Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-05-09

FRIDAY, MAY 8. 1856.
THE KANsAs-NEBRAsKA ACT.
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Hon. WV. MONTGOMERY, of Pennsylva-
MIA, recently delivered speech at Wash
ington, in that State, to forward the inter-
ests of Mr. BUCHANAN. This speech, we
learn from the Richmond National ADrer1-
can, of the 30th ult., has been published in
pamphlet form, and extensively circulated
among the Pennsylvania Democracy At
the last election, Mr.. MONTGOMERY was the
Democratic candidate for Congress in the
Washington district, and was member of
the late Democratic State Convention. He
is sample of the national Democracy, of
whom the Union and american, and old
line Wing renegades, profess to expect
great things in the protection of Southern
rights From the speech of Mr.. MoNT-
GoMERY, mentioned above, the National
american gives the following extract:
"And it matters not how far our limits may
expand, with the assurance that they will be
with the form Of government they may adopt.
Northern and EUROPEAN emigration united
piI insure majority in favor Of free institu
tiORs.
''Give our Northern working men such
land as Mexico for a home, with its productive
soil and salubrious climate, q land where the
foliage never falls and the flowers never fade,
where strange bright birds fit on starry
wings, and make the forest vocal with their
melody, where the mountain torrent sweeps
down the golden sands, and one bright sum-
mer fingers always: give the Northern man
such land, and the quick moving Yankee
Squatter will have the country peOpled and
its institutions fixed before the shareholders of
the South could pack their cumb roushouse
hold goods, hand-cuff their slaves, yoke their
oxen and start their emigrant trains.
"In my discussion of the Kansas Nebraska
bill this far, have considered it as IL the
stakeholder could under its provisions, enaigrGte
to the nea0 territories carrying Nth him and
holding his sLGUes, BUT SUCH Is NOT THE FACT.
The stakeholder may go there, but he must
Ledue has sldUes behind; and then he who has
been accustomed to implicit obedience, and to
be waited upon by others, must do has OWn
bidding, and become has OUn servant.
slavery is creature of law. without
law to authorize it, slave cannot be held
a moment in bondage. No pro0isOn erists IN
the Kansas Nebraska bill authorizing Slavery;
IT Is AN ACT OF FREEDOM and 1t UirtudLLy shuts
out the stakeholder from the new territories;
under that lao. sLdrery can haze no foOthoh.
The slothful enervated STAKEHOLDER, unaccus-
toned to toll, must, if he would introduce
slavery into the territories, give up his life of
ease, leave all the luxuries and refinements Of
civilization, and emigrate to the wilderness;
his own soft hand must rear the cabin which
is to protect him from the elements; no slave
can come there to ease his toll; he must reside
among the hardy pioneers before he will be
permitted to vote; he must gather around him
a majority in favor of slavery before he will
be able to influence the institutions, and even
with majority, he must GSoait the SLOU process
of legislation But if the hardy, freedom
loving emigrants from the North happen to he
more numerous than the Southern planters,
all his toll has bsen in vain; free representa-
tires nil be chosen free IGaoS aoiLt be enacted,
and the door aOHL be .tarerer closed on sLd0ery.
Fellow citizens, but for moment think of the
chances there are of a majority of the settlers
in any new State being composed of opulent
planters who have left their comfortable
homes in the South not to obtain lands, not
to seek a new location, but simply to procure
by their votes a majority in favor Of slavery.
Such an idea is absurd and prepo- ferrous. No,
fellow citizens, such will never be the case
THE KANSAS NEBRASKA BILL is A
DEATH BLOW TO SLAVERY PROPA-
GANDISM.
We call the attention of Southern Dem
ocrats, Wings, and Americans, to the above
extract. 1t is eminently suggestive. 1t
affords US ample warrant for all that we
have said of the unsoundness of the North
ern Democracy, who are as much opposed
to the extension of slavery as the Black
Republicans.
According to this high Democratic au
thority, there is no chance for the forma-
ton of another slave State out of any new
territory, no matter chow far ohr limits
may expand" because "Northern and En-
ropean emigration united aoiU insure major
ity IN faUOr Of FREE INSTITUTIONS" This
declaration of itself is equivalent to an adj
mission that Northern Democrats are in
favor of erecting "free institutions" in the
new territories, for Northern emigration"
does not consist exclusively Of the oppo-
nents of the Democratic party-Democrats
form a large proportion of it, as is eviden-
ced by the fact that all the new States of
the West were Democratic, and are still
Democratic, where they have not become
ultra-Democratic and Abolitionized 1t
also contains the admission of another fact,
one which the opponents of the American
party, South, have bitterly denied, to wit:
that European emigration" is in ''faVor of
free institutions" -in other words, opposed TO
slarery and Southern equality IN the terrific
ries. Be it remembered that this is not the
statement of a member of the American
party, but of regular, old line, national
Pennsylvania Democrat, supporter of the
principles Of the Kansas-Nebras acts
Aud he tells the truth-the great bulk of
European emigration is opposed to slavery,
and will ever form an important and relia-
bic portion of the grand army" of the en-
emies Of the South. EnviouS of the sup
posed luxurious life of ease which the slave
holders lead, and of the many advantages
which accrue to them from slavery, this
sound, national Democrat hangs with pleas
ure upon the idea, that if any STAKEHOLDER
now, since the passage Of the Kansas-Ne-
braska act, emigrates into a territory in
which he believes he has equal rights, che
must leave bis slaves behind 'tdo his own