The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-12-02

tilS ihuiubEtE Va Tue WOH60 ana CnllQren
of Warsaw as objects of adherence and
vengeance. Ny pen has
literally run away with me, for it was
not my intention TO have touched upon
this subject in this letter to you, but you
have set certain chords vibrating in my
heart that makes me utter such things
in spite of myself. The thing ,ohich gou
call tyranny is not 50; the most unbearable
of all-that which has made men to run
for refuge to any other form of society,
however CALLING and odious. What makes
the cause yet more deplorable is that by
an eternal law of nature, the only way
by which such evils, when they once be-
come unbearable, can be mended is by
making them too bad to be borne That
is the ru5-Uestigia m8ll1 yety0rsups-every-
thing must be shaken down and washed
away-society must be supplanted by
complete anarchy, and men have sup
ped full of horrors and misery before
they dare to arrest such things; and then,
great God! by cbata remedy are they COM
pelled toayTet them p'
We have INDUCED in this rather long
extract from a production noted by us in
connection with these events long since,
to show how masterly were the conclu-
sions arrived at by an eminent scholar
and statesman of South Carolina nearly
thirty years ago, and we quote them as
preliminary to a notice OF conclusions
of the same tenor, by the eminent author
of the production referred to-"The
Union" Ne
Mr.. Walker starts off with notice of
the Emancipation Proclamation of the
President, assuming that immediate e.
Emancipation of all the slaves, with com
pensation for all, costing as it would
twelve hundred millions of dollars, is
now beyond the pol0er Of the government,
burdened as it is by an enormous and
increasing debt" "Nor was," he SAYS,
"such a measure ever mise on erpedient."
Taking the census as his guide, he next
considers the gradual disappearance of
slavery as it formerly existed in the free
States, advocating a system of "gradual
emancipation and colonization" and
considering the subject, ain connection
with Maryland" to "apply the same
principles to other States" We have
only space for the merest glance at his
conclusions. Referring to the method
adopted in Pennsylvania of liberating
all the slaves born after = certain date
within the limits of the State, he says
ain the execution of the emancipation
act of Congress in this District, infant
slaves were valued officially this year, by
sworn experts, at $50. Now, by the
census of 1860, the infant slaves of Mary
land, under one year old, surviving on
the 1st of june 1860, numbered 1891,
which, at $50 each, would cost Sl19,55O
This would be the actual expense for
,the first year in Maryland, but decreas-
ing every year, and ceasing altogether in
little more than a generation"
He goes on to apply this principle to
the other Border States showing that il
it was carried out ip all of them-inclu-
ding Virgina-that the cost would be for
the first year S l, 346, $50, decreasing every
year. According, then, to the annual
tables, and those of eXpectancies of life
Gas calculated for me), the sum of fifteen
millions of dollars of United States
stock issued now, and bearing interest al
the rate of six per cent per annum
would make all the Border States" MARY.
land Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri anC
Virginia) "Free States, in the same
sense in which Pennsylvania and othel
Northern Free States became so, and les
than half this sum if Virginia shOulC
not adopt this measure. The case, then
as regards the Border States, presents n
financial difficulties whatever" *
"And now let us examine the cost of thes
measures. If the Seeded States, inclu
ding Virginia, should persist in the rebel
lion until after the close Of this year, In
sum to be paid the loyal owners of slave
manumitted under the Presidents Wa
Proclamation, would probably reac
Sl00,0000OO. The emancipation of post
, nat"(thOse born after dateof emancipatin
laws in the four remaining Border State
would cost $7,288,13 The manumis
, sion in those States Of all the surviving
slaves on the 4th of July, 1876 accord
, ing to the same tables and estimates
| would cost a sum equal to 100000
j issued now as United States six per cent
f stock, making total for complete emaaci
{ patton IN all the SlqUe States Of S172,28S,
q 1872. This is a smaller sum than fOu
months cost Of the war; whilst who'll
{ and forever removing the discordant ele
r ment which produced the rebellion, com
mencing new and glorious career of ma
, terial, moral and intellectual progress
/ greatlyexalting the character of the ma
tion, invoking the blessing Of God, secu
{ ring the future harmony and perpetuit.
r OF the Union, and the ultimate lraternit.
of man."
t Our readers will see from what we hav
already given, the DRIFT Of sentiment wit
| prominent men in dealing with this grea
i question, and the agencies at work. des
q tined sooner or later TO produce might
b results. II is the duty of all TO kee
Z posted with what is thus transpiring o
{ all sides, whether the conclusions arrive
e at are distasteful or nt In what W
q have already quoted from the paper ne
e ferred TO, we have given but the prelimi
. varies of the writer, since, in what fol