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

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curse, must be what Henry Clay pro-
nounced Il to be, "TEE aRrATEsT crRsF
OF ALI ErNAN Ev1Ls.r Il Slavery is
right, then the African Slave trade Is
tight but If the Slave trade Is wicked,
then slavery itself ,s wicked also. Sla-
very ia the ffuit Of the slayo trade, and
Il the tree be rotten, The fruit must be
rotten also.
Can we then imagine any curse great
er, any trouble more formidable than
must be involved in the existence Of
slavery among as? II may be pleasant
and profitable enough 10 a few indiyid-
uals, but II is ruinous 20 the people at
large, and the good Of the masses must
not be sacrificed TO the interests of a
mall class. 1t is not right to demand
that A, b, @ and D shall sacrifice their
money, their property, and the lives Of
their own soma, ia order that + may
make a fortune by selling cotton. The
principle Of our Government is "the
greatest good to tho greatest number"
and II is better that e should put him
self on a level with a, B, Cand D, than
that he should trample them under foot.
We have glanced at a feD Of the diff
cultios Of slavery; now what are the
evil ELECTS of Emancipation?
The slaves SET free cannot b Kept nor
der,
A Government which can conquer An
organized armed rebellion Of 600O, 900 of
white people, can crush the insubordi-
nation of 1000 600 of unarmed negroes,
as easily as if 1t were an egg shell.
Tie Slaves VJrec ,OiU revoH.
They will have nobody to revolt
against if set free. They will have no
motive to revolt, and il they were 10 do
so, they would be exterminated.
Negroes and sohiteS cannot Jot4 I've asfreo-
Nsn an he came country.
But they do live as freemen together
in Tho slave States more than anywhere
else. There are 1864 free negroes in
Kentucky 1851 in Louisianai 93.942
in MARY land; 25 316 in New Jersey /;
40 COS in New York so 463 in North
Carolina; 80 673 in Ohio; Sc $40 in Penn
s%ylvania; 9,9l4 in South Carolina 1900
in Tennessee; and So O42 in Virr MIA.
So il appears that Virginia and Mary
land head the list for free negroes there
being mot less than 1888 of that class
in these twoslave States alone. But we
always have been colonizAtionists; and
We are for emancipation, because it will
compel colonization. To tell as that we
must not emancipate until we COLOMBO,
Is like telling us that we must not 70
near water until we learn how to swim.
2he S1aoe II freed canaot take care Q hiu,.
self.
Nonsense. We know hundreds of me-
grCes, who, individually, support from
one to half a dozen white people besides
themselves, by their industry.
Hes negroes nil iygve ahite aJorers ty
gcir compe itiop.s
Nonsense again. This country needs
now double the number oflabOrers which
it has. But suppose that the country
was oyerrun with laborers, which would
white laborers prefer; u compete asiat
a negro laborsr, or 10 compete Nth an idle
0hite man who ol5nes from ten % one hundred
n1gyoes2
a negro laborer if ffce, could not af-
ford to work orless than a white laborer;
bat if he be 3 slave, his master can afford
to bire him ~ over ratesthan che white
laborcr can live on, and thus the slave
holder can always drive tho white labor
er from the asld.
Slavery has been such 40 uncomfortable
nuisance in Missouri that she has
passed an emancipation ordinance, by
the common consent Of tho pro-
elayery men. West Virginia has
done tho same, finding thas slavery
was useful only to stir up anarchy
and rebellion. Shall Tennessee delay,
and hesitate and shirk this ques
ton, until she becomes so utterly OK
hausted that slavery will "drop from her
neryeless grasp even as ill-gotten gold
drops from the clutch Of the expiring
miser2