The Empire County argus., 1855-07-28
NASHVILLE, Nav %. 1855.

NASHVILLE, May % 1855
SIR AS am not Nullifer or Abolitionist or
an apologst in any degree, for President Pierce or
Cabinet in their attempt to govern the country by
a coalition OF the most dangerous factions in the
land, you will obllge me by erasing my name from
your list of subscribers.
You maintained the opinion during the discus
sions on the Compromise of 1850 and after its pas
sage, that that measure eowardly surrender
OF the cause of State Rights in which respect you
agreed exactly with such harmonious statesmen as
Messrs. Davis, (the Secretary of War) MIR. Soule,
(ate Minister to Madrid Giddings of Ohio, Sum-
ner, of Massachusetts,, and Seward, of New York
If you have changed that opinion or if any of
those who have co-operated with you in the men,
orabe 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 contrary much
that is calculated to deceive the people, and under
the guise of the word democracy to inaugurate
another slavery agitation.
In 1892 Tennessee, with but few dissenting
voices, in accord with Mr.. Madison, the author Of
the Virginia Report, declared her concurrence with
General Jackson, when denouncing the attempt of
South Carolina to nufy the laws of the United
States as treason. And this is now the sentiment
OF nne-tenths of the people Of this State Yet it is
notorious that the individuals the most prominent
in adherence to this treason are those specially
sought for by President Pierce to fill the most ee
waited and responsible national trusts but not
country against conduct obviously the result Of
the intrigue which has surrendered the power of
the Federal Government to the nullifying factions
of the day
We all remember that the most active leader of
the Tennessee division of the new school of Demo-
Gratis, after mysterious flourish of patriotism on
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 school of Democrats, shocked the religious
sense of the age in calling Democracy the Jacobs
ladder of the sacred scriptures. If the people of
Tennessee are prepared to fill their chief offices
with those who preach this kind of higher laaoisn,
do not see how their voice is to become potential
in putting down the fanaticsm of such men as Gid
dngs and Seward. The people of the North have
certainly equally 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 Il Mount Pisgah and
Jacobs ladder it is but natural that brethren
of the North should avail themselves of the same
assistance.
But this trickery and humbuggery belong not to
the creed OF the old-fashOned Tennessee Democrat.
He has always been content to follow in the foot
steps of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Jack
son, who never failed to make war on notification
wherever it appeared, whether preached in New
York, South Carolina or Mississippi Those patri-
OTIS and statesmen taught us to look alone to the
Constitution Of the United States for the measure
of the powers of our Federal and State govern
mehts, and | for one am satisfied to stand by that
sacred instrument, unchanged by the Jacob Lad
derism of Gov. Johnson, the higher lawism of SEN
ator Seward the less mysterious doctrine of null
lifcaticnism, interpreted by the two famous
conventions which the country has witnessed, the
one assembled at Hartford, and the other at Nash
ville and both protesting to act in the name of
Sf,+o D,nhf1 af,A yoFfh
ers of the Federal Government.
Yours Sc, A. ]. DoNELsoN.