Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-04-24

THURSDAY, APRIL "a, 1856.

Every we'll informed, unprejudiced man,
must see, and feel, and know, that the only Sc
curity against black republican rule, is in the
success of the National Democratic party
an "OM clay Whig."
On the contrary, it will be the surest
means of augmenting their strength, and
cementing into formidable whole the ele-
ments which compose the Black Republican
party. The success which has resulted to
the Democratic party from their systematic
agitation of the slavery question, has made
Black Republicanism what it is, and each
success of the former is but an accession of
strength to the latter. Around Abolition
ism as a nucleus, it has collected party
whose members hold every conceivable
shade of opinion in relation to the institu-
ton of slavery, both in its social and polit-
ical bearings. In it may be found men who
would look with cOmplacency on the re-
suits of a Servile instruction throughout
the South, arson, murder, rape, and rob
berry; men who desire the peaceful but en-
tire abolition of the system; men who
would be content to see it abolished in the
District of Columbia, and in the national
dock and navy yards; men who would be
satisfied to see it confined to its present
limits, and argue the constitutional right of
Congress to place restrictions upon its ex-
tension; and men whose good sense admits
the injustice of all these measures, who yet
yield to their feelings and willingly CO.
operate with the milder of them. All
these classes exist at the North, and are the
ingredients of the grand fusion known as
the Black Republican party.
To measure the amount of truth in the
assertion quoted from the "Old Clay Wing"
it is important to inquire what has given
form and size to this organization, which
owns so despicable an origin Why from
from handful Of pestilent fanatics has it
grown to number its adherents by thou
sands? The philosophic historian of future
times, as this era passes beneath his re-
view, will lay down his pen and ask if it was
possible that, in the bosom of free and en-
lightened America, fanaticism had power
to Gust wisdom and patriotism from their
seats, and convulSe the nation to it's cen
ire? He will not believe it, and will so
write. But truth will compel him to fur
niSh a solution, and he will find it in the
conduct of great party beside whose pre-,
tensions to patriotism those of all others are
lost in insignificance. That party is the
Democratic party, and the conduct referred
to, its course on the slavery question from
the hour of the presentation Of the first
abolition petition in Congress to this time
Since that date the anti-Savery party OF
the North has been growing party in the
country, and its growth is to be attributed
to the care of its foSter-fathers, the aspi-
ring leaders Of the Democratic party. We
challenge any candid man to trace the his
tory Of this question, and arrive at any
other conclusion
Nor is it difficult to perceive how it has
been done. Northern Democratic leaders
participating, in no small degree, in its SEN
timents themselves, have encouraged it, and
courted its strength at the ballot-box.
Southern Democratic leaders, by the vic.
lence and intemperance of their opposition,
have given it Importance, and excited the
resentment of its members, and driven
them to an extreme which otherwise they
might never have reached. They attacked
it with an unreasoning fury which, instead
Of annihiating it, gave it strength.
Such is the history of every attempt to
crush out sentiments by force and violence,
which can only be controlled by Cancellation
and the suggestions of reason. PerSecu-
ton and extreme measures never yet effec-
ted reform. Their only effect is to arouse
the spirit, and strengthen the cause of those
they oppose. 1t will not be denied that it
was the Democratic party at the South
which pursued this course. They played
the part in one section which the anti-slav-
cry party played in the other. Extremism
was the life-blood of both. Notification
and secession, resistance to law and sever
ance from the Union, are measures which
the Southern Democracy have given birth
to.
To these causes, in great degree, may
be attributed whatever strength the anti
slavery party can command But the
movements of the Democratic party in
Presidential elections to secure its vote, the
rewards which it has bestowed upon its
leaders, when it has had them to give and
the reckless manner in which for the pur-
pose of securing strength in one section,
they have exasperated the sentiment they
cherished and rewarded in another, has
been the most powerful agency in making
it formidable. In 1852 freesoilism gave
Pierce its vote, aud they exacted pay for
its services. IngratitHde is not among his
sins, and he paid the debt. In 1854, in
anticipation of the election Of this year,
another aspiring demagogue in the Demo
cratic party North, (Jpdge DoUsLAs,) sets
on foot scheme of agitation to enhance
his popularity at the South. The Demo.
cratic party again let slip the dogs of sec,
tional controversy. and now their deep