The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-07-25

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and forced her to say to the people o
the United States, that although th.
government was the best in the world
and she would gladly enjoy its bless
lngs and would never yield it I'D, vel
tnat the free States must defend and
preserve It, and in doing 50 must pass
over her sacred soil to strike its enc.
mics. All, my friends, what degrad-
ing position for a brave and chiValrio
people TO occupy She was 70 act the
mere passenger, and dead-head at that
to use happy ILLUSTRATION of Mr. Lin
coins and was not to lay her hand to
the pump while everybody else was
struggling and sweating TO save the no
ble ship that had been seuttled by the
pirates
II want to tell you why slavery viii
not pay. IT is because We have a God
IN Heaven who has arranged the affairs
OF men IN such a way that wrong and
injustice won pay andudon't pay. Has
not the South lost more in The mere de
ssruction OF houses, and fences, and
railroads and crops, and other proper
", and expenditures for munitions of
war, dc, in the last four years Of a re
beliion carried on for. the benefit of
slavery, than it Wrung out Of the sweat
OF the slave IN forty years preceding2
Add to this the half 3 million of her.
brave sons, who died or were crippled
in battle and in camp, half of the ensre
arms bearing population Of the rebel
States, and tell meif slavery was a pay
ing institution to them And do you
think it can be restored now and not
lead to a bloOdieF and fiereer war
And why this Simply because God
in his wisdom has arranged the world
so that, in the long run, a system Of
wrong will not and cannot pay.
" Some Of my clerical friends may
make an objection to my theology, in |
sisting that the Bible sanctions slavery.
Now, gentlemen, / must confess that /
am much better versed in Casey's Tao
tics, the Army Regulations, OF even IN I
Blackstone and Gritty, though I got |
rather rusty in law, than in the good /
book, bat this much ! know of the /
Bible: When the Old and New Testa,
ment were delivered to men, chattel
slavery existed among all mankind, and
every word on the subject of slavery
which these books eOntsin, goes towards
mitigating and iessening the power of
the master, and giving some little com
fort to the slave. And this, too, know:
That wherever Christianity is the ruling
religion, slavery has gone down, down,
down And wherever people do not
believe IN the Bible, but in the Koran,
or IN some heathenish superstition,
there slavery is as strong, and universal,
and deeply fixed as it was two thousand
years ago. Now all your hypocritical
renel parsons, with their texts about
Paul and Onesimus, can't get over this
little proposition That Christianity has
steadily driven outslaEery, and that the
Turks still keepit up; and I want to
know if the Turks and Tartars are
really better Christians than the French
and the English, the Germans and the
Mr.. Mallory belongs to a
by-gone age, somewhat like masIadons
and Siberian elephants, and other ante
animals His opposition to the
amendment viii no more
stop its ultimate adoption than his bay
ng at the moon can keep that heavenly
uminary from shedding its mild rays
over the wise alike and the fool He
cannot stem the wheel Of progress which
sweeps away oId-fashioned ploughs and
xeel-boats, old7fashioned spelling aud
)ld-fashioned music, old-fashioned mon ]
lrchies, aud old-fashioned slavery,
which rolls forward locomotives where .
'nce stood OK carts, and draws the cleo
Fic wires across the ocean. Il