The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-12
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caution, and consequently renders them
an easy prey TO their adversaries. If
athe uses Of adversely" are sometimes
sweet, the uses Of great success are some
times very bitter. This generally results
from the fact that our natural love Of
ease blinds US TO the truth that the sue
oesses Of life must be increased and pre-
served by The same arts which originally
won them. We are not altogether with
out apprehension that the recent splendid
and repeated victories Of the Federal
arms, both in the East and in the South
west, may leopard the great cause in
which the nation is enlisted. Men talk
as il the rebellion had gotten its death
blow and the Confederacy Of the slave
ocracy would crumble to dust by tho
close of the coming autumn. Let not
the friends Of Free Government lay the
lattering JUNCTION 20 their souls" We
do not under estimate the fall Of Vicks-
burg, and the conquest Of the Missis-
sippi, and the disastrous rout OF Lees
army. These are illustrious achieve
ments. They are eternal laurels upon
the temples of our country's genius.
But they are not 6nahties; the war for
freedom is not ended, simply because the
physical power of slsveocracy has been
destroyed at several important points.
The rebellious slave power which sowed
the seed of this accursed rebellion, and
nurtured it for forty years, and moistened
it at last with the best blood Of the ma
ton this slave power we say, is to-day
almost unscathed and unhurt. IL has
received as yet no mortal wound. True,
il is afflicted with sore privations IL
makes money no longer; il carries its
staples 10 the marts Of Europe no longer;
it trembles and quakes with alarm for its
safety. But it still lives there are to-
day at least 276,OOO rebellious slave
holders who have never felt the scourge
of war upon their tender spot and there
are near 100000 slaes still owned, as
chAttels by traitors, and made to render
service TO the men who are in arms
against the Government. The Ststes of
South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi,
Georgia, Texas, and Louisiana, have their
institution which is the chief corner
stone" of their bastard Confederacy, com
pAratively unframed. The slaves may
be in great measure idle, and ~unprOfita-
bic to their masters, but they are still on
the plantations as The SLAVES Af aamnaJk
PeJuyed traitors, still held as the chattels
of rebels, still ready to lapse into slave
ry were this war to close this Summer or
Fall.
We say that before this rebellion can
be really destroyed, and free government
with its c%oncomitant blessings, be rend-
cred at all secure, the remorseless arm
of war must descend with full force up
on this hot-bed, this supplying fountain.
this citadel and fortress of the rebellious
slave power. The system which engen-
dered such moral monsters as John c.
Calhoun, McDuiie, Spratt, Mason, Hun.
ter, JEFF. Davis and Yancey, the cham
pions Of the African slaye-trade, the re-
vilers of newspapers, free schools, and
democratic government, and the advo-
Gates Of decentralization, and the
twenty-five exemption law, must be
destroyed, or it's foul exhalations will
soon faint all our atmosphere anew, and
other monsters will rise up from it's
stsgnant depths 90 tear our children in
pieces. The IDEA which animates the
Southern rebels, and for the establish
ment of which they fight, is SLAVERY.
These rebels are the devotees Of a PRINCE
SPLE, and this PRINCIPLE is the strengthen
ng,oxtension aud p%erpetuation of coMpuL,
sorry LABOR. We may scatter the armies
which fight for tho system of slavery
and still the aystems remain TO rally an.
other army, and renew the wan upon FIRE,
Government after a short breathing spell
The system Of holding human beings il
bondage, for no other reason than Il
make money from their extorted labor
Of necessity educates men TO be despots
and anti. democratic in spirit. Such wa
the emphatic and unequivOcal testimon,
Of Thomas Jefferson, himself a larg
slaveholder, the great philosopher an,
apostle of democracy. A man accus
toned from youth up to exercise unlim
tied and unquestioned control over five
ten, fifty, an hundred or five hundred
human beings, who are his property a
much as his hat, his boots, his horse, o
his hogs, possesses far more power owe
the lives Of his fallen men than any No
bleman or Monarch in Europe possesses
Power over hfe and Liberty is the creates
OF all power. Queen Victoria, nor Ear
Derby, nor Louis Napoleon, can sell tn,
humblest person on their domains bu
tho STAKEHOLDER can sell his own chill
dren, can sell the child from its mother
can sell tho wife from her husband, nnt
no law nor individual can restrain him
Are the mass of men who are reared n,
under the influence Of such a systen
likely TO be the jealous friends of fre,
government There are noble excep
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