Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-12-10
BORDER STATE "AsolirloslsM.n II


MS war upon the Union, have done more
IN three years towards the destruction OF
the system of labor they sought to con-
serve and forever establish, than all the
anti-slsvery men in and out Of the free
slatss could gaasonably have hoped to &C
; Complishsd IN half a century. The border
states have taken the matter into their own
hands, and all that opponents Of slavery
in the northern states have to do is pa
tiently to wait and let them work out their
own salvation. Many accounts of the
progress made in these states have been
published, and the following additional
will be read with interest. DR.. Bowen OF
n. Tennessee, who is in Boston in reference
to the enlistment of negro soldiers, is re-
ported by the Journal as making these
statements:
~ "Slavery is dead in Tennessee. There
being no constables or local officers, every
mans negro can walk of when and where
he pleases. And the only trouble among
\ the Union men has been that they did not
promptly recognize the fact The eman-
cipation question is settled, and the next
question is, what shall be done with the
Il freed negro2 DR.. Bowen confessed that
he heard of enlisting him, at first, with
horror. He had seen whole gangs crouch
ing before an unaded overseer, and feared
thew would not face white men IN battle.
But the accounts of Mlhken's Bend, Port
Hudson, Charleston, &c, obtained often
through reliable private sources, were TOO
much for future doubt. Now the great
majority of Union men in Nashville, and
in Tennessee, are in favor OF enllstlng the
blacks. and DR.. Bowen is himself the
bearer of memorial from them to the
president, urging him to press the enlist
ments till they take every able-bodied ne
gro in the state. One reason for tins course
is that it will best prevent the revival oil
slavery. No Union planter has yet pros
ecuted an application for pay for his en-
listed slaves, and in the meeting OF twenty
two large shareholders, for the most part,
q who signed the memorial referred to above,
It was unanimously voted to strike out
clause asking such pay. DIR. Bowen
thought it perfectly safe to say that Ten
nessee would furnish 10, 900 colored troops,
and the number might go up to 2oooo'
80 He expressed the sense of his Union coad-
tutors in saving that the prompt suppress
: sion of the rebellion would settle all otbel
questions to the best possible advantage.
What has been done in Missouri ano
some other states need not be stated. II
4, reference to Arkansas, the Memphis Bull
letin says. a' taa
"The alacrity and earnestness witt
which the people of Arkansas are moving
for the restoration of their state TO Its sus
q pended powers, is no less surprising thar
gratifying. That the feeling is real W.
. have no room left for doubt. We hav'
eonversed with persons from that state Q
various conditions of Fife, from the wood
chopper to the planter, the soldier and tn
n0 civilian, Unionists and secessionlsts, ma
tjyes of the state and visitors to 1t iron
north and south, and we find all agree tina
the people of Arkansas are for the Union.
And with the progress of this Unio
sentiment in Arkansas, as elsewhere,
reported to be awakened general desn'
that the constitution" to which this wa
81 j, owing shall, die with its ofspring--th
rebellion. @ h aso
And further, the following fror
the Baltimore American goes to sho'
that the border states not only accept tn
extinction of slavery within their own bon
ders as an inevitable fact, but are galnln
disposition to demand its total destrue
De- ton everywhere: me7l--alFl
= aApd 50 II is that the further this cor
hict progresses the more lmperlous is tn
necessity which calls for the total destrut
tioa of Sgavery. 1t is gone, in effect, her
in the border states let it go IN Sout
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, &C., of a
others as most deserving punishment fo
What thew have done Practically de
stroyed as slavery is already in states Ink
Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and gu
own. which earnestly deprecated, in tn
z outset, the disturbances which were t
strengthen the institution, we are now tolt
on what seems good authority, that 'elgh
- cen hundred thousand slaves have bee
compelled to wend their way to the border
of the Gulf; and, as we have said, could tn
great conspirators, like Toombs, Cobb an
others there, now command peace an
undisturbed possession OF the negro, 70
world never saw more arrogant monol
DIV than would be attempted, based 9po
he 5waa and qaise,y oftaeir aeighbors. Z
81 EE Ex-Gov. Pratt who was sent
Pinhmond hu order of Gen Schenck. is