The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-01-23
NO 244


Republic was having upon opinion here
until discovered the universal con-
CALCULATIONS onfthe prospect OF that BE-
public breaking up" bat I maintaia,
after all, that The people do not err. Fres
States are the home OF the working mnn.
In fifteen years 2,500000 Of our country
men and oountrywomen have left as fsr ,
the United States every one of whoes.
speaking generally, is in a much better
position in point Of comfort than IN they
had remained here, as IL as one 81
Americas own poets had said
"For her free latch string never vasdravn 4.
Against the poores child Of Anams kln.g
Ia America there are no six millions q
grown men excluded by the Constitution. !
from political rights; there is free
church, a free school, free hand. free
vote, a free career for tho child Of the
humblest No countrymen who worIK
for your living, remember that there will
be one wild shrek of freedom TO start.s
all mankind il that Republic is over
thrown. Slavery has been the huge foul
blot upon its flame il is hideous out
rage against human right and divine Law,
the pride and passion of man will not
permit its peaceable extinction; tks
shareholders OF our colonies, il they had
been strong enough, would hove revolted
too. i believe that their was no mode
short of miracle mors stupendous than
any recorded in Holy Writ which would
in our time, or in century, have brought
thu abolition Of slavery in America bat
the suicide which the South has commit
ted and the war they are now waging.---
IL is measureless calamity. said tho
Russian war was measureless calamity
Did not many of your leaders tell yea
that that was just war TO maintain che
integrity Of Turkey, some thousands Of
miles away ?1.a .-.. ..
Why, surely the integrity Of your own
country at your own doors must be worth
as much as the integrity Of Turkey tn
not this war the penalty which an inexO-
rable justice exacts from America, North
and South, for the enormous gnilt of
chOrishing this frightful iniquity for The
last eighty years? do not blame any
man who takes the restoration OF the
United States TO be hopeless, you have
the authority of the Chancellor of the Kx-
chequer on that point; he is, as speak
, err, unsurpassed by any man in England !;
but, unfortunately, he made use OF ex-
pressions in the North of England nearly
three months ago, and seems ever since
then to have been engaged in trying 10
= make people understand what he meant
= A laugh.
: He is, however, quite welcome 20 think
the struggle hopeless for the North. |
don't hold that opinion, The leaders of
this revolt oppose by their Constitution
: this simple thing-that over a territory
. some forty times as large as England
= the blight and bondage Of slavery shalt
: be forever perpetuated. cannot myself
. believe in such fate Detailing that fair
land stricken though il now be by the
:, ravages of war; cannot believe that
civilization in its journey with the sun
~ viii sink into endless night to crafty
the ambition of the leaders of this revolt.
who seek "to wade through slaughter 70
= throne, and shut the gates Of mercy on
" mankind" Cheers.
| have another and far brighter vision
- before my gaze. II may be but vision,
- but i will still cherish it. / see one vast
70 confederation stretching from the frozen
= North in one unbroken line TO the glow
= ing South, and from the wild pillows Of
y the Atlantic 10 the calmer waters Of the
n Pacific main, and see ono people and
- one law, and one language and one faith,
" and over all that wide continent the home
. Of freedom and refuge for the oppressed
. Of every race. Loud cheers