New-York daily tribune., 1863-11-09
sECURE TENNEsSER!

the Presidents exemption Of Tennessee, win
certain portions of Virginia and Louisiana, from
the puryicw Of his Proclamation of Freedom,
was the most fagrant and has proved the most
disastrous. 1t has not even saved from ma
lignant type of Copperheadism such qua"
Unionists "a Emerson Etheridge, while 1t has
kept alive the fires of Rebellion in thousands OF
hearts whore they would else have died out
months ago We cannot conceive how any
man so placed as Mr.. Lincoln can have fall
I'd to comprehend that the Rebellion IS siartry'
and Siarery is the ReJ,iiion-that there Is not
county. a district. a neighborhood. whether IN
the loyal or the disloyel, the Free or the Slave
States. wherein Slavery Is still loved or cher
ished, which is not at heart for the Rebell'"n'
ana will be so long a. it has breath We nave
not seen for yoars human being who thinks
Slavery just and advantageous, who wouid ho''
in the course of brief conversation, betray ms
anxiety that the Rebellion should be coddled
and pe,,eda and bought up rather than put down;
We never heard human being undertake
to justify or palia,e the Rebellion who did not
soon let the fact escape him that he was par
tisan of Slavery and anxious for its preseryation
The s,upidcst and most ignorant Coppcrhead
who brawls treason in a Fiye-Points groggery
or a Waicr.stFeet dance-house bases his logic
entirely on "niggers their marvellous adapt
alton to cha,'clbood and their fitness for nothing
clac. II Slavery were sione-dcad to-day. It
would no, be possible 10 keep the Rebellion
.fE.. -. III hls
when once awakened 20 the truth thai 10 x"
sisr,,v Is 10 erush fhe Rebellion. should have
.hrunk from the application Of this truth to such
Slate ~ Tennessee. certainly passes our COM
prehonNon. Had he not specially excluded
that State from the puryiew OF hi glorious Proc
lama,ion Of Jaa. /, the Rebellion would have
been dead therein long since; but. so long as
slavery shall remain there. tie Rebellion viii
be at bc.t only smoihercd, not suppressed, but
ready to break out afrcsh In guerrilla rnids ana
Rebel rising At each fair opportunity.
The following letter from the original hot
bed of Secession IN tia, state. it, great Cotton
port. and the focus of i,s slaveholdiug industry
Ia days gone by, so truly and forcihly por,ray'
the si,uafion and ia perilr tina, We ask tor its
statements the special regard Of every patriot;
Mrsrur, Tenn, Oct IS. I-dJ
M pIAuR.;
soc.ty 20 the south wherever have cone IN contact
with H. IL vet scc.hng csldron and feel satisfied
tho, more energetic treatment than any yet adopted
a ie necessary to eradicate tie political dseasc tAat
aii!cts TIE land.
Ispccay this tho la regard to the State OF Ten
nsssce M, the hai Of the Almighty In regard to
slavery suspended 10 uid.he.sen b! the Presidents
limited Proclamation of Freedom. An "irrcprcssble
+ tie osui IN the breast OF every Shareholder
~ Pre- slavery nau And this latter class. II !. fair To-
PRESUME constitute. yni large majority u tie folhla
atou of Tennessee ihc consequence that 10 decided
sentiments developed in this State. oni 40 sharp
party lines can be- drawn. Tic! ere al COS boys
here studying II by any means they cin escape Ito
Emancipation and conhscat0a. Tie Stakeholder and
hs fieuds 10y Let ~ be ~ good Union men as We
can be- under Republican Administration lei US 90 FOR
the Consultation as 10 H. and IN th.s way ouT peculiar tn
stiuion W b. gfescr, 10 aud or children hreteT
Tho lc that the Presidents Proclamation spares their
,l,yc- aciincs item 10 lrnlse him family sometimes
bui thsy freely admit that th'y do trust him. ad
Will de m iAoy cn 90 have him succeeded by Demo
cfat year. Such is the gr,roiliHg type Of Tcnncs
ae, Uuion,m. ioa see II las 10 vitality and cAistencc
n he lopc and expectation of sa'rg the sysicn of
A1ican slavery II the Union army should be dii.,n
bact. and the Confederate power established in Ten
ncs.ce. il would be- hailed with delight. because the
people would say Under The Conedcrac!, We tnor we
can save our slaves"
whit Is 70 be- done with people thrs watching tie
death struggle q the nation. ready TO join either side
whichever may BE- the strongcri 30 he they mny there
by Loll On 20 parcel Of nlgrcrs Tbs condition Of
a.. a..
people making them incapable OF any high OF Ma
tional honor. and converting them into unprnoiped
and cownrdly mcrcennres and boys. There is but
one way to put II stop to this evil and bring the ropula
iion up full sympathy with tho tremendous issues Of
the conictand that IT, 10 pierce Slavery through and
tlr ugh and let 1, die Then the hour of temporling
will be past; the totieing fabric Of false society win
lee brought level with the ground and tie people o the
State viii lay their foundations securely Freedom
and begin to build anew. There willbe-thero can be-
no improvement In Tennessee till this thing s done
Entire peace and recognized society. impossible
until Slavery Is destroyed The President only proracts
the agony by Withholding his Ia.
What prctcxi can the President find for nov Pro
clanation wiping outiSlavcry In Tenncssecf lie has
them every day. lie wouh have been Justified in Is.
suing Proclamation after the battle OF Chckamauga
as u defensive measure. lie would Do justified In Is
suing ono any day preventive measure for the
iaoessant rading conscriping and guerilla operations
prevailing In Middle ard West Tennessee which the
Union population O makes no effort To suppress. The
ground which the President spared Tennessee In
his proclamation of Freedom was its supposed Union
ism and preparedness to return TO immediate loyalty.
That expectation has been grie,ousiy disappointed
every day have evidence that the Federal power il
despsed and rejected by armed hocs in all parts Of
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