work out in the rain and cold until 1t sick
ened and died They have all such things pictured
off in their little school books so that to use their
language the child can both read and the of
slavery that they may be enabled to raise up gen.
Grafton to hate slavery and slavehoders They also
teach them that the slaves in the South treated
lust as you treat your horses and cows The masses
of the Northern people are taught thai the Southern
people generally, are set of licentious. immoral,
ignorant drunken heathens, with very few ex-
ceptions and that the poor class uneducated and
are not respected as much as the negro Is. They
say that you have not gotany schools that are
none that are educated but the large Shareholders
children. and he sends his sons and daughters
North to get their eQucaUOn. L nave given a
correct account of a few of the many causes
why you need not be astonished at the fanat-
icsm and superstitious ignorance of the North
ern masses on the negro question.
Printed petitions are being circulated in every
county in this State petitionng their Senators and Re
representatives. in Congress not to compromise with the
South especially not to compromise one ota of the
Chicago Platform, and not TO give mp one foot of
Territory to suffer dissolution and civil war first.
Every member Of the Republican party signs it,
IL. IL.
favor of coercng the South back into the Union by
federal arms. The Northern Democrats say that
il will be a war of Black Republicans. and that
they will never take up arms against their South
ern brethren, when they bsve not done anything
wrong and have only asked, and ere contending for
their Constitutional rights. l am acquainted with
numbers of as brave men as living, who say, if war
sboud be forced on the South they will
enlist in behalf of the Soulful the Black Re
uubhcaus should undertake to coerce the seeding
States there will be from oneto two hundred thous-
and Democrats of the North that viii march to the
assistance OF the seeding States. have been lv-
ing in the North several years, but am now pre-
pairing 10 return to Tennessee TOR life, there
are thousands North that will do the same;
theres not civil township in Iowa in which there
not more or less men that are engaged in the Under
ground Railroad there is scarcely week that
passes off but what there are negroes run through
the little town that | live in. Members of the
churches, lawyers, doctors, ministers, members,
of the House of Representatives and in fact nearly
the entire Republican party engaged in stealing,
harboring, and running off negroes. They ha,i, a
short time ago, gang OF seven one OF three, onS
of four and one of two and In July last one Coplc
and johnson took twenty-three through this cOun-
tv. and one Hon ]. B. Grinnell, State Senator of
PowOshIek county, kept them few days and then
assisted them off. He boasts of having fine horse
that Copic stole in Missouri He says the horse
was taken in good cause. They frequently tell Of
their negro stealing. Copic took with tire twenty
three negroes, two wagons and horses. lsaw Copic
and a Negro man in June, as they went through to
Missouri after these negroes and property am
acquainted with a mGB IN Iowa, by the name OF a.
Donald that kept negro seven days, ana boarded
his master at the same time and knew that the man
wss hunting his negro
could give YOU hundreds of such cases, and
give VOC the names and localities. You need not
think that you can soften the hearts Oh ApOtlohlss:
They have more hatred TOWARDS the southern peo-
Pile this day. than our ancestors eVeP entertained
towards the minous of King George. The longer
YOU remain in the Union the tighter they viii get
the yoke on you. 1t is utterly Impossible LOT tne
North and South to live in peaeeEeogethsr, untlI
you can change the Abolition sentiment OF tne
North, and that would take at least one hundred
years TO do, if it can be done at all The only way
THAI you Gan prevent civil war; in my opinion, Is
for the fifteen Southern States TO withdraw and es>
tablish Southern Confederacy. If you don't unite,
honestly believe that the Elsck Republicans VIII
shuttle up some pretext for attempting TO coefce the
seeding States.
am no politician. and this is my first attenPt
to write for newspaper. l have endeayored TO
give you plain statement of facts as they exist
in the Northwest.
4 NATIYE TENNEssEAN
The writer of the foregoing in private letters to
the Editions, ssys: For reasons that need not
name do not wish you to sign my name to my COM
munieatiOn. 1t would not be eGtlrey safe for me
Odo so. If should ever get back to Tennessee.
will then do ! have not stated the case the
tenth part as bad it does exist Nearly or quite
oRe-half of the Black Republicans take the New
York Tri1Nne"