Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-08-19
Observation-Disclosures In Tonnessee.

: York Times believes that there is a strong
g and growing tendency among the loyal
d men of Tennessee to emancipate the slaves
d in that State. He says that the principal
n leaders in the emancipation and Union
e party in the State are and have been slave
holders He writes:
"One has already offered his slaves
wages, and is beginning the great change
himself. These gentlemen are devoted
Unionists, of course, but they are also ar.
dent Teunesseeans, and they believe that
} the remarkable resources of this rich State
will be so developed under free labor, that
the loss from emancipation will often be
more than repaid from the increased value
. of lands, and that at least their children
will reap the benefit of emancipation in
new condition of prosperity, and a peace
which no revolutions will shake. They
argue that the beautiful vine lands on their
hills will draw in the German emigrant
that the western and eastern farmer will
be tempted to their fertile valleys, where
all productions of the temperate zone -four
I ish bountifully, and that the capital of the
seaboard will seek out their wonderful wa
ter-poWer and the veins of exquisite marble
in their mountains. In this great moral
movement of Tennessee, it should be re-
membered that thus far the freest portion
of the population, the brave yeomanry of
East Tennessee, have no share When at
length they are delivered, aud unite with
the Uniouists and emancipationists from
the central counties, we can judge of what
the result will be. So strong is this rev.
-olution that the Union Club in Nashville, |
numbering some seven hundred members, |
contains in its constitution an article
which believe no northern Union League |
has ventured to insert-expressing the |
strongest opposition to slavery. In this |
association, of course, are many slave |
holders. 1t is impossible to hear this side |
of Boston, such downright abolition talk |
as you hear around the State capitol in |
Nashville One slavsholdsr said tn me |
that it was great pity the President had
not applied his proclamation at once to |
Tennessee, sit would have saved them
great deal of trouble, for it was evident
the institution could not stand long in its
present condition..
"The gentlemen interested in these move
ments assured me that the greatest obsta-
Gle in their path was the unaccountable
tone of portion of the Democrotic press
in the eastern States, who seemed to have
a passion for the restoration of the slave
power more than do many of the slave
holders themselves.
Tennessee is organized-and that cannot
be till the State is thoroughly cleared of
guerrillas-you may be sure that an act of
emancipation will be passed, and this
State, so favored by nature, begin glori-
GUS career as free State"
There is in Tennessee, we think, larger
party in favor of emancipation than there
is in Kentucky. If the State should be
thrown open to free labor, it would attract
the finest class of European and New Eng
land emigrauts. 1t possesses immense re
sources and an attractive climate. The
remarkable events of the last two years
have quickeued the thoughts of the people
to the great advantages to be derived from
receiving skill, industry and wealth from
abroad, as the western States have receiv-
ed them. They have reasoned as the Mis-
sourians have upon the phenomena before
their eyes.
I The correspondent from whom we have
3 quoted calls attention to one fact which is
, deserving of notice, that Tennesseeaus are
. in earnest wishing the downfall of slavery,
: while the Democratic press in the east are
d clamoriug for the preservation of slavery.
: 1t is only an illustration of the old truth
h that northern doughfaces are DESTROYS Of
3. going further in the defence of slavery
Ut than the Shareholders themselves. A let
At fer from Mr.. Buchanan to JEFF. Davis, writ.
r ten in 1850, has just been found among
N Davis papers in Mississippi, which tells
If how the ex-President was then willing to
al go further than the South in unfolding
: slavery. 1t seems he had prepared letter
Q. on the subject, and he thus writes to Da-
l. Wis:
10 'You may ask why it has not been pub
- lished. The answer is very easy. From
careful examination of the proceedings
u IN Congress, It is clear that non-interyen-
p non, IS all that will be required by the
|. south. Webster's speech is TO be the base
OF the compromised is landed ~ Az
ID echo by distinguished southern nsn.N a ma
70 what 10 lit Non-intervention. and non
d, intervention simply because the Wilmot
10 proVlso Is not required to prevent the curse
of slavery from being inflicted upon the
II territories. Under these circumstanras ~
ot would be madness in me to publish INV
h letter, AID take higher ground for the
"a south than they have taken for themselves
FMS would be to out-Herod Herod, and to
be more southern than the south. Il coult
N do no good, but might do much mischief
Il And SO to-day We find northern men of
It the Buchanan type lighting with all their
might to avert the ruin which slavery
y is drawing down upon itself, and
n yet the Nashville onion, the Baltimore
Amsr4ea4' and other border State papers,
It and not few southern men, pleading for
i emancipation. The former are hoping TO
|, make political capital out of their move
ments, the latter are looking to the best
interests of the country.