The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-09-18


Astounding revolving, horrible as the
caption Of this article may seem TO those
simple persons who believe that the Sc
ccssion leaders have any other aim in
view save their own aggrandizement, tes-
timony brought from various quarters
where the rebel army has been operating
from Virginia, from East Tennessee,
from Arkansas, from Minnesota the the
atre of the most awful massacre eVer
known on this continent, and lastly. from
Lebanon, Kentucky--with CONFIRMATION
strong as proofs Of Holy Writ" proves
that the Southern Oligarchy has enlisted
under its "stars and bars" Indian saw
ages, and degraded negroes, to eight
against the soldiers of the Union We
do not doubt that the whole scheme has
been thoroughly matured, by which
those slaves who shall consent TO fight
in the Rebel ranks, or act as guerrilas,
or as spies, are 70 be rewarded with their
freedom al the end Of the war. That
the promise of the Confederacy to these
slaves would be kept, were il to be estab-
lished we Of course do not believe for
one moment The rebel leaders are not
too honorable 10 lie 20 and deceive igno-
rant slaves, just as they have deceived
white men; but still we doubt not that
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deniable fact, as has been repeatedly
stated by the French and English Jour-
nails, by foreign correspondents, aud a
few days since by member of the
French Legation in Washington, that the
Rebel Commissioners and JOHN SIDELL
have made semi-olticial propositions that
the COnfederacy, for the sake Of obtain
ing foreign help, would establish a sys-
TEN Of gradual emancipation. Here we
have the grand plan of the members of
the Richmond JuntO; the a,nsiag Of SHARES
TO eight in their ranks, and graltal
emancipation No man can regard these
things as improbable, who will consider
that JEFF DAVIS, FLOYD and STE
pnENs, would a great deal rather see
every slave set free and them
selves at the head of success
ful government, than TO see slavery pre-
served and themselves defeated and tried
as traitors What revolutionist ever
hesitated between success and glory, and
defeat and inlamy? Does any man or
woman pretend to doubt that JEFF DAVIS
would prefer emancipation, negro SOL
diers, and a perpetual dictatorship, to de-
feat, humiliation, and death on the gall
lows? The only question for a rebel
leader TO decide in this matter would be !;
" Will the use of slave soldiers increase
my chances of success - And in the
face of the tremendous army now placed
in the field by the United States, and
with The knowledge that this great force
can readily be doajled or teJlel who can
doubt that desperation might easily i'm
pei them TO adopt this measure? No
man can doubt il no man does doubt it
and the tact stares the loyal men of the
South in the face; the awful certainty
confronts the freemen of the East, Of the
Middle States, Of the Northwest, and OF
the Border States, that the wretched au-
thors Of the Southern rebellion, Grenzied
with the lusto power, have armed slaves
and Indian savages for the purpose Of
destroying free government, and breaking
up the Union This miserable, purse
proud, and domineering cotton oligarchy
enraged at their expulsion from power
dare TO tell the people of this Republic
that rather than see the majority rule
they will place the dagger and the torch
in the hands of theirnegroes to burn the
dwellings, and cut the Threats of loya
men, They say in effect TO the people
"Bc our slaves or we will whip you into
submission by the help of our slaves
Mechanic, laborer white mud-sills
acknowledge that we are the "master
race" the divinely appointed rulers o
this country, or we will arm
the scrfs who toll on our splen
did plantations, and chastisc yo,
for your audacity.' How the poo
white trash will relish this peremptorl
language of the plantation, made emphai
&c by the crack Of the drivers whip vi
leave for them 70 answer. Perhaps tn
response may not be altogether submis
siye perhaps they may tell these AFRO
giant scions Of paryenu aristocracy, al
arstooracy with little brains, less cult
walton, and still less breeding; an arts
tOcracy which has no basis TO support il
absurd pretensions but that of wealth
that Che freedom of twenty three million
of white people is a much more import
ant matter than the preservation of th
property Of less than two hundred thou
sand rebel shareholders, Is il too mucl
TO say that the world would embrace In
declaration, and history record it will
approval
Union men now see how very light,
they are esteemed by the rebels, The,
are held as of less Importance tha
slaves. JEFF DAVIS would far rather Sc
one million of thick Tipped, and woolly
headed Africans shipped into Dixie, fires
from Congo, than see one million of loy1
white men enter his dominious. llenc