The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-12-31

A4EyAnuo Tor HE1E1eaAnto &Anancs~
patlon.
The glorious victory which the Un-
Conditional Union nad Emancipation
party Of Maryland gained at the late
State election has had even speedier re-
suits than we Anticipated. It has COM
pletea The conversion Of the entire
onion party 70 The cause Of Emancipa-
ton, and not only Of Emancipation, but
Of izmeiiate Emancipation. At the late
election the Unionists were still divided
One party, headed By the Union State
Central COMMITTEE" was opposed to
m2hi5g Emancipation 1T all an issue I;
The other, represented by the nUncondi-
tioaal Union State Central Committee"
pledged its candidates expressly 10 vote
and labor fer calling ; State Convention
for the purpose Of Kidding the State of
Slavery. TIE contest for the most i'm
poFtaht State Office, that Of GoBptroll-
er, iay entirely between these two par
ties, The Coppeshsads not presenting a
candidate Of their own. The Emanci-
pAtioBisisyas cur readers will remember,
carried the State By 10000 msjority.
We nUM lc8IM N18N WIS NGlAAnk NSAAASN
of the people Of Maryland on the great
question Of the day has opened the eyes
OF tie Anti Emancipation Union State
Committee. They met in pursuance Of
call By their Chairman, the Hon. Thomas
Sgann, 81 Baltimore, on Wednesday, the
10th of December, and, with cemmenda-
BE frAnkness, admitted the blnnder they
had committsd ard united with their for
mer opponents on platform OF imEedi-
ate emancipation. Mr.. Swami who, at
the late election, was the candidate of the
Union State Committee for Congress in
Henry Winter Dsvis's district, but with
drew shortly before election day, re-
viewed in > thorough speech the relation
of the Border States, and especially of
Maryland, 10 the slavery question. He
showed conclusively that slavery had |
prevented the growth. Of the slave
States; that. IL was virtually dead |
10 Maryland, and nothing but q
burden to both the State and the
that gradual emancipation
wo'.ld moi remove this burden, and that |
immediets Emancipation ought to be re-
At the conclusion Of his
speech, be offered series of resolutions,
In favor Of scaling q Convention at the
earliest practicsble day compatible with
The Constitution and laws Of the State,
and the adoption by said Convention of
some plan OF immediate Emancipation as
best calculated TO subservs both the in
lerests Of the State and the holders of
slave property in the present ruinous
of affairs"
These resolutions were warmly eecon-
LED By the Hon. J. P. Kennedy and other
Ipeakers, and finally adopted BY mani.
nous vote. The address Of Mr.. Swami
will be published, Together with the
proceedings of the meeting, and both
viii be extensively circulated in Mary
and.
This action Of The Union State Central
Committee will hasten, undoubtedly, the
loom Of Slavery. The Unionists in the
legislature Of Maryland have sn over
majority, standing nineteen
Jnionists 10 three Democrats in the Sem
te, and seventy-fVe Unionists to TWEEN
y-one Democrats in the House. Some
( the Unionists were hitherto unpledg-
d as to the call of . State Convention
nd emancipation. The resolutions of
be Union State Committee will probably
AIRY over most or all of them into the
amp of the Emancipationists.
Ia declaring for ipsDledsate emsncips-
on the Unionists of Maryland get the '
Tart even of Missouri, the Legislature of |:
ihich State provides only for gradual
We hope the glorious ex
mple Of Maryland may spur the Eman-
ipatiOnists Of Missouri to continue their
forts for shortening the sgony of slave
? in that State. The importing of free '
lbOr into Missouri and Maryland will 3
reduce changes that will astonish the
rorld, and viii fill the Pro-Slavery
Ini0nists Of Kentucky and other States
18th deep modification for having mis- c
nderstood the most manifest signs of I
le times.-N Y. Tribune.