Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-10-07

TACT tnat the democratic stump speakers IN the North
generally defending the Nebraska act upon
arguments addressed to the strong ant-slavery pre-
JUDGES of the Freesoers. To its opponents no
charged that it opened the country to slavery "why
do they not state the matter truly" asked Senator
Douglass, "and state that it opens the country to
freedom, by leaving the people perfectly free to do
as they please!" ave believe that the principles
OF freedom and democracy are and Of right ought to
Be, identical" says a leading journal, the Albany
Atlas. "Mr Buchanan never uttered sentence in
defence of slavery or whispered a word in favor of
its existence, or cast vote which any honest man
could cOnstrue into wish to support the institu-
ton, says another, the Providence (R ~ Post:
And so they go! presenting one face to the North
and another TO the South upon this great question,
upon which they would seem to be almost ready to
break up the Union. The thousand evidences Of
this dOuble-dealng, / viii not now stop to call your
attention to. But would ask, why has Charles J.
Faulkner been selected as the Chairman Of the De-
mOcratic Central Executive Committee to manage
this campaign, who, though Southern man, has
won very peculiar notoriety from having nveighed
against what he called the curse of stavery" ask
ing shave we not the right TO demand ITS eztentd-
ton Shall society suffer, that the Shareholder may
continue his crop of human flesh ?" Why has Gov.
Wise Of Va, recently written letter for publication
in the North, saying 81 ask no man on earth to be
prO-slavery in sentiment or action. / leave
your own individual conduct as citizen in your own
State am content that you should for yourself
and your State be an GRti-SlaUery and voter"
You are aware, fellow citizens, that gave the
Nebraska bill earnest and ardent support in Con-
gress sustained it for assigned in debate
at the time-5ecause it repealed the anti-slayery
restriction of 1920, and substituted in its place the
principle that when the people Of the Territory
came to frame State Constitution for themselves,
y.
whether they will have slavery or not / sustained
it because thought it just to give Kansas chance
to have slavery finer people should desire it. sup
ported it not partiZan, but feeling that such
question ought not to be made party question.
supported it. frankly concedng that differed with
many patriotic and national men, some Of whom
were among my warmest friends. supported it
distinctly repudiating the squatter sovereignty con-
structon; and demonstrated that others concurred
with me by showing from the records that two dis
tnct propositions to fasten that construction upon
the bill we're voted down by large malorities, one of
which was amendment offered in these words
"Under which the people ofthe Territory, through
their appropriate representatives may, if they see
fit, prohibit the existence of slarery therein"
am as earnestly as ever the advocate Of the Ne
braska act construed the great body OF its friends
then construed it and for the reasons j assigned at
the time. The speech made on the occasion has
papers, as though they thought they had thus ex-
hibited evidences of inconsistency against me.
should not hesitate to change any former opinion,
if, upon mature deiberation, | believed that that
opinion wrong. But that speech shows that
have not changed the construction Of the the
for which / supported it. HOlc IS Il lcith
the Democratic party? They have ignored or
abandoned almost every position then taken by
friends Ofthe bill.
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votes, without reference to party, they claimed it
party triumph, democratic measure, though the
official organ at Washington during the contest de-
clared that the Nebraska bill ought not to be re-
garded as a democratic test. Then, when the next
Congress assembled, they made the measure plank
iR tie PLATFORM upon which they tried to elect
Speaker of the House, lodging coInmittal to any
particular construction of the act thus throwing the
gauntlet to all the balance Of the House who did not
approve the bill, or who did not profess to be
democrats, as though they sought to combine all
others into great party against them. The effect
of this to give consistence, unity and strength
to the immense Republican organization in the
North and thus intensity sectional agitation between
those parties, which has gone into the Presidential
contest and been kept up ever since, bringing with
it the most imminent danger to every thing dear to
the South. thought this unwise. | did not, and
do not think the interest Of the South TO invite
ending cOn:estin politics upon questions which
tend to combine the whole power of the North
against the South. / thought, when the law had
passed, the South ought to have sought to calm
agitation. The next step OF the Democracy was to
yield up in the cast of their Presidential ticket and
otherwise, the Southern construction of the act
adopting the s9WatteT sovereignty doctrine, and de-
Tending the measure in the North upon free-soi
premises That is the present attitude of things
and wonder, when those democratic editors who
now re-publish my speech, look into its arguments
if they do not feel ashamed to see the departure
which their leaders have made from the arguments
upon which the bill was passed!
For the great body of the friends Of the bill then
opposed squatter sovereignty, and contended that
the bill proposed merely to carry out the principle
established and applied to the Territories Of Utah
and New Mexico in the Compromise measures of
1880. What was that principle? Here are the
very words
"When admitted as State, the said territory, or
any portion of the same shall be received into the
Union, with without slavery, their constitution
may prescribe at the time of admission"
Examine Senator Douglass speech, or Mr.. Brock
inridges made upon the Nebraska bill when that
measure was pending, and you will find that they
both urged its passage upon the express ground that
it was carrying out dis principle Of $50. On this
ground aud the mass OF its friends supported it,
But those gentlemen are now giving their active
sanction to the doctrine Of sQuatter sovereignty
empowering prohibition of slavery by the first set.
tiers who happen 60 into and squat upon the ter
ritory! So with the great mass Of Democrats who
then supported the bill, and now sustain Mr.. Blu.
chanan with his Interpretation for the North. Could
it have been expected that would follow such
a lead In the Washington Union is now to be
seen the name Of John Van Buren, printed among
those classed by that paper as 'emnent men"
stumping for Buchanan.
IT. for the reasons have adduced, the South has
cause to start back with distrust from Mr. Buchanan
there are other reasons why patriotic men every
where should hesitate to trust him in the Presden-
cy 1t was publicly disclosed in the month of April
last that letter on fie hl the Treasury Department
fires upon Ar. buchanan, The stain of instrument
tally IN procuring to be placed IN 1874 $50 900
Of the Government money ia the bank Of Mr..
Cameron, at a village maze miles from Harrisburg,
Pa, 10 make pTOvisio' for the purchase Of pOiif-
cal RspSpdpeTi Part Of the money, il appears was
used in purchasing the Washington Globe, and this
$780, 600 was not refunded until l847. /. is stated
that this transaction gave Mr. Cameron such hold
upon other parties TO it, (incuding President Tyler
aud Secretary Walker) 10 secure bis election TO
the United States Senate, while Mr. Buchanan be-
came Secretary of State the next year under the
incoming Administration, which was privy to- and
supposed TO be beneficiary under the arrangement
These facts have been made public by one Of the
proprietOrs who sold the Globe printing establish
ment and who long the editor Of Gen. Jaekson's
official organ. Though they have been extensively
re-published for months, they have no where that
have seen been denied. What disclosure, upon a
man aspiring to the exalted position which gives
him control Of the purse-strings OF the whole ma
ton!
But there is a still darker chapter in Mr. Buehan-
ans personal record Fact after fact has been re-
veaed until it IS at length established beyond an
question: that Mr.. Buchanan was the real author, in
1924, Of suggestions, both 10 Gen. jackson and Mr.
Clay, Of bargain and intrigue which both those en-
inent men regarded as deep corruption That by
repeated personal entreatcs be succeeded in scen-