Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-03-20
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In the Massachusetts House of Representa-
tives, on Tuesday, an order was adopted in
structing the Committee on Federal Relations
TO consider the expediency of instruoting our
Senators, and requesting their representa-
tives in Congress to propose an amendment of
the Constitution of the United States, electing
judges of the Supreme snd inferior courts BY
the people for term of years. Cincinnati
Commercial, 18th inst.
Driven from their unconstitutional plat
form by the Supreme Court of the United
States, the black republicans now seek to
bring the Court within the circle of popu-
lar agitation, with view to render it a
pliable instrument of popular caprice The
preponderance Of the North in the Ma
tional Legislature is already large and con-
stantly increasing, owing to the immense
immigration from Europe. Of late years
the abolition sentiment there has also been
increasing rapidly. There will be no pause
in this superior progress of the North in
population, nor, we fear, in the decline of ma
tional sentiment. This movement againstthe
Supreme Court will have tendency to fur
ther the latter; and this is the present de-
sign of those who are at the bottom of it.
The ground lost by the breaking up of the
black republican platform is to be recover
ed by it. There is no probability of the
success, for many years to come, of the prop
osition to amend the Constitution. The
black republicans themselves know this.
Their only hope Of success must grow out
of the Alien Suffrage policy of the Demo
cratic party. under the operation of which
a long succession of free States may be
admitted into the Union, and ultimately
give the North the numerical superiority
in States required to effect the object. So
long as the strength of the South is in.
creased by the addition of new slave States,
there will be no danger; but where now is
the South to look for additional slave
States Have we any territory to which
she can look with confidence None I'm.
der the combined operations of nature, the
agitations of the abolitionists, the natural.
cation laws. and the policy of the demo
cratic party which constitutes an alien vo
ter, all of our territories are consecrated
to freedom" Such is the opinion of wise
and sagacious statesmen, North and South
1t is the part Of wisdom for the Southern
people to investigate this subject calmly,
and dispassionately, to ascertain the truth
and to be guided by it in their future con-
duct. They cannot be true to their own inter
estS, and to their section of the Union, il
they fail to do this. And when they do do
it, we feel well assured that they will take
measures to counterfeit the mischievous
policy which confers upon subjects of other
governments equal rights with American
citizens, and insidiously aids the abolition
lists in their war upon our rights, and upon
the Supreme Court which has interposed a
barrier to their Internal plots. They must
see that the principles of the American par.
ty furnish the safest practical mode of con
quering the difficulties and dangers which
are in prospect. Led away hitherto by
the false issues, the ribaldry and abuse o.
the opposition to these principles, they
have not done themselves nor their section
justice in permitting the triumph of For
eign Influence, which has now possession o.
the Legislative and Executive Departments
of the Government. They must review the
past, and make now bold struggle for the
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