The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-12-13
The Emancipation Proclamation In Ten.
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The Emancipation Proclamation In Ten.
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s.} From the Nashville Union, Nov 97th a.
The rebel Shareholders of Middle Tennessee
-andthey comprise perhans fve.sixths of
the slaseholders--are filed with alarm at the
approaching evil which menaces them with
ruin. It is evident that they do not regard the
Presidents Emancipation Proclamation as
brutu,n futmen-mere thunder and no lightning
-ss some newspapers regard it. On the con-
trary, they look upon it as the most terri
BILE wound yet inflicted upon the peculiar in.
stitution, which, as it is the chief corner stone
Of the Butterunt Confederacy, SO it il the chief
cornerstone of the rebellion, whose death in
wolves the death Of the Southern rebellion
The slaves have heard of the proclamation,
and are following the example set by them by
their masters. Whoever else may affect to
doubt the proclamation is live document, the
rebels of Middle Tennessee do not doubt it,
and they quake in the extremity of their ter
ror as the day draws near when it shall take
effect in Wilson, in williamson, in Maury, in
Rutherford, and in Davidson Counties, the rep
ell masters have for two weeks, past, been.
gathering up their slaves and running them off
as expeditiously as possible. Whole planta-
lions which once counted their scores of bonds
men--coal black, chestnut brown, saddled
colored, olive tinted, Saxon hued-are now
depopulated. Their former inhabitants have
99l "Laid down the shovel and the hoe,
And hung up the fiddle and the bows"
Aud have been driven off to Dlxie-to the land
of cotton cotton mouth snakes, and cotton.
headed politicians. a F. si'.a ~
We have our doubts whether these fugitive
masters will find the change for the better 1t
looks te US like leaping out of the frying pan
into the fire. What will they do with their
slaves when they get them South? There is
no work for them to do, no cotton or tobacco
to raise, and nothing for them to eat. 1t does
not seem to US that to collect hundreds Of
thousands of restless, excited negroes together,
is exactly the best method Of securing and
Strengthening the divine institution Of slavery,
which is sanctioned by the Lords Prayer and
the Sermon on the Mount. To use plain
term these rebel Shareholders are set of
asses; they were never troubled with much
brains. and they have improved very much, Of
late, the wrong way. 1--we wanted to stir up
mischief, INSTRUMENTATION, and the devil gen
orally, in the cotton States we would advise
these slave owners of Middle Tennessee. to do
just as they are doing. Just let them pile up
their negroes four deep over Mississippi
and Alabama, until those States look like tie
deck of a SLAYER, and beyond all doubt we
shall speedily witness an irrepressible conflict,
compared with which all other conflicts will
appear tame and spiritless. Who would have
believed II months, ago that during bloody
civil war the rebel slave owners who have all
ways dreadedinsurrection among their slaves,
even when they were separated from each
other on isolated plantations. would, at the
most dangerous period of the war, mass the
sldres in one formidable body, and thus render
them immeasurdbly more po,cerful TO INFECT in
jury2 This is precisely what the rebels are
doing. But we have heard nobody obect''to
their doing so. If they can stand it, we guess
that we can endure it not only patiently but
comfortably. In fact, we confess We rather
like the movement. The rebels are kindly
putting their heads close together go that We
can soon sever them at one blow, as if they
had but one neck. Nor does it require the
gift of prophecy to tell what will follow this
state. 1
These splendid plantations, whose area is
vast, whose fertility is unsurpassed, and whose
climate is delightful, will not be allowed to lie
idle. An army Of hardy, enterprising imi-
grants from the northwest will soon pour in
to fill the places left vacant By the slaves; and,
in place of half savage, woolly.headed, coal
black, ragged Africans, as uneducated as the
mules tney 0rlVe, tnere Will DC muitltuue OF
Industrious, thinking. well clad, educated,
news paper reading church and school going
white farmers, able and willing to serve the
State in peace and in war. The exchange will
not be bad one; it will soon double our
wealth.
Col. Benton's Regiment, after waiting an
unusual length Of time for the arrival of the
proper officers, has at last been mustered in
and paid off, and is now to all intents and pur-
poses, in the army Of the Union. The full
number Of men in the Regiment-rank and file
lis 98l; the average height, FIVE feet nine
inches; average age, Is years,-TCouncil