The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-31

NMNNh ~ 49, W. N- 49, 1900 -
such were the nature Of the contest and
the contending parties we're divided by
geographical lines, there would be far
greater unanimity on both sides. There
would be no Copperheads, aud Knights
of tho Golden Circle In the North, and
no East Tennessee, West Virginia, Ken.
lucky and North Carolina loyalists In
the. South. Every mar Ia the North would
stand up zealously In support Of the
Federal Government and every man IN
the South would az zoRlously side with
the rebellion. But this civil war is not
sectional contest, q war Of geographical
divisions. 1t is a aoag bateeen principles.
It lie q struggle for supremacy between
tho free institutions Of the National
Government and the despotic institution
Of The Oligarchy which rules the slav,
States. II is q war In brief between
National freedom and local slavery
Why are there .lOyslists in the slave
States Because there are men more
devoted to the free institutions Of th'
Nation, than TO The slave institutions Of
the South. The loyal Kentuckian,
West Virginisn and Tennessean, would
rather see slavery perish q thousand
times over than see the National Govern
ment destroyed. SO Of tho loyal Tex.
an, Albanian, Georgian and LouisiSn-
Ian. The geographical line does not af-
feet their fidelity to free government,
which overleAps The narrow territory OF
s~eotiOnalism. In every district ia every
county in the South, whore the attach
ment of the people to slavery is weak,
WI find a strong attachment TO the Union
cause.
II We turn TO the North, we find that
those who are attached 70 slavery by
commercial and political ties, or by Aris-
tOcratic sympathies and tastes, are al
most universally partial to the COnfede.
rate cause, and ApOlOgists for the rebel
lion as far as their personal safety will
admit Of it. Men who hate democratic
institutions, fres government and free
schools who have been engs8ed Ia the
African slave-trade; who have to ape
tho manners, customs and style Of the
aristOcracyi politicians who hope for
promotion by acting as skirmishers for
the Southern politicians F; all these per-
son are psrtisans of the slavery rebel
lion. They are the foes Of freedom, and
in Europe would be the parasites and
lsckeys Of the nobility. They lust for
power and supremacy over their fellow.
men; they hate freedom and they love
slavery.
Those who talk Of reconoiling the
North and the South, overlook the real
nature of this great ~contest. The North
and the South, correctly speaking, are
not fighting each other at all. They are
"a friendly as ever, and need no recon-
oiliation. Tho parties which are oppOs-
ing each other are Freedom and Slavery,
and they are the ones who must be re-
coneiled, IL any reconciliation is TO be
made. TINS Wan WILL nR -TzRMasArzD
WHEN FREEDoN sLAvEnY ARE
FRIENDS, on wHEN oNE SHALL HAVE DE-
srRoYED TIE oTHEB NOT soosrR.
Therefore It is certain that to bring
the States all back under our Govern
men1 rs they were before the rebellion,
would not of itself bring peace TO the
country, II the contending elements
whose ~clashlng, excited the present wSr,
still remained within the Government
Indeed for half acentIry before the war
broke out and involved the whole nation
In its waves, minor wars Of precisely
the lame nature had been going on
within the borders Of every State where
slavery existed. Look ct the Slave Code
of all the Southern States and see how
carefully aud strongly Slavery has been
entrenohing and certifying itself for
forty years against the encroachments
of Freedom. Every law passed by the
Slave party for its protection 10 irrefuta-
BILE evidence Of the existence Of an
anti Slavery party in all the Slave States,
long prior to the rebellion Of 1861. Ma
man would be guilty of the blunder Of
calling these State contests, sectional,
and yet they were quite as sectional 40
the present rebellion.
What conclusion IL 10 be drawn from
these remarks2 Clearly, by all the
rules of right reason, that in spite of all
the compromises, treaties, and plans Of
restoration which politicians may de-
wise, and which may be adopted, the
contest, not between sections, but between
Slavery and Freedom will still 90 on,
until one principle or the other shall
prevail completely over every foot Of
American soil.
The elements although decidedly
"warTing' on yesterday morning seemed
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