The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-05-30

- comprehend, the Journal In late Issue
IL says:
In order to end the rebellion slavery
% must be destroyed. Free And slave States
on l5f cannot get along tog, Their. Now they
have lived together under one Govern
ment since this was a country. Our
ests ID. fathers were wise enough TO do IL Have
t,.e re wO lost the capacity to do IL Perhaps
we have and along with IL the capacity
bs'ssosa a5 TO support free government at all"
-iio.ac3 s4a This IT, as Hibernian would say, the
20 tia'msH depth Of shalowness. The Union has
=" listed with slavery for good many years,
IA q, ,rsa, therefore It can always exist Is this
larci0 deduction logical: Let Sec It is
ai'omia'' equivalent to saying thas whatever has
once existed in a nGtioD, can always ex-
sr,o,r.tt ist there with safety. This is nonsense
boa % rs Our fathers had monarchical institutions
hae and laws over them for great many
years, but they found out at last that
ri-.t they must either cast them off or be de-
rolnat stroyed by them. The existence Of an
Fuei evil for one or for twenty years docs not
prove that il can be- aud ought to be- en-
dured always. Yet the Democrat says
.rfq4 eras that because our fathers got along with
80 % free and slave States under Govern
od ' ment we can do it as we'll as they did.
surgeon might as well say to a wounded
10 srs3 80 soldier: my good fellow, you fought
for several hours and have lived for sew
eral days with this bullet in your leg,
therefore you can live 80 alwsys; l shall
e..a9 not extract it. If you have stood il for
'l three days, you stand it forev-
err" The soldier might reply Sir,
you trihe with my life. My pain
sdi De- and anguish have become nsupportable
cad s11l If you do not extract this ball, il will
in9n cost me my life" II is not true that our
As fathers got along quietly with the
Pea @ slavery question, for it has been apple
% p Of discOrd from the foundation of the
Government. The war upon the gigantic
evil OF negro slavery began in the
Colonies long before Thomas Jeferson
@ wrote the Declaration Of Independence.
All the great statesmen of the Revolu-
~ tion, especially all he great Southern states
v,.,st men, oppose1i, aud when they proclaimed
yslargsT m that all men had an equal and an "inaAen.
SBe right % He LIBERTY, and the pursuit
IF happiness" they undoubtedly meant
.e,1 riq1 to lay down principle whose appliea-
ton should be universal; unrestricted by
-ndu di9 climate, or color They all looked for
ward to the day when the slave should
be restored in country of his own to
be08ns,r those rights Of which be had been wick
sdy, and nhumsnly robbed. Jefferson
inveighed against slavery as 20 man ever
" did before, and Washington emancipated
efayiaa his bondsmen. The history Of this
country is history of a war against the
~ la''p anti-repubican system of slavery. The
csndict is old as the black and in
silsoI sss formal African slave-trade itself 1t ID
false to assert that there over was day
'mie VIZ when slavery acquieHced in by tbs
Aakon. The arts and intrigues of poll.
9 6oans within few years past have
c8.asau t4 given an extraordinary power to til,
saveocracy, and IL has become tn.
master Of the Government II is plair
that either Slavery or The Government
-iaa q must perish. They are at eternal en-.
nifty they cannot be reconciled; II is NJ
go evil longer to DO tolerated. Convinced
Of this fact the voice Of an overwhelm.
-mrB p ing majority Of the American people
unites with that Of the civilized world
rs..bai abroad in saying: down with SIaveryF
The Richmond Enquirer Of the 10Th
,b9sl2h = in an account Of the late hght at Bay
mond, Miss, states that Col Randall w
,n"oid sfn McGavoek, Of the 10th (rebe) regiment
Tennessee volunteers, was among the
-ar i slain Col McGavock was one of Nash
,iihaffa- ville's most prominent oitizens.-Flans-
'asmp' li f@t Commonwealth nt
We ind In several of our exchanges
ra - g. abroad similar paragraphs in relation 10
-1.s q. 81 this unfortunate rebel II has become
90 ,haa' somewhat fashionable, in certain quar-
ters, to blow she trumpet Of praise over
--m Ga the graves OF rebels who have met THEN
-ia.t u deserved fate. McGavock was a shall
n'gg aj low humbug, che author of dull book OF
travels which nobody ever read, bitter
gIt..r rebel, and avery indifferent officer. Ru.
.u logies on such men insults TO loya
's hfH people tr'
The Detroit 1dsertiscr very pungently
GORE. remarks that
siaol "'rhe men who are bawllng mp and
fne3 down the country now for free speech
IT. t tt are the same men who used to mob The
Abolitionists for exercising shat right
.Nl e and who always justified the slayehOld-
fi srs Ia supervising free speech at the
South. Even in his speech at tho VAL
lAndighan meeting in New York last
Monday, Capt. Rynders boosted he had
,Hs, kicked Wendell Phillips at the broadway
la5ni. Tabernacle some years ago, for sRyina
-eqmo. something that he disapprOyed."
ga We venture 10 cay that an examination
'Al Of the record Of the politicians, who are
o4 bewailing the interference Of tho Gov
-7ilYa. eminent against the delivery Of sedtiOus
tgm and reasonable speeches, will reveal the
fact that they have always been in favor
OF silencins Anti-slavery speakers, and
.tr preventing the circulation OF anti slavery
ao newspapers and other documents, through