The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-09-22
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but that was the fate of war and Of small
moment 10 any ono but the owner. and
he was taught 10 submit 10 the policy, be .
cause IL was for his ultimate good. The
yoke was forced on his ncck-hc soon
learned 20 boar il, meclly first, then
proudly.
The slave interest n5io excludes frec
white labor from the farms of the slave
holding coun'ies; and the masters proil
by the exclusion, az the expense Of both
the Tree white laborcrs and of tho small
Ter landowners, who arc dependent on
the lave holding monopoly fjr much Of
their labor
More labor is needed bat white labor
shrinks from contact With slave labor
and the masters have an interest in IN.
pelling it; and they succeed by making
free labor hold the level Of the sl,ve.
This slave competition is the only
dangerous competition. 1t has already
sacrificed free labor to its domination
and it's destruction is the surest way IA
promote the interests Of free labor. Its
intelligence, activity, economy, will en-
sure its supremacy, so soon as the ban OF
the slaveholders' contempt and the mono.
poly Of the slav. holders interest are re.
moved
They who despise free labor and in.
folcnily place free mechanics on the foot.
log Of their slaves will be the first {,
p ejddice the men Of the mechanical
classes against emancipation, by sug-
gesting that it means negro equality So
cial quality, political privileges, Negro
competition with white labor; they wi
talk Of the lsziness and dishonesty oil
free negroes; their swarming into the
cities for THEFT and beggary. At least
they will say, let emancipation be not
adopted without colonization.
But do they consider free labor no,s
above slave labor? Do they not look
down on it with contempt? Has this
not always been avowed by their oonfe l.
crates in Congress
Are there not notO more free negroes
than slaves in Mary land, yet they have
neither social nor political equality.
The slave interest tells fee labor ca
oppose emancipation because it brings
negro labor into competition with white
labor
The very object Of emancipation is ia
end that competition in its most power
ful and only dangerous form the com
petition Of negro labor held by masters
and brought into competition with white
labor for the benefit of the masters.
What will the coppNition Of the ne.
groes-freed, divided, ignorant, der I'd.
ent, without capital without political
| inttuence-be in comparison with the
competition Of the NJ ister owning thos,
negroes, forming monopoly of nearly
all the agricultural labor Of the Southern
counties, an oligarchy controlling the
policy of the States for the promotion q
their slave interest at the expense Of !Ea
free labor Of the State?
II is to be expected that the pow I
possessed of the Government of the State
will not yield without struggle. Tht
evil spirit will not come forth without
tearing the victim it has so long posses
sed. The Incarnation Of dsmsgogueism
it will display all its arts in defence Of
its power; and they who wish to assert
against it the principles Of Republican
liberty and sound political economy mus
not be slow TO recognize the Proteus il
his DISCUSSES.
These views preside over the politica
domination whose organization is now
the Constitution of the State.
Their principles inspire the 81 mp tbJ
with the rebellion which disgrscss AMI
discredit the S ate, defled it with thu
blood of the 18Th of April, so nearly
| plunged us into the gulf where Virgins
now writhes, and even made the Lagisl
ture, elected by the loyal men of Mary
land, dumb. Before the rebellion il wa
charged to brand and punish, yet rr)m,
to menace the Government if il exertet
its undoubted prerogative to remoy
slavery from the District, and bold Il
prOlong the power of the oligarchv b,
defeating the bill for a Constitutions
| Convention.
= The slaveholding interest, if consult
aGd left free, would not have rebelled
but it was imbued with the principle
incucated by their political leaders an,
when they acted the Shareholders had n
ground of resistance
They yielded reluctantly, and the
| covered luelt reluctance DY zeal, aOl
sought TO streng then their interests b.
devotion to a course which has been the
ruin.
1t was made in their name agains
their will, but they acc spted the slrug
gle as the result Of principles common T.
all
II became an idol bfore which inf
dels trembled, for its friends were pow
eriul and prosecuting. That party 0
traitors sung its praises, preached it
principles, administered tie oG,prings
and pursued with malice and ferocil,
all who refused to bow with them befor
its shrine, till every protest sank into
mental reservation; silence confessed tn,
unity Of the faith aud prudent skepticl
did it reverence as they passed, as inf
dels in Spain deyoutly bow with ih,
faithful before the sanctuary or the
! cross.
The minds OF men thus subjugateC
the great party watched the hour wlel