The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-10-29


tiah that there Is strong impression that the South
has had something 70 DO with slavery. (Cheers)
Indeed, on our side OF the water there persons
that affirm IL. daughter and Cheers Aud, as bis
lordship thinks that Il Is the peculiar duty Of this
now agglomerated and agglutlnated association for
Southeh Independence " do away with that m-
preston, beg % submit TO them that In the hfst
place they ought TO do away with four million ta res
10 the Souh Tor for my own part cannot say but
that think thore unchattable men enough living
In this world 10 think that a natl that has TOUR mil.
Hon slaves in II has good deal 10 do with supporting
slavery (CnecrB.)
Ana when he has done that Il might perhaps be
pof ent 70 suggest to his lordship that there should
be a little something done 70 the Montgomery con.
stntion OF the 8outh, which Is changed from the
Old ederai constitution In only one or Two points,
tho most essential Of which IL that It introduces and
legazcs slavery and makes il unconstitutional ever
70 do itaw8y and they under that Constitut on
NOW, submit that that wants Bcrubbing little
CHEERS Then would also respectfully lay at his
lordships ieetmorc beautifully embossed, Il could,
than this addressed TO me is--the speech Of Vice
President stephens--lhear, hearl--in which he de-
cltres That all nations have en- mistaken, and that
the sutugation Of Inferior race the only proper
way 10 maintain the liberty of superior IN which
he gives the lie into the face Of the Savio- HIMSELF
who came 10 teach us that by as much a was
stronger than another, he owed hmsefto that other.
loud cheers.l Not alone are Christ's blood-drops
our salvation, but those word drops Of sacred truth
which cleanse the heart and conscience by the tx-
preston Of precious truths and principles themselves
are our salvation, well as the atoning blood and
u there be 10 the truths OF Christ one more eminent
be the servant Of all " But this audaoous hierarch
OF inndeliy, Mr. stephens, In the face Of God, and
before mankind, in this day Of universal Christi
anlty, clarCs that the way for a nation to have
manhood, is to crush ont the liberty of an inferior
and weaker race. And he declares ostentatousy aud
boastingly, that the foundation of The southern
public s on that corner stone. Loud cheers, EMO
no." snd renewed cheers beg leave, when next
Lord Wharnclife speaks for the edilcaton Of this
delighted English Peope-[lauehterl-I beg leave 10
submit that this speech OF MIR. Stephens requires
little occurring. fApplauae
And then II he believed that all the other allega-
tlona and evidences that the South are npholdng
slavery TO be the peculiar work Of the southern
Independence Association, not Hercules in his palmy
days had such work and wages before HIM they
have got cloud cheers.) We Shant be troubled
with them. They will be knee-deep and elbow deep
in their business Of scrubbing and securing, and
loi Wharnclife may bid farewell TO the sweets of
domestic leisure and to the pursuit Of the interest
Of state, and all his amusemsnts hereafter will re
sorubblDg and securing. (Loud cheers,) But there
IA anoth precious paragraph that will read
He believed that the strongest supporters Of slave
ry were the merchants OF New York and Boston. lie
always understood, and had never seen the state
ment contradicted, that the whole Of the ships fitted
out for the transport OF slaves from Africa to Cuba
were ownef by NOrtherners." cloud Laughter.)
HIS lordship, II he viii do me the honor 10 read
my speech, shall hear Il c1ntradeted In the OK.
plcit terms There have been enough Northern
ships engaged, but not by any means all, nor the
most. Baltimore has pre- ompence in tue matter,
Charleston and New Orleans, aud Mobile, all OF them
And those ships lifted ont Ii New York were inst as
much despised and loathed, and Kissed By the honor
able merchants OF that great metropolis az IL they
had put up the black dag OF piracy. cloud cheers
Does II conduce to good feeling between two Ratons
20 make such atrocioua slandefs thsseg His ord
ship goes on 70 say;
"That in the Northern States the slave was placed
IA even a worse position than he was IN the Soutb.
lie spoke e ON experience, having visited the coun.
try twice"
am most Surprised Snd yet gratlaet, tolelrn that
Lord Whsrnehhs speaks q the ,uiierings Of the
slaves from experience daughter and cheers
never was that he had been put in that an
happy situation. BRs he toied on tue sugar II IA
lionl Has he taken the night for his ricnd, avoid
ing the day Has he sped through cane brakes,
hunted by hounds, suffering hunger, and heat, and
cold by turns, until he has madc his way u the far
Northern States? (Ch0 RS Has he had this expe-
rienot? The grammar IS good. II is the word tx
perence call attention to Il his lordshp says that
Il is his observation, viii acsept the correction.
