The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-09-20

Monday for JtiE Dayif, on Tuesday Tor
nobody, on Wednesday for Lincoln, and
on Thursdsy for anybody. The Gov
eminent can magnify these men into
their former Importance by encouraging
them, or il can annihilate them By plac-
ing It's feet upon their necks and bidding
them be silent II they arc tolerated
and c uatcnsncod hey will gather ound
them many Of their old followers, and
again 10 the heads Of small but
dangerous factions; but if they are
Psrcmptorily hushed they will fall at
once into contempt
Age tbo FREQ Blacks a Dangerous
Ciass! WIZ they W0TA !
These ore questions Of grave impor-
lance, especially at this time, to our poo-
pie. Work Of some kind is epjoined
upon oil men, without regard 70 their
complexion or situation in life. SO far
as the comparatively f5w free blacks Of
this State are concerned, We believe it
may be affirmed, that notwithstanding
the Jealousy, harshness, intolerance, and
often cruelty, shown towards them by
both whites and slaves, they make an
honest living, and are rarely thrown
upon public charity for support. Bat on
tlis point, we have far more important S.
timony from the highest possible source.
Let all attend TO IT, Maryland had,
as we stated the other day, by the CEN
sus of 1860, S37ls free blaoks, being
within a fraction Of one half Of the whole
black population Of Maryland. In 1859,
when tho slavery agitation was at its
hight, there assent led in Baltimore,
The laveholder's Convci ion g.. tie
State OF Maryland" into which acme
save slaveholders were admitted as mem
bers. 1t was very large and highly
respectable aud influential body. A re-
solution was offered in that convention,
requesting the Legislature to terminate
free negroism in that State az an early
day" This resolution was detected, and
tho convention passed in It's stead one
declaring that "any measure for the gem
eral removal of the free blacks from the
state of Maryland was iplpoltic. inerpeaient,
and anoallea for by any public erigency
which couldjusti6 IT," The report of the
Convention was drawn up by the Demo-
cratic United States Senator of Mary
land, Mr.. Pesrce, and contained the fol-
lowing very remarkable passage, which
will be read with peculiar interest at
this time:
"The existence of 20 large a number
of free blacks in the midst Of slave
holding State, is believed TO be Of itself
an evil, and this evil is readily perceived
TO be greater when il is considered that
a portion OF them are idle, vicious, and
unproductive. This, hoVeCer, is not the
case Soth the majority Of them, and their re-
moral a0ouid, as The committee 5elieUeS, be tar
greater Than all die eUiis he people Of Mary.
ta,ld tUer suffered from them. la the city
OF Baltimore IL is estimated that there
are more than twenty-five thousand of
them, employed chiefly as domestic
servants or lsbOfers in various DEPART
ments of industry. Inmeny of the rural
districts of the State, where labor is by
no means abundant Hey furnish a Harqe
supply Of agricultural labor, aRd 10 Is an
questionable that quite large portion of orr
soil could not be titled Oitbout their aid.
IN some districts they supply almost all
the labor demanded By the farmers Their
removal from the State would ded,ict nearly
ftty per cent. from the household and .agri-
cultural labor furnished by people Of his color,
and indispensable TO the people Of DE State;
t0oud produce great discomfort and iaconue-
nience 10 The great b9dyof Shareholders ,OouH
break up The business and destroy The proper
~ Of large numbers Of land oi0neys and land
reRtcys--a class whose interests are enli-
tied to as much consideration as those of
any other portion of our citizens would
be harsh and oppressive to those people
themselves; would violate public senti-
ment, which is generally not only Just,
but kindly, and would probably lead 90
other evils which the committee forbear
to mention. We are satisfied that such
a measure could not receive tho legisla.
tive sanction, and would not be tolerated
by the great body OF the people of Ma
ryland, even i0ih that sanction. The com
mittee, therefore, cannot recommend
their expulsion from the State. Still
more unwilling should they be to favor
any measure which looked 90 their be-
ing deprived of the right 60 freedom
which they have acquired by the indul-
gonce Of our laws and the tenderness of
their masters, whether wise or upwise
or which they have inherited az a birth
right"
Is not this extraordinary language to
be used by Convention composed wholly
of slaveownors, gathered from all parts
of the State OF Maryland We ven
tufe TO say that nine readers ont
OF every ten will be great
ly surprised TO read such a state.
ment drawn up by pro-slavery South.
ern Democratic statesman. Had such a
statement been made by an anti-slayery
man, il would have been ridiculed as the
talk of hair Drained fanatic,
or the idle raying Of a radical. The
statement may be found in Part Ash, of
the Congressional Globe, I'd Session 37th
Congress, page 296.
The moro closely We look al the negro
bug bear which is used as an argument