The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-29

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which invslves the greater Evil,
slavery or Emnuc PatiOnl
TO those who anticipate evil results
from the policy Of Emancipation, We
have a few plain statements 20 make and
interrogatories 70 propose.
There are difficulties in the way Of
Emancipation, as in the way of every
other policy Of men; ell great and good
enterprises can be accomplished only
after the endurance Of great toll, and
often Of much suffering. The basis of
Empires is cemented with blood the in
ventiona and discovery Of The mechanical
world cost years Of intense study and
suffering. Therefore, IL the deliverance
of the African, and we may add Of Che
white race, also, from bondage, involve
great difficulty, and labor IL is anala-
gous 70 all othergroat and noble enter
p isOs.
Bus we think thsl we can chow 70
those who shrink back from the dangers
Involved in Emancipation, that these
dangers must be far less than those
which are bound up in the perpetuation
Of slavery.
Whqtis tie present cost Of slavery to Go
o~ountrs9 The cost Of the war IN money
alone, to the United States Treasury up
to the present date, is oger oae billion Of
'doIlars.
The cost Of the war In money alone,
to the seeded States cannot be less, ano
perhaps is far more.
Here then we see Two BILLIONS OF
GovHRNNsNT MONEY ALONE swallo wed up
in the slavery quagmire already, or the
value of TuRER L R HUNDRED
SLAVES, ESTIMATED AT $500
A PIEcul
But tho money expended By Govern
ment does not give half tho actual cost
or the war 60 which must be added the
destruction Of property, the suspension
Of trade, the devastation Of States, the
loss OF crops, cattle, horses, etc, and the
complete suspension of tho expectation of
Southern products, such as cotton, sugar,
tobacco and rice, TO foreign msrkots.
tits certainly a very moderate estimate
to say that all these individual losses will
sum up TWO BnLIoEs MORE. The cost Of
this slavery-wa r then already, in money
and property is over toiir billions cf dollars,
The vaiuc Of 500 100000 Of slaves, is
only t,ro billions four hundred millions Of
dollars; SO that slavery has already cost
tho country, an escsss If ons billion, t,oo
hundred milNoas ab4e he value Of ev@y slnUe
IA d, Southern So,esg
We have not attempted TO count The
worth of The 500 OOn sglis citizens If The
Northern and Southern Slatcs, rEo hare lost
Asir Eiees on account Of sSavery, because the
valuo of these cannot be counted in
money. Every honest man, officer or
solder, who has lost his life In this war,
occasioned by slavery, is Of more value
10 the country than all the gold which
slave labor ever brought into her Golfers,
for good citizens are the priceless Jewels
and treasure Of the Republic. Baker,
Lyon, McCOok, sill, aud Reynolds, are
not TO be dishonOred by placing them in
the scales agatnst the revenues of all the
slave plantations Of the South. 1t would
be q sacrilcgious pollution Of the shrine
of patriotism and public virtue.
Our calcu. atoms then show this fact;
that if the people Of the United States
were to-day to appropriate $500 TO every
slave in the country, for the purpose Of
ooloniEing them, the aggregate sum of
the Appropriation would amount 70 very
little more than the present cost Of
the war in money, and would be
ono billion, eight HUNDRED miEions less
than TIE .0ar has COS, ,ho country IN money,
property and loss Of trade together.
Suppose we conclude 20 keep slavery,
because we "don't know what to do
with our slaves !" what thenp Like
causes produce like effects, aud az slave
ry caused 3 rebellion in 1891 with 1000.
600 Of slaves, Il will very surely cause
another rebellion, when there are 6,OOO, :
600 Of slaves. II Shareholders with
their present number Of slaves have
been able 70 convulse, and almost do.
siroy the nation, they will DO abie to dc
doa great deal more when their numberi
and wealth increase. II by some pc.
Iucal combination, the slaveholder'
were to elect a President in the course
Of eight or twelve years, they could
plot and prepare for another rebellion
in tho White House itself, and u for
elgn Ministers 70 the courts Of France
England and Spain, might be able "a
form a Shareholders League with those
nations, which would give our Govern
ment a death blow. Such an event is
not only possible and probable, but va
think, almost certain.
But slavery is admitted by perhaps
five aixths Of tho American people, aud
by all the civilized world beside. 20 BE-
Apolitical, moral and social OWL. None
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