The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-10-24
sATuRpAY MORNING, o0T. "a, 1853
The Radical Union Party proposes
NO Change in the fern of State
Govern ents.

made by the pro-slaYery Conservative
party against the national Union party,
that the latter designs TO deprive the
States Of their local governments; that II
lCl proposes TO destroy these governments,
altogether. This charge has been made
frequently, but never once established,
r v its authors relying solely upon repetition,
p, and endless reiteration 70 establish an
l { accusation which has no evidence what
iieso- ever 70 support it. The Conservative
newspapers like the rebel nows-
,i,toc papers in the Southern Confederacy
are filed with vague and indefinite
i i4" TRADES Of abuse against what they call
Abotionism and RAdcalism, but they
Imake no specific allegation, and no de-
b, ao, finite testimony TO prove that the Radical
.ig ei 1ls Union men design TO destroy the State
s'i'ltm governments, SO far is it from being
true that the Radical Freedom Union
tIef-.ss men entertain any such design, that il
ra5sa would be easy to prove that they are the
saslit only men in the country who wish to
%. preserve the State governments uncor-
iy % - rupted, and in epsndent in their domes-
tic action. The President and his friends
,h baAlfi seek TO carry out both the letter and
't spirit Of that golden rule Of the Federal
-tdis@ Contribution, which declares that The
. sbis 1sd United States shall guarantee TO every
'et State republican form Of government"
The spirit of this grand key mote of the
s-gl. national Constitution is the spirit of the
20 syhi radical Union men, who radicalin dig
aiiana ging up the roots of evil butconscrvatvs in
NAlo' sn preserving the health of the nation, and
perpetuAting its collective and individual
Iy s1.a & freedom. W. mean to save the States, and
la- snHi 70 this end we plant ourselves as Ma
cedonian phalanx around the government
go y sgof every State, saying to all oligsrchies
aoiy s0 rae aristOcracieS, and privileged classes:
GoigJ sAi Hands off, traitors you shall not do
o. ehh r'. slfoy the freedom and free institutions
1.s.-.. + of any State, by entrenching within its
rsh asn limits overriding anti republican sys
tenn. The republican govern ments of
naa.aa every State shall be perpetuated. If any
y" alteration be made in their local govern
f5.a ,ea msnts, they must be made in favor of
goisi freedom, moi pr despotism." This is the
[" go" universal voice of the radical Union
party, which is the armed champion of
State governments. But it may be OBJ
rv jscted that the present Administration is
destroying slavery. We think NOT we
49, think that slavery is destroying itself
mo n y and that when history shall hold an in
8nilMh quest over its remains, it will bring in a
oaa ,aaim verdict Of felo de Sc. The Administers
.1i. ton is doing nothing more to slavery
700 = than 10 strike at it, when it s the ally of
8apa ~ rebellion And the action Of the Adj
% Eaq0 minstration in regard to slavery is the
sole fact referred to by tho conservatives
s tvP.~-s mat IL aims IN destroy the StAta
aUii .Gal governments. tetl t
gal p Now there would be some reason
~ in bringing forward this evidence if it
$780, could be established that SLAVERY is tie
sili government or that Il is part Of hs govern
ioa racnt of some Of tho States. Let us inquire
into these propositions Is slavery Ne
.s,e governmental any Slater If It'll then il
is clearly the duty Of The United States,
s.aa e as declared in its Contribution, 10 abolish
'4l II Immediately The idea Of having
,7sl slavery for the government of any State,
.ysu is monstFous. and cannot be tolerated;
the system in that case could no more be
tolerated by the Federal Consultation
-H ra than an order Of English nobility, or an
''-1 Austrian despotism.
-rer.1 But slavery is not only not the gous,7-
mlent Of any State, but il is not even the
zniss part ofany STATE government, unless we ex-
SCI cept that Of South Carolina, where a
voter is required 10 own ten slaves. If
every slave in the United States were to
.e die of the plague to-day, the governments
easl of the slave States would be unchanged
and unbrOken. They would have all the
1.l powers which they ever possessed. Their
machinery of Executive, Legislative, and
Judicial offices, would be wholly unin-
paired The universal mortality of the
r,a slave population would have as little in
fuenee upon the integrity and powers of
the State governments as che hog chOle.
RAJ or the murrAin would have. Penn
@ sylvAnia abolished slavery within her
limits, and continued State as fully
lssgs ss before the abolition If every slave
- pc in Tennessee were TO run 10 Africa, the
State government would be the same
~ after as before the stampede. And yet
the conservative sylogism runs thus;
Slavery is part of the government of
ls the slave States:
-ao' "a The Administration is impairing slave
hfna ~:
a.ans Therefore, the Administers tion is impair
te.sil ing the power of the State governments
s' We have proved, if indeed il was ne
COssAry to prove that the 8sqjog or first
!, clause of this syllogism is untrue con-
sequenty the conclusion, that the Admin
istrAtion is impAiring the power of the
t..a State governments is false.
But, says objector, what's slavery
and why do you war against il, if you
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