The Winchester appeal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1856-1856, 1856-06-14

ton Of Mr.. Buchanan ,oiU be u repeti-
ton of that error, and no matter how
true he may be to the Constitution,
like President Pierce he will be unable
to control the elements Of fanaticism
his election will fail to crush. The
coming election must test the question
of whether or not the equality Of the
Southern States in the Union is recog-
missed. To test that question the can
didatc must not only be sound, but he
must have been in the fight and be able
to show that he stood the fire.
If silence during the battle consti-
tutes a claim for office, hOw can the
South expect Northern statesmen to
uphold her banner, when abolitionists
arc seeking to tear it in tatters? If an
ability to get frcesoi( votes makes can
didate available, and that species Of
availability is recognised as merit at
the South, Northern statesmen should
court free sellers and not struggle with
them, ifthey wish to be Presidents.
Such availability may be very desira-
bic to those who wish success alone,
but those who look to the interests Of
the country may well be excused if
they prefer q dillercntstandard. lccr-
tainly prefer that the South shall PRE-
FER the selection, not only of a sound
man, but that she shall vote for the
nomination of no men upon any such
ground of availability. The coming
election must settle the slavery agita-
ton. do not wish a single free soil
or to vote the Democratic ticket, nor
will willingly afford the slightest OK
cuse for so doing. Appointment Morrill,
pca Democrat told me today, Mat the
nomination Of Buchanan would cnaJle
TumbuU, WentworM anil other free
sellers to come back into the party. |
am not anxious to get back such char
actcrs. These are some of my rca-
sons for not preferring Mr.. Buchanan.
But there is still another rcason.--
That reason is in his record. To car
ny the entire South we must have, not
only sound man, but one who is a.
bovc impeachment--whose record is
as stainless as the principles he adyo-
Gates. Is such the case Of Mr.. Buchan-
an! Let the record answer. Mr.. Buch-
anan may be, and really think he is
sound, but to carry the united South
we must have a record that is perfect
ly unassailablc. Is Mr.. Buchanan
that man! Let us see. Iquote from
late communication in the New Or
leans Dc,tu. and which the editor of
the Sentinel knows to be accurate in it's
quotations from the record.
On the 9th of December, 1881, Mr..
Calhoun submitted to the Senate that
celebrated series Of resolutions the great
objects of which were to set forth with
precision and force the constitutional
rights of the slaveholding States; and to
attract to their support an enlightened
public opinion against tho attacks of
Northern lanatcism. The second reso.
luton was in these words: Calhoun's
Works, volume 8, page 14O]
"Resolved, That in delegating a por
ton Of their power to be exercised by the
Federal Government, the States retained,
severally, the exclusive and sole right
over their own domestic institution and
police, and are alone responsible for
them, and that any intermeddling of any
one or more States, or a combination of
their citizens, with the domestic institu.
tons and police of the others, on any
ground, or under any pretext whatever,
political, moral or religious, with view
to their alteration or subversion, is an as.
sumption Of superiority not warranted by
the Constitution, insulting to the States
interlered with, tending to endanger their
domestic peace and tranquility, subver-
sive of the objects for which the Consti.
tuition was formed, and by necessary con.
sequence, tending to weaken and destroy
the Union itself"
Mr.. Morris, Of Ohio, who was then
the only avowed abolitonist in the Sen.
ate, moved to strike out the words "moral
or religious" Had the motion prevailed,
the effect would have been to encourage
agitation in the form in which it would be
most likely to be most fatal to the South.
1t would have been direct encourage.
ment to the abolitionized clergy of the
North to take the very course which was
taken by the "three thousand and fifty
divines" who, in 1854, sacrilegio as.
sumed, Gin the name of Almighty God,
and in his presence" to denounce the re.
peal Of the Missouri Compromise as "a
Of plighted faith and breach OF
a national contract" Subsequent events
have abundantly attested the truth of
what Mr.. Calhoun said, when arguing
against the motion, "that the whole spirit
of the resolution hinged upon that word
religious"
The vote being taken on Mr.. Morris
it stood as follows: Con-
gressonal Globe, vol. 8, page al: