Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-09
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Gov. Zones.
DOVER, Stewart Co., Sept. 4, 1856.
MEssRs. EDrToEs:-A few copies of Senator
Jones' late speech, delivered in the United
States Senate, have come TO me under the
frank of the Senator. have read the speech,
and find nothing in it characteristic of the
statesman, much less of the patriot. The man
is ingenious, his:effort is puerle, at once as
signing to him position far below the place
be occupies Without entering into an enquiry
as to the Senator's motives, or looking to the
relation he at one time claimed to hold with
Mr.. Fillmore, and his conduct of treachery to-
wards Mr.. Fillmore in bringing about Gen.
SCOTS nomination for the Presidency, pro-
pose to call attention to but a single paragraph
inlthe Senator's cob-web, by which to make
the demagogue and reveal the mantle high
,jack-and=the-g game politician. The Senator
says, "when Mr.. Fillmore comes to speak,
what does he say2 He says, speaking of the
Missouri Compromise"
This repeal seems to have been Pandora's
box, out Of which have issued all the political evils
that now alict the country, scarcely leaving hope
behind, and many, perceive, ready to attribute
all these to our southern brethren. But is this just?
No! no! 1t must be borne in mind that this
measure originated with a northern senator, and
sustained and sanctioned by northern President.
! do not recoect that petition from south
ern State solicited this repeal; and how could
southern members Of Congress refuse a boon th US
offered by the North to the South? 1t could only
be done by sacrificing themselves upon the altar of
fbat- G.. tl,atr hat,
certainly expecting too much from political men in
times like these The blame, therefore, it appears
TO me, with all due Difference, is chiefly chargeabe
TO those who originated the measure; and, how
ever We may deplore the act, il affords no just
ground for controversy with our southern brethren
certainly none by which they should be deprived
OF their political rights"
The Senator after quoting this portion of
Mr.. Fillmore's Albany speech that is familiar
to most readers, proceeds to remark
entertain no uukind feelings towards Mr. Fill.
more. believe that if he were President Of the
United States he would make a conservative a safe
aud a national President; but do protest against
his pandering to northern fanaticsm he does in
the extract which have just read. He there de-
nOunces the repeal of the Missouri compromise,
and charges to it all the evils affecting the
country. To that extent l join issue with Mr..
did responsible for all these evils, am will
ing to bear my full share of the responsibility.
Why 60 out of the way and assail us, and charge
that all the evils which now alict the country have
grown out of the repeal of the Missouri compro-
mise? Is he not to that extent striking blow up
on every man who voted for il! Take that in con.
nexion with the resolution of pretermission, and
then take another circumstance within nv knows
edge, and the impression is fixed upon my mind
Nkaf1h a Il
firmly and fully by the Kansas-Nebraska bill.
In these remarks of the Senator he doubts
not Mr.. Fillmore would make "a conservative,
safe and national President" 1t should seem
this is all one could desre-a President con-
sentative, safe and national. But the Senator
adds, "but | protest against his (Fillmore's)
panderiDg to northern fanatcism as he does in
the extract which have just read" 1t is diff
icult to find that honeyed word in what Mr..
Fillmore uttered, as extracted by the Senator,
that could be tortured into a "pandering to
northern fansticism," but rather the boot is
upon the other leg if panderng was the in
tent.
Mr. Fillmore said the repeal Of the Missouri
restriction ''seems to have been a Pandora's
box, out of which have issued all the evils that
now aff1ct the country, scarcely leaving a
hope behind, and many, perceive are ready
to attribute all these to our southern brethren.
But is this just? (Nol noD This measure, it
must be borne in mind, originated with q
northern Senator, and was sustained and sane
bu II
offered to the south, and accepted by them.
The blame, therefore, it appears to me with
all due Difference is chargeable to those who
originated this measure" There we see that
Mr.. Fillmore, instead of using ''soft words" for
the northern fanatic, charged boldly the wrong
upon the north through Senator Douglas and
President Pierce; the wrong consisting of re-
opening the question of slavery that had been
adjusted by the acts of 1850 as fnality.
So the charge made by Senator Jones against
Willard Fillmore that lie, in his Albany speech
in June last, was guilty of ''pandering to north
ern fanaticism" is not to be found in what
Mr.. Fillmore said, but only in what Senator
Jones said. Who can reconcile this fraud up
on the fair fame of most ilustrious citizen
with the principles of honor2 The mantle
Senator himself, in the same paragraph in
which he would dishonor him, declares he has
no doubt he would make a conservative, safe
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Oh! country-men! watch
him who is wont to mislead you by perver
sion of other mems wOrds-bewsre of him
who presents himself and his doctrines, ao-
companed with devotional appeals in gesture
and word, to God, Heaven and the things Of
Heaven! Beware of hypocrites and unbe-
levers. ".
Ridiculous GascOnadc.
In a speech in Columbia, a few days since, the
Hon Preston S. Brooks, abiding to the event Of the
election OF Fremont gave it as his opinion that the
South "shouId march 10 Washington on the 4h of
March nezt, seize the archives and Treasury Of the
Govern,sert aud Leave the rest to God"
a writer in the Richmond Ea0payeT in respose