The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-02-03

Commerce may perish, cities be
burned, the flower of our citizens
fall in battle l,t thousands, and the
Government etill exist; but if slav-
cry be touched. all must perish.
No mortal power may call it in
question. Immediate and gradual
emancipationists, compensation
and anti-compensation emancipa-
tionists are all classed as abolition
lists, and arraigned before the bar
of the world for the crime of civil
war. Even the Journal proclaims
that it shall not now be discussed
in Kentucky, and says that
lie amongst us t0ho, iehatever he purity Of
his motive or tho hIstre Of HE character, should
'ou0 attempt 10 inaug,wate here he question Of
emancipation ,rol,ld b Get dolcn b. common
consent az a mischief maker and he attempt
you'd b stamped out as he lighted fuse Of a
bomb she'll
How the stamping would be
done, or who would do it, We are
not informed. Surely not, he
whose eloquent pen once wrote Of
HENRY CLAY:
"a passion foe the liberty Of
mankind seems to have formed a
portion of his being. and he has
not changed since, He has been
the slaves friend through life, In
all stations he has pleaded the
cause of African freedom, without
fear from high or low To him
more than to any other individual,
is TO be ascribed that great revolu-
ton which has taken place in pub
lie sentiment on this subject--a re-
volution whose wheels must CON
tinue to move onward, till they
reach the goal of UNIVERSAL FREE
DOM" Now, alas the Journal
discountenances and rebukes the
emancipation movement every
where, in other States as well as in
Kentucky. 1t says:
In Missouri ash minority is already
distracting the State with the question
Of emancipation, and indications are not
wanting that the harmony of Maryland
will be disturbed ere long in like.
The agitation Of the question of emancipation
IN these States at present is yfnGugh ,oith tn-
nired evil.
Thus the gallant and true-heart-
ed Union men of Missouri, are
called a trash minority" who are
pouring cup of "lsnmtned evil"
for their State in discussing the
slavery question. They too, it
seems, are helping the rebel leaders
to fire the Southern heart. They
are guilty of furnishing pretexts
for secession, and of course must
share its responsibility. They are
prepared to meet the unholy
charge before God and man. The
Journal concludes:
"The Union, so amazing is the muddIe
in which it founders, gravely conceives
that is swinging 'war-club' as form
liable as the battle-axe with which the
Black knight in IvanhUe Numbered
against the postern Of Torquilstone,
whilst we are uttering clamors' as idle
il not as maniacal as the shouts of Ulrica
from the summit Of the burning castle.
Such are the humors of mistaken zeal.
$50 much for the Unions lecture to us
1t falls to the ground, pride, true to its
proverbial traditions, going before the
fall
The logician mistakes our con.
ception of the part he has played
in his criticism of our article, as
much as he mistakes in accusing
us of ignoratio elenohi, or in sup
posing there is good logic in his
petitiO principii. He does not
remind us of Ulrica on the burn
ing castle at all. AS he floun-
ders in the air, suspended by
his chop-logic from the cloud
castle of false argument, he
may possibly remind some readers
of Don Qcixotte, suspended by
one wrist from the straw-loft of
the Manchegan inn, defying all
the knights.errant and enchanters
in the world to meet him in NOR
tai combat. Which will fall to
the ground first-his pride or him
self-we leave every one to his
own opinion.