The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-07-21
From the Lynchburg Virginian, July, 18th, 1855.
The PENNSYLVANIA Democracy.

The Democracy of the South have heretofore re-
garded their brethren of Pennsylvania as the most
orthodox of all their Northern allies, on the ques-
ton of slavery and of Southern rights. Ever since
we could remember, the GLORIOUS old Keystone
has been the standing theme of their high sounding
eulogies. But the time has come when Southern
Democratic journals can no longer harp upon this
agorte topic without stultyfyng themselves and dis
carding their own tests of political orthodoxy. The
Democracy of Pennsylvania have finched and
faltered at last they have failed to toe the mark on
the Nebraska question, question upon which
Southern Democrats have heretofore refused to
tolerate the semblance of shutting or lodging
A Democratic State Convention was held at
Harrisburg on the 4th inst, when a platform
adopted containing not the remOtest ausion to the
Nebraska question. The reader must not suppose
that this subject escaped the attention of the plat
form builders. Far. from it. The matter was
brought distinctly to their notice by the following
resolution approving and endorsing the Nebraska
act
ReSOyUed, That every new State ought to be sd-
mitted into the Union, with such constitution as
a majority of the citizens thereof shall adopt,
providing there is nothing therein conflicting with
the Constitution Of the United States; and whether
such State shall have adopted or rejected slavery is
not a matter ofinquiry by the General Government
The adoption of any measure which would defeat
this is direct encroachment upon the popular SOY
ereignty of such State.-That under these views,
which we believe to be correct, the bill enacung
Kansas and Nebraska Territories, leaving the ques-
ton of slavery with the people, was not only const
tutional but expedient and proper; and that we do
hereby endorse and approve the same.
This resolution was voted down in the cOnven-
tion-Ayes A, Nays 65. The Democracy of Penn
sylvania thus emphatically repudate the principle
that every new State ought to be admitted into the
Union with such constitution as the majority offs
citizens may adopt; they repudiate the principle
that the General Government has no right to en-
quire whether such State shall have adopted or
ected slavery; they refuse to say that the Nebraska
bill constitutional they refuse to say that it was
proper and expedient and they refuse to endorse
approve it. Such is the present position of the
Democracy of the =" glorious old Keystone" and
we are willing to leave it to Southern Democrats
themselves to say how far such position is cOnsis-
tent with their notions of a sound Northern sent-
ment. The Wings of the North wore denounced
beyond measure and placed in the same category
with Abolitionists for refusing to support the Ne
braska bill. Opposition to that measure was
regarded by Southern Democrats as tantamount to
Aboitonism ITSELF What then will these gentle
men now think and say of the Pennsylvania De-
mocracyS Are they not bound by every considera.
ton of consistency and justice to launch at tier
heads the same indignant denunciations which
they hurled at those Northern Wings, who upon
the floor of Congress, so stoutly resisted the pas
sage of the Nebraska bill The men who now
refuse to endorse the Nebraska act, are not less
obnoxious to Southern censure than those who
originally opposed the bill.