Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-03-07

against the slavehol,ler? Who, eX
cept Helper and the Black RspubIl
cans, have ever supposed there wa
any conflict between our own people
bone each of the others bone, anl
flesh OF the others flesh, born oil
! the same soil, descended from ths
same ancestry, with the same glo
rious memories OF the past trans
mitted to them from their sires who
fought for the establishment Of liber-
Ity in this country2 Who but Black
r. publican, or a renegade Southern
er and "A Helperi'e, has ever dared
to assert such a slander on the people
Of the South. either shareholders OF
non-slavehol6ers? Who but such a
man ever dared to say that the slave
holders 3istrusted th~ir brethren! =
Who has ever hinted that the non-
81 vehO'ders were not as sound
TO the South on this question as
those who own the most? So far
as my experience goes, | can say
that throughout the broad limits OF
the Southern country the soundest
m n | know are non-slaveholders
They feel and know The facts as they
are presented TO them, aud the issues
as they now stand, aud demagoguism
will not be able, except, at the risk
Of its neck. to raise such all issue IN
any slaveholdiDg State.
Who are interested in tie matter?
Shareholders are men of enlarged
ideas, of education, and Of property;
for no man that holds slaves owus
slaves alone; he must own lands,
horses. possessions and chattels ol
diff rent kinds. When the day
comes that four and half million
Africans are turned loose, free in our
country, the SHAREHOLDERS will have
the means, aud the ability, and the
inclination to leave the country
and leave it they will Who will be
lelt to contest the palm with these
emancipated slaves Of the African
race? Who but thc non.slayehol
ders. The man who bas but a small
lmm. with a vile and children TO
support on il; who has lived nowhere
else; who has never been beyond the
limits of bis county, Of limited ed
ucation, is there a fxtnre, and he has
to sta,; aud he has to contest the
question Of equality with The African.
These men cannot be led by the nose
by demagogu,sm. They will listen moi
to appeals against those who are more
fortunate than themselves in the
wo Ids goods. They know that IN
the veins Of shareholders runs their
own blood; that one son has squan-
dexed bis estate, aud another has
busbanded il; that one who was once
a Shareholder bias become a slave.
holder. and pce rersa- Thy feel
a nd they know that they are clii'
zens of their own State.
They know and they feel that they
are freemen. they know and they
feel that they have an iDalle Dable
right Of self-governmt and the,
intend to assert it; and when the ques
ton is presented those mn. o.
whether they will fight for the ne
groes hereafter, they viii DO, be long
in deciding that question. Helper
ism will not distract and di1ide The
true and loyal men Of the Soutb' II
this, our day Of darkness and o
danger.
HE LAsHEs JOHNSON UNMERcIFULLf.
Tue Senator from Tennessee ssy'
that the Cotton States will not b'
able to give any protection to th'
border States, and that we OF tn
Cotton States wish to make var up
| on Mexico, and TO get the Virgin
ians and Tennesseeans and kentuck
ians to do our fighting, and to fur
nish US the money. Who Told hlm tba
we wanled to make war upon Mex
Eieo? Which of bis Black Republica
!hiends has communicated this secre
to hims / never heard Of it. .
the contrary, know the reverse t
be tue; that it will be as much as "
can 90 to attend to our own affairs
We have no use for Mexico. W
cannot colonize it. We have .
|, surplus slave population. SO "a
las Texas is concerned, she ca
receive for years:o come, the who
surplus slave population, aad II
pro6tabIy her fertile SOIL II IS. a
, other Black Republican slander III
, be gets up ani daIes to announce