The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-01-16
AuTnlparlant Movement

We Will not speak OF the abolition OF
slavery by legislative action; that is
useless. InexOrable circumstances gen.
Grated by the infAiuAtioa OF the jealous
friends Of the institution have rendered
such proceeding a work Of superero-
CATION; bat It is necessary to dispose CT
itsremains In q manner least offensive to
the sensibilities Of the public. True, in
some Of the border States it exists nom
inally, and tho title Of the msster TO his
Chattel is respected by the country; but
the institution has lost all vitslity-.has
died TIE death.
One of these States is Maryland; and
the people, fully sensible of their situa-
tiOp, and appreciating the blow which
slavery has received in the house Of its
friends, are determined to inter the pu-
trid carcass .! once, and before it be-
comes more offensive.
The State Central Committee of the
Union party, which 50 lately carried the
State By an unprecedented majority, has
issued pamphlet which may be regard
ed as an exposition of the wishes and
designs Of their constituents, recon-
mending the immediate disposal of the
relics Of the institution for the following
reasons:
l. Slavery has always been an incu-
bus upon the State.
2. The rebellion has practically abol-
ished the institution within the State.
8. The negro labor of the State, under
a neW system, is necessary to its indus
trial interests until other labor shall take
its place.
T. The interests of Maryland are iden-
flied with those of the Northern and
Northwestern States, and not with the
cotton States and slave labor.
Gall this" say the COpperhesds may
be true; but then what fearful thing
to think of, that the negro is to be the
equal of the white man of course pro-
vision is 10 be made for either the de-
portation, or humiliation of all the ma
numitted negroes the whites of that
State would never allow free negroes
among them"
We will not attempt to speak for the
Maryland Liberals, but let them answer
for themselves. 0ae of the strongest
reasons urged for the repeal of the Slave
Code il, "As the negroes are leaving the
State to escaps the chances of slavery,
they can only be retained by immediate
emancipation"
Those sensitive gentlemen, who dread
lest they be charmed into wedlock by
Dinah's ivory, unless the temptation is
removed, will doubtless be shocked at
this; they never dreamed that the ne
gro was an institution of such impOr-
lance that enormous sacrifices would be
made to retain him. While outsiders
have been talking about colonization of
freedmen IS a means of Kidding them
selves of imaginary evils, those most
deeply interested are endeavOring to in
duce them to remain.
After stating the reasons quoted
above, and sustaining them By lengthy
arguments, the committee resolve shat
the time has arrived whenit has become
the duty of the General Assembly to
make immediate provision for the sub
sti,utiOn of free labor for slave labor,
and to adopt measures which shall ena-
BILE the people to effect an early, lawful
and complete exsinguishment of slavery
in Maryland"
Three years since, a war was under.
taken to preserve and perpetuats slavery;
three years hence, and not a black code
will be in existence within the limits of
the United Estates. Every evil carries
within itself the elements of its own
destruction; aud the grasping and az
gressive disposition of those interested in
human chsttels has accomplished q
work which no number of abolitionists,
nor any amount of agitation in the free
States could ever have effected.