The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-08-25

treason Treason must be made odious
and traitors niue. bp punished aud i'm
poyarlhed. If thin be not done, ,his
government cannot stand Many humble
men, tho peasaniry and yeomanry of The
south, who have been dccoyed, or per-
maps driven into the rebellion, may look
forward with reasonable hope, for an
amnesty. Bot the intelligent and in
dueutial leaders must suffer The tell
peoples must be struck down. There
ore the conAscation act vas demanded
Prolonged applause What did the
Jov.rnmout ever 10 that we should lift
Jur hands against il? Point to.one law, or
,ct by which our rights we're laken away.
Yet after wadiDg for over two years Ia
blood aud carnage, and filing the land
with desolalion, these rebels when
whipped turn about and talk of COM
promise have no compromise to
Her save the Constitution and the laws.
Obey these and the difficulty will be
etled in forty-eight hours. Can you
naks @ better c,mpromise? Call on us
compromised We have been stripped
.ad plundered, derided and prosecuted.
,omprymise, when the rebel stands
With bayouet at your breast Com.
compromised VIII you have virtue COM
,romise with vice? Whenever such q
ompromise is made is not virtue ever
US Loser? Wal you have right compro-
mise with wrong? Whenever such a
sUmprumise is made does not the wrong
gain the advantage VIII you have
Truth compromise with Falsehood ?
Whenever that occurs will not FalsehOod
be the con uerol? If the people OF Ten
nessee had come forward one year ago
md given thoir hearty support to the
Union they could have obtained their
wn terms. Now they can't. l told the
people, whtn engaged in heated debate
With Gentry in yOn grove, in 1863, and
bitter war was made against me, on
this slavery question, that slavery had
no pro &C ion but the Constitution. Slave
~ is now become an itinerant institu-
ion, and uses its legs to walk eff. When
was in the Legislature, years ago. and
urged tho passage of law distributing
our Congressional repr, 4entst "a among
the districts according to h n white
population, not questioning the three
fltas superintendent as respected the
State, many of you cried out "OS he is
. id abolilionistw l believed the
white basis Of representation to be most
Just and most in accordance with the
spirit Of our institutions. was then, as
an ow, for q white mans government
aud for free, intelligent white
constituency, instead of negro
aFistocracy. Intelligent freemen con-
siitota State, not wealth, or negro pro-
perty. am for 5 Commonwealth com
posed OF enlightened and industrious
freemen, and not one based upon slavery
as in the pseudo Southern Confederacy-
A monarchy based upon slave property,
where no more whites are wanted than
are necessary 10 form negro police.
The time once was when wo could dis
cuss N qusstions, political or theological,
except slavery. Fellow-citizens, whenever
you cannot discuss any institution of u
State, then liberty is gone. You said
slavery was above the Government and
in seeking to confirm this your plot re-
coiied Ii in this recoiI slavery must
go, say, let IL 60! am for my Gov
eminent with or without slavery; but il
either the Government or slavery must
perish, say give me the Government and
let the negroes go. believe if they do
80, that in less than ten years they will
be more productive than they are now.
We have eat here cursing the North.
Look ct OHIO, Indiana and Illinois, how
far ahead they are OF w. Here, if a man
goes 60 farming il takes $1,000 to buy a
negro, and then the negroes hand must
be direc cd by the supervision Of a
white man.
Ia Ohio, or Indiana, the man himself
goes 60 work, his $1,000 is invested in
sjmething productive, which will not run
away, aud the whole commonwealth
moves onward Cotton and negroes have
ruled here in the South; they are rulers
10 onger How long has it been since
cotton became an article of general use
Herodotus speaks of he cotton tree as a
curiosity. The world got along very
well for 1000 years without being aware
Of the existence Of King Cotton. II has
been in general use for some ninety
years, and some people think that with
out il the sun would cease rising and the
world be ruined, A little more silk,
Tax, and wool will displace Il efFectually,
The government is above cotton aud
negroes. Rather than have it destroyed
would send every negro back to Africa,
and soc Africa itself swept beyond the
line who're grlvitation ceases to act. I
intend to deceive no man. am for a
government based on aud ruled by in
duslrious, free white citizens, and coa-
Quoted in conformity with their wants,
and not slave hristocracy; and come