continue:
In railway carriages and hot IT, the negroes were
treated as pasiahs and outcasis, and never looked
upon as men and brothers, but rather as dogs
CHEERS r.tff
In all railway cars where southeine-s travel IN al
hotels where Southerners' money the chief sup
port, this Is true But allow 10 say frankly that
there has been some occasion for such statement,
and there has been pref Idice 10 the North against
the negro speak this the more because Il has been
apart OF my duty any time these last sixteen years
70 protest against Il and well dressed and wei be-
hAved cJOfed man mas never had mOlesi atOn or
question 0n entering my church AMI taking Any seat
10 pleases the whoe house, not because 1 bad In
hpenee With NY people to pfeyent H. but because G.d
gave me people whose own good Sc and con-
science led hem 70 DO Il Of their own account But
from this want age grOunt II has been my duty TO
mark OUT the unrighteous prejudice OF which the oul
ored people have suffered IA the North, anu IL 10
part Uf the great moral revolution winch going on
that the preiudiCes have been Ia great
pushed, aud well nigh trUdlen down
In the city OF New YORK there is street rail.
road where coor,d p Ople oaunot ride, but 10 the
others they may, anu D.. all ihe railroads Of Neg
England there 10 not one railroad in VIII ch cOored
man would be Questioned II be rides lhe,e believe
that the cOOred man may start from the line Of the
British d0minions from the North aud traverse all
New Egg and and New iurk t G tonCh. the waters
ithe Western lakes and never mOlesied or ques.
toned, passing As any decent VIII t. would pass.
But let me asa you how came there 10 be these pre-
iudicesf They did not exist before the inde-
pendeoce. How did u grow upl II grew up as
OF the acours ed ofshoots OF Slavery. Where you
make race odious by oppression ali that belongs 10
that feca VIII participate IA that Ooium, Wh,ther
they be free slave And e south have maintain
| ed that inftituti0n which made the Al lean a
/ prelud,ci man IA tho North. How next dad lh 4
| prejudice come 10 exists L was on account OF tho
| mu titude ol lrshmen who came 20 the States
! [Chee and interruptions I declare my admlra-
tiOi fJr m ny Of these people who have illustrated
tne page history iu evory department. Il Is part
| OF tho ait OF ignorancs ana, they allege, the
oppression that they have sun5red-tlat II ms made
tLam oppressors. bear witness that "a re IS 20
class OF people In America Who 30 bitter a.
gAd4st tue cvi0fed people and eager IL Slavery
as tue ignorant tue poor, uninsTucted lrishmen.
r'o,," aud "Hear, and "lhree cheers iVr old
| LELAND But although there have been wrongs
done 70 them 10 the North, the condition Of tie Tree
ooored people m the North is unsps kably better
than ia the south they own their wives and child
| ren, ticar, hear
| They have rghtto scl.ct their place aud the
kind VI labor, their rights Cf property protected
just al inurn ours Tne right of education Is
acCOi dca 10 the A. rhere Is ths cty of New York
mole than ten million dollars OF property owned b.
/ tree cJlOred psOilJ. lBer.l they have their own
| SC huols IA y have their own churches their own
Oratols, and there is no gifted nan, and
~hose superb elOluence more deserves 90 DO stene
/ 90 than Frederick Dougas--(logd oheeTs) aud
| you thiuA ace has 700 much white blood then there
Is samuel Wari who Is AS black he can be- ana n
gu can mud amy man Ia the South who Is superior 20
him m stnse IA logic, aud N eloquenoe you viii mud
a man who has never yet Appeared Ia any Of their
csunsels say stu further than that, that snce the
breakitg oat II this war, the good conduct OF the
slaves the south, ard good conduct Of the tree
colored people al tbs North has gone 20 increase
| the kind feelings OF tho whites toward them; aud
since they ha. begun 10 nght for lheir igbta OF
manhood, tnufe is beginning 10 be the elements q
| pIpuiar entuu iifm Tor thvm (L.ud cheers) I
/ viii venture say that the Is 40 n zoe on earth
where many colOred men stAad IN q pos tion 81
aus poious iur "a fnluro tho &c c0ored men and
| the eed siayts 81 tne south aud Of The North.
| (Oheors)