Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-08-30


That is nv opinion of the result of the Kansas
investigation dare not mpute perjury to men by
the hundred the concurrence of so many is itself
conclusive against the hypothesis Of fabrication;
and must be pardoned If my legal habits will not
allow me to weigh partisan denials against testimo.
nv sworn in the face of cross examination i make
no plea of justification for strained or onesded
inferences, which my friend from Ohio has drawn
from that evidence. tender no apology for the
one-sded results drawn by my friend from Missouri
| am here sir, for no party. am speaking this
day for the Constitution and the Union. am plead
ing for the great rights of American citizens I am
pleading for the honor and integrity OF the Ameri-
can government and the American name. | viii
set down no word in malice that would tinge the
honor of the country or hide one dark trait which
the people of the country ought to know. The rea-
son the North is opposed TO the Democratic party is,
that they nave done these hing&
Now, sir, perhaps we begin to see why the North
ern people will not support Mr.. Buchanan. Why
will they not support hims Why will not the con-
serTative vote be given for him ?-for there is
conservative majority They will not vote for the
Democratic party, nor for the Democratic nominee,
because they have been guilty of these things-
They will not vote for them, because they have
never repented in Sdckcloth and ashes They will
not vote for them, because they have denied the
wrongs before the proof and defended them after
the proof. They will not vote for them, because
they have reiterated the insult. They will not vote
for them, because they have blazoned their ban
the very words OF the ambiguous oracle of the
Kansas and Nebraska act, the very cause and deea
ration Of war, now no longer deuding any one, but
plainly in bloody letters Interpreted the fields OF
Kansas These are reasons they think sufficient,
and they likely to continue to think them suffi
cient. If Mr.. Fillmore were in that position they
would not vote for him. Ay, sir, even q cOnserva-
tive Northern man, tempted by spirit of revenge
and retaliation would have to argue with himself
long time before he could bring himself down to
vote for this man, who has outraged all the feelings
with which these men have been brought up-the
best and the most conservative of them, thousands
of degrees from AboitOnists--men who are sup
porting the Constitution and the Union men who
are willing to support and defend the institution Of
slavery-men like those at Boston, who, to execute
the Fugitive Slave Law, marched down the streets
Of that city with loaded arms to shoot down their
own citizens, that you, men of the South might be
protected. These are the men you have driven from
YOU Where viii they go, if Mr.. Fillmore were not
offered to them as the symbol Of peace? ---
Why, sir, put it to my honorable friends TO sp-
ply to them the arguments they hold valid at the
South. These Northern men are of like passions
with us, moved by insult, not above revenge, and
not given to preterring, in sectional contest the
candidate of their opponents Ny Democratic
friends, from every hustings in the South, exhort
the people 20 vote for Mr.. Buchanan because he is
the Southern candidate, because he is for the Kan
sdS-Ne6TdSkd act because ne is against coDspro-
mise in a Southern sense, because he is the strong
est man opposed to the K0rfheru sectional candi-
date. And by this of argument they admit that
the sectional cuudidate at the North represents the
same classOf me. at the North that they represent
at the South--men who are no more unreasonable
,,, H., - A
they appeal to the South, so do the men who sup
port Mr.. Fremont appeal TO the North Gentlemen
of the Democratic party judge ye h0,0 far they
entitled to weight. Are they cOnclusye2 Do they
compel me to yield my political preferences? Is
right that | shall 90 for Mr.. Buchanan! Am
bound to bow the knee to him? Is it so desperate
a case thar | must stomach the imputations and the
surs which were hurled on me and the American
party during two or three months of this long ses-
sion? Shall l. for these considerations of merely
sectional and Southern character, because he is YOU
say, the candidate of my section abandon those who
have stood by US? pray you TO recall to your
memories, and weigh well the obloquy cast on the
American party. We were, you say, an upconst
tutonal party yea, the very enemies of the const-
tuition. We were opposed to civil and religious
liberty. We were for depriving Of equal rights
We were for driving the honest foreigner from our
shores. We were midnight assassins-stained with
the blood and dirt of riotous mobs. We had taken
unconstitutional oaths to obey the constitution
We could not be touched IA the Speakers contest
No compromise could be made with No ex-
change of candidates could be thought OF for mo-
ment The honorable gentleman from Pennsylva-
MIA, Mr. FULLER, who better accOrds with their no
tons on slavery in theory and in practice than the
honorable member from Illinois, so long their can
didate, could not be touched. The very meeting in
convention the very meeting in caucus, ay, sir the
very meeting for open consultation, scorned and
flung back in our faces. They could not touch
these political lepers. A plurality rule was an al
tentative they preferred knowing the consequences
OF the vote would be place the present Speaker in
the chair.
Sir, il is my misfortune that have weak
stomach for the digestion Of indignites and it re-
voted at the degradation that was attempted to be
placed on us. | resolved not to make an election
between the candidates of the sectional parties, but
to let them fight it out and take the consequences
Such was their horror of this American party that
Democratic gentlemen united with the Republicans
to pass that plurality resolution, which elevated to
the chair the honorable gentleman from Massachu-
sets, who, whatever may be said of his political
opinions and much as | deplOre his political aber.
rations has graced the chair he occupies, with dig
nifty, ability and impartiaity, but whom they brand
ed iathess to the constitution, the iercest enemy
to the South, holding the foul dogma Of amagams-
ton whose elevation would be the sure precursor
OF caamities nameless and numberless. They were
willing to take that plurality rule which inevitably
would result in his election, rather than gentleman
from Pennsylvania.
Such was their conduct to us-so conciliatory
so amiabe, so loving, so winning-yet, in the face
of this rough wOOing, they urge US because of our
connection ,cith the SO,th TO abandon Mr.. Fillmore
the choice OF our hearts, for Mr. Buchanan because
Mr. Buchanan is the safe and strong man for the
South, the representative Of Southern interests. So
intensely did they hate US, so much more did they
hate US than the gentleman from Massachusetts,,
1.-THE Speakerl-yet so paramount do they regard
the allegiance to the sectional canddase that they
ask US TO sacrifice our personal preferences our po
litcal convictions, outraged dignity for their
triumph
Be it So Is that the intensity Of their sectional
devotion? / ask them 10 apply the argument
North Of Mason aud Dixon's line and tell me who,
if he is not utterly abandoned aud degraded, can,
under these circumstances vote for that candidate
who holds the position their candidate holds at the
South and towards the South. | make here no ar
gument Of my own. take hOnorable genetleInen
upon their principles. | commend to their lips the
chalice they mixed and poisoned for mine, and
dare them TO the taste. ] know that my friends in
rashness and hot party strife have done many things
20 endanger the constitution. l do not believe they
wish To elect Fremont; but, Sir II they had been
bent directly upou accOmplk hing that purpose no
man could lind out any manner which weald more
directly and more inevitably accomplish that result
than that which has been pursued. ! wish TO free
it from all collateral issues, and pot this great
argument before the country, that there shall be
end 70 this effort TO get rid OF Mr.. Fillmore by
this appeal 70 Southern prejudices.
wish to deal with that and nothing else tonight
l say, SIR il NJ. Fillmore be not supported by the
South, the whole North, and every State of a. must
and Nill, conservative men, and mad men, vote for
Mr.. Fremont, bg the very same reason that Demo
esats urge 70 induce Southern gentlemen to abandon
Mr.. Fillmore for Mr buchanan. There needs but
these words 10 accomplish Il: Fillmore is deserted
by the South he saved" That Que line would be
quetus undoubtedly OF this contest Democrats