The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-01-28
A Reasoning VITA the People
Promise ana Performance.

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Promise ana Performance.
FIon The Richmond Wing, Isthl
When the war began everybody pro-
fessed to be willing 20 lay down life and
give up property in behalf Of the cause.
Now, few appear to be willing TO cart
with either, although the MONDAY sun is
not palmer than the fact, that without
great additional sacrifices, The army can
not be sustained, and the cause must
fail The fear of getting killed or
funded threatens TO reduce all Of Us TO
slavery, and the fear Of Starvation, adj
ded 70 the lust of gain, may produce >
famine in The army If not It home. A
little less fright and more common sense
we will not say patriotism-may COM
pose these difficulties, and show as >
pathway out of the bog into which We
have fallen.
Make il = question of self interest at
once, and look &C il IN that way alone.
Shall we give 3 part 10 our suffering sons
in the army, or LET the Yankees take all 7
That is The problem. not oVer-stated, and
not II be evaded We must meet il now.
It will not do TO put il off TIL next year
or even tiflnextspring Itmust be faced
right away. Hide your pork, keep back
your corn, tell lies about your profits,
dodge out Of the army, and continue this
game for = few brief months, and the
Ysnkess will eat your corn, your negroes
will occupy your houses, and you will be
. runaway white man In the woods, or =
rt-.fe - - H. 4,
and daughters will be washing Yankee
clothes. Your little children will be
working thirteen hours = day in Yankee
factories.
You smile derisively At this sort of
talk, for you fancy yourself too smart
even for the Yankees. You say TO your
self "Tbey are not foOls enough to sec
ell The negroes free; they viii be obliged
10 keep them IS apprentices, and if they
do, their former mssters will have con-
troll Of them for they alone can manage
them" Say nothing of the initiate
baseness of accepting, even in thought,
the place Of overseer to Yankee masters,
this is the very error Of the moon. It is
stone blindness; the fatality Of coward
What man possessed Of oversight and
capable OF reading the newspapers does
not know that day by day the radicals
gain more and more complete control OF
the Lincoln Administration and of the
Northern people? Their power is nov
absolute, and their slogan is, death to
slavery" The greater their success the
Uzore fsnstical they become. Suppose
Ihey triumph Ia . war against slavery,
is it likely they will voluntarily stultify
themselves by continuing the existence
Of slavery? Look at Maryland, Ken
lucky, Missouri, Tennessee
II is possible slavery might be retained
in the Cotton States by the Yankees, but
in the Border States it is doomed if they
succeed. Every inch of land in these
States will be demanded in the name of
free SOIL" which never yet demanded
aught in vain at the hands of any party
at the North, and certainly not Of the
Republicans. See the promise of farm
IN Tennessee to each veteran volunteer
who re-enlists for the war. Remember
the vast debt the Yankees have TO pay
Think Of the honesty, mercy, humanity
they have displayed hitherto.
But what will they do With the Border
Slate negroes? Free them first, use them
next to torment the conquered Oonfeder-
ates, and then permit them 10 die that
swift and inevitable death which ensues
whenever an inferior stands in the way
of superior race. Make them extermi-
nate themselves in the hopeless struggle
to compete with their cunning, fierce,
and greedy liberatOrs. ANY way, any
how, drive them from TIE soil which the
white man can till with his own hands.
Why should the black man fare better
than the red man A pet in slavery, he
becomes = rival, an opponent when free,
and in the tumultuous tide of COMPETE
tion the iron pot will crush the earthen
jug. There is no help fOrit The winds
that blow, the waters that roll, the in
flexible laws of nature compelit
These things, we say again, are plain
rs the sun st MONDAY. Take away the
negro of the Border States, and who
shall till the soil Not the former mas
ter, surely. The conquered rebel may
think 70 hold bis acres by cheap oath of
allegiance, but that little trick will not
deceive the Yankee veteran volunteer WHIT
wants farm, or the Yankee Government,
which wants money. To the victor be-
longs the spoils.
Beggary and exile will be our fate 10
we fAiter now. We can't eat our cake
and have It, We can't wage a war with
out loss. The time has come row to
make good our early promises. Half
loaf is better than no bread, with ban
ishnlent or slavery to boot.