The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-06-25

mo Southern man can journey, as |
have done, through the Northern States,
and witness the prosperity, the industry,
the public spirit which they exhibit; Ale
sedulous cultivation Of those arts By s0lich life
is made comfortable and respectable, iOithoa
feelings Of deep sadness and shame as he re-
members his otcn neglected home Every
person aud everything performs part
teward the grand result, aud the whole
land is covered with fertile fields, with
manufactures, and canals, and railroads,
and public edilices, and towns aud cities.
Hotg different tho condition of things in he
South Here he face of tie country t0sars
the aspect of premature old age and decay.
No improvement is seen going on; nothing is
done for posterity; no man thinks of
any thing beyond the present moment.
Our lands are yearly tasked to their ut
most capacity Of production, and when
exhausted, are abandoned for the youth
fu, West"
General Washington wrote again to
Lafayette on slavery:
II agree with you cordially in your
views in regard to negro slavery. l have
long considered it most serious emil, both
socially and politically, and should rejoice
in any feasible scheme to rid our States
of such Q burden. The Congress of
1877 adopted an ordinance which pro-
hibits the existence of involuntary SER
vitude in our Northwestern Territories,
forever. consider il a wise measure.
The prevailing opinion in Virginia is
against the spread of slavery in our new
Territories, AND | TRUST WE SHALL HAVE
A CoNFEDERACY OF FREE STATES"
In the Virginia Legislature of 1882,
Mr. Moore said:
II shall confine my remarks to such of
those evils as affect the white population
exclusively. And in that point of view
ItlinL that slavery, as IL has e1isted among
as, mag be regarded as the heaviest calamity
,ohicb has ever befalien any portion Of the hu-
man race"
Mr.. Rives said:
'On the multiplied and desolating evils
of slavery. l am not disposed to say much.
The curse and deteriorating consequences
are within the observation and expert
ence of the members of the House, and
il seems to me there cannot be two opin-
ions about ii"
Mr.. Berry said:
al believe that no cancer on the phys
icsl body was ever more certain, steady,
and fatal in its progress, than is the cam
Ger of slavery on the political body of
Virginia, n IS eating into her very vitals."
Mr.. Marshall said:
Wherefore object to slavery Because
IL is rainoas to ths whites, retards improve
men, roots out an industrious population,
baniShes the yeoDlanry Of the country, and
deprives the spinner, weaver, smith, shoe
maker aud carpenter of employment"
Mr.. BrodnAx said;
"That slavery in Virginia is an evil, it
would be idle, and worse than idle, for
any human.being to doubt or deny. u is
a mildei0 ,0hich has blighted in its course ev-
cry region IL has touched, from the creation
Of tb0 I00Yld."
Charles j. Faulkner said in a radical
anti-slavery speech:
Is not the evil of slavery increasing
Does not every day give it permanency
and force? Is il not rising like heavy
and portentios cloud above the horizon,
extending its deep and sable volumes
athwart the sky, and gathering in its i'm
penstrable folds the active materials Of sle-
mental tcar."
James Mcdowell said.
$50 you may place the slave where you
please; you may dry up, 10 your utmost,
the fountains of his feelings, the Springs
of bis thought; you may close upon his
mind every avenue to knowledge, and
cloud it over with artificial night; you
may yoke him TO labor as an OK which
liveth only to work, and worketh only to
live; you may put him under any pro-
cess, which, without destroying his value
as a slave, will debase aud crush him as
a rational being; you may do all this,
and the idea that he i0aS bora free, tuiH survive
tall IL is allied to his hope of immor-
tality; il is the ETHEREAL part of his ma
ture, which oppression cannot reach; Il
Is torch M up IN his soul By ihe hand o. The
Deity; and never meant to be eztinguished b.
l.e hand of man. If gentlemen do moi
see and feel the evil Of slavery while the
Federol Union lasts, they will see and
feel il when il is gone; they will see and
suffer it then in magnitude Of desOlatinS
p0ger, 10 ghioh Gie pesilenoe t0hieh iOalketh a
noon day ,OouH bea blessing; TO which The
malaria which is now threatening ex'
tinction TO the eternal City" would b'
as refreshing and as balmy rs the frs
breath of Spring"
Many other members Of the Virginii
Legislature Of 1882 expressed the sam
opinion in regard 10 slaves. The fore
bodings of evil and national disasie
from that horrid fountain Of iniquity ar
being frightfully realized Throughout
the South. Eternal justice after tw,
centuries Of patient waiting is at last vim
dicating its claims.
, '.lustice divine 10 punish sin moves slow,
: The slower u Ihe step tho surer Is The blow
Men of Tennessee We have repeAte
in your ears the wise counsels and ad
monitions uttered by Southern states
men in the past Your fathers and yo
I disregarded them, and punishment hS
fallen upon you. Deliyerance from thi
fearful curse Of slavery is now oiere
y you. Will you accept il, and be glc
! riously and permanently redeemed, {
: reject il, and perish disgracetully an
4 forever? Now is the day OF your dc
q ciaion.