Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-04-30
The Democratic National Convention,

our columns 10 their use.
The Democratic National Convention,
1t is the boast Of Democratic speaker,
and presses, North and South, that the
Democratic party is natioual--the only
national party Of the country. As an evi
dence of this, they point to the fact that
its representatives in Congress met in eau.
Gus, harmonized upon the Kansas-Nebraska
platform and nominated candidate for
Speaker. The claim of nationality upon
an insubstantial basis like this, is a mere
deluSiOn-a cheat-an impOSture; for il
happens that whilst the Southern Democ-
racy interpret the Kansas-Nebraska act as
a measure guaranteeing the equality of the
South in the territories and denying the
doctrine of squatter sovereignty in its
OdiOuS sense, the Northern Democracy
generally it regard as proposition for free
dom, the certain, inevitable effects of which
will be, the prevention of the admission of
another slave State into the Union. Tried
by these interpretations, the Southern De
mocracy are national and the Northern De
mocracy sectional. But there is one way
to determine this question, so there can be
no mistake The Democratic National
Convention assemblies in June. Let some
member offer resolution to be embodied
in the platform, in the following language:
Rcsoiced, That the Democracy recognise the
the right of the people residing in territory
TO form and regulate their domestic nstitu-
tons, subject only to the provisions of the
Federal Constitution; it being understood that
this recognition acknowledges the right of
said people either to prohibit or establish
slavery as a domestic institution, ONLY in the
organization Of State qoCernu,ent preparatory
to admission into tie Union as a State"
This resolution embodies the true con-
stitutional doctrine-the doctrine of the
South-national doctrine. Southern Dem
cratic presses which proclaim that the
Democratic party is the only national party
old line Wings who echo the sentiment
all profess to believe this doctrine enunci-
ated by the Kansas-NebraSka act Now,
we venture to predict that not one of the
delegates to the Democratic National Con
vention, will dare to bring this doctrine
before that body in the unequivocal form
above presented. They know that if they
should do so, the mask would be torn off,
and the unfounded claims of the party to
true nationality on the slavery question
scattered to The winds. The Democratic
National Convention will not have the
courage or the manlineSs to assert the
principles Of the Kansas-NebraSka bill"
n such shape as will debar Northern
Democrats from holding them up as secur-
ing the new territories against the inroads
of slavery. The party has ever sought by
deluSiye articles to hold the masses Of all
sections in its grasp, and it is too late in
the day to expect it to change its tactics
and boldly make known its position upon a
question so momentOuS in It's consequences
as the slavery question. We are only as
tonished that any one who has fought the
party in the Wing ranks, should be caught
IN its nets
We ask our readers to have an eye upon
the Democratic National Convention, and
see if what we predict is not realized.