Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-07-10
N ASHVILIE:
FRIDAY. JULY 10. 1857.
The AnIi-Dlstrlbu.Ionists in a strait.


They know and feel its force, and fear the con-
of a verdict from the people upon |
its merits. Their orators and papers, great
and small, attack it violently and furiousiy,
but they 90 not agree among themselves as to
the mode of assault They recognize in it
fearful ''lion in their path,' and appreciate the
necessity of powerful struggle against 1t, but
they have no wel-defned order of battle-no
settled line of augmentation. AS q conse-
quence, they are efftcting very little, while the
measure, founded upon justice and correct pol
icy, is steadily and rapidly gaining upon pop
ular favor, and will be triumphanty sustain
ed. No substantial argum ent can be adduced
10 opposition to it, and the sophistical pleas
put forward often contradict one another, and
destroy their force in their own conflict. The
anti-distributiOn organ of the sham Delnocra
cy of Tennessee hes touched every key in the
cutlery which has been raised against it, and
consequently has frequently stulti6ed itself
and Others engaged in the same cause. An lin
stance Of this we present:
The Union and american, of June 11th, in
an article entitled distribution and Adolf
tion," says: at should be borne constantly in
"mind that there are tu0 parties IN the cOun-
''try aoho contend that Congress has pOs0er to
g diUide Out the proceeds Of the Public Lands
6 among the 8eUeraL States. Whilst the Know
"NOthiDgs are contending that it may be done
g for the purpose of meeting the liability of
& the States, incurred in building Railroads and
otherwise, the Abolitionists contend that
| Ct bo,y h. sOlJ III ed
"to liberating the negroes" Here is an at
tempt to identify the Distribution question
with the anti-Slavery, Freesoil feeling and
movement of the North.
Per contra: In the issue of that paper of
the 10th nit. Give days subsequently, is an ex-
tract from letter purporting to be the pro-
duction of distinguish ed citizen of David
son county," and on which it proposes to be
''aoilLing to rest the entire argument" 1t con-
tains the following paragraph:
1.-THE idea of distribution however, is, at best, a
"humbug. 1t is not seri Jusly thought OF or main
| "taned in but few States of the Union, AND THE
| "DEMoCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PARTIES ARE BOTH
| "oPPosED TO IT, and it it successful iG every
Estate where the subj ct is canvassed 1t could not
receive more than forty votes in Congress-, and
A" would be abandoned, &c, &c.
Which is right2 Do the American and
Freesoil parties agree in proposing it, or this
distinguished" Democrat says, do the ''Dem-
ocratio and Republican parties" agree in OPP
posing it2 Both of these Oracles are batter
ing away blindly, and Instead of injuring dis
tribution have cloven down each other. The
distinguished" Democrat, however, is right.
The democratic and Republican parties" are
opposed to distribution, and, for like reasons
| The policy which distribution is intended tC
supplant is an odious sectional one, founded
upon a favoritism which has its origin in Z
base and corrupt motive, shared in common by
the leaders of the Democratic and Republican
parties. 1t approprates the common and RICH
full property of all the States to the rapiC
building up and settling of the Northwest, to
the positive and direct detriment Of other sec
tions Of the country, and especially the Soutt
and Southwest. 1t introduces great FreesoI
States into the Union, giving the anti-Slavery
influence, in the National councils, increased
weight and power. 1t is filling the Senate
that last bulwark of protection for the Soutl
against unconstitutional and intolerable az
gression-with such men as Fitch, Trumbull
Durkee, Harlan q Co., not to speak of Doug
las, of Illinois, and kindred nsidiOus foes t
the South. The enrching policy of the Gen
eral Government commenced by Democratic
Congresses and specially insisted on by Presi
dent Pierce in his veto of the INDECENT Insan,
bill as proper mode of dispOsing of the pub
lie domain, is making that section an enticin(
bone of contention between aspiring and IN
scrupulous Democratic politicians North anC
South, and the Black Republican leaders
They both favor it, for in it they see pros
pect, through political gambling and stock
jobbing, as indicated in the present Buchanan
Walker-Stanton movement in Kansas, to max
party capital at the sacrifice of the substantia
interests of the people, and the security an
peace of the nation. 1t is natural that De
mocracy and Republicanism, which live on
pabulum of agitation and intrigue, should op
pose a measure, which, in its wise, just an
benefcent operations, would deprive tn em {
their sustenance.
Mr. Douglas, of Illinois, may be said to b
the father of the Democratic policy of bestoW
ing the public lands upon the States of til
Northwest to the exclusion of other section
and as chairman of the Territorial COMMITTEE
of the Senate, he has been chiefly instrumeT
tai in founding new States in that section
Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, etc, are III
work of his hands. He has become to be
eonditOr impsriorum. The Democratic Ian
policy drains the old States of wealth and POI
ulalion and plants it upon the Prairies of Ii
North west, where governments are soon d.
manded, and the accursed question of SLAYER
is introduced, and by some magnificent swir
nile the South is cheated, as the Administrt
ton and its agents are now doing in Kansas
cheat which is becoming so transparent thl
the Richmond Examiner, an able aud fearle,
journal, and till the late developments, an az
vocate of the Kansas-Neb raska bill, now col
dennis its passage, and demands a repeal of {
much of it as creates Territorial government
and the restoration of the Territory to its Cor
gressionaI puPilage.
Such are some Ct the results of sham D,
mocracy's mode of dsposng of the publ
lands in its relation to the Slavery question
aud is a key TO the cordially with whc
Douglas aud Seward oppose distribution, al
sustain Alien Suffrage, and is sufficient rel
sou why distinguished" Democrat shou
say, in regard to distribution, ''that the Den
oeratic and Republican parties are opposed
it,"
w Joseph L. Ewing, ESQ., one of Il
| American candidates has been unable tbt