Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-01-27

e.. s. bs;oq made in Tennessee 70 stray the
..Li,- ic,esses aeainst their more wealthy neigh
M. .,,oupt runs on this wise The rich
ss.s' ~ sonsb own the slaves--they are the ma
arc ,aad-tsey are interested in slave pro-
80 s-s..hs POOR people are not personally interest
= ,.t rich men do the lighting if collision
- comoif the rich we're deprived Of their ne
rroes we would be on 3 isyel, and there would be
more equality il society" Spccieus but most fall
iacious arguments. undertake to sSy that the
laboring classes of the South are as much or more
interested in the question that sgitstes the counry
than the rich. 1t is fact, first, that most Of the
shareholders in Tennessee are among the laboripg
classes There are only, comparatively, few ex-
tensxe shareholders in the State. Alarge proportion
of those who own negroes have from ore to half
dozen slaves, while few hold them in large num-
bers. The small farmers in the country have one
or two or three servants esch to aid them in cult
waiting the soil. With these slaves they and their
sons toll in the same field and feel degradation
The abolition of slavery would seriously affect large
numbers of this class.
Secondly 1t is fact that large Shareholders esu-
ally have wealth over and above their slaves They
generally own large tracts Of LAID, stock Of various
descriptions. bank STOCK money, etc., so that II
their slaves were gone they would soon become land
holders of the country, and would hold the poorer
whites as tenants at will; and being ProprietOrs Of
the soil they would soca prescribe the terms and
conditions on which men without means should til
the land.
Tbirdlv. The emancipation of the slaves, and the
eooai,, If the country with free blacks, would re-
dpoe the price Of labor AID thus naturally inJur'
the prospects of white laborers. Who does no
know that the price of labor in the South is sbOv
the wages at tie North.
FOurthly. The policy Of abolitiOnists is to driv
out slave labor, so that eur. "sunny South " ma.
j he overrun with hordes of free labOrers from tn
North and foreign countries, that they may rer
the advantages now enjoyed BY industrious WOrkin
r men at the South.
Filthy. The policy is to make black men equ'
: to white men in all respects They require th'
, the free negro shall vote with the white man
send his children to the same school; SIT In In
same pew at church; eat at the came table; sleep
tho same bed; move in the same social circle; Wor
in the came shop or field in equal rank, and hnsll!
as advocated by some, intermArry, and thus becoH
: ons race by amalgsmatioH. Now, ask the wori
" ing men Of Tennessee, if they are ready to lndor
all these sentiments? Are they willing that the
children shall become the osters shoe-blacks, ca
: rage drivers, washer-wOmen and house servants
wealtAy landlords, the rich merchant and the lord
bankers of the country, while they themselves chs
= be put on level with the free blacks!
= 1t is fact that no man can gainsay, that in t
free States, especially in the older and more ar
i, tocratic that as the rich grow richer The poor
g come poorer, and that property creates castles
n society.
h Let the working people Of the South look well
as their own interests and not suffer themselves to
es deluded by cunning politicians. This is the adv
it. of ONE RAISED AT THE HANDLES OF THE Pow