The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-05-07
An Extraordinary Dooum mt on our
Civil War.
" A Biographical SiSli,tital ard Eihlc |
View Of The AmsIisla SlaVcEO drS Rt-
beliOn .

"a Biographical SiSti,tital ard Eihlc
View cf The American SaVclO dn Rt.
bclliOn,
We are indebted to Governor Johnson
Tor copy Of pamphlet of nineteen
pages, bearing the title given above IL
quotation marks. The pamphlet pre-
senis the same views as TO the mode OF
putting down the rebellion. which were
urged with such scuten, ss and force AZ
the outbreak of the war, by DR.. ROBERT
d. BREoKrNmDoE of Kentucky, and also
by Governor JonNsoN The vie ws of th,
author of this pamphlet are expressed
so clearly, succintly, and tersely, that
we will not preface our copious quota
'iOns from it pages by synopsis, but
present them at once 90 the reader.
They will arrest the attention Of every
officer and soldier in the army. The
value of the pamphlet is enhanced by 8
map which accompanies it, so cOlored a.
to present at q glance the idrAs Of the
author, the Great Central Mountain Dis :.
trict of the S nth being colored and the re.
bellious, slaveholding, horseshoe shaped
region encircling it being colored yellow
Every ono who has map can easily
color it by the direc tiOn Of the pamphlet.
The author says;
A Go grREnicaI. SIatiscaI and EthI-
eat view OF the AmerL,nn slave
holders Rebellion.
Who are the rebels, and where do they
live. We all know that the great slavehold.
ers in the states east Of tue Mississippi
River, are the life and soul of the rebel.
lion. Now these great Shareholders are
not as is commonly imagined, spread al.
most equally over the whole territory of
the States in which they reside, but are
confn d to narrow strip of countrr, ex-
tending, 10 the shape of horseshoe,
along the coast Of the Atlantic on the
east, the Gulfof Mexico on the south, and
the eastern banks of the Mississippi aaa
Ohiu rivers, on the west This horse
shoe shaped country Is scarcely any-
where more than 200 miles wide, while
the line of lis outer border, which also
passes through or near almost every one
Of its principal cities, viz: Alsxandria,
Richmond and Norfolk, in Virginia !;
Newbefn and Wilmington, In North Caro-.
lima Charleston, in South CAIolius; Sa
vaunah. IN Georgia; Pensacola, in Flori-
ds; Mobile, in Alabama New Orleans, H.
Louisiana; Natchez and Vlcksbuig, in
Mississippi; Memphis aud Nashville
In Tennessee and Columbus aud Loais-
vile, in Kentucky, is nearly 1000 miles
long.
This horseshoe -shsped country con-
sisis, t. a great extent of low, fertile
land iitoed for ihe production Of tobac.
CO, rice, cotton, sugar, &c, but within IL,
and almost encircled by il, is a noun.
famous tongue of land, stretching from
the states OF Ohio and Pennsy lvania, in a
south westerly direction, nearly to the
centre of Alabama IA country 500 miles
long, aud, on an average, almost 200
miles broad, embracing the wesiernt third
OF Virginia, the western fifth of North
Carolina, Pickens disirict in South Caro-
lima, the northern sixth of Georgia, the
mort iheasiern sixth Of Alabama, and the
eastern thirds Of Tennessee and Ken
lucky.
This Mountain district covers an area
~ about 80 600 square miles, and, in
1860, according 10 the official census,
contained nearly j 100000 inhabitants,
of whom only l26,000, or one in twelve,
we're slaves; while in the horseshoe
sh ped country around il, occupied by
the shareholders, there were according 10
the same census, round numb ~, a. 600,
coo inhabitants, OF whom 10000 were
negroes, and of the 00OO whites
| more than 700 600 were ia Kentucky,
leaving lees than 100000 whites out
side Of the Mountain district, in the
eight rebel states east Of the Mississippi
river.
The people Of this Mountain district,
when left entirely free 10 express this sem
tiuents. have dll0ays been strongly but rd-
fionaHy nti-Slauerg A little more than
thirty years ago there were anti slavery
societies all over Western Virginia,
Western North Carolina, East Tennes-
see, aud Eastern Kenlacky; aud the
people in these parts of those Slave
states, then Almest unanimously de-
manded the emancipation Of the slaves,
by the acts Of their respective state leg-
islaturee, the emancipation 10 be accom-.
panied By the removal Of freed negroes
10 other lands. IL was just after The
subject OF emancipation had been fully
discussed by the Virginia legislature,
with fair prospect OF the eventual sue.
csss Of the emancipationists, that tho
ultra. abolition movement commenced
in New England, and gave the g'sat
slayeholdersin the low country power to
effect that suppression Of all public agi
tation Of the Emancipation question
throughout the whole South, which has
continued 10 this day.
IL will be seen that, with the exception
Of the short roads between Pafkersburg,
Grafton aud Wheeling In the extreme
Dorth, and those iIom Cleveland, through
Kingston and Stevenson, in he extreme
south, there h, In the whole Mountain
district, hut one railroad, VIZ taat part
of the great railroad liue from Norlolk to
Memphis, which enters this Mountain
district between Lynohburg and Dublin,