Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-05-23
From the Richmond wing, May 9th.


past course touching this matter snfiees to
show us but too plainly that they are ever ready
to play over again the same game OF deception
which has so often resulted in their elevation
to power, at the expense of the rights OF the
South, and the general interests of the coun-
try The union between the Northern and
Southern sections of the Democratic party is
based upon no common political principles, and
upon no measures OF public policy, which
equally command the assent and appreciation
of both; but it is cenented only BY The cohe
sive power of the public plumber. That is the
bond of union between them, and that the
ilnpelling motive which brings them tol ether
in national conventions, and induces them to
adopt string of vague generalities for their
platform, which is invariably interpreted in
one region of the country in one way, and in
another region in inst the opposite way. Yet,
70 hear Southern Democrats talk, one would
be led to conclude that there is perfect iden
tity ofprinciple and policy between the North
eTn and Southern wings of this party-that
upon all the issues prominent before the coun-
try they stand as unit, cordially linked to-
gether by common syInpathles and common
objects. 1t is particularly their boast that upon
the veXed subject of slavery, and the questions
springing ont Of il. the Northern and Southern
Democracy stand shoulder to shoulder, and
that, therefore, they constitute the only nation
al party in the country.
1t would be bOOtless to attempt to expose
seriously the hollowness and falsehood of so
bald and ridiculous an assumption. 1t has not
the slightest foundation upon which to rest, as
the well-known sentiments and position of
most of the leading Northern Democrats suf-
ficiently attest We defy any and all South
ern and Democrats to point US to a single prOmi-
nent member of their party at the North,
whose views of slavery and the power of Con-
gress over the subject, accord with the ideas
and requirements Of Southern men. To cite
the Nebraska bill and the votes of both North
ern Southern Democrats in support of 1t can
not avail. For it is but too true that the prin-
ciples and motives which actuated Southern
| Democrats in their advocacy of that bill were
not those which influenced their Northern al
lies On the contrary, they were animated by
entirely opposite and conflicting reasons, the
purpose of both being to obtain party advan-
! tage, and to practice a wilful and deliberate
deception upon both sections of the country.
| Which section, however, is finally to be the
victim Of the trick, remains to be seen. 1t is
certain, though, that one or the other is to be
made to bite the dust-that is, the doctrine of
squatter sovereignty is either TO become the
| prevailing and established doctrine in the Ter
ritOries, it is not. Ii it does, then the South
ern Democracy will be made to feel and see
| how cute their Northern allies are, and what
| value there is in the great Nebraska test. If
| it does not, we shall expect to witness mon
strous futtering among the Northern Demo
cratic pigeons. We shall expect to see them
quickly washing their hands Of the Nebraska
! bill and swearing that, but for their belief that
it fully and perfectly recognized the theory of
! squstter sovereignty, it would never have re-
ceived their sanction and support. And what
then? Will it still be commended that the De-
mocracy, North aud South, are unit on the
slavery question: That they are the only
national party in the landl That they are the
only party capable of adjusting sectional differ
ences, or worthy of the trust and confidence of
the people,
But the great effort now making among the
Democratic leaders of the North, and which,
indeed has been making ever since the passage
of the Nebraska bill, is to take the wind out
of the sails of the Black Republican party by
cnntendiDg and representing that the Kansas
Nebraska act is purely measure 10 favor OF
freedom that whereas the Missouri Compro-
mise permitted and protected slavery South of
$3.50, its abrogation opens the Whole cOnti-
nent to Freedom and that it is inevitable that,
| under the operation of the Kansas act, not
another slave State will ever be added to the
! Union, And what more do the Black Repub-
| lcan party wan2 Is not thie-tle very thing,
the only thing, for which they are cOntending.
No more slave States, is their motto And this,
toe, is the Shbboleth of the Nebraska Demo-
cracy OF the North. Where, then, is the prsc-
tical difference between them2
Tie leading Black Republicans themselves
perceive and feel that the Northern Democracy
have trcked them, and partly shorn them
of their strength as distinctive organization,
by taking the ground that Kansas and all
other territories, according to the Squatter
Sow eregnty construction of the Nebraska bill,
are obliged finally to come into the Union as
free States. With this conviction stamped
upon the popular mind of the North, of course
those Democrats who were originally opposed
to the Nebraska bill, will abate their hostility,
and come into its Jealous support And thus
we should not be surprised to find a large ma
jority of the Black Republican party siding
with the Democracy in the coming contest. If,
by so doing, they can secure the freedom of
Kansas, will not the whole aim and object of
their organization be accomplished What is
the difficulty, then, in the way ola perfect and
cordial fusion between them2 Animated by a
common purpose, would it not be the height of
folly to distract their forces by supporting se
! parate candidates. They are far too wary, and
love the spoils too dearly, to commit any such
sbsurdity, except in appearance. Their CO.
| operation in the Presidential election is elk
ed fact" They may present separate csndi
! dates, but it will only be for the purpose of
hood winking and deceiving the public.