The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-01-08
NEWS FROM REBEL SOURCES.
Spirit of Tuesdays Richmond Papers.

SPECIAL Dispatch t. the enc matt Gazette
WAsHISGTos. Jan. ).
TIE RICHMOND ENQUIRER on EMANCIPATIoN.
The Richmond papers Of the 3D. inst,
have been received. The Richmond
ENQUIRER contains the following signifi
cant editorial IAN Of Us are fast get
ting ourselves understood Colonial
yassalage Is a preferable thing to Yam
kee slavery. This Is the ouJ-crOpping
OF this year of on" Lord 1860. 1t would
be good bargain To receive the ma
tional aid of England or France by a
formal sacrifice Of our institution Of
Slavery" says the Examiner, which Is
putting finer point upon the pTOpOo
sl.iCn than we gave tOlt, nOtwIthstand-
ing ours was pronounced panic stricken
We did not propose TO abolish slavery
for any amount Of material aid, bat
upon the guarantee and actual accom-
plishmeut of our independence through
treaty offensive and defensive, with
EnClaud and France We believe these
States are fully able 10 conquer their
independence without q formal act Of
abolition, but it will be the work of
years. war of many, many years, du-
ring which every State may Be- overrun
and every able bodied man departed,
bug that IN the end, itmsy > OF an 9th
or thirty. years war, We shall triumph
and gain our Independence. Weasked
shall We wage this war and preserve the
germ of slavery, or shall We recognize
the pTejudices and opinions Of the
world, abolish slavery ioT immediate
independence
The Examiner does not regard the
question as practicable, very we'll then,
let us ask with the sy0w thai for the
material aid of France and Eugland. it
would be a good bargain TO make for
NAL sacrifice of our institution Of slave
ry The opposition is therefore only to
the practicability, and not 10 the Is
sence of the proposition. All are agreed
that Independence and peace would
not be dearly purchased with the sacri-
fee OF slavery. The spirit of the PEG
pie of these States is that they will
make any sacrifice rather than accept
any terms Of reunion with our enemy.
If we can convince our enemy and the
world that the people OF these States
are ready and wiling 10 impoyerish
themselves, disrupt their institution,
sacrifice the convictions Of years, and
obliterate the very subject that occa-
stoned the war, in order that they may
triumph in its great object, indepeud-
ence, we shall lave made our conquest /
really impossible, aud eventually secure
our liberty; for though a people actua- 1
ted by such a spirit may be overp5w- !
cred and ovenun, they can never be I
conquered nor conciliated into sub I
lection, but if the preservation of
slavery had been Of more importance /
than our independence, if our PEG /
pie had shown willingness TO save I
their negroes at the expense OF their .
liberty, the enemy would not have .
been long in making the offer. Gen.
sherman may have discovered some .
such weakness IN his march through
Georgia, and hence the remark attrib-
uted 10 him that slavery would not be
destroyed by reunion. The enemy
would stop the war TO day and give US
what remsins OF slavery If We would
return 10 the Union and obey its laws
and submit 10 its authority. The en-
envy IS fighting more for power and the
plumber Of these States than for abo-
li1ion, which would diminish our power
and destroy plumber. Abolition proc
iamations are was measures, designed
TO frikhten the tirnid shareholders
back to the Union, SIS well as to pur-