Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-02-16
From the Augusta (Ga) Chronicle (Anerica) Feb. IL.
Ernoriu~ The slavery Question.

ignoring The Slavery Question.
We observe, not without surprise, that the Nash
vile sBan,sern and "Gdzeite have both counseled
the American Party of Tennessee, to ignore the
slavery question, or in other words, TO repudiste
the twelfth section Of the platform adopted at Phil
adelpha, by the National Convention Of the Ameri-
can Party. This, in our opinion is not only unwise,
but very bad counsel; and if pursued will result,
as il ought in the utter defeat and prostitution Of
the party in that STATE.
The twelfth section seeks only 10 secure the con-
stituiioual rights OF the South aud to mantais the
existing laws for the maintenance Of those rights,
and any class Of men, in any section OF the u ion,
who will not vindieate and sustain the principle OF
that section are wholly unworthy of the confidence
of Southern mer Of any political utilization with.
Rppndate that section, aid the parry will be at
zee controlled and directed hy freesoilers and the
CONSTITUTE onal rights Of the South be placed at their
mercy. Retain it, and we may upon its bbse
a sound conservative constitutional national party
which will leave the vexed question we're the faith
ers of tie Republic placed it, and there keep it till
fatatcism shall rule the hour, which the good
sense of the people viii certainly avert
Althou Oh this section does not fully express our
sentiments, 70. we have always maintained that
Congress could only legislate upon the subject of
slavery in the Territories to protect it, while in
Territorial state; yet would never consent 10
see it repudated and will never act with any party
that fuses to acknowledge its sound constitution
al principles, as far as it goes We hold that Con-
gress has right to establish prohibit slavery in
the Territories, and that it only intervene to
protect it, The power TO establish prohibit it
rests alone with the people OF the T,r itory, when
they organize a State Government. Till then, even
the Territorial legislature has no power the
subject, other than such may be exercised by
Congress- viz: its protection. This is the true, and
the only true national and constitutional doctrine.
|; gives TO the people of the sovereign States the
power to regulate their own internal domestic rela.
tions, and Institutions. and to them alone it belongs
and can Of right be exercised Any other doctrine
is anti~rcpubcan and vioatiye Of the spirit Of the
Constitution and the rights Of the people of the
State. Let the American party Of the South, then
beware how they heed such counsel as that given
by the Nashville journals; it is but another Trojan
horse, and if couutenance, will overwhem them
at once and forever and it ought to do it,
FOm the Huntsville (Ala) Advocate Cwhig) Feb. 18th.
Another significant sign.
The Bolts movement in the Know Nothing ranks
is rapidly gaining ground. Defeated for the nonce
in Virginia, he aud his paEtsans not at all dis
couraged, and more jealous in their efforts to
ignore the slavery question-tO strike the 18th sec
ton of the Philadelphia Platform out so that Know
Nothingism at the North may safely be abolition
and at the South be whatever it delude the
people Oy assuming 10 De. hIS UeS1Te 10 CoNClL-
late THE ABOLITION WING Of The Order preVaiLs
te,,sigely in Kentucky, IN Virginia and Is RAMPANT
IN TENNESSEE The Tennessee politicians are ready
70 agree 10 almost anything to ensure gctoyy. Tile
Nashville Gazette which is the official organ of the
order the State, under the editorial control of
Mr.. W. " Bilbo Writer and Speaker of repute,
c)mes out boldly and openly in favor Of discarding
the slavery question from the creed Of the Order
of ignoring it altogether and asserts to the men,
81, .oIJ
der arhjch you swoRE faithfully TO observe" And
the Nashville Banner, the most Influential paper of
its politics in the State, takes the same position!
