The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-07-03


his earnest endeayor, witha firm reli.
anco upon the Divine arm, and seeking
light from above, to DO his duty 10 the
place TO which he had been called.
Prospects OF slavery in Kentucky.
We have, on previous occasions, noticed
therapid decline ofthe slayepowor inDel-
aware, Maryland, Missouri and Virginia.
Owing TO ihe course Of the Confederate
Radical Abolition party and their policy
Of violence and negro-stealing and shoot
ing, the institution has become an intol-
cradle burden and nuisance in these
States, and multitudes who, at the be-
ginning of this rebellion, were ardent
pro.slayery men, have become equally
ardent emancipationists. While show
man is exhibiting his elephant to thous-
ands in his tent, the creature is valuable,
but he becomes a ruinous expense when
he is shut up in a stable to stand idle.
SO it is with slaves. Instead Of being a
source of profit they are growing to be
heavy burden They are flock Of
idle elephants, and impoverisb their own
ers more and more every day. Kentucl-
ians begin to realize this fact sorely, and
hence we see the Louisville journal, an
ardent pro-slavery journal, make these
remarkable admissions. The Journal
makes a simple statement Of facts, 1t
says:
"Whilst slavery will inevitably sur
yive the present struggle, the number Of
slaves will certainly be very much d.
minished, and the force Of the institution
itself will be sensibly impaired. Parti-
ally on this account but chiefly from
the deplorable vesnlts TO which slavery
as an element of our politics has led, the
political consequence of the Institution,
whether in the form of abolition or of
disunion, will unquestionably perish in
the struggle; but the social and eco
nomic importance of the institution, with
the Attachments we have specified, will as
unquestionably remain, subject 10 the
wise solution of time and events. This
solution, as regards Kentucky, it is not,
we think, difficult to fOresee The in
creased demand for slaves in the Gulf
States, consequent on the diminution
caused by the present struggle, will so
increase the value of slaves there, as
compared with their value here, that, by
the simple force of commercial laws,
slavery will lapse out of Kentucky into
the Gulf States, until, becoming here at
length what il now is ia Delaware, ju-
dieious stroke of State legislation may
end the question. The solution will thus
be accomplished by the silent operation
of natural laws, enforced by agitation
either internal or external
"a like solution, of course awaits the
question in our sister States of the
Border, if they are but prudent enough
to leave the question TO such solution,
without seeking 10 forestall its sure bit
rapid success" =
We differ with the Journal on one point
only in the above extract aud that is IFS
statement that "the political conseQneaceq
Of slavery a0iH perish in this struggle. 1t
is dead, dead, DEAD already; as dead as
if it had swallowed all the poisons Of
LOcusta, and had been chained in the
sitting air Of the Grotto del Cane. There
lives no magician or sOrcerer, whose po-
tent arts can break the everlasting chain
in which death has bound its stifIcned
limbs. There it lies with this inscription
on its brow; Murdered by Secession
and Rebellion" The social and econo-
mic importance Of the institution" alone
survive 10 await "the wise solution Of
events" and with little more obstinacy
on the part Of the rebels, it is not hard
to forosee how long it will live in any
shape.