The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-17
Emancipation without COmpensa-
ton.

ton.
From the Kansas city Journal Of Ccnmerce, Aprn g.
One hundred negroes, men women and
children, from Lafayette, johnson, and
the border counties Of Missouri, landed
at Wyandotte yesterday morning. They
had an abundance Of provisions, as we'll
as a large lot Of mules, horses and cat
tie. On the road, as they were coming
up from below, the bushwhsckers attack
ed them, about fifteen in number. The
negro men, about forty, we'll armed with
shot guns and pistols, resisted the guer.
rillas successfully, killing three and
wOunding others. Eight negroes were
wounded, three severely, but it is thought
they will recover. This is emancipation
pjLh3ut compensation.
Since the above was in type, there was
still another lot of fifty negroes passed
through the city, en- route for Kansas.
One hundred and City for one day is
pretty good. These are some of the
rights" the rebs are fighting for.
The conservative, pro-slayery politi-
clans, when we urge loyal shareholders
to declare as quickly as possible in favor
of compensated gradual emancipation,
stupidity retOrt by calling us Abolition
lists, an epithet to which a peculiar re-
prOach is attached, inasmuch as in its
conventional Specification II signifies one
who is in favor of the political and So
cial equality of the black aud white
races, and also their amalgamatiOn. 1t
is an easy matter TO show that the real
Abolitionists are these very opponents of
compensated Emancipation. The war
would cease in every slave State where
this scheme might be adopted, for the
reason that the cause of war would be
ia process Of extinction, by State legis-
lation. There would be nothing for the
slsveOcracy TO ight for. But if we blind
ly cling to the old hereditary institution,
The destruction of slave property is seal
ed, and its owners will obtain no com
pensation. We see the process going on
around us daily. In the paragraph
quoted at the head Of this article, we read
Of the exodus Of n hundred slaves, rep.
resenting at former valuations, the sum Of
5000, each, or $4,000 in the aggregate.
now forever lost 10 their owners. Beside
this, both loyal and dislOyal masters as
sure us that the value of slaves is greatly
impaired in consequence of their demon
alization, and habits Of insubordination
acquired during the war.
The difference between the pro-slave-
ry politicians, and ourselves, on this point,
may be stated as follows. We, believing
honestly, that slave property is doom
ed to speedy destruction, ask the slave
holders to save as much as possible Of its
volue, by adopting some judicious plan
of emancipation. The pro slavery poll
ticians say that slavery shall 30 LEFT to tie
chances Of the 'oar, and If il shall perish, it
shall perish WITHOUT any compensation. We
propose that the North shall compensate
Shareholders, il they will adopt a plan
of Emancipation; the pro-slavery poll
ticians say that Tie t0hole loss shall fall
upon The shoulders Of tie shareholders. Now.
who are the real friends of the slave in
terest, and who desire to benefit them,
the prO.slavery politicians or ourselves {?
If Abolitionism means the destruction
Of slavery, then they; and not ourselves,
are abolitionists. They are the vilest
and most dangerous sort of abolilionists.
They are radical, incendiary abolition
lists. They are immediate abolitionists.
We occupy the same position held by all
the leading statesmen of The South, who
were themselves Shareholders, as we are;
such as WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, MAR
SHALL, RANDOLPH, HENRY, MoDowELL,
and CLAY. The advocates of the "di-
vine right" on the other hand, are in the
same category with CALHOUN, RHE1T,
IsuAM G. HARRIS, JEFF. DAVIS, SPRATT,
and the Charleston Mercury. Which of
us are the real friends of the loyal slave
holders2