The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-06-17

the country, is the fact that the people of TEN
sEssEE are now called upon to pass Judgment
in the matter of the COMPROMISE of 1850.
General CAMPBELL has staked his fortunes
on the maintenance Of the adjustment, and
has placed himself unequivocally upon the
grounds Of the Administration and Of President
FILLMORE He exhorts his friends to 60 rally
upon and maintain" that ground Governor
| TRouspALE, on the other hand, has come out
| openly against the Administration in this be-
half and, in some of his speeches, has levelled
all his arguments and eloquence against the
Compromise. He is in favor. therefore, of fur
iher agitation, more Nashville Convenlnns new
ultimatums, changes in the Constitution, re-
sistance that is no rebellion, and secession that
is no revolution. These we suppose to be the
aims of Governor TRoUspALE, as Of all the other
Southern gentlemen who are agitating opposi-
ton to the Compromise. They mean at least
as much as this, or they mean nothing. The
issue, then, in Tennessee. fairly presented in
the persons of the two candidates for the Gov
ernor's chair, CAMPBELL and TRou SCALE, is
simply the queston-are the people Of TENNEs-
SEE prepared to endorse an opposition to the
Compromise Or, as it is briefly stated by
the Franklin CTenn.) Repiep, 'sCompromise
and Union, or no Compromise and Disunion?''
| This state Of things, we perceive, causes
Sonic little difficulty in the ranks Of the Oppo-
and is opposed to the Compromise. The
Southern DEMOCRATIC papers, some of them,
claim the Compromise as an exclusively De-
MocRATIc measure, and insist that implicit
observance of it, in all its particulars, is the
only present test of political orthodoxy. They
90 so far as to say that the repeal or material
modification Of one Of its provisions, that re-
lating to fugitives from labor, will be regarded
as a good cause for dissolving the Union.
Now, let us see whether the Democracy of
| Tennessee are as good friends of the Compro-
mise as some of them claim to be, or whether
they confine their fidelity to only that portion
of it which is supposed to be advantageous to
| the South IL they intend to hold the North
strictly to the measures of adjustment, they
must abide by them all in good faith; and not
elect men to high State offices who base their
claims to public confidence on the ground that
thay are opposed to the Compromise.
We are curious to see in what manner our
| DEMOCRATIC contemporaries will reconcile
their support Of Governor TRoUspALE with
their exclusive devotion to the Compromise.
A high duty then rests ON the Wines of
TENNESSEE. They are strong in an ascendan-
cy that has been indicated in an hundred
political battles. They are now entering
upon a contest that involves issues and
interests that may not only affect their
own fortunes and those Of their State for many
years, but that may well affect the destinies Of
this great nation forever. Let the anti Com
promise party prevail in the election of Cover
nor TRoUsDALE; let them send two Disunion-
lists like Mr.. TURNEY to the Senate OF the Uni
ted States, and they will have gone'far to find
for South CAROLINA in TENNESSEE an alliance
in rebellion which was Indignantly rejected by
GEORGIA. Is there any sacrifice of individual
hopes and personal ambition too great for the
WINGS of Tennessee to make in order to secure
that triumph of the Constitution and the laws
which it is in their power to achieve, and which
their brethren throughout the land SO anxiously
anticipated