The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-01-17

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d he haa go feeling III negro rcual'.v. 3
eialiy. as resu't ot the proposed law. NJ
e Arnell then reviewed The sublt,f sii rau--i
6 M steele i0liogyei. ID. support OF she 81
b. bat the House adioarnel before be hai coi
- claded his remsrEs.
Oar Duty 10 the Freedmen.
For TIE Daily U1.on
{ The hour demands our most esrnes
o and vigorous action snd deepest 60
I heItude. lt is pregnant with the des
tiny Of our children and children
children shrough many successive gen
: eratious Cur own Is fixed The pes
hour has decided she issue OF the arrae,
] struggle against the right OF = State
= either pescesbly oT iorcibly. 10 seced,
from the Federal Union esiabishe,
that the Constitution OF the Unite,
States Is the supreme law Of Che entir,
land within the bounds 0l the nation
and given freedom 20 lha iate siay,
population OF the Southern States
IL and rs results are now and Tor
ever part OF the past The seal OF eter
nifty Is upon It and them Neither i
nor them can now be recailed. ROl
away the rock Of the Consultation. with
which the month Of il aud their toni
is sealed, and there would be no resur
rec,iOR Of the slain and buried righl
Of secession and of property in man
Sanding amid the fresh graves 0f oui
children who fell ia the struggle Of the
giants upon the earth in that past hour
&C establish the right Of secession, and
70 prevent the extinction Of the night
OF property in man, we may, and Ia.
deed must, feel that
-Jhe ssdle-t % ali .sd thoustt.. oi tugae .,
pen.
Tho ~slit.t are thcss-'It uiI .t, hsvs reen-
But the regret however deep, acute
and sad, j. van. lt can neither recall
nor change the past hour, and its
events Bat the present hour is yet
! ours. Upon the manner in which we
! shall Use, or abuse its opportunities tor
good or evil depends the future OF our
children, and our children children,
as well in the fast advancing, IS in the
far distant future, the course of which
is now being directed shaped and fixed.
IL, having eyes TO see, and ears TO hear
the truth proclaimed by the voice of
the past and present hour, we shal!
comprehend odr true pos ton and It's
obligations and duties, and muster up
the moral courage 10 DO what our sober
Judgment decides is right, just and
expedient then we can and will SO
shape direct and control the events OF
the passing hour, rs shall secure
to them all their rights IS citizens OF
the greatest Republican empire the
world has ever seen, and q long period
of peace, tranquility and property
But,hsving eyes to see, and ears 20 hear
the things that pertain to their saliva
tiOn as citizens OF these United States,
We shsll shut our eyes and stop our
ears to the lessons Of the past and teach
ings Of the present, suffer our minds TO
be clouded by preiudices, or darkened
by preconceptions; fail to comprehend
our true position and is obligations
and duties, and 50 waste or abuse this
hour and its opportunities, we will
send down 10 them heritage Of strife,
discord, discomfort and woes Through
some forty years OF more Of our cOun-
try's history the existence Of African
slavery in a portion Of its territory was
the parent OF contention and strife,
occasioning from time 10 time fierce
and bitter conflicts, importing the
peace Of the country. The result Of
that contention and strife was four
years Of the bloodiost warfare with
which our race has ever in any land
and age been cursed and degraded
"Cain Cain where is thy brother1
In the latter half Of the nineteenth
century, and in the heart Of enlight-
ened Christendon, the spectacle was
throughout four woeful aud disgraceful
years exhibited OF a christian people,
engaged in mutually slaughtering
each other and desOlating their own
land. The price paid by US Of the
Southern States for the part played
by rs in this drama Of awful
wickeduess and stupenduous folly, was
the loss of our entire property invested
in four millions of slaves, desolated
fields, burnt houses, ruined cities, uu-
told millions Of squandered money and
wasted and lost property, and greater
and more precious than all these the
lives Of unnumbered thousands OF the
best and bravest of our sons.
The people OF the Northern States
have psid as high, it not a higher price,
for the part they played in the late
drama of unprecedented Wiekedness
and folly.
Truly, the way Of the transgressor
Is hard Our deeds IS q people tower
behind US, close up all avenues Of re
turn to the policy Of our fathers, and
presses on with accelerated speed
along the pathway Of our destiny rs a
nation.
One Of the lessons taught IA, Of all
parts of the country, by the events Of
our past history, is the great danger, 70
be justly apprehendedj and the terri
bic calamities almost certain to arise
from radical difference Of the insti.
tutiOns Of the different sections Of our
country But there is q special lesson
taught by them for the instruction and
/ guidance Of Us of the Southern States
/ The late slaves are nov irsemen. They
| constitute, as freemen, an integral part
Of the community in every one Of the
late slave States, and from necessity
must continue TO do 20. The labor OF
I the field must be done and the late
slaves are the laborers by whom, as fee
men, il must be done There are for
the present, and for long period tc
come, can be no others in sufficient
numbers to do IL
Bitterness and animosity between the
| people of the slave and the non-slave
holding States, growing out Of the ex
istence Of slavery, produced the late
/ civil war, with all its awfll woes, and
/ terrible oaiamities Will like cause.
| produce like effects 7-strife, conten
ton, hatred, bitterness and animosity
between the white and the colored
races, in each Of the late slave States
/ eusure quiet, peace. tranquility and
/ prosperity in these communities, or en-
/ gender conflicts and bloodsh he'd between
the races An envenomeda and embit
/ tered population in these communities
be in case Of future wars an
element Of strength and security
either to them or 70 the nation
OF q magazine ready to be exploded al
any time, scattering death and desOls
I ton around Certainly the latter must
/ be the result Of such q state Of relation
between the races, unless the world
whole past history be a delusion.
I What then is our duty toward.
our posterity2 To cultivate and se.
cure the kind feelings Of the col
ored 70 the white races, and thri
/ prevent the one from becoming the bit
I ter and envenomed foe or the other
I And how is that end most likely 10 be
attainedg BY acts Of injustice and op
| prsssion2 Manifestations Of distrust
[ dislike and snimosityg Or by acts oi
I Justice and generosity? Manifestation
. Of kindness and confidence ? Our du.
I ties toward al men are 70 do Justice, q
Z love mercy and 70 walk uprightiy. bu,
/ the circumstances imperiOusly require
us as the dominant race, to whom The
ten talent have been entrusted, rigidly
70 discharge these duties towards the
lately emsncipated raca They have
through no fault OF theirs acceded 10 a
new, aid 70 them, untfied and perilou.
position. In accepting IL they hava