Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-03-03
From the N. o. Delta, D;emOcrat,) F, b. q.


Northern Politicians and the south.
1t is notorious that large portion of the North
ern Democracy and its leaders have, in nearly all
the late alection cOmpagns, aVowed hostility to
Southern Institutions scarcely less bitter than that
expressed by the most rabid Abolitionists They
differ not in sentiment from the latter but only in
relation TO modes and measures. General Cdss
statesman like, catholic and national as he is
above the ordinary herd of politicians, has unfortu.
nately contributed largely to diffuse moral poison
throughout the North on the subject of slavery
True philosophy and true craftsmanship have both
felt the noxous and blighting effects of it, There
is no lack of evidence to prove that even the Ner
braska Act has been endorsed by many of the De-
mocrate conventions of the North and advocated
by many OF the orators and larger lights of the
party there, excellent anti-slavery measure
expedient all the more acceptable for operating
inside of the Constitution. and quietiug the appre-
heusions and dsarming the resistance of the South
1t is plain that, between Northern Democrats of
this ik and Southern Democrats or Southern Rights
men, there can be no honorable or safe coalition
Cross pdrpOSes and false pretenses would be the
game, aud Disappointment to one or both divisions
the inevitable result. The South'want neither to
practice hypocrisy, TO be the dupe and victim OF
it. The delegates who are to be represent it 10
National Convention will be faithless to their trusts
if they agree to admit as members OF that BODY,
the Nebraska Act, without the mental reservation
that these principle are approved and intended TO
be carried out only so far they calculated to
prevent the extension of slavery territory and 20
curtail the political power of the Slave States
Such sided recognition of the objects of
the act extended to practice, would be worse for
tie South than the old Missouri restriction even
That restriction, regarded as the result of COM
pact between the North and the South, while it alb
SolutplV excludes from tarritorv DC
deg 80 min, carried with it the implied obligation
that the North would not contend with the South
against the extension of Southern institutions over
territory south of that line. But these pseudo De
mocrats and ambidextrous friends of the Nebraska
Act would commend it to the North as a measure
which makes all territory, without restriction, an
open ne ID for the cOrmorantcy OF anti slavery pro
paganism and abolition colonization. While pro
Tossing to hold out national hand to the South on
the principle OF 'squdtter sovereignty" they utter
asectonal voice TO the North assuring it that the
hand they extend is only designed to betray the
former, and draw it more deeply into the meshes of
abOiitionism.
This shallow and disreputable game should stop
1t is time to look the of slavery and anti slave
ry n the ace-in its real face, and not a masked
one worn for the occasion The North and South
should understand each other fully If as friends
disposed to cutv tie and preserve a good negt Dor
hood, so; If as enemies, irreconcilaby hostile TO
each other, then the sooner the fact is known the
better. Let the stronger then fend off, aud the
weaker 20 to the wall. But We believe that a full
understanding of each other would remove much
doubt and suspicion on both sidis, and would be
to the advantage OF both sections and OF the Union
1t III be ali the better, il the South will boldly
through all the mediums she can command vndi-
cate the philosophy and the morality of It's nstitus
tiOns before the North and the whole world Ii
has but to appeal to the logic Of history the prin-
clpes OF science, the facts Of geography do BOTH
Let 1t ray the North explicitly that il has a pro
gramme TO fulfill, d tstiny TO live up to, which it
will not suffer TO be married or "turued away" bv
demsgOgues and creatures OF fanatci-m, and the
reasonable adJuvants Of the anti-slaveTy prOpagan
ia OF the BRUSH aIistOcracy Let it say this, am
let 1t reputation all coalition compromise witt
those OF the North who have not the candOr or the
pluck" to disregard local prejudices, aud bolilS
declare for rendering TO the South what l. due 10 it,
without stint; whether under the Nebraska or what
ever other act OF Congress, provision OF the Con
stitutlOn; and whether Southern Institutions NAV
be tending towards the bills and slopes of kau,as
where the cactus reaTs its head and a tropical
climate brings flowers and fruits at all seasons. In
this honesty is the best policy, caudor the best
diplomacy; boldness is dictated by discretion.
The South claims nothing but its 1t demand :
TO 20 its onward way. 'LatSsez-Hoi fdirc, is its
motto. 1t has never failed to assert this motto ia
argument-let it not fail interpret It's meaning in
action, whenever practical denial miy make 1t
cessaTy.