Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-25

meH-5efVautS and mad servants and
running them into what they call free ter
rltory, upon their underground railroads.
Nay, the villainous piety of some has led
them to contribute Sharpe's rifles and Holy
Bibles, to send the uncircumcised Philis-
tines of our New England States into
bleeding Kansas to shoot down the chris
tian owners Of slaves, and then to perform
religious ceremonies over their dead bodies.
Clergymen lay aside their Bibles at the
North, and apply forty parson power to the
President Of the United States 90 induce
him to reverse his deeress in reference to
Kansas matters. Even females, az in the
case of that model beauty, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, unsex themselves to aid in carrying
on this horrid and sanderous warfare
against shareholders of the South.
The States of this Union, North of
Mason and Dixon's line, commonly called
the New England States, alias the Free
States, were never to any great extent
slayeholding. No stree, turning to Mr..
Pryne,) their yirtnous and pious minds
were chiefly exercised in slave-stealing
and slave-selling. To Old England, the
mother country, our Pilgrim fathers Of the
New England States are indebted for their
knowledge of slave-stealing; and to the
pious, God fearing and liberty-lovlng New
England States are we of the South wholly
! indebted for our slaves. They stole the
African from his native land, and sold him
into bondage for the sake of gain. In
I'LL there was a slave depot established in
New York, in what is hOw known as Wall
street, and slaves captured on the western
coast of Africa were landed there by New
England vessels to supply the Southern
market. About the same time, another
slave depot was established in the God-fear-
ing and liberty-loving city of Boston, near
to where the Franklin House now
stands They kept but few of their
captives among themselves, because
it was not profitable to use negro labor in
the cold and sterile regions of New Eng
land. And when they enacted laws in the
New England States abolishing slavery,
they hurried their negroes round South, in
sail vessels, and sold them into bondage to
MARYLAND Virginia and the Carolinas, be-
fore their laws could go into operation.
What an unmitigated generation of hypO-
critics They stole and sold into perpetual
bondage, a race of human beings it was not
profitable to keep, and for whom they now,
like 80 many graceess pirates, refuse all
warranty"
In his letter of May 8, 1860, to the Rev.
Mr.. Pryne, he said
'Let me ask you to carefully read what |
write you, that you may see yourself as
others see yOu-an unmarked, unmitigated,
unregenerated, and God-forsaken Adolf
tionist-whO, if you will dare show your
self South, and repeat your wholesale abuse
of shareholders, and your vile reflections
upon the virture of Southern ladies-shall
be treated to a coat of tar and cotton-and
rode upon a rail by free negroes and North
ern prostitutes, such as are skulking about
in our large towns and citiesp
In a subsequent letter to Mr.. Pryne, dated
October 26, 1860, he said
ain the States north of Mason and
Dixon's line, where the negro mania RACES,
numbering men for their money, swearing
lies for a consideration, bribing Legislators,
perpetrating sabine rapes, bastard children
massacred, sequestered lands and posses.
sions, runaways concealed, rum shops and
opium dens in full blast; these and all
other modes are the free State mode of
Christianity"
In his book" he says his sentiments
have undergone no change since" he ut
tered the foregoing, and he gives evidence
in what he has reproduced in that book
that they have not. In a letter to Mr.
Appleton, of South Carolina, dated the
29th of November 1860, he says:
81 have, myself no sympathy or respect
for the anti-slavery men of the North, who
are agitating this question. The
Northern States, by their personal liberty
laws have placed themselves in a state of
revolution, and unless they repeal these
laws, the revolulion-a thing that never
goes backward-must go on until these re-
bellious States are declared out of the
Union, and the truly coasefrdtiUe take the
Union in charge"
Again, in a letter to a gentleman in
Albany, N. Y, dated the l4th of May,
1861, he said:
"Allow me to say that the curse of the
country has been that for years, north of
Mason and Dixon's line, you have kept
pulpits open to the abuse of Southern
slavery and Of the Southern people"
MS OIlNlON OF 4 RE NIL -hAIhfD
OF THE RACE.
In his debate with the Rev. Mr.. Pryne
he gave his opinion of free negroes az fol
lows:
" In our Southern States, where negroes
have been set at liberty, in nine cases ont
of ten, their condition has been made
worse while the most wretched, indolent,
immoral and dishonest class Of persons to
be found in the Southern States, are free
persons of color"
Now bear in mind that in his book" he
refers to this debate for his sentiments,
which he declares "have undergone no
change" His later givings ont are of the
same character. In ore of his letters to
the Rev. Mr.. Pryne he declared:
"You can not free the negro without
running him. If you free him you must
send him back to Africa, where he came
from. tell you that if ever the vandal |
abolition hordes from hell and the North |
free the negro they will have to supply the |
funds to send them to Liberia"
In his paper, (the Knoxville Whig) of |
May %, 1854, he said:
eve have never differed with the South |
upon the abstract question Of slavery and |
do not now differ, and we are free TO say
that the condition of the slaves, when libe-
rated, if left in the South, will be worse
than ii has been during their seryitude,
and we are for emancipating every negro
in the South, Notwithstanding all this. For
taking this ground, we have two controll-
ing reasons first, it will be the seyerest
punishment Of the Southern Rebels that
can be inflicted, and next, it will be the
very means of extinguishing the negro
race, az the removal and civilization of the
Indian tribes have tended to extinguish
them"
This sentiment of dislike, ii not hatred,
for the negro crops out at a still later period.
In his message Of April 6, 1865, to the lie
gislature, he said:
ut is certainly proper and right for the
legislature of Tennessee 10 determine to
what extent this State shall be overrun with
he emancipated slaves of other States
l am, myself the advocate
Of providing for them a separate and APP
amount Of territory, and set
lie them down permanently as nation of
freedmen"
Again, in his message of the Sd of Oc-
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