The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-12-03

BSS Inc NaSnVllle Union says Inc
greatest CONSERVATION prevails among
the rebel SHAREHOLDERS of Middle Pennies
see, as the same "draweth high" when
the Presidents proclamation is to be
enforced. However that remarkable
document may be regarded by the But
ternuts in the Free States, the Southern
b1tternuts think it other than brItum
Tulmen. They look upon it as the most
terrible wound yet inflicted upon the Pc
cuEsr institution which, while it is the
'caase, hss hitherto been the main sup
port Of the Butternut Confederacy.
The Union asserts as an evidence of
this fact that in the counties of Wilson,
Williamson, Mauray, Rutherford and
Davidson counties, in Middle Tennessee,
rebel masters, for two or three weeks
past, have been diligently gathering mp
their slaves and running them South as
expeditiously as possibly. The same
course has been pursued by the rebels in
Virginia, a large portion of which State
has been entirely cleansed of the black
element Would that it could as easily
be purged of traitorsl
With the Union, we cannot see what
particular benefit rebel masters are to
derive from this wholesale shipment
South of their chattle property. They
must have hopes of resisting the onward
march of the Union army, or else with a
Micawber's faith they have sent them
South with the expectation that some
thing will turn up. In this they will not
be disappointed, but it is something
which sends a shudder even through the
heart ofloyalty. What that something"
may be is thus energetically stated in
the Union:
We have our doubts whether these flu
gitive masters will find the change for
the better. 1t looks to 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 10 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 sanction
ed by the Lords Prayer, and the Sermon
on the Mount. To use plain term,
these rebel shareholders are a set of
asses; they never were troubled with
much brains, and they have improved
very much, of late, the wrong way.
If we wanted to stir up mischief, in
subordination and the devil generally, 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 the deck of SLAYER, and
beyond all doubt we shall speedily wit
ness an irresistible conflict, compared
with which all other conflicts will appear
tame and spiritless. Who would have
Believed, twelve months ago, that during
a bloody civil war, the rebel slave own
ers, who have always dreaded insurrec-
tons 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
slares IN one formidable body, and thus
render them UNNECESSARILY more pOaCer-
FIJI to ia!t7ict INJURY This is precisely
what the rebels are doing. But we have
heard nobody object to their doing So If
they can stand it, we guess that we can
endure it, not only patiently but COM
fortably. In fact, We confess that we
rather like the movement The rebels
are kindly putting their heads so close
together that we can soon sever them at
one blow, as if they had had but one
neck. Nor does it require the gift of
prophecy to foretell what will follow in
this State.