The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-06-22

Gen. ROUSSEAU uttered the folloFug pn
riotic sentImints in bic speech at The Gait
House banquet. They will be cordially ap
proved by all true Union MN:
"Standing Def re the eye Of the recession
ist, the negro hides all the blessings Of our
Government throwing black shadow on
The sun itself II it had been any other
species Of property that stood ia the way,
the army provoked as it has been, would
willingly have seen its quick distinction
But the negro they did not wish to interfere
with in any way. Yet, with all its cOnserv-
atism and patriotism, the atmy has grown
weary Of this insane cry Of abolitionism' as
q cause for breaking up the Government
have warned our Southern friends of
The danger Of continuing it much longer
and ] tell you tonight that If this war con.
tinues year from this day there will not be
a slave on this continent, The great revo
luton will take care OF iself-the dead will
bury its dead--and those who are causing
all the bloodshed and desolation GROUND US
hhANl AhC lAlnN BlNlNlgN AAAN VIC httllb "
free their negroes, will if they persist, one
day find slavery snuf,d out as you snuff out
a candle. Slavery is not worth our Gov.
ernment It is not worth our liberty. 1t
is not worth all the pr,cious blood now be
ing poured out for freedom. 1t is no, worth
the free navigation Of the Mississippi river
No We mutt still have our Government-if
not as it now is, with slavery in it, still we
must have our Government We clnuot b.
slaves to JEFF DAVIS & Co. We must and
will be free. We must have the free nav
goion of the Mississippi river and if
slavery gets in the way Of any Of these rights
why slavery must get out Of the way
That would be the last resort, and 1 should
be sorry to have recourse to it but am
for the Govern meut Of our fathers against
all things and everybody Whilst the lib,r.
ties Of the people are secure under it, as
they ever have been, would allow nothing
but death to prevent my uphoiding it. Aud
10th, as you may be 10 decide you will sooa,,s
| believe, be called upon to do So la spite
Of your Gntrealics, the issue will be cruelty
thrust upon you, and you will be forced to
decide between slavery and your wives aud
children. As for me, | am ready tor the
responsibility. A Southern man as | am,
born and brought up in the South, with all
my sympathies with the South, / could not
| hes tate one moment when the issue is PIE.
4 sented between the Niger and the Govern.
ment Of cur fathers. | am for the Govern.
N ment OF the United States against all its
enemies. | hope aud pray that our South
ern friends will not force US to extremes on
this sensitive point We deprCclte such a
result for we want oV rights under the
| Constitution, aud we are all ready to fght
| for theirs under the good old Government.
l would to day most willingly gird on my
sword and fight for any right belonging to
them, slaury ioclud,d, but they must not
! put slavery between me aud the Govern
ment aud laws OF the United States | will
not consent to become a slave that the negro
may be kept slave will no. sacrifice he
happiness OF my wife, children and friends,
the welfare Of my beloved State aud the
glory Of my Country on IN altar dedicated
to the Ebony IDOL Wien lee placed on
one side Government formed by the no.
blest men the world haa eyer produced the
legacy Of WAsHINGToN to the humau race, u
glorious country filed with a happy and en-.
lightcned people, ana admired or feared on
every spot that IL lroddeu by the foot Of
civilized man, ana on the other, a country
rent into Insignificant fragments, gugaged 10
contiHual wars with each other, each on It's
knees begging assistance from some foreign
monarch OF other against a rival fragment,
an object Of contempt 10 him who uses it for
bis own purposes, then ! shall not b. long
in coming to ,cision, though negro -lav.
cry may b. on one side and not on The other,