Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-06-05
"Free Democracy and Free Kansas"

which'directly affect us as State and as in
dividuals.
''Free Democracy and Free Kansas"
We have heretofore expressed our opin-
ion that Kansas would come into the
Union as free State; and exposed some
of the maneuvring by which this result
was to be effected. To the modern democ-
racy, belongs the exclusive honor of speak
ing that territory into political existence,
and of managing its affairs, from the begin
ming to the present moment. To them will
belong the honor or dishonor of making it
free State. If this result had been
brought about by fair and honorable
means, by the calm and deliberate convic-
tions of the permanent citizens Of the terri
tory, being also citizens of the United
States, expressing those convictions in the
formation of State, we should have had
nothing to say. We should have bowed
obedience to that cardinal principle of Re
publcs, that the people have the right to
govern themselves. But this has not been
the fact. On the contrary, it has been the
result of the dextrous duplicity and hypoc'
risy of the men in power pursued through
out the entire struggle between the North
and the South, to the manifest advantage
of the former, and to the ultimate diSfran-
chsement of the latter From the appoint-
ment of the notorious REEDER down to WAL
KER, the same insidious line of policy is man.
fest. The people of the South have been
hoodwinked by the Specious outgivingS of
popular sovereignty, until they now see the
drift and tenor Of events. Under the mag
ic power of Mr. Buchanan's inaugural, the
free State men, and the Emigrant Aid So
cieties of the North have freighted their
obedient subjects and hirelngs, both for
eign and native, till they have now obtain
ed a majority in the territory. Depending
upon the black republicans to fill the terri
tory with an anti-slavery population, to
make it free State, they now depend upon
their own strategy to makeit democrat
ic free State" Shis consummation has be-
come so apparent that the democracy are
now complacently referring to the fact that
they have been the instrument of this
achievement. To this effect we take the
following from the correspondent of the st.
Louis Republican, supporter of the de-
mocracy:
Whatever may be the result, so far as the sla-
very question goes, we may be miataken, but we
think that Kansas OiH be Free State Nth a pro-
tectiue clause as TO negroes Ouned IN the Terri
torn, aud will De made so by the act of the united
and conservative National Democracy both of the
Norrh and the South If this should be so the De-
mocracy of the North will owe debt of gratitude
to the Southern wing of the party whOselull extent
il will be almost impossible to conceive"
Upon this the Cincinnati Commercial,
black republican, remarks:
"The Democracy of Kansas are in curious con-
dtion. They wish to be neither pro-savery nor
anti-slavery, but simply National" and the diff
Guilty is the mana cement OF so d,licste a matter
Every letter from the territory tells of efforts max
ing by the National Democracy TO fill up their ranks
from the hostile camps of the Rutians and the Free
State men. The Southerners perceive the mpossi.
bity of Slavery being established in the territory,
which literally swarms with Free State emgrants,
and ready to compromise, split the difference,
bargain and sell that they may be let down essy
The effort now ia to make Kansas democratic
State" and as the Free State men are in the ma.
jority there is obvious necessity of conciiatlng
the feeling of the Free Sellers.
The black republicans, are not exactly
satisfied, after performing, as they suppose,
the work of throwing Free State men
enough into the territory to make it a free
State, that the democracy should step in,
aud claim the benefits. The democracy,
however, proceed as though it has been
work peculiarly and exclusively their own
and hold up the deed as subject Of fe-
licitation, and of gratitude on the part of
the North towards the South. The demo
cratic Israel of the South has been most
grossly deceived, and the Esau of the
South has been cheated and defrauded of
the promised blessing, by his brother Jacob
of the North. But in the face of these
facts, which they neither attempt to palate
nor deny, they are protesting friendship for
the South, and charging US with being abo-
litionists in disguise We believe such
graceless effrontery, and unblushing dupli-
city, have no parallel.