The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-12-02
Negro Instructions.


dency of the Presidents Emancipation
Proclamation is TO incite instructions
among the slaves! A more preposterous,
and absurd charge could not well be
made; il has not the shadow Of foun-
dation to rest upon. That rebel editors
who, in stirring up rebellion and anar-
cby, should be DESTROYS TO attribute
present or prospective characterization
among slaves, to the proclamation of the
President is not to be wondered al; but
we are astonished that any loyal journ-
al especially one published in a slave
State, should aid and abet the cause of
rebellion, by repeating the nonsensical
assertion of rebel organs. We believe
that instructions have been occur
ring daily, to greater or less extent,
since the instruction of the Southern
rebels against the Federal Government.
limitations of some of these outbreaks
have appeared from time TO time in the
rebel papers, but most of the intelli-
gence of this sort has doubtless been
suppressed through prudential motives,
for fear of alarming the Shareholders, and
terrifying them into submission to the
Federal Government. The social sys-
tenn of the South is in fearfuly unset
tied state. On thousands of plantations
the negroes are nearly starved, and with
out shoes, or clothing. The alarm which
of slaves to be crully put to death, or in
humanity tortured on trivial suspicion.
On many plantations all work has
been suspended - the masters and
overseers having wandered off, no one
knows whittier. The stock hogs and
cattle have generally been seized for
the use of the army, and the slaves
can expect nothing but starvation,
in the course of few months. Tile
Shareholders hare used the most effective means
possible TO stir their Jondsmen up to insurrec-
ton and nautiny. He who doubts, or de-
MES this is a fool, or something worse
This wicked rebellion of the South is a
great insurrection- breeder. JEFF. DAVIS
has done more, directly TO endanger the
lives of the women and children Of the
South, at the hands of maddened and
desperate slaves, than NAT. TURNER;
IsHAM G. HARRIS has armed hundred
slaves TO kill their masters, where john
BRowN ever armed one; and if old JomN's
soul keeps marching on, as the doggerel
has it, IsHAM HARRIS soul will march
DORM, if there be justice in Earth or
Heaven. AT one fell blow, all law, order
rule, restraint, was crushed in the slave
States, by the deliberate act of the reb-
els. Secession, interpreted, means insur-
rectiOn. When the master threw off his
he bade his slaves, in the
some breath, cast theirs aside also.
To say that the Emancipation procla-
nation, or any act of the Federal Con-
gress tends to incite instruction, in the
face of these facts, is sheer folly. There
is no truth in the charge. If the Presi-
dent, and every Governor of the loyal
States, were to publish proclamations
every day, calling on the slaves to rise
against their masters, their appeals would
be nothing compared to the actions of the
rebels, who say that the Administra-
ton is barbarously trying to stir up a
servile war. The rebellion is, of neces-
sity, civil war, fratricidal war, an in
ternecine war, and a servile war; it is
all that is ignoble, brutal, atrocious and
diabolical. All its horrors, every dollars
worth of property destroyed, and every
drop of blood shed, in battle, or in do
nestle strife, is directly chargeable to
the instigators and plotters of the great
Southern rebellion. If a man really
desires TO remove the danger of a servile
war let him stop the rebellion, for that is
the source of all our perils, Do not
drivel like an idiot about an Emancipa-
ton proclamation, at the same time that
you are goading the Slaves, by the pangs
of starvation and cold, to the commission
of deeds as lawless as your own, but in
consequence of their ignorance, not as
heinous in the sight of God or man,