The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-02

the rulers OF The land, ana the border
States must be our slave-catchers. So
long as they have The strong arm of The
Federal Government 20 restore their
slaves, we never can get the border States
TO so withus. We must divide the coun-
try and break down the power of the
government, and then they viii Join US.
EFFEcTs or SECESSION on THE BORDER
STATES.
This was natural course Of reason
ing. We never need law to enable us
TO recover our horse Why? Because il
is common property, recognized as prop
erty everywhere, and there is no need of
any constitutional safeguard in regard to
it. You do not need fugitive horse or
a fugitive COW law because they are eY-
erywhore recognized as property. So
you would need no fugitive slave law,
where all the States were slave States,
because slaves are recognized as property
by them all. BY secession they proposed
to cut OF Kentucky from this constitu-
tional and legal guarantee; for there can
be no crossing over the line Of the Con-
federacy for the recovery Of fugitive
slaves. Thus il was that they proposed
to themselves 10 affect our property; and
when they shall have thus destroyed our
guarantees, what will be the result
The penalties against fanaticism are
gone; you have no government TO assist
you-no law TO aid you in The recovery
Of your property, and you have no right
10 80 after it. Your slave property is in
secure, and it is turned loose, as il were
upon you. Those miserable fanatics
who have bedeviled the people of the
free States, as they have those of the
slave States, upon the subject of tho ne
gro who are twin brothers of the seces-
sionists OF the South-Siamese twins
one Of which cannot be destroyed with
out tie other perishing turned
loose upon you And not only will your
property be rendered insecure, but will
be rendered dangerous Your slaves will
be excited by these fanatics, who now
by law are restrained; they will be ex-
cited TO Instruction and bloodshed You
will begin 90 look around you for pro-
lection, but you will iind no Government
TO assist you, aud then, too late, you will
discover what you have lost by the
| change
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have seen already how this influence
operates. don't know whether you
have been troubled by The rebel ma
rsuders up here or not, but know that
in the border counties below me the finer
the horse the less price will he command
The owner of good horse is less secure
in the enjoyment Of his property than
he who owns q poor animal. Thus
would il be with. your negroes, If the
laws which protect you in their posses
sion were destroyed These marauders
along the border find out man who has
good horse, they mark him, and learn
where the horse is kept, and very soon
pounce upon him. III the owner wishes
to save him, he has got TO hide HIM
keep him out Of their way, and at the
same time out of use; and in doing so
be exasperates the thieying scouadrels
and endangers his own life / hay,
known cases where gueTrillas have taker
mans life because he refused 20 tel
where his property was secreted. Yol
may go into one of those border counties
and of two horses, one worth $500 ant
anOther-blind or lame-not worth S50
the poor one will sell the most readily
for man can count on getting som,
service out Of him and having him at Ga,
end of the year while TO take the othe
would be to keep him hid, derive no ad
vantage from him, and probably lose hin
in the end.
The destruction of the Union woult
have precisely tho same effect upon siay,
property in the border States, and ths
cotton gentlemen are well aware Of it
By destroying the constitutional guaran.
tees and laws for the recovery of fugi.
tive slaves, you tore loose fanaticism
along the border, and made the tenure o.
the property Insecure, and the relation
dangerous 10 your families. What will
be the result? There will be but on,
thing for you to do, which will be 70 sell
your slaves; they will at once be thrown
upon the market and purchasers car
have them at their own price. Yol
would rather take something Tor them a
at their own price. You would rathe
take sommlhing for them thei
70 keep their liable to tOia
loss, and inviting danger TO your house
holds. The cotton.p planters are MAXIM
Just this calculation and they expect e
grasp your slaves st their own price
$3.50 or 5000 apiece, instead OF 81 so
and $1,000 You must il them or you
houses may be burned over your heads
Suppose Mr. Lincoln was zen time
worse than they said be was as long a
the South stood in The Government, wit
a majority on their side in Congress I
control the policy Of the nation II iIe ha,
been the most wicked man out of the !
fcrnalregions, instead of the honest, kind
, hearted old gentleman he is-for he doe
not mean 90 do anything 20 injure Oh
slave States. They had him chained
! az il were, In a position where IL woul
Q have been utterly impossible for him
3 have changed the condition Of thing
: He could not have surrounded himsel
Q with Cabinet, except such IS the Demo
4 cratic majority we're willing to lsi hiI
n have. They could have required him
9 sit in the White House alone, in solitar
9 grandeur unless he would appoint Demo
4 Gratis, or at least conservative men, 10 fl
Il the various positions in his Cabinet.
:, This was not enough for tho malcon
e tents All these things must be change'
g said the cotton State men. We can ney'
4 persuade tho border State men 10 iur
o against the Government while il secure
e them 10 their rights. We must deslrO
2 their securities, and slarm their fear
e and then We must in the language
b South Carolina's Governor, drag u
. border States out of n" Thoy began
e on the goth Of December, 1850, VIII,
- South Carolina, under the advice Of "a
IF Governor, went out and was followed /