The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-09-13

not shout in ecstasy over the establish
ment Of the Southern Confsderaey.
WHIST Virginia JOuTn a says. .
That admirable newspaper, theWheel-
ing (West Va,) Intelligencer, in publish
ing the strong declaration of Gov John
son, at a recent gathering in this city, in
favor Of the immediate removal of slavery
from Tennessee, makes the following
comments:
This is strange doctrine to come from
State but lately under the domination
of those who proclaimed their Intention
Of building an empire on the corner stone
of slavery, and spreading it over the
continent as the great controlling inter.
est Of American civilization. How soon
have the vain glorious promises and ex-
pecta'ions of its friends been cut short
How entirely have all their designs been
reversedl How must they fell when
they survey the work of their hands
the ruin they have wrought! What must
they thiuk when they look over West
Virginia--over Missonri--over Kentucky
and Mary land, aud now over Tennessee!
Their was-to-be empire is turning to
ashes in their hands. Slavery is going
out rapidly in the old places where il so
lately held sway. Not a foot of new
territory is it getting--nOt foot will it
ever get. Its day is over and its race ia
run. Henceforward its destruction will
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new missionary ground where the people
turn out yindiotively and avenge on the
institution all the des spotism they have
suffered at its hands in times past, in
cluding the scourge and curse of seces-
sion. Before this war is over it will be
found that the most relentless foes Of
slavery are the people of the border States.
| We doubt whether there is people in the
Union o-day who more heartily deiesi
slavery than the people of Wts! Virginia,
| They arc long ways ahead Of those who
ilatter themselves they are repres, nting
| public opinion. We believe that if it was
left to the people of Western Virginia to
say whether slavery should not be wip d
out at.once all over this Union that their
overwhelming verdict would be, wipe
the accursed thing out." The people OF
West Virginia owe il nothing but de
teslation. All the days of our lives il
has been nothing but a despotism over
our minds, blood-sucker on our pros
/ perity and a clog and hindrsnce, a
shame and disgrace, in al our rela ions
of life. We never had anything but its
shadow among us here in West Virginia,
| yet look no y bleak it has left every thing
now that the shAdIw has been lifted.
Look at our sparse population and how
backward and ignorant it is. Look how
more than western, in everything like
! progress, the interior is When we think
Of what we are, after our long night Of
slavery, and what we might to-day have
been, had we never been cursed with it
is il any wonder that the people want the
curse extirpated from the land? II is 8
philosophy easy to be understood why
such men as Governor johnson abomi.
nate slavery. Men who have felt i'll
despotism over themselves and thos,
around them, such as ali men have in ,ht
slave States who dared to question III
sway, can not do else than abominate il
Several years ago an article, contendinJ
Tor the freedom of speech on the slavery
question here in our midst, came nea
costing us the destruction of our estab
lishment. Many times we have beer
threatened by mObs for showing tn
figures and facts as between West Yir
ginia and our Eastern Virginia masters