Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-04-26

7@hNe " Saves hdFt oSth ntiANN Wy VI-
der Of the rebel Government and carried
OF from their owners without any COM
pensation whatever. We have in our
mind two instances, out Of hundreds that
have occurred in Southern. Kentucky
One planter had two valuable slaves, the
pick of his farm, impressed by General
TILGHMAN and taken to Fort Donclson
to work on the rebel Notifications. The
negroes would readily have brought
$4,000. They took sick and died, and
the owner never has and never will receive
one dollar in compensation. Another
case. An. old and highly respectable
physician had his only negro man, very
valuable hand, taken from him by a
Lieutenant under General TILoHMAN,
70 Fort Donelson. He was captured at
the fall Of that Fort, and instead of re-
turning the negro, carried him of with
him to indianapolis by passing him off as
his own servant. The owner went on and
found no difficulty in getting the Federal
officers to return his servant. Hundreds
and thousands of such cases have hap
pened in Kentucky and Tennessee. Let
those who clamor at the injustice of the
emancipation act by which slaves were
freed in the District of Columbia, on COM
psnSatios being paid to their owners, re-
member that the slaves stolen from their
owners in Tennessee and Kentucky
alone--to leave out the immense number
of horses, cattle, hogs, crops, &c, which
amount to millions of dollars-are worth
far moro than the negroes in the District
of Columbia. But we say that the action
of Congress in regard TO Slavery in the
District, is no proof that they will inter-
fere with State institutions. The Repub-
lican party has always declared that
Congress had the right and the power TO
abolish, or legislate on the subject of
slavery in the District in any manner it
might see proper, because it was the sole
and exclusive legislative body for the
District But on the other hand, they as
emphatically declared that Congress had
no power to legislate on slavery in the
States. They have violated no pledge
in this matter. The emancipation act for
the District no more implies COMPRESSION
al emancipation for the States. than it
does the annexation of Greenland, or an
expedition to the South Pole. And now
let us see what are the views of one of
the leading representative men of the
Republicans as to the cause of the rebel
lion. Hon. f. P. Blair, of St. Louis, said
in late speech in Congress, that a party
had been formed in the South, whose po-
Htical bond was slavery. twas composed
of crafty clique of oligarchists who
used slavery as a mere stepping stone to
power. He says:
The people had no share in the Gov
eminent. All power was vested in the
clique which dominated in the South.
1t was to put down this domination that
the organization which elected Mr.. Lin
coin was formed. 1t was, therefore,
against slavery, as the governing power
Of the country, that the Republican Party
rose as a national party, and not to abol-
ish slavery as local institution
This last statement is the very thing
we wish to establish as disclosing the
Spirit Of tie North. Mr., Blair who Occu-
pies a first rank in the Republican army,
IN repudiating the idea Of interfering
with State Slavery, asks:
How will you execute decree of
which will set free the
slaves Of the South upon the soil and |
lmong a people the whole body Of whom |
IRE opposed TO il, and who have taken up |
arms in rebellion against this very idea |
If negro equality? II can only be done |
)y the presence of an immense army, |
TO prevent the white race from
'e-enslaying the black, and by waging a
constant war upon the people of our race |
or the protection Of the black race
low long would il be endured by the
Northern people that a war should be
yaged upon the people Of their own race
It the South TO make the blacks their
quals do not believe that any party
.ould retain power at the North upon
uch an issue.
Hon. John Sherman, in a speech de-
ivered a few weeks ago, emphatically |
declared that the Republicans had no
lesign to NEEDLE with slavery in the
states, and that it would be ruinous for
hem to do so. lie is one of the most /