Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-11-28

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1857.

lem OF the application OF aDsII"O'
trines and opinions to the practical settle
ment and government of the Territories, at
each successive step, unlocked for well
springs are broken open, covering its pro-
gress with still darker complications and
embarraSsments. The tabled BOX" seems
not yet to have been emptied of all its evils
there are yet more left, and as each one
IS successfully disclosed it appears darker,
hercer and more horrid still than all the
rest. The progress that is made during
the day is retraced during the night, and
the threads that are filed into the tapes
try Of events one hour, are unravelled and
undone the next. The king of Ithica, Fra
ternity, has departed on his wanderings,
and while he is detained alternately by the
one-eyed Polyphemus of Black Republican
ism, and in the false but seductive embra-
ces of the Calypso of National Democracy,
his beautiful bride, Peace, is left to the
phantom feast of hope continually deferred.
Ii the Kansas-Nebraska bill was "Pan-
dora's box" Kansas itself is well proving
itself very "Penelope's web"
We laid before our readers, several days
ago, the Schedule" as adopted by the
constitutional convention, and which pro-
vdes for a submission of the isolated ques-
ton of SlaUery, or no sLaUsry, to the people
of the territory for their determination.
We have waited anxiousy to see the entire
constitution as adopted, but have been so
far disappointed, We learn, however, that
it is upon all other subjects, rehash of
and bearing a near resemblance to those
| of the other States of the Union. As such,
we have heard no particular objection to
any other part of the instrument. 1t also
provides that all property in slaves now in
the territory shall be respected and pro-
tected-and that the owners of slaves shall
not be deprived of them without proper
compensation. This we understand to be
the milk of the controversy in a nut shell.
The Republican press are indignant, and
that also of the northern democracy de-
nounce the action of the convention in re-
fusing to submit the result of their labors,
as a 1ohOle, for the ratification or rejection
of the people. This was the line of policy
marked out and dictated by the President,
in his instructions to Gov. Walker, and
which he asserted and made known both,
in his inaugural address and his Topeka
speech. 1t was expected that the conven-
ton, claiming, as it did, to be made up of
national democrats, would not have the
hardihOod to violate orders from headquar-
tiers. But the convention, in a measure
did so, and the consequence is that most
of the national democrats of the North I'M
qualifedly reprobate the action of the con-
vention. What the Presidents own views
are upon the subject, we know not, further
than they are presumed to be expressed by
the Washington Union. That paper ex-
presses satisfaction at the result; it is not
only satisfied, but jubilant 1t says: "the
"Vexed question is settled-the problem is
''solved-the dead point of danger is passed
all serious trouble about Kansas affairs
"are over and gone. Kansas comes into
''the Union on the principle of the great
''act which organized her and Nebraska as
Territorial governments" We sincerely
hope there may be no occasion for a change
of tune But we fear the discordant notes
of the nationals of the North, will mar the
harmony of the Organ, and the Joy of the
party generally; if indeed, it shall not cause
the President and Governor Walker to exert
their utmost power and influence, against the
admission Of Kansas as a State, by Congress.
How the matter is regarded by the democ-
racy of the SOEth, we cannot tell from
anything appearing in their journals. In
this State there appears to be no public
sentiment on the subject, whatever. The
fear of unwittingly falling into disagree
ment with the President, probably has
caused the two leading organs of the
administration in Tennessee, the Memphis
Appeal and the Nashville Union and ASssT-
lean, have stepped exceedingly gingerly on
this volcanic ground. The latter has main
tanned silence almost total. We concede
that, in some instances, and this may be
one of them, discretion is the better part
of valor;" but we think it due to the de-
mocracy Of the State that their views
should be made known to the country, as
we'll as TO the President that he may mn
derstand how far his official acts conform
to their wishes.
But the real question now is, viii the
national democracy sustain the action of
the Kansas convention? Suppose that on
the 2lst of December, when the question
is to be decided, whether the State shall be
a slave or free State, technically so called,
the free State men refuse to go to the polls,
aud the constitution is carried with pro-
slavery clause, will Congress admit her? VIII
Kansas be admitted at any and all events?
Having the power, by an actual majority,
in both branches of Congress, viii the har-
monious national democracy" exert that
power, by admitting Kansas into the Union,
and SO give peace aud quiet to the land, at
least on this vexed question: What has
the country to look or hope for?