The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-11-11
Ar,stocyacy Pounded on slavery.


Gus Of their existence and provide for
self defense. Whatever implements can
be used, whatever means adopted for the
security and protection Of the institution
will be resorted TO. This is the nature
OF all institutions TO provide for their
perpetuity. II is not peculiar to slave
ny.
Let us for the present enquire into the
workings Of the principle. II Of course
begels an ardent love of physical force.
This is manifested in every department
of the SlavehOlding region. The imple-
Inents of agriculture are necessarily rude
aud void Of that finish that springs from
highly developed intelligence. Almost
every important machine or implement
10 the South combining the knowledge
of machinery is ofNorthern or European
invention. No cotton gins came from The
slaveocra,s brain, no Mccormack reap
ers, no steam engines, no TelegraphF, no
Rail Roads SC, not even the Revolver the
companion of the genuine Southern gen.
tlemAn.
Such an institution engenders selfish
ness This attribute marked every fea-
ture of the social institution. The gall
LIANT chivalrous gentleman, was the
growth of pyta, and PANTY. His very
manners were generally the offspring Of
his love of show, and the boastsd hospi-
salty sprAng from the same. The sys-
tenn of internal improvements that came
80 slowly, was forced upon the country
by the unexampled progress Of the free
society of the North. Among the gem
uine ohivalry, the system found q per-
sistent and systematic opposition. Free
schools, an institution that has blessed
the free States, have nsver been success
fully introduced into the Southern
States. They could not be without
great taxation, and there was no great
undercurrent for any such sacrifice
The planter felt his interest concentrated
in his family and their dependents. He
could send has children from among the
poor shareholders children, and ed
uCAto butnA W ApNNNANApAo tn4
that Of the brotherhood of the ignoblC
working men around him. His own Ia.
borers needed no education, could not b,
educated without destroying their yalu,
as slaves. For the nearer a slave APP.
proaches a beast, the more helpless he is
and the safer as chsttle. The non
slave holder, whilst in ignorance, is con
verted to his purpose. If he is edu
Gated he gives up his vulgar prejudices
and loses all fear of equality, we'll know
ing that what is truly excellent shoulC
TOR its own sake be esteemed, and tina
whatever is naturally infeEiOr, can b.
no artificial means be converted into al
equal. II has been the interest of III
STAKEHOLDER TO hold the nOn-elAveholder
as well as his slave, in subsection. TIL
slave is deprived of all political inau
ence by reason of his condition, and Ia
non-slAveholder is used to perpetual
that condition by constant appeals mad
10 his vulgar prejudiees. Thus igno
rance is q tower of strength to slavery
Without this prerequisite there can b
no safety TO such an institution. Wha
is weakness and degrading in a FIRE
State, becomes the very corner Of th
system of slavery.
An institution that dams up the fire
channel of thought and progress dc
mands constant watchfulness to protec
il. The cunning of the slave, who is n
longer man and employs the instinc
tive caution Of sn animal must be circum
vented by the watchfulness and cunnin
of the master. Here is a beautiful con
test race worthy of emulation in tn
acquisition Of duplicity. AS this is Oh
only approach to a fair chance that th
slave has in an essay of his faculties,
furnishes the beat opportunity to test tn
native capacity of the characters. An
upon such a trial who will say that th
negro always falls immeasurably ''behin
hib more favored brother.
SO far from producing independents,
II engenders weakness and dependence,
The proud independence of the slave
holder is all mistake, Pride he has W
admit and that OF the most vulga
character; it is pride based on III
imagined superiority of an admitted &c
norAnce and inferiority. Who wOul
compare the independence of a slave
holder with that of Humboldt or La
place ? II must not be denied thi
there are elegant and Independent gen
tlemen among this class. There are tru
gentlemen, and many among them TheS
are so in defiance of all the powers th
institution has to destroy these attri
butes. There is no such character q
some deluded people have imagined, "
true Southern gentleman A gentlemA
is the same in all lands, and among al
men, under sll institutions He is simpl
genuine christian. Such a man make
poor figure at whipping women AM
driving on a cotton farm. He would b
sad fellow 10 manage an exhauste,
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