Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1854-01-22
TIE ADMINISTRATION AND THE SOUTH.

Taking it for granted that the paragraph below,
from the Washington Union, is a correct reflex oil
the sentiments of the administration, we commend
it to the attention OF readers evidence OF the
determination to sustain The fnaGty of the COM
promise" at all risks. The South asks no more
than the policy indicated would give her and If a
IN opportunity OF Wit
passing both how the administration now so ma
Egned redeems its pledges, and how far those who
have ciamored about for 'iree-sell appointments"
are willing TO go in resisting practical violation
of the compromise We have no doubt that such
contest viii show the democratic party of the country
engaged in the work of sustaining an adminstra-
1lou which is sustaining the compromise and the
WING party pandering to iree-soilam.
The paragraph referred to, from the Washington
Union follows:
'NzBRAsEA-NR- DoUGLAs's REPoRr-THE CON-
FRosHsE.-The report submitted to the Senate We'd
nesday by Mr. Douglas, chairman of the committee
on Territories in the Senate, in regard to a terri
toral government for Nebraska, Will be read with
profound interest This subject has been looked
10 with serious apprehensions, in consequence of
the supposiiion that it might fearfully revive the
slavery agitation. Mr. Douglas was fully impress
ed with tho Importance and delicaey of the issue
pacious mind to its investigation. He has arrived
at conclusions which seem to Us to be unassailable
He plants himself resoluteiy upon the Compromise
of 1850 as final settement-not final merely as to
the Territories then in dispute, but final to all
future legislation for territorial governments
Adopting this as the basis of his action he has ap-
piled the great pacific principles Of the Compro-
mise measures of 1880 TO the bill Tor organizing
the Nebraska Territory. He goes further, and ex-
tends the provisions OF the fugitive slave law to the
Territories The reasoning OF Judge Douglas strikes
our raind as unansweIable and we indulget the con-
haent hope that the proposition submitted by him
will be unhesitatingly affirmed by Congress. They
present practical test of the sincerity of the Gov
en&nt entered into by the democratic party at Bal
timore. il the principles OF the Compromise as
brought forward IN the Nebraska bill, are sustained
by the united democratic votes of senators and
representatives ali doubt as to the final expulsion
of the slavery question from the democratic organi-
cation will be put to rest We may then gladly
proclaim the national democracy unit and repose
confidently upon the conviction that the federal
Union is safe We commend Mr.. Douglas report
not only for the ability with which it is prepared
but for the sound, national, Union-loving senti-
ments with which it abounds We shall publish
the report in our next issue"
The Richmond Enquirer, in copying the forego-
ing, remarks:
at is We predicted. When we saw Southern
men abetng faction in its attempt to break down
the Administration, we admonished them that they
were impairing the power Of President on whom
the South might securely rely in its struggle with
ahoIitionisro "