The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-09-17

same words in tones of thunder.
God grant thai Pennsylvania may prove
no less true, and that brave Ohio may
follow the example
Our respected cotemporary, frightened
at the ugly aspect of the question which
he conjured up with his own pen, AND
which we for some days have been vain
ly pressing him to answer, quits the
field Of controversy, not in good order,
but in precipitate fight. He says:
We do not think it expedient now TO
agitate the question of emancipation
Standing before this question, in the nat
ural sequence of things, are the success
ful prosecution of the war against the
rebels, and the f5oTs siiisss;Ga c! she State
Government. When these shall have
been accomplished, and the project OF
emancipation shall be submitted to the
whole people of Tennessee, TO whom, ex-
elusive of all others, we hold that it be-
longs-when the character of the pro-
posed emancipation and the circum-
stances Of the country are all before them
then, we maintain, will be the proper
time for the Press and every citizen TO
discuss and settle this issue.
Our neighbor leaps over his own en-
trenchments and endeavors to hide him
self in a neighboring thicket lie jumps
from his radical, multiplying, States rights
heresy, in which he asserted the right Of
Tennessee to nullify, by her slave code
the laws and policy of the Federal Gov
eminent, and deprecAtes the premature
discussion of emancipation The past
has taught us that the advocates of slave.
ry regard the discussion of emancipation
as altOays premature. The proper time
for its discussion never comes, the cham
pions of slavery being the judges. The
Press vaguely intimates that the proper
time may come when the State Govern.
ment shall have been recognized and III,
rebellion PIT DOM. But if Tennessee b,
reorganized, must we wait until the re.
bellion shall be put down in the othe
States, before we discuss the question o
emancipation? So the Press seems Il
think. II seems to be the policy of Ger
tain politicians still TO have = unitet
South, and to do nothing without the co
operation of our Southern brethren, es
peciAlly u there is any danger to be ap
pretended from "Federal bayonets,
radical Germans" "tfAnsient adven
turers" from East Tennessee, and "slap
dash innovators" who were born anC
reared in Tennessee, have been faithful {,
the Government in its darkest hours, anC
now hold high md responsible Officer
in our State Government. The question
of Emancipation,or more correctly speak
ing, Of freeing the social, political anC
industrial interests Of Tennessee from
the rubbish and wreck of a ruined, shat
tered, and utterly worthless system o
slavery, such as ours nO,U is, must not b,
touched until the galvanized" Unior
men are Sll ready to vote again, and I'll
the county, State, and National Officer
with a pack of supplo-kneed, time
serving, dough faced, mercenAry an,
treacherous politicians, such as sold tn
State to the rebellion
To this contamination there are pol
itioians in Tennessee looking more anx
iously than Moses ever looked from tn
top of PisgAh, over the sunny fields o
Palestine. Shall the settlement of
question so important be oonfided I
hands so entirely incompetent and faith
less?
IL, as the Press says, we have in on
articles in this controversy, put a graf
Of mercury in a mess of yerbiage, we fec
assured that an unparalleled public vii
say that we have just one grain the al
vantage of our contemporary.
Tax Collector for Tennessee
The Cincinnati Gazette states tha