The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-10-01
GOV. JoNEs, on TENYEssEE

GOV. JONES, OF TENNESSEE.
We copy below from the Memphis Bulletin an outline
sketch Of the speech of Gov. Jones the dinner
him Memphis the 18th. The Appeal eharacerizes
the speech the greatest which fell from the Gov.
ernors lips.
The Bulletin (old-line whig) says;
The DINNER Gov. JoSEs-To one Who like our
selves looks from the standpoint Of an independent
southern Journal with no free outlet in either of the exist
ing party organizations of the day for his entire wbig
sympsthes upon the fuss and fury of the political battle
raging around u.s. yesterdays proceedings were invested
with peculiar interest The strange conjunction was
presented OF men who but little while ago stood al dag
gers points in political opposition, temporarily coalescpg
In harmonious union Of objects and Of men who within
the same time the warmes Of political friends plar
ing upon another from hostile camps of vehement an
tagonism Democrats assembled 10 do honor TO the
wing champion Of other days James O. Jones' cheer
him in the line of duty his dictated TO him
while those who haze been wings gathered there 10
find to justify their abandonment and sunderinp Of
the ties that had bound them TO him; while here and
with justice a@
"The graUaea Gov Joness speech was his support Of
the kansas-Nebraska bill aud bis determination to vote
for Mr. Buchanan, both OF which have been vehemeny as
sailed by the organs of the American party and OF
which 1.-THE Compromise repeating clause of the
territorial act is gravey impeaehed by Mr. Fnorein
OF his speeches. when he ehaTactezes il the Pandoas
box from whence have issued all the evils that now i'm
peril the country. The speech in the character of
yindcauon of his vote In Congress- and vindcaton of
| an individual in November next
We have rarely listened to a triumphant vindi-
cation than Gov Jones made of the act
He showed concusvey that il was lin principle and sub
stance but the proongation OF the adjustment 1850 in
the practical reiteraon Of the doctrine Of congressional
nonnterference He demonstrated that tho repeal in
terms of the Missouri Compromise was but doing frankly
and in language not to be misunderstood what Utah
and New Mexico bills had virtually done and he show
ed beyond the possibility of cav that the abandonment
by the South OF the principles of these measures Of egsa
ton would be to surrender all that northern fanacsm Is
contendug for and make the adjustment Of 1850 fraud
and farce. . sN t.sN -Haa@t
Governor Jones took up and dssipated into thin air the
twaddle about squaer sovereignty showing that in any
Objectionable sense it hinged solely and entirely upon the
subject whether Congress has any right to legsa the
subject Of slavery in the Terroriesan assumption which
i is the special purpose Of the act
deny and repudiate. sH E#
"Upon the subject of his vote for Mr. Buchanan as
choice OF evils Governor Jones was clear and lucid
frequently eloquent His appeals to know, and his def
ance to any one to show wherein be had proved false to
the wing party which had honored him, in the high
est strain of conscious of the purity OF his fidelity to
political principle and impregnable TO sereproach for
any lapse from DISTINGUISHED patriotism His American
friends even, who heard him this part of the subject
must have away in the belief that he thinks he is
serving his country best in the he has marked out
for himself, Briefly, his the maintenance by
the democratic party and nominee of the Kansas
BILL and that James Buchanan offers in his opinion, the
best and only hope of defeating Fremont In the Govern
ors examination of the claims Of the party his ea
y wing, he somewhat carried the into Africa
and in doing brought representative, Mr. Holmes
and Colonel Prior of the Eagle to the stand but have
space into the particulars of this rather amusing
episode Suffice it to say, that in the end the American
party had be reminded Of the Spanish pro-
verb which prays to be saved from the injury of friends
The issues raised collateral and immaeria and were
turned to his own account with Governor Joness usual
tact. .E. N# s
I'VE quite well that the foregoing meagre &C.
count Of the leading points Of Governor Joness speech will
not be well received by arden, American readers II
will probably by taken by whose notions Of political
soundness are like the zealots notions of orthodoxy
evidence that turning democrat II is nothing of
the kind 1t is simply the skeleton of justice public
servant Of the whg school Of politics. who like ourselves
has been unable, phg, to reconcile fusion into the
party with bis oldashioned wing notions and who
therefore, has the right to be heard and understood through
the Independent press irrespective Of the transory excite
ment and prejudice which might counsel silence.
1.-THE meeting was large, respectable and intelligent
one-numbering two thousand persons-of whom
several hundreds ladies' The day fine and pleas
ant and the entire occasion passed of agreeably The
speech was some four hours in the delivery"