The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-02
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| containing an insult, and il was given
for reason. u was said 10 be besausa
you, Mr.. Lincoln, and your party. are a
radical party, a. enmity with our sIava
property. Although YOU Lincoln men
say you have no purpose Of interfering
with our property, we say You lie--you
! will. And we do this for this purpose
| We leave Lincoln In power, and will
leave the border States completely In
the grasp ~ that power which intends
To destroy their slave interests; and IS
we so We viii slap an insult in their
taoes' We will make the danger to
slavery a pretense, and insult the party
In power, so that they will madden the
border States, and then they will follow
us. They will become hostile, aud adopt
some legislation which will be At war
with the border States, and then they will
come out and when ont, their securities
are gone, their property goes down 10
almost nothing, and we will have them
as oeipes1s and picket guards on our
frontier.
You sympathize with the cotton-gen-
tlemen, do you? This was their plan,
and il ia still their plan malignant as il
is. 1t was TO break up the Union, and
destroy the securities Of the border
States in their slave property, that they
might be able TO compel you to sell your
slaves a. such price as they would offer
and then have you az protection 20 then
in catching their negroes. Fraternise
and sympathize with these men, when
they have done All this for your injury
rot only destroying your property rights,
but striking a death-blow At your rights
as lreemcn, also Is il not strange that
kentuckians would sympathize with q
people that has plotted their ruin 2 i'll
were you, my friends--if | was q sym
pathizer, and my whole heart had not
gone out after these miscreants Il would
extend the balance OF my sympAthies
toward that eyer-yigilant servant, who
has been so constant in his attentions,
known az his satanic majesty. You
ought TO reserve little Of your sympa-
thy for him, for be has done no worse
for you than they of the Southern Con-
iederacy. IAppl0use,l
THE CHARGE OF ABoMrIoNIsM REFUrED.
The Union men say that il was with.
out any real cause that the South seoe-
ded. They say the simple object was TO
break up our free government, the de-
sign of which was to secure liberty and
the pursuit Of happiness, and in the Ao-
eomplishment of which no other govern
ment has done half so much. The cues.
tion Of slavery has had much 20 do with
our troubles. Slaves in kentucky are
property, but our slaves are no more pro-
perty than horses, or cattle, or sheep;
and hold that the poor man who has his
horse TO till his little patch Of ground.
and his COW TO give his family milk, is
entitled 70 the same consideration "a the
slave his property is rs dear and
sacred 20 him as the slave own; he has
as much right 20 be protected In It's on
ioyment as !, in the enjoyment Of my
slaves. The Constitution was Intended
TO secure hie right, as much as his who
occupies the highest position ia society
His liberty is as dear 10 him, humble as
/, he is, Us is the liberty Of the man who
occupies the most exalted position Now,
TO you who are Shareholders, wish to
; make a single suggestion. / know there
are men all over the country who call
} every man an ab0litiOnist who Is not for
, breaking up the Union; but when man
calls me an abolitionist TO my face he
will be pretty certain TO feel the ground;
and let me tell you that such men Are
pretty apt 20 be persons who never in
heTited or owned . slave in their lives
/ am native. born Kentuokian, identi-
1 fed with Kentucky and all her interests,
9 and cherishing her honor. My father
} and mother were from the good old
. mother State OF Virginia, and my Fela-
tives are all through the Southern States.
Yet Notwithstanding all these ties Of
/ birth, blood and education, linking me 20
{ the sympathies Of the people OF the South,
occasionally you will lind man who
charges me with abolitionism, because
, am for protecting YOU and not willing
70 break up the government. He is sure
J 10 be a man who has nothing TO lose, but
! hopes, by breaking up the government,
4 TO gain something by plumber. No hon
I est man wishes 10 destroy the govern
r ment SO much in regard to myself
. THE POLICY or rnE ADMINIsTRATIos.
Mr., Lincoln, in The beginning, adopted
!, the border State FOLEY laid down by
: Mr.. CritteDden, aud followed IL out faith
!. fully for fourteen months. AZ the end
4 of that time the rebellion was a. relent-
less as ever, The secesaionists would
! believe nothing, would hear nothing
: would not listen 20 the border State ar
guments. They persisted ia separation,
4 and declared their intention TO drag
: Kentucky along with them, saying they
y already had Representatives, tom our
: State IN their COngrgss Dir. Lincoln
u followed tho original programme until IL
! was thought necessary TO make some
y changes. The President and his Cabinet
then adopted certain measures that be-
;, came distasleiul 10 the Union men Of the
= border States. lie issued The Bmanci-
= patton Proclamation, and II would have
:, had a saa effect upon Kentucky II Nor
= gan had not been among Us but we had
Z enough 10 attend TO- for a time, with the
= enemy In our midst without distractine
= ourselves a bout other matters We didn'l
, like IL, but as Il was not directed al ul
4 we bore with IL. Next, the Confisoatior
- Bill came along, and while the peopl,
admitted that IL was right 10 oonllsoal,
4 the property Of the rebels, they still OBJ
p jectod 20 taking their slaves from them
= While Kentucky expressed no opinion
"a either dissenting from or approving thes'
(, measures, she adopted this platform
= read the resolution That the preson
=, causeless aud wicked rebellion should BE-
- crushed" mark the words should b.
+, crushed b. he wAols poicer 81 fie Fedora
~ Government, and the National authority
~ restorod over an the revolied States, anC
AZ He"-ihat 10, the Union inen--" are il
~ favor of deyoing our iel0is rcl0urceS, /
Id I "a . q a. =.