We set it down, therefore, fixed fact" that
the Know Nothing Order in Tennessee are in favor
or-nay haze 10 do so, according to Nr. Bib,
repeating tie siacey plank in the Philadelphia Plat
FORM and of joining ,ch their free soil brethren at
the North an a united struggle for success REGARD
LESS OF THE SLAVERY QUESTION
We ask the Montgomery Mails attention TO this
movement. t has not rehuked it or said anything
about IT, that have seen. Does the Nda APP
prove of it? Will it adhere to the Order if the
l2th section is ignored? Will it cOalesce with
Bolts and his dough faces who are ready to deliver
the South, bound hand and foot, over TO the tender
mercies of the Banks Know NOthings? We tell it
to watch this plot TO betray Southern rights
this uel0 inre,,tioa to preserve Save the mark y
Southern rights by ignoring even their assertion
much less the defence of them in the presence OF
their sleepless enemy, and by joining with that ON
nipoent enemy in the majority and eft'iree to act
out its fanaticism!
From the Louisville Democrat Of the 18th.
Gazing in of Southern KnOw-NOGhinEs
TO AbOIitiOnism---Abjec Proposal TO
SurreDder.
The Organ at Washington, has been laboring TO
have the slavery question ignored and pretermitted
by the brethren. j. NJ Bolts, who is spoken OF
for the Presidency is open advocate for such
policy. The brethren are in a transition state and
ATE evidently meditating change OF front The
- EMU, XIV Legislature shrank from an approval of
the Kansas Nebraska BILL shrank from the avOwal
of an opinion to the coustitutiOnaliy of the
power OF Congress over slavery in the Territories
-mait tsning the power only questionable. They
would not even endorse the position Of their
Governor. STILL they are not yet ready at Frank
fort to strike out the slavery plank of the Know
Nothing platform. The wire -pullers don't think
they can venture so far yet. They willing TO
sell out to the North for the sake of spoils; bur
they fear the people. Some of the brethren, how
ever, have come out pioneers, and openly pro-
posed q surrender Of the Southern to the Northern
Know Nothugs The Nashville RepuJlicln and
Ba,tner, the chief organ Of tie selfstyied american
party u, Tennessee, speaks ont boidly The article
appears rs editorial is bed No and is address.
ed 10 tie american party.f Tennessee. Here is the
position fully stateG:
We have pledged ourselves, if you would give
us your attention. to make it clear to you the
sun MONDAY, that it is your duty, not only as
members of party looking to the success Of that
party, and as patriots having at heart the general
welfare and perpetuity OF the Union, but as South
ern men taking an enlightened view OF the tue in
tercsts of the South TO exert all the influence you
can exercise to have the slavery question: a
party test wholly ignored 10y the American party.
Here is the for this policy in general,
which is subsequently, confirmed and Illustrated:
That in a party composed of Northern aud South
ern men, there can be real, sincere, and lasting
agreement TO what the just and constitution
al rights of the South in respect TO the iutToduc~
ton OF slaves into free territory belonging to the
United States.
That between Northern and Southern mel there
always have been, and ever will be, wide and
fundamental differences OF opinion upon that ques
lion.
And therefore that there was no other possible
. alternative than purely sectional parties (which
would surely lead to dissolution Of the Uuion) or
national parties which should recognize and tole-
rate such differences Of opinion upon the slavery
question.
This writer admits that he has TO tell hs brcth-
rem some unpalatable truths, and the reader shall
that they are precisely what We told the breth.
all the time. Here is a witness who veriies all
that we have said. When the Know Nothings Of
New York opposed the election Of Seward, We an.
nounced that il was not for his AbolitiOnsm that
they opposed him. They were opposed TO him be-
cause he was opposed to them lie denounced the
party for its secrecy and its proscrpuveuess OF
foreigners and Catholics for that reason, and that
only, they opposed him. This writer says:
During the whole OF the animated debate in the
New York Legislature, which preceded the election
of Mr. Seward, although his election was vehe-
meutly opposed, no opposition, as the published
debates at the time will show, wss made on the
ground OF his anti slavery opinions
fact, tar as the Know Nohngs are concern.
ed. This dispcls the deiusion that the Know Moth
ings of New York concur in opinion with the Know