The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-27
y. O. rrERoER. EDITOR.
The Negro Exodus-The Way Of
the Transgressor is Hard.

The Negro Exodus-The Way O
the Transgressor is Hard,
The rebel shareholders of Middle Ten
nessee--and they comprise perhaps fiv
sixth of the slaveholders--are filed witt
alarm at the approaching evilwhich mena
ces them with ruin. Itiseyident that they
do not regard the Presidents emancipa
ton proclamation as bru,upa fuIn,e,a--
mere thunder and no lightning--as some
newspapers regard it. On the contrary
they look upon it as the most terrible
wound yet inflicted upon the peculiar
institution, which, as 1t is the chief cor
ner stone Of the Butternut Confederacv,
80 il is the chief corner stone of the re-
bellion'; whose death involves the death
of the Southern rebellion. The slaves
have heard of the Proclamation. and are
following the example Of rebellion set
them by their masters. 1t is not won
derful that PoMPEY and CUFFEY should
improve upon the teachings of the Uilto,,
and Anler5oan-a misnomer for the Dis
atnion and -American-and Of King
HARRIS, and General PILLOW and refuse
to obey masters who reject the idea of
law and subordination. Whoever else
may affect to doubt that the Proclama-
ton is live document the rebels of Mid
die Tennessee do not doubt it, and they
quake in the extremity Of their terror as
the day draws near when it shall take
effect In Wilson, in Williamson, in
Maury, in Rutherford, and in Davidson
counties the rebel masters have, for two
weeks past, been gathering up their slaves
andrunhing them off as expeditiously as
possible. Whole plantations which once |
counted their scores of bondsmen, coal
black, ches tnut-brown saddle colored,
olive-tinted, and saxon-hued, are now
depopulated. Their former inhabitants
have
" Laid down tho shovel and the hoe
And hung up che fldlc and the bow;n
and have been driven off to Dixie--tO
the land of cotton, cotton mouth snakes,
and cotton headed politicians.
We nave our doubts whether these fugi-
tive 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 isno work for them {
10 do, no cotton or tobacco to raise, and 0
nothing for them to eat. IL does not I
seem to us that TO collect hundreds of v
thousands of restless, excited negroes Il
ogether, is exactly the best method of c.
occurring and strengthing the divine in Il
titution Of slavery, which is sanctioned h
" the Lords Prayer, and the sermon on fl
he Mount. To use plain term, these n
ebel shareholders are set of asses &C
hey never were troubled with much Y,
rains, and they have improved very &C
luch, of late, the wrong way. If we re
'anted to stir up mischief, insubOrdina- hs
on and the devil generally, in the Cotton be
tates, we would advise these slave own til
8 of middle Tennessee, to do just as to
icy are doing. just let them pile up tai
ei- negroes, four deep, over Mississippi mi
I'd Alabama, until those States look like &c
e deck of SLAYER, and beyond all doubt col
> shall speedily witness an irrepressible sal
ntlict compared with which all other con- rea
cts will appear tame and spiritless Who ha
ould have believed twelve months ago, in
at during a bloody civil war, the rebel no,
'veowners who have always dreaded in ers
rrections among their slaves, even when arm
ey were separated from each other on anC
'lated plantations, would, at the most are
ngerous period of the war; mass tie the
UeS in one formidable BODY and thus render if
m UNNECESSARILY more powerful 70 iylict the
wyP This is precisely what the reb- one
are doing. But we have heard no die,
dy object to their doing so If they fort
! stand il, we guess that we can en- he
re 1t, not only patiently but comforta- con
= In fact, we confess that we rather con
the movement. The rebels are kind war
putting their heads so close together was
t we can soon sever them at one blow, i'll,
If they had but one neck. Nor does for
equirs the gift of prophecy to foretell Of 9
at will follow in this State, Hos
These splendid plantations, whose area hon
asst, whose fertility is unsurpassed dou
whose climate is delightful, will not hy.
allowed TO lie idle, An army Of hardy, tyra
erprising immigrants from the North GERS
I will soon pour in to fill the faces tail,
vacant by tho slaves and, in place men
alf-sayage, woolly-headed, coal black, title
,ed Africans, "a uneducated as Tho ed /