The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-09-12

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.Esl save the manifestation Of brute force,
and the killing Of few hundred thousand
men. 1t ignores the fact that this civil
war is q contest between two great ideas
for supremacy; between the idea OF
' slavery on the one side, and the idea Of
freedom upon the other. II expects this
I... war, if conducted justly and constitu-
-a.L tionally on the part of the Government,
although it should last for entire gen
l- GRAFTON, TO leave the country politically,
Just as it found il. 1t might as rational
ly expect earthquakes and volcanoes to
Boa exert all their power without depressing
the solid land to lake, or making level
.... plain of a ravine, or paving the ocean
with Islands II expects the ridiculous
.I. and barbarous slave code of Tennessee
10 arrest the waves Of popular opinion,
even as Xerxes expected his chains to
fetter the angry waves Of the Helespont
aIr ,,.If The chains oil the slave code, we are in.
s' Clined to think, will possess as little
potency as the chains of Xerxes not
-ai. withstAnding the oracular declaration
-a.rr Of the Press, that the Preserved rights
OF Of the reconstructed State of Tennessee,
"will belong to her, as ENTIRELY as before
a.. i the rebellion" Is any welded
lia to old ideas, that he cannot see the
great facts which thrust them
selves upon his view Is IL not a
t fact that great political revolution is
J going on within this rebellion, which is
G but the bitter husk Of what we believe
will be sweet and wholesome kernels
Look at the Acknowledgement, the terri
toriAl spoliation of the State of Virginia.
as8dt gasthe "0d Dominion" and "mother of
'g' Presidents" now sundered by the sword
~. Of revolution, and deprived Of nearly one
slts half her area, while the loyal, excided
territory comes into the National Union
free and independent State with a
"Ne '' Governor, Legislature, United States
b..,.. Senators, and mOmbers of the lower
sil .o branch of Congress. Ia not this reyolu-
owed tionAry Whatever arguments and au.
thorities against this step may be drawn
b., from constitutions Law books, statutes,
and all other authorities, still the dis
memberment of the old State of Virginia,
n without her consent, and the formation Of
essG al new State, out of Western Virginia, Is
So 1easl fact which cannot be ignoed. West
si'i ala Virginia is not only the offspring Of
political revolltion, but social revolution
su5.ss4 has taken place within her own limits in
l5baaqJ the abolition of slavery.
y'a Nor is West Virginia solitary case
Missouri is now he theatre of most
..l extraordinary, and nearly perfected
'at social and PoltealTeuoltstion. A few years
fit ago she was under the control of the
most intensely pro-slavery party 10 the
ell Southwest. The slave code and lynch
-H law outside of ST. Louis and a few
sfan other localities held the State in
subsection; but now so strong has grown
r the storm of revolution, that State
Convention, eleotedas pro. slavery body two
-4" years ago, recently passed gradual
Emancipation Ordinance while the great
. body OF the people, not satisfied with
bee this concession, are calling loudly for
oss immediate emancipation. The Fugitive
Slave Law is dead letter on the statute
book Public sentiment will not suffer
its enforcement. Maryland and Della
ware give many strong indications that
they too will soon be regenerated glori
. Ously in the womb Of revolution Sla.
.I very, there too is covering before the
searching gaze of investg alton, and the
M.a merciless scalpel of public opinion. And
can Tennessee check this great revolu.
ton, by thrustiDg her slave code, and
slave pens, and whipping posts, az an
entrenchment from behind which she
can shoot down the armies OF progress
II she courts speedy and an inglorious
defeat let her political fossils make the
experiment
.l. An ON ssiOn.
By inAdvertance Abe name Of DR.. Pal
mer, of Ohio, was omitted in our onpme-
ration Of the speakers at the meeting in