The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-06-11
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, THURSDAY, JUNE IL 1863
greater g I, events soon occupied the attention


greater events soon occupied the attention
Of ell minds"
"souED POLITICAL INFORMATION"
The following is sample of the
sound political information" which
those who sit by the way-side" F" in the
South receive from the wealthy and edu
Gated slaveholders
1t was during the heat of the Presi-
deRtial campaign that the Hon. Jabez L.
nj. Curry, member of the Seventh Com
gressional District of Alabama, adver-
tised himself 20 speak at the town of
Wetumpka, Haggerty Hall was crowd
ed with dense mass of people of all
parties TO hear the Congressman on the
excited questions of the day. During
the progress of his remarks, the orator
exclaimed:
As soon as Abe Lincoln takes the
Presidential Chair, five hundred thousand
| Wide-Awakos, already drilling for the
purpose, will rush over the border, lay
waste your fields, emancipato you ne
groes, and amalgamate the poor mans
daughter and the rich mans buck niger
before your very eyes !"
1t would be impossible to describe
the excitement which this declaration of
MIR. Curry produced. OF course the
Congressman ought TO know"
THE NoN.sIAvEHoLDERs OF THE SOUTH.
Here is Mr.. Tharin's definition of the
South:
"'The SoIth, when applied to the
slavehOlding section of the United States,
signifies six millions of white and three
millions of black inhabitants, by the
census of 1850. The blacks are divided
into eld-hands, house-servants and
mechanics The whites arc divided into
slave-owners and non-slave- owners; the
slave-owners or cotton planters are di-
vided into lawyers, doctors and office
holders; and the non slave owners are
divided into fleldh hands and mechan-
les, with here and there professional
man snubbed by the planters and neg
lected by his own class.
"Would to God that southern rights
could be respected by southern men; that
every possible facility could be afforded
for Alabama's full development; then
we would not have negro equality forced
upon us by resident minority, who now
perform the almost entire labor of the
State with their black field-hands and
mechanics, and thus make four hundred
thousand slaves drive five hundred thou
sand freemen from the culture of the
soil, from the work. bench, from the fac
tory, and from that personal equality
without which State equality 10 but
the shadow of a shade.
Never in Congress, in State Legisla-
! lures, in onventiOns-whether political
or commercial, State, sectional or ma
tional--had the non-slave- holders, as
class, had any-the slightest--represent
alton. On the contrary, by the aggres-
sive usurpations Of the planters we had
been doomed to condition, as class,
but little, If any, above the negroes
themselves. The dominant class, possess
sing unshared legislative sway, easily
excluded these, the people of the South
under the insulting opithet of poor
white trash - from educational and
social advantages, until the mere me-
chanical operation Of choosing which
stakeholder or cotton planter should mis-
represent rs, was all that was left us.
The whole point is conceded in the term
by which the planters used TO describe the
naOdlts of secession. I'VE wrote YAM
cey to DR.. Slaughter. I'VE tho plant
ers Of course-'will precipitate the Cot
ton States into revolution"
During the Presidential canvass, and
presently after the election Of Mr.. Lin
coin, he tells us that all over his neigh
borhood the planters organized Vigilance
Committees and began to hunt Union
men.
"The vigilance committee the 'com-
mittee OF safety and the Breckinridge
club, by an almost imperceptible transit
ton, degenerated into the Jaoobin clubs
Of new reign of terror in which he who
would not insult the American flag was
considered amenable TO the mob, which
was melted TO its brutal acts by the dia-
bolioal leaders of the secret associations.
In every community sprung up some
Robespierre = some scenter of human
blood; aud TO be suspected of Lincoln
ism--their new name Of Unionism-waB
TO suiier---generally to die.
Every now and then, by way Of in
spring a wholesome terror in the minds
of Unionists, the Breckinridge club of
Wetumpka would dsnOunce and mob
some defenceless person. Tie victim of
this persecution who did not Immediately
recant was tarred and feathered, hanged.
shot, or accidentally committed suicide
Here is a pictdre Of southern life;
"Ths wheelwright shop Of my uncle,
Daniel Q. Tharin, was frequented by the
chivalry Of the neighborhood, who
amused themselves by shooting at tall
board, hewL into the shape of a man, And
denominated sold Abe! This crowd
consisted Of Col. Robert Riyes, Profess
or Harris, DR.. Dunklin, DIR. Dunklin
Pierce Vnd others, whose principal occu-
patton, when they were not shooting At
'0ld Abe was the discussion Of the rel
alive merits Of jeff Davis, Bill Yancey
and Alexander IL. Stevens. De. Dunklin
Pierce having Just returned from wit
Messing the Inauguration of Davis At
Montgomery, was full 10 bursting with
enthusiasm and 'ehiyalry.' Such was
his delight at the success Of secession,
which he claimed was insured by the
Inauguration Of JEFF. Davis, that he rush.
ed toward the imperturable 'Old Abe
and fred his navy yy-reyolVer six times in
rapid succession, without a single ball
coming out Of the puzzle, although the
smothered reports we're all heard. Upon
examination, il was discovered that the
weapon had burst at the side"
Mr. Tharin had proposed TO publish al