The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-06-20
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE SATURDAY, JUNE 20 1863

cause 1t is a Whig Administration.
Brother Democrat, that will not do.
You complain that we have been so slow
aud tardy, that the rebellion should
have been put down long ago, and il the
Democrats had had hold Of it, IL would
have been. You forget the difficulties
the Administration had to encounter At
the commencement of the struggle; aHd
that If we have not accomplished every-
thing we would have accomplished, there
may be reasons which we may be igno-
rant Of Butt il the duty of a prudent
man TO stop TO argue on this point
Now brother Democrats, | will make a
bargain with you. You 90 on heart and
hand in support of this Administration,
and, If at the end they shall not have
put down the rebellion, and you will
show me Democrat who will make
cleaner sweep, will ground my arms
and ter upon the stump for his elec.
ton. Loud cheering II will take
time, but il the work is done a good pa.
triot can afford 10 wait. 1t may be that
some small politicians may spoil before
that time, but we had better sacrifice
few Of them than sacrifice the country.
Laughter.
THE EI9HT TO USE SLAVERY TO PUT DOWN
THE Rebellion. s..
The only question that comes up at
this time is, should the Northern people
or Northern Government employ the in
stitution of Slavery as a means 10 putting
down this rebellion If you call that
abolitioniEing this war, it is a species of
Abolitionism which | have not learned
heretofore. Does any man put himself
upon the ground that il is unconstitu-
tional TO use every means, either in the
hands of our enemy or our own, to put
down this rebellion? If the army, march
ing through the enemy's country, finds a
hundred horses or mules he needs, he
marches in and lakes them and drives
them away. That is all right The
doctrine of Slavery is, that the slave
man is bat chattel, mere animal, But
| put it upon the broader ground that
every man '0Orking upon a plantation of the
enemy is equal to tl00 men IN The rebel army
engaged IN shooting :lolgn the men tn The Union
army. EUery negro is raising produce 20 feel
the army and raising tazes TO pay them. The
negro on the plantation who hoes his corn
is just as effective man as if he were in
the army, and more so, for although he fights
tOeU ih our army 1 doubt whether he toolld in
theirs. Do you say zoe shall not take him and
lead him 70 fght his ot0n master and oppress-
orf DO yoa toaat any more of our oton race
10 bo slaughtered than zoe can dVoidf DO you
want them to cripple us all the more by
the means of their employment? If you
say 80, you are opposed TO the progress
of the war at all, and there is very little
hope for your redemption. This you call
abolitionizing the warl
THE CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION coNsIDRRED
Your orators are talking about this
| good deal in various sections of the State,
and claim that il is unconstitutional to
interfere with Slavery in the Southern
States. l should like 10 know what those
chaps down there have had TO do with
the Constitution since they fired on Sum
ter. Years ago, long before they bad
formed a Constitution of their own, if
you had gone down there, and said you
were there to protect them by the Con-
stitution, they would have put you in the
dungeon. l would like to know what
constitutional rights they have? They
have the constitutional right 10 be whip
ped if we can do Il, and think we can.
Voice: awe will"l l don't choose TO
go into the question whether the COnsti-
tuition ever gave them any rights in re-
gard to Slavery. The word slave is not
in The Constitution. IL is true il says
something about fugilives from labor, and
/ oil he 4 k.IA
the Constitution
SLAVERY DOOMED.
say TO you, my friends, you may set
your minds perfectly at rest upon the
subject make the prediction here to-
day (and am not the first man who has
made it,) that in 50 far as tho political
character Of Slavery Is concerned, u persisted
Nth tie sound OF tseJ FIRST gun IN Charleston
harbor. Loud applause. 1t is uttely
and totally dead II cannot be revived,
and that for one reason if for no other,
the Northern people can never admit that
institution into the country, even upon
an adjustment OF the present difilculties,
which could hereafter and in any moment
plunge them into another civil war.
Applause You never will settle this
contest, whether by arms or diplomacy,
but you will remove the cause that pro
duced il. If you do you are not worthy
the institutions Of your fathers. APP
plause.
So you may dismiss all this matter Of
policy; il is an old story-an old soug,
sung several times TOO often.
ARBITRARY ARRESTS.
But you have another objection TO this
war, and that is this matter Of the arbi-
trary arrest of some men who have not
been content with thinking treason, bui
have beeu talking itrsther loud. There's
been about half dozen men taken down
10 Fort Lafayette--perhaps there is one
in Dixie now. Laughter. You say
these men have been arbitrarily taken
without warrant in the Constitution
Some legal mOuser has sat down and
conned il over, and has not found any
thing 30 justify il. de has found thar
they never expected any such state o.
things, and, therefore, there was nothing
put into the Constitution TO meet il
Treason shall consist of one overt act
talking is not an overt act. We must MOI
forget the fundamental principle Of al
governments on earth places a large dis
cretiOnary power in the hands Of th'
. rulers of the land for cases Of this kind
The old legal maxim is, that the law'
/ are silent IN the presence Of arms lo1
, have very little cause 10 complain here
I II you mad been down South l think yo'
B would have had much more.
There is no doubt of the power Of th'
, Government 10 protect itself II yol