The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-29
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Correspondence OF tho Dsry Unisn.

OOrresp Omdemte OF the Dat bniRns
SToNE's RIVER FORD, SIX MILES FRoMl
MURFREEsBoRo, TENN, April 27, '63. I
THIS WAR, AN EmANCIPATOR
Little did the Slave Power think when
it inaugurated this war, that it was Civ
ing birth TO the fundamentally of it's
own rapid and complete overthrow. The
hour that witnessed the cannonading
aud reduction Of Fort Sumter sealed the
doom of human chatielship 10 America.
The thunderbolt was then forged and
launched that shall, under God, annihi-
late that cruel system. The sound of
those guns that charred and wrecked that
old fort, not only caused the bones Of
our revolutionary fathers 10 rustic in
their graves, but aroused that love of
freedom in the North, that slumbered as
the thunder in the cloud. Northern
disloyalists may clammer for compro-
mise and peace, and essay to step in be-
tween slavery and the appointed pit to
which it is rapidly going, but still it
shall sink condemned by q civilized
world and scourged by righteous God
The South designed this war as an En-
SLAYER, but God designed it for an Eman-
eipator. The South designed it as
Drainer Of the life blood of the nation.
but God designed il as Purifier of our
nationsl blood, and and Infuser of new
life and vigor into the nations arteries.
The South designed the war to result in
the establishment ofits darling institution
more firmly, and broadly in this country,
and the Inauguration of slavery as the
supreme law of the land, but Gods over
ruling providence shall make it iusiru-
mental in the elevation Of near five mill
ions of human chattels into liberty and
justice, and the establishment Of Free
doom as the ruling principle of our Gov
ernment. This war is great Emanci-
patOr Of human muscle and sinew from
the fetters Of oppression.
In the emancipation of slave muscle,
slave-labOr is emancipatcd also. Slave
labor had walked with swollen, and
bleeding feet over this Southern soil, and
has been compelled to make brick with
out straw. But the time is not far dis
tant, when free-labor shall bound as
youthful giant over these sunny fields,
and cause them 70 bloom as the Eden Of
the Lord.
But this war is not only an emancipa-
tor Of slave. muscle and slave labor, but
also of slave mind The mental powers
of the slave shall yet come forth in their
beauty, strength and tublimity. How
long they have been fettered and crushed,
and how terrible will be the retiibulion
of those who thus fettered and crushed
them
Woe for those wlO tTanpls e'sr mipd--
A deathlcss thiugl They know not shat they do,
! Or what they a with. M n p,rchance may nd
The flower hii step ta.h bruised ,r lghttnsw
/ The rch he Quen, hes or 70 m SIC ind
J Aga The Tyre string rom his otch that niw--
Bu, FOR the soul oh temtle and beware
/ To lay rude hands uson God's myster ca therel"
But this war is not only an emsneipa-
tor of the mental energies of the slave
population, but is rapidly giving freedom
to the mental forces Of the masses Of the
white people Of the South. have learn.
ed great deal since | entered Tennessee
tonching this fact. Those who, in this
State, were not permitted TO utter their
real sentiments previous 10 the occupancy
Of this portion of Tennessee by the
Union army, now speak boldly and clear
~ the dialect Of freedom. The smoth-
cred sense OF freedom and right, is End
ing free expression nay, more, it il
bursting forth like volcanic Gre. The
heart Of Tennessee is loyal and pulsates
for freedom. The loyal men Of Tennes-
see stand firm as Mount Allas--ihey
stand for the Government Of our fathers
The Southern Jove no longer controls
their limbs and minds. They herOically
aud de6antly laugh in the face Of the
Old Idol. As the roar Of our artillery il
heard rumbling over this balmy South
so the deeper, and sublimer thunder
tones Of freedom shall reverberate al
over this country.
Again, this war is an emancipatOr il
that, that it has already Disseminated
the Government itself from the conlac
Of the Slave Power. The nation shal
be emanoipAted from the dark pail o
slavery into the marvellous light Of thl
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