The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-07-24

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The expulsion of almost every nom
from the Southern Confeder-
acy, If il could be established, would be
a moral certainty. It would be a con-
sistent a necessary and a JuslyoJle !
measure on the part Of that Confederacy, !
which q regard for its safety would COM
pei it to adopt Hon. L. w. SrRATT
who has made the most logical and SEN
sible exposition Of the Southern cause
which we have yet seen, says in his cell
obratcd letter to Hon. JONI PERKINS;
"The real contest is between the tWo
forms Of SocietB which have become es-
tabished, the one at the North, and the
other at the South. Society is essentially
different from g0vernmcnt--as different
az is the nut from the bur, or the nerV-
GUS body of the shellish from the bony
structure which surrounds it; and with.
in this Government two societies had be-
come developed as variant in structure
and distinct in form as any two beings
in animated nature.
The one is a society composed Of a race, tie
other oftCo races. The one is bound to-
gether but by the two great social rela-
tons of husband and wife, and parent
and child; the other by the three rela-
lions Of husband and wife, and parent
and child, and master and slave. The
one embodying the principle that equal
ity is the right Of man expands upon
the horizontal plan Of pure democracy
tho other ombodying the principle that tits
not the right Of man, has taken to itself the
rounded f2rm Of social ayistocracy. In tie
one the Ujer0s Of government come jrom the
heels, IN tie ottsr Jrom The head Of society; in
the one it is guided by the 1corst, in the
other by the best intelligence
After showing at some length the con-
test which has been going on between
free and slave labor in the Border States,
he continues:
at is to be apprehended that this
contest between democracy and 8ldJe,y is
not yet over In Virginia there are about
100000 slaves to 100000 Of whites,
And as at least as many slaves as mas
tors are necessary TO the Constitution of
slave society, about 100000 of the white
population are IN legitimate relation 10 The
S1ares, and the rest are in excess, Like
an excess Of alkali or acid in chemical
experiments, they are pnfrea in The social
compoa3,'
We inyiic careful attention 70 the lat
ter cxtaact; as il cont aims the striking
declaration that Shareholders are not in
Legitimate relation" TO slavery, and that
they are "unfKed in the social COM
pound" All observing and rejecting
men must see that the independence OF
the Southern Confederacy, whose leaders
declare that laboring non slave holders
arc the "heels of society" and its "wOrst
intelligence must inevitably be follow
cd by the expulsion of all its non-slavc,
holding citizens Non Shareholders, who
constitute the large majority of the white
citizens in Tennessee, have always been
looked on with iea lousy and suspicion
and still more would they be the
objects of those feelings, were they
included in the limits Of slave Confed-
eracy.
In South Carolina, it will be remem-
bered that large landed estate and
slave property are the qualifications re-
quisito for a member Of the Legislature
Talent may be dispensed with, but the
slaves cannot be. Let us see how Mr.
STRAIT is pleased with this state of af'
fairs: Here is an excess Of 10000
slaves, and here is fairly exhibited tho nor.
NAL nature o1 the institution. The q6ictr
n the State are Shareholders and the repre-
sntahres Of starch Hsrs" Non-slavehol,
ders are ignored altogether, it will b,
seen, They are looked on rs an "unhX,
ed element in the social compound" Blu
even in this paradise, he fears that, un
less measures be taken TO prevent il
white laborors may come in, and he de-
clarcs that slavery having achieved on,
revolution 10 escape from Democracy a
the North, must achieve another. 10 escape 1
at Tie South" He declares then that In,
African slave trade must be opened, 81
~ 20 ~! :ay South ~ iti slaves, ami piac,
them in every department of labor
Slaves, hc says, "must be reduced {,
prices, 90 which they will be reduced
when the question comes up lOLe,ler ir
shall Stare he l'rs'iug q. G. the uiit
mechanic or laborcr) or the hirclng III,
slave and thus hesasserts "hcy can uu
d77c2yk he uuH The fifteen Southern
States will then be handed over solely
to the possession of few great Ian,
proprictors, and white laborers. being
dangerous element, will be exclude,
from that magnificent domain.
The American people have entertain
ed the belief that this country was the
home Of the white race, where the either
could roam freely, and follow whatever
calling suited him, without being called
TO account for any thing save the com,
mission of crime. "No" say the leader.
of the Southern Conledoracy, "come mo
farther than the Southern border of th,
North, for ours is the home of a great lane