The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-09-06
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CoIhc Friends EmnuCIpnticn

No great cause was ever carried with
out agitation. tits only by assailjug The
bulwarks of error that truth and ueht
eventually triumph. lie who relics upon
the righteousness Of his cause for that
success which God has made dependent
upon earnest effort, will be doomed b.
utter disappointment Your cause Is
good, but you must work The truth, So
apparent to you, has to struggle against
prejudice, passion, interest and habit in
others. The griovous crimes OF which
slavery has been guilty, AID its most
stupendUus crime Of all-the attempt to
overthrow free government on this cont.
nont-has not served TO ALLEVIATE it's dew
otees, even those who are well disposed
toward our Government. Re not dCCeiy-
ed by the delusivc cry that Slavery is
dead ! With better reason our fore.
fathers supposed il dead after the rcvo-
luton. They thought il had been slain
by the Declaration Of Independence and
the struggle for liberty.
No man of that day but supposed il
was eyanesccnt and passing away, and
that the universally acknowledged curse
would be driven out by the workings Of
free institutions. They were mistaken
then, and those who suppose "Slavery is
dead now, are mistaken now IL is a
serpent of almost unquenchable vitality.
Cut in two, its very tail will wag until
the darkness OF IN eternal night shall en-
yelope il. Its best frlonds-its most
earnest supper ers-wll tell you, with
an air of helpless submission TO fate that
slavery is dead Let it alone % They
mean the last half Of tho exclamation
only. Another half will say "Emanci-
patton is a good thing, very good thing,
but-l0lU IS not tie time g." The hope of all
who argue thus Is 10 stave of assaults
upon their fAvorite institution at time
when devotion to the Union might i'm
peril its existence as the assailant upon
the life of the Union, aud the eXpec alton
that before another election comes around
the war will Le over, and slavery resume
its former status under the law with a
public pulse made 80 tender by the war
that it will remain for all time to come.
How can you love your country and
uphold your country's enemy Slavery
ia the cause of toe rebellion. The re-
brlliOn is confined to Slave States. The
spirit of rebellion in this State IS
strongest in slaveholding counties, Some
! shareholders are loyal, four titths Of
them are not, Those who are loyal are
for the most part, arTayed against the
cause Of emancipation and the policy Of
the General Government in the conduct
of the war. With all respect for those
property rights, yet, shall we allow
them forever to hamper the cause of pro-
gress? Let us rather cmanGipate our
selves from this thraldOm 60 old party
hacks, and move onward 10 the accom-
plishment of higher destiny for our
noble little Sta,c.
BE not deceived by that class OF poll
ticians, who, being all things to all N II
for power sake, have no well defined po-
sition on any question. There arc men
whose friends say they are Emancipa-
tionists in places where it is supposed
such a declaration will be of advantage
to their prospects, and whose other
friends fight for them 40 pro-slaverv men,
where that view is supposed most sd-
vantageOus. A man who does not now
know enough OF his own mind to declare
that he will support "the whole policy
Of the administration" reserves to him
self the privilege Of voting with the Cop
perheads A man who cannot pledge
himself TO vote for the Administration
candidate for Speaker of the House Of
Representatives, reserves the right TO
vote for an anti-Administration candi-
date. A man who believes slavery to be
the cause of the Rebellion cannot, if true
TO his country, be friend TO slavery. A
man who does not believe slavery TO DC
the cause of the rebellion, is Of too un-
sound a judgment, too dead to all the
teachings Of history and the war, 90 be
trusted with power. With such men
love of country will always be subscr-
| Went to the interests OF slavery