Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-04-19
a slander Itefnted.

IL is high time that people should stop
repeating that stale and atrociOus false
hood that any considerable portion Of
ahe American people desire The establish
ment of social and. civil equality between
She African and the white race. Such
IN equality would be just as repugnant
90 Northern as TO Southern people. II
never has found an advocate save in a
small fraction Of the Northern people.
AS evidence Of the true feeling Of the
mass of the Republicans even (who do
not constitute majority of the North,)
on this point, we quote from the late speech
of that ardent Republican, Senator Doc
little, of Iowa:
Now, sir, know that communities of
free negroes are not a very desirable
population anywhere. ! may be mis-
taken in my view of this subject, but
10 not believe that the races ever can lie to-
getheT IN harmony and NTH mutual adUantaqe
TO each other; and, hostile as every feeling
and sentiment of my nature is to a sys-
Sem of human bondage, J am By no means
sire sohile the races do continue together, that
Et is not better for them both to continue together
~ The relation Of master and slave.
No rebel or neutral paper in Nashville
will ever dare to publish this declaration.
They lack the honesty to do it,
e We next quote from recent speech of
another very able and eminent Republi-
can, Senator Browning, of Illinois:
That we can do them (the negroes)
substantial good only by q separation
of the races, | entertain no doubt. just
as long as they remain among us they are
free negroes; they are nothing else they
are a poor, degraded set, and l am afraid
always will be. Ishould like to see them
making moral and intellectual progress
in our midst, but I do not expec to to sec
At ] doubt whether there ever has been
from the foundation of the Government
one solitary instance of an individual of
the negro race being admitted to all the
privileges and immunities of a free man
in the United States of America. There
are many negroes whose intellectual and
moral worth far trascends that of the
white men around Them, and yet they do
not take a position in society that is ac-
corded unhesitatingly TO the white man
who is in no respect their equal u is be-
uatse, apprehend, of the repugnaace Of the
races that The almighty has implanted in or
IoSOms, and tle strong instincts ,0hich zoe can
not eradicate When you come 10 propose
that higEer and better test Of catholic and
universal philanthropy, the admission Of the
negro to social equality and to family alliance,
n rs q teSttlat reduces all our SynpatiieS and
I'LL ON philanthropy 10 drosS and ashes. 10 is
81 test that none Of as can bring ourselves M
TO- 1t is n sentiment too sublime for our
attainment that admits them to the full
brotherhood of the race, and take them
into the bosoms of our families.
The Indianapolis Sentinel says:
The property owners of the South arc
not in arms, and the conliscation of the
goods and lands ofall the active rebels in
service would probably not amount TO &c
large a sum as the twentieth part OF
what some imagine the available property
of the rebellion.
but we Know mat among the most mis-
chievous and industrious of all the reb-
els are those very men of wealth who
have "staid at home and taken no part in
the war" as they will tell you whenever
Union army comes around, but have
attended neighborhood meetings. hello
for the purpose of raising rebel compa.
MES, and there subscribed thousands OF
dollars horses, guns, blankets, saddles
provisions, wagons, &c &c. The stay
at-home rebels, the wealthy men have
goaded on the poor and young and reck.
less togo into the army, and have furn'
ished them with the sinews of war. AND
now when these old traitors begin TO see
that the loyal party are about to crust
out the rebellion they whine out pitifully
that "they never took sides in this war I?
We hope all such men viii be made e
contribute more abundantly to repair tn,
mischief they have done, than they hav,
spent in doing it. II is right it is just
it is proper. Why should the ASSASSIN
DO punished and the man who hired him
TO commit the deed go unscathed?
MoRE LETTERs-THE CAVERN OF DARK