The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-07-11
VIZ fow weeks since stated that ma lor Don

the Union and American-in regard TO tn'
present position Of the pseudo democratic pal,
~ and its leaders, Here is the letter, to speal
for itself:
NASHVILLE May 22.-Sir: As I am not
:. nulifer or abolitionist, an apologst IN any de
Gree. for president Pierce and his cabinet, II
their attempt to govern the country by a COAL
ton of the most dangerous factions IN the land
YOU will oblige me by raising my name from
your list of subscribers. >.
You maintained the opinion during the dis
cussion on the compromise OF $780, ana a1te1
its passage, that the measure was coWardly
surrender of the cause of state rights, in which
respect you agreed exactly with such har'
monjous statesmen as Messrs. Davis (the sec
retaty of war;, Mr.. Soule (late minister to
Madrid, Gddings of Ohio Sumner of Massa-
cbusetts, and Seward ofaNew York. If you
have changed that opinion of if any Of those
have who corporated with you in the memora-
bic crusade of that period against the peace OF
the country, have seen no evidence of it in
the columns of your paper, but, on the contra
~, much that is calculated to deceive the peo-
pie, and under the guise of democracy, to IN
augurate another slavery agitation. -.
In 1889, Tennessee, with few dissenting
voices, in accord with Mr.. Madison, the author
of the celebrated Virginia report declared her
concurrence with general jackson, when de-
nouncing the attempt Of South Carolina to null
lily the laws Of the United States as treason
And this is now the sentiment of nlne-tenths OF
the people of this state. Yet 1t IS notorious
that the individuals most prominent IN adher-
ence to this treason are those specially sought
for by president Pierce to fill the most elevated
and responsible national trusts; but not word
is ever to be found in your paper warning the
country against conduct so obviously the result
of the intrigue which has surrendered the pow
er of the federal government to the multiplying
factions of the day.
We all remember that the most active lead
er of the Tennessee division of the new school
of democrats, after mysterious flourish of
patriotism on the top his Mount Pisgah, came
down and informed us that his heart would
break before he could rejoice at the passage of
the compromise, and more recently, that the
present nominee to the Office of governor, by
the same school of democrats, shocked the re-
ligious sense of the age, in calling democracy
the Jacobs ladder of the sacred scriptures If
the people of Tennessee are prepared to I'LL
their chief offices with those who preach this
kind of higher-lawism, Edo not see how their
voice is to become potential in putting down
the fanaticism of such men as Glddings and
Seward. The people of the north have GER
tain equal rights with us of the south, and it
may be expected that they will exercise them
with as much freedom as we do ours. If we
are to manage our political affairs by the aid of
visions and dreams from the tops of new Mount
Pisgah and Jacob ladder, it is but natural that
our brethren of the north should avail them
selves of the same assistances.
But this trickery and humbuggery belong
not to the creed of the old fashioned Tennessee |
democrat. He has always been content to fol-
low in the footsteps of Washington, Jefferson,
Madison, and Jackson, who never failed to
make war on notification, wherever it appear
ed, whether preached in New York, South
Carolina, or Mississippi. Those patriots and {
statesmen taught us to look alone to the consti-
luton the United States for the measure of the f
powers of our federal and state govern v
nents, and l for one am satisfied to stand by f
hat sacred instrument, unchanged by the ia !
obs ladderism of governor Johnson, the high .
T lavish Of senator Seward, or the less mys-
erious doctrine of nul]i6cationism as interpre- "
ed by the two famous conventions which the -
ountry has witnessed, the one assembled at f
tLC OIlCi
to act in the name of state rights, Il
nd strict CONSTRUCTION of the powers Of the n
ederal government. W Il
Yours, &C., A. j. DoHELsoN. f
CUBA.-We have received from high and
erfectly reliable source, intelligence of the C.
lost interesting character from the island of c
uba. The pacific turn which the relations e
etween Spain and the United States have re-
entity taken, has thrown complete gloom over o
he projects and hopes of the creoles. Des-
airing of receiving aid from the United States il
overnment, and their friends here being pre- O
ented by the neutrality laws from going to -
leir assistance, they have, it seems, resolved Il
pom desperate leap for freedom. They have Ii
etermined to revive the original idea of lord ..
almerston, of throwing themselves into the u
lie arms of England, which was not agreed to e,
the time, because of the condition of the abo-
ion of slavery. The new club of independ- h
ice now consent to admit of gradual eman- a.
patton, in order to obtain from England y
aarantee Of independence, and they have re-
FRED the subject not only to lord Palmerston, 6
1T to the abolition societies iH England and y
rance. From the recent rapid and increasing Il
llistment of the blacks, numbering now six W
ouSeHu lnen anu from Otnef lnQlCatlOnS, the
ubans are convinced that the design of Spain G
to Africanize the island, and they are will to
g to anticipate her in the design, if by it, they tt
IN secure the protection of England, and de- &c &c
'eranss from Spanish oppression. The an Of
'uncenent of such a scheme cannot fail to er
,cte attention in all quarters of the country. d
The Philadelphia Times says it has good W
ason to believe that the sale of the Canadas D,
the government of the United States is about m
be taken into consideration by the British :.
binet, and to be submitted to parliament. u
he important step, it says, has been suggest on
by the accumulating debt of England, now m
mounting to eight hundred millions of pounds " "
arllng, or four billions of dollars; the amount M
new burdens which the war is casting upon M
| already over-taxed people; the financial -,
nbarrassments entailed oilfhe mother coun- 81
y b. unproductive colonies, and the formula u nr
e asstude of opposition recently assumed by in
e commercial classes against the rule of the
istocracy, and the evils of their political SUI pc
t. II,