The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-05-26
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 90, 'oa

ton Of the d,muition cussed" Abolition
Club OF this city. Strange to say, the club,
"a .1 like chammomile, grow the NOR for being
trodden on. The most astonishing of all
these scribb ing assailanis Is a cores
pondent who spreads himself in long
winded philippe in Sundays Democrat.
He must be q very important personsge,
az least in his own estimation, for he
inks that bis attack will so startle the
Union Club thatit will setits vigilance
committee under z seal Of secreey TO find
.ri out who" he is. tie thinks be would
"probaby be r. jected by the Club if ht
was TO apply for membership" lie Ger
taialy knoi0s best
..Ha. He says that the Club would exclude
the venerable father of his country
Washington the trainers OF the Con-
stiluuon, because they were pro-slavery
men"
o. This is the first we ever heard OF
Washington, Madison and J,fierson, APP
plying for membership in the Union
8"# Club Of Nashville. IL would be highly
un ecoming ia the Club to " black ball''
th IN IL they should. But If they are
rejected, il will not be on account
their pro slavery views for they are all
on record, in the most emphatic angu O. +,
f1 as auti-slavery men. No man coulo
write what Jefferson did of negro slavery
In the South to-day, withou, being hum
as an aboliliOnist without judge OF
jury.
The correspondent says that "the non
STAKEHOLDER is just as disloyal as the
stakeholder" Where did he pick up thi,
astonishing news In East Tennessr'
or in the mountains of Kentucky, or ia
rIla Western Virginia, or in Northern Georgia
and Alabama or in the Free States p
The State which led Off in the rebellion
was South Carolina, where the slave pop
ulation exceeds the free and the other
States followed her in proportion to their
slaves.
This correspondent warns the Club
hat if they don't swear all non slave
holding immigrants into this State, they
may all vote the pro-savery TICKET.
Give us a hundred thousand Immigrant 8
from Europe and the North, and we will
run the risk willingly. He need not fee
uneasy He says that 1t is not trleia any
sense iohqterer, that * lau@y saiotsers enter
pyiser--as the Club asserted ANY man
has right to believe that who predicts
-1sH that the Club wilt blackbal" Hamilton,
Washington, Jefferson and Franklin
when they apply for membership The
correspondent suggests TO all Tonnes
scans to keep out Of this awful Aboli
tiou Club A good many others--rebe,
who took the oath to keep from being
sent hey ond the lines have been bust y
making similar suggestion for the lssi
80 three weeks, but with very poor success
inasmuch told that the Club il
receiving more members than ever. It
wickedy persists in growing in utter
disregard Of the prayers aud menaces
of the divine origin" party.
The Democrats correspondent tiles to
show that Governor johnson regards tn,
declaration Of the Club, 10 regard TO
Slavery, as REASONABLE by introducing
M insppicable quotation from one OF
his speeohts. We are not au horiz d
to speak for Governor johnson, but " {
may safely venture The assertion that he
never n any OF his speeches, made u,t
Of any expression which would brand
opposition to Slavery as treason, and
anti slavery traitors. The Club
has declared that Slavery ought TO be
removed from this STATE; is there
treason in that declaration? So the
pro'slaSery party holds; 90 the Southern
CJniederacy teaches, aud so this
Denloca, tcrbber insinuaies but
he cannot quite Governor johnson
10 sustain his foolish aud wicked views
The writer is evidently one OF those " no
brand and denounce all as abolidonisls
who do not regard slavery the founda-
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all Christian civilization. The great and
damning viii Of slavery is that it breeds
just this sort OF miserable bigo,ry ana
intolerance.
This doughty correspondent threatens
to fix the Club "whonever we have a free
exercise Of the elective franchise" That
is when this cruel business of sending
rebels beyond our lines is stopped, and
the polls are free 70 secesh. Then this
Union Club will sec sights. They re-
member the vots Of Jime, 6l These Union
folks can have their way whlle the Fede-
raj flag and Federal troops are here, but
they may look for a great change when
these are gone Look at it, fellow-eiti.
zens
The battle for freedom and nationality
progresses gloriously on this continent.