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

mr. COnWRy's speech In England.
The Leicestershire Mercury gives a re-
port of q crowded meeting held on Tues
day evening, December Is, in the New
Hall, Wellington street, convened by the
Leicester Emancipation Society, for the
purpose of hearing the recent lectures By
Mr.. J. II. Smith, Analysed By q gentle
man announced as the "Son of South
ern Planter" but who proved to be one
who had previously made an acquaint-
ance with the Leicester public, Dir. N.
D. Conway. Mr.. Conway said;
The question of Slavery was the prin-
cipsl question with which they bad to
do; and that fOrsooth was the ayOwed
question with which both South and
North were deeply interested. There
was one thing thathad strangely puzzled
him, that while the opponents Of the
Northerners were in favor of emancipa'
ton, and decidedly opposed TO Slavery,
that they blackballed most inconsider-
atelY and literally the emancipatiOnists
who were the stern advocates Of abolition.
The Emancipation Society was not in the
broadcast sense a political society, for 1t
numbered among It's enrolled members
men of all shades Of political opinions.
The society, comparatively regardless OF
the politics involved in the hOstilities
with Americs, had for its great and aVOW-
ed end the abolition of Slavery.
Aud who could be opposed to that?
Their avowed object was the promotion,
by every legitimate means, of the aboli-
ton of Slavery. The South had re-
belIed because they were spell bound by
the terrible delusiOn that Slavery was
right. that it was divine and The right
state of society. The Richmond EGqui-
er, in IN article written by his first cOus-
10, said: "We have got to hating every
thing with the prefix free from free ne
groes down and up through the whole
catalogue of denominations; free farms,
free labor, tree negroes, free society, &c,
Sll belonging to the same body of damna-
bic isns whose mother is sin, and whose
dad is the devil" "Bdt," continued his
gentle cousin, "the worst of all these
observation-disclosures, when once instl-
tuted, it becomes the hOt-bed propsgator
of all-is the modern system OF free
schools" Applause.
They had get TO decide between two
countries. The President of one toiled
no, with his own right arm splitting
rails-Tloud applause and was not
ashamed Of il; and the other was soft
and gentle President, who had always
somebody to fan him when asleep, and
when he walked up to tremble at his
word.
Mr. Smith asked what was the differ
eDce between the rebellion of the colo
MES against Great Britain and the pres
ent secession. The revolution in one
case was for . good cause, and IN the
other for bad cause. Applause.I Rev
olution was not always respectable or
right. IT the Americans had fought
sgsinst George III, TO establish q nation
of pirates, they would not have bad the
respect Of any nation; but they fought
because they believed they were oppress-
ed and wrOnged. Then Mr.. Smith bad
asked what good had the war done? he
would tell them. 1t had emancipated
pracueaHY anu ret free 1000 600 Of
slaves, 10000 Of which were nOw United
States soldiers, bearing arms for the lib
ertv Of their brothers. When be could
tell them there were no more slaves TO be
liberated then they would listen to argu-
ments about stopping the war. But as
long as they found that it was otherwise,
and that every day their men were libe
rating white and black from The great
curse and wrong, it was idle TO talk about
the war not doing good. They knew 1t
was; they saw the fruits Of it every day.
Then he declared that the South could
never be conquered. Well, they were
not the first people that ever said that
The people at Memphis swoFe louder than
any other, the peopleat Nashville louder
still, Vicksburg invented the phrase OF
dying in the last ditch, at New Orleans
they said they would turn every house
10 ashes before il should be taken, az
Knoxville they declared every man, Wo-
man, and child should be dead before
they would surrender. In every one Of
those towns where they declared they
would die, they were living very quietly
a. present; every one OF those towns has
surrendered. II they would bring any
good reason wny Charleston and Rich
mond should not follow suit, then they
could listen to, but they all aYowed that
they would not be Conquered, and they
were conquered. II was very easy, TOO,
10 held them when they were conquered,
and did not require large garrisons. Their
slaves were taken away, and they did not
feel any interest in the war after that.
In ell these States they were forming
large organizations for their return as
free States 10 the Uaion.
lie had tried the South and the North,
and for twenty years Of bis life be was
placed in close observation Of Slavery,
and unless 3 man was perverted By grow
Jog up among those evils, they were
enough to freeze the blood 10 any heart.
na h.d aaar man fenrfUk down NE