The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-09-25


he Co1JeisycJ--hs pyoigci,g c'oss--clo
me utterly insignificant as aa intellectual |
,cigl anil moJal clsmeHJ We might Just
as well talk Of Lyceums, Colleges, Schools
and cheap magazines, for our Shaughais,
Durham cattle, Spanish Jacks, Berkshire
pigs or Cashmere goats, as for our Negro
slaves. Now, suppose we stop right
here and ask the simple question, Which |
nation will attain the highest rank in
every respect-that which rests on an
intelligent, thinking class, or the one
which is supported by barbarians p |
Would le Southern Confederacy, if al
lowed TO exist until the final trump Of
doom shall sound, be likely to produce !
the inventors, HE artists, the poets, the
scholars the members Of the learned pro-
fessons, which England produces every
ycss We think not; FOR the latter Of
fers incentives 20 talent, the former none.
But let us look at the influence which
this degraded and stupid basis in the
Southern Conicderacy would inevitably
exert on the minds aud tastes Of the ru-
ling class For The masters TO escape be-
coming despots, they must be blessed 10y
a miraculous inteposiiion Of Divine
power. Give a man power over a herd Of
ignorant, bcsoticd creatures, who he
knows must continue without improve
mcnt, aud whom his own safety and the
stern command Of the law compcls him
to restrain from making any improve
ments, and who, even il improvement were
possible, are - utterly incapacitatcl from
rising socially as the horse he rides,
| and that man must become dcspotic in
temper No British noblcman has half
the power over his tenants that cotton,
or sugar, or tobacco planter has over his
slaves; and as far as power over human
beings constitute greatness no Duke, no
Peer Of the British realm has 1.-THE Of
the power that is possessed, by the plan
| ter who owns two hundred or five hun
bred slaves We conceive that however
excellent as members of society these
men may be- they are not exactly the
sort Of masters whom we would desire
to live under as the holders Of political
! power. Have we no cause for asserting
that il is the purpose of the leaders Of
this rebellion TO establish slave aris-
tocracy, il they can establish the South
ern Conrcderacy? One would suppose
from Mr. STEPHENS declaration that the
South means 10 establish government
whose chief cornerstone shall be
African slavery, was conclusive evidence
that the possession Of slaves was to con-
stitute the badge Of distinction for this
novel order Of arstocracy. The declara-
tions Of DE Bows famous Southern Re.
Uieir, are sill more clear and emphatic
1t says:
"Foreigners understand and admire
the lcyeling democracy of the North, but
cannot appreciate the arisiocyatic teel'a,
of p,iwIeg6d class so universal dt he South
"A non-slave- holding community il
! the midst Of the South, will ever be dis
satisfied and beacle,ouS Witness Saint
Louis, Louisville, Northwestern Virgins
and Eastern Tennessee, We aust erc2d
Tucl communities IN Janre, al any cost
And so soon as the Southern Conled
eracy is allowed TO succeed in establish
, ing its hideous throne over q portion o
the Federal Union, so soon will the rot
of a cotton aristocracy drive from its do
minion the non-slaye- holding whites, Of
whom they will ever lool, with a jcalcu
and suspicious eye.