The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-06-03


read carefully the follow
ing extract from The Cincinnati Enquirer:
"The protection Of ,ohite men against slavery
does not practically consist in PRINCIPLE, bit
IN facts. They will not, like negroes, con-
sent 10 be reduced TO state of bondage.
If zoe had among us a race of men Of olsroion
color Nth the piyit TO submit capable Of taboy,
but without ambition or enterprise, humble, do
Gle, and terrible, there would be fond no Prin-
ciple sujicienily potent 10 stand IN The loay n
their easlavenent. We should have our
theories upon the subject as rational as
those that are founded upon the misbe-
hayior of HAM and the maudlin morality
OF his exemplary parent. But the Eu-
ropeo- American will not be enslayed any
more thSn the native American. de
would kick against his bonds, become
turbulent, incendiary and desperate. He
would rise Ia force upon his master, or
overcome him by his superior intelligence,
He would refuse 10 be coerced--would
combine for rebellion
Now let us take up the points of this
remarkable paragraph:
There is no principle, no rule OF rign'
and wrong, which keeps w''ae men IN TINS
country out of slavery is simply n
fact that sohite men are not slaves. The
reason why w1ate men arc not slaves Is
that you cannot enslave them; If yoL
could do II, it would be cractly right!
Slavery is al right but II is based not
on justice but pO,0er; if you can Onslave
any man, do i'll II would not BIO safe
no,U to try TO make slaves of 'ohite men
they would be "turbulont and desperate,
and raise instructions.
But as soon as we can find o class Of
white men "humble, docile and flexible"
then aTHERE WILL BE NO PRINCG-
PIE SUFFICIENTLY POTENT TIC
STAND IN Pie WAY OF THEIR EN-
sLAvEMENT."
We think that wO can SEQ the eyes oil
the sturdy soldiers of Indiana, Ohio,
Illinois, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Minneso-
ia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Kansas,
sparkle and glow with indignation, as
they read this Conservative" doctrine OF
the Cincinnati Enquirer the newspaper
which few months ago told the Ohio
soldiers that their wives were turning
prostitutes while they were off fighting
for the Union. "Whatw these men will
ask; care the advocates Of slavery Sc
bold as this, that they do not hesitate t.
tell US that all which saves us from slav;
cry is that we are not quite "humble
docile and flexible" enough? Ia that al
the protection for our own freedom? il
that all the guarantee which our childrer
can have against slavery, with its whips
dungeons, letters and debaucheries
Must our sons be whipped in the field by
ruffian overseer, while our wives anC
daughters are debauched be fore our eyes
by our masters I"
Yes, it is even so. The conservative
organ of Ohio prOclaims it, and othel
"Conservatiye" organs re-echo and APP
plaud the words.
Friends, in this contestagainst slave oil
igarchy, you are fighting against q clas
which is seeking TO enslave not the negr,
only, but the white man. Every blow
you strike at negro slavery is blow
struck at the oligarchy which is pFepsF
ing it's tolls and letters for the limbs o
white men also. The principle and sou
of slavery is the same, both as regard
the white and black race. II is amatte
Of force, of violence. II is fragrant vi
olation of the first great and inalienabl
right Of man, and he who does not respec
this right in the negro, will soon care Blu
little for il in the white man, who maj
be placed in his power. White men hav
been slaves in all countries, and in al
ages of the world. They are now. Lool
at Turkey. The luxurious MahOmetani
have their seraglios filed with beautiful
Georgian and Oircassian girls who are thu
purest white blood iRe,he world, sym
metrical, courtly, intellectual, aud sur
passingly beautiful. Who ever looke'
on Powers celebrated statue of the Greel
Slave without admiration And yet /
was modelled from a Greek maiden ex
posed to sale in the slave market Of to-
Levant, just as hundreds of mothers an,
daughters have been sold in Nashville an,
Memphis by Forrest the guerrilla.