Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-03-11

These extracts give the position of the
Democratic and American Parties on the
subject of slavery They are identical with
this difference only, that the Democratic pO-
sition permits foreigners who have not been
naturalzed, even if they have not been in
the United States one week, to vote, whilst
the American position permits no foreigner
who has not been natHralzed to vote. This
is an essential difference as to the character
of the men to whom the right of suffrage
is allowed. and eminently in favor of the
conservatism of the American Party, as
compared with that of the opposition, but
it does not affect the principle of either
upon the slavery question. Both parties
stand, therefore, side by side on that i'm
portant question. If the American party
is unsound, the Democratic party is equally
So
The principle of nOn-intervention, as
enunciated in the KansasNebraSka act, it
will be seen, is, in the above extract from
that act, declared to be derived from the
Compromise acts of 1850. Mr.. Fillmore
was President in 1850, and signed those
acts, thus giving the best pledge that could
be given to maintain and defend that
principle. 1t follows, therefore, that the
American Platform and the American can
didate for President are sound upon the
great principle whioh yi:lds to the South her
nights under The Federal Constitution. What
more can be asked by reasonable Southern
men?
Now, what are the principles Of the
Kansas Nebraska act and the AmeIi-
can Platform, touching the slavery ques
ton? We answer (: We understand them
to be the recognition of the right Of the
people of territory, in the formation of a
State Government, TO determine the char
acter Of their institutions, and their right
of admission into the Union, whether their
Constitution does or does not prohibit
slavery; and as a necessary consequence Of
the recognition of these rights, the denial TO
Congress Of the power to legislate upon the
subject of slavery in any territory. In lS4s,
Mr.. YANcEY, Of Ala, seeded from the
Democratic convention which nominated
Gen. Cass, because he interpreted Gen.
Cass' sentiment to recognise these rights in
the inhabitants Of territory through their
territorial legislature Mr. YANCEY is now
ON the Democratic electoral ticket in Ala
bama. He comedies in opinion with US,
and in a letter written on the 9th ult., TO
Rev. w. +. Sanford, declares the princi-
nles of the Kausas-Nebraska act, lrhioh zee
hare slo,cn 10 be identical trith those Of The
american Platform, to be
"TuE FINAL, FULL AND COMPLETE RRoo6NI-
rtoN or rHE EQUALITY OF THE SOUTHERN STATES
AND THEIR CITIZENS IN THE TERRITORIES"
The Uni0R and american will not deny
that Mr.. YANcEY is correct in the above
Interpretation of the principles Of the Kan
sas. Nebraska act and the American Plat
form. We have seen nothing in that pa
per condemning those principles; nor do
we expect to see any thing Of the kind
there. 1t cannot condemn them without
lashing itself aud its party. Ii does, how
ever, call upon us fOr the twelfth section,
which il condemned last year, and which il
knows is not so advantageous TO the South
as the sections Of the Americas Platform
ouoted above. 1t was the soundness Of
these sections that drove the Abolition
elements from the National Convention.
Mr.. Il. NJ. CoRvINE, one Of the Ohio Sc
ceders. who offered resolution pledging
the American Party to restore the Ais-
souri, Compromise, in letter to the en-