The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-09-12
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southern Phil 'sOphy--sA Chspter
for the War-SIRveholdeTs OF I'en-
nesgee.
We call attention TO the following ex-
tracts from the speeches of leading
Southern speakers, and the articles of
Southern journals, which we find en-
bodied in q speech of Hon. Emerson
Etheridge of this State, delivered in the
House of Representatives of the United
States, Feb. 81, 1857
Ihave now before me book published
at Richmond, Virginia, in 1854, II is
sty led SOCIOLOGY OF THE SoUTH, OR THE
FAILURE OF FREE sooIRTY, BY GEORGE
FIIzHUGH." Many southern Democratic
newspapers and politicians have spoken
of it approviDgly, or advanced senti-
ments quite as indefensible as any avow-
ed by the author. Among many other
things, quite as Objectionable, be SAYS.
"Make the laboriug man the slave OF
one man, instead of the slave Of society,
and he would be far better off, 1.-TWO
hundred years of liberty have made
white laborers pauper banditli." "Free
society has failed, and that which is not
free must be substituted"
"Say the Abolitionists "Man ought
not to have property in man." What a
dreary, cold, bleak, inhospitable world
this would be, with such o doctrine car
ried into practice r. "Slayery
has been too universal not to be neoessa
ry to nature, and man struggles in vain
against nature" Free society
is failure. We shareholders say, you
must recur to domestic slavery, the old
est, the best, and most common form oil
socialism"
"Free society is monstrous abortion
and slavery the healthy, beautiful, and
natural being which they are trying I'M
consciously to adopt" "Tht
slaves are governed far better than The
free laborers OF the North are governed
Our negroes are not only better off as "a
physical comfort than free laborers, but
their moral condition is be ter"
1--WE do not adopt the theory that Han
was the ancestor of the negro race. Thu
Jewish slaves were not negroes and {,
confne the justification Of slavery to tina
race would be to weaken its Scripture
authority, and to lose the whole weigh
of profsne authority, for we read Of NJ
negro slavery in ancient times. ........
slavery, black or white, is right anC
necessary.
Mature has made the weak in mind
or body slaves"
........ "The wise and virtu1us, the brave
the strong in mind and body, are hor,
to command" ........"Men are not borl
entitled to equal rights. I would be ia
nearer the truth 10 say, thai some wer
born with saddles on their backs, an,
others booted aud spurred TO ride them
and the riding dess them good. The,
need the reins, the bit, and the spur.
......"Life and liberty are not inalien
le.". ......." The Declaration of indie
pendence is 'exuberantly false, and ab
presently fallacious.'"
The Richmond Euquirer is one of th
oldest, best established and most abb
conducted Democratic journals in ia
South. Its influence is felt tnd acknowl
edged everywhere. submit the follow
ing extracts from that paper, portions G
which are startling, and IN my judgment
indefensible
until recently, the defense of SLAYER
has labored under great diff iuliies, be
cause its spOlogis,s for they wer
merely spologists - took half wa
grounds. They confined the defense q
slavery to mere negro slavery, thereb
giving up the slavery principles, admit
ting other forms of slavery to be wrop,
and yielding up the authority of tn
Bible, and Of the history, practices an
experience of mankind. Human expert
ence showing the universal success ,
slave society, and this univrrs al fAilur
of free society, was unayailing TO ther
because they were precluded from en-
! ploying il, by admitting slavery in Il
, abstract to be wrong" ,............. ...,...
"The line of defense, however,
changed now, and the North is compet,
ly cornered, and dumb as an oyster. I'll
South now maintains that slavery
= right, natural and necessary, 1t show
that all divine, and almost all huma
authority iustilies il. The South furih
: charges that the little experiment {
free society in Western Europe has beef
from the beginning, a cruel failure, an
, that symptoms of failure are abundant
our North. While it is far more obvioI
4 that negroes be slaves than whites-f
. they are only fiji TO labor, not TO direct
9 yet the principle of slavery is in ltse
right, and does not dcDead on difference
complexion. Difference Of race, OF lineag
J, OF language, OF habits and customs, {
p tend TO render the institution mo
natural and durable; and although slSy
have been generally white, still q
masters aud slaves have generally be-
of different national descent. Moses al
Aristotle, and the earliest historians, a
e both authorities in favor of the ditleren
= Of race, but not of color"
"The Democrats of the South In 4
present canvass cannot rely on the 0
d grounds Of defense and excuse for slay
% ~; for they seek not merely 10 retain
Is where u is, bit 10 erteHd IL into regions ,0bs
10 IS uRkno,0a. Much less can they rely
the mere consolidated gudraate.s for SLAYER
=. for such reliance Is pregnant with I
a admission that slavery is wrong, aud .
x for the constitution should be abolish,
Z. This constitutional argument for slay
Of ~, stinding alone, fully justites d
q Abolitionists. They are clearly right
slavery be morally wrong, Tor to gee I
Of il under the Constitution, or
amending the Constitution, is contesse
- ly impraclicablc.' .....". .,
"Nor Will II avail us aught to gh'
R. that the negro is most happy aud b.
q situated in the condition If slavery.
J, we stop there, we weaken our cause
4. the very argument intended TO advaI