Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-10-29

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1857.
Kansas-senauor DougIas.

The Chicago Times the home organ OF
Senator Douglas veers around with the |
popular breeze in Kansas. The election in |
the territory have gone in favor of black
republicanism-free soil is in the ascendant !
slavery and the rights of Southern men
eclipsed-and now the Tribune pronounces
as follows
What that Convention will do, or what il
will not do, we have not fhe means of know
ing. But we know that any attempt to force
pro-slavery constitution upon the people
without the opportunity Of voting it down at
the polls, will be regarded, afer the recent
expression OF sentiment, as so decidedly unjust,
oppressive and unworthy of 8 free people,
that the people Of the Uni ed States will
not sanction it. II would add tho s.
aDds TO the vote of the republican party
IN every State Of the Union, and give
to that organization what it has never
had yet = show of justice and truth.
To the democratic members of that COnven-
tion the course is lain. The people have de
cided in favor of free State-thOngh they
have not voted on the naked issue If " free
S ate or slave State" they have voted prarti
! callv IN favor of free State. THO thirds 0f
! the democratic party In Kansas hare 1Oted
! 1oith the free State party IN Kansas at the re-
cent election. an order to make the popular d.
| ci8i0R more emphatic. AS Kansas must b. a
free STATE, even those persons in the Territory
who are know as prO-slavery men must recog-
nize in the late election decision which must
not be sighted nor put at defiance. To that
| expression of the popular will there should he
a graceful ifnot cheerf Il submission. Kan
sas is to be a free State! That fact being as
certained let the Convention frame constitu-
ton TO suit her best interests upon all other
questions, and let the prohibition of slavery
be put into it, clearly and without qnhble,
plainly without disguise, explicitly, broadly and
firmly. Let the Convention then submit that
constitution to the people. If it be adopted,
Kansas will come into the Union at the next
session, and the republican party will expire
for want of sustenance.
How do our Southern sham democrats,
who have been contending that the consti-
tuition should not be submitted to a popular
vote for ratification, relish this demand of
the Douglas organ Further - what
think they of the soundness Of the " two
thirds of the democratic party in Kansas
who "voted with the free State Cor repub-
lican) party in Kansas in order to make
the popular decision more emphatic
against the SOuJn mat Is Il peCulldI
way of saving Kansas to the South, is it
not? Every phase Of the Kansas question
from its first inception in Congress has
been an illustration of the hypocrisy and
knavery of the sham democratic leaders
In no instance have they acted fairly and
honestly-tO cheat and delude the people
and to retain possession of power has been
their aim throughout the controversy
which is now ending disastrously to the
South
Kansas is to be a free State" Yes,
through the trickery of the sham democra-
cy; and, in the language of Gen. Shields,
not another slave State will be added to
the Union though we should acquire all Of
Mexico. Sham democracy has made free.
solism power invincible; manacled the
limbs of the South, and given her over
a prey to her enemies.