Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-12-01

TUESDAY, DECEMBER i, 1867.
The Kansas ImbrogIIO-HIr. Buchanan
and the Northern sham Democracy.


If the telegraph is correct in reporting
Mr.. Buchanan as sustaining the Constitu-
tional Convention of Kansas, in submitting
the isolated question of slavery, and refus-
ing to submit the Constitution, to the peo-
pie, he is likely to meet with serious oppo-
sition from portion of the sham demOcra-
cy of the North. Whilst some of the jour-
nails of the party--recipients possibly ofgov
eminent patronage-concur in sustaining
the action of the Convention, some of the
ablest of the leading journals condemn it
most unequiyocally. Amongst the latter,
are the Detroit Free Press, the home organ
of Gen. Cass; the Chicago Times, the organ
OF Senator Douglas; and the Philadelphia
Press, edited by the notorious Forney, Mr..
Bnchanan's man Friday. It may be of
some service to our sham democratic read
ers to have few extracts from these jour
nails of their party served up tor them.
We shall, with this view, attempt the task
We begin with the organ of Gen. Cass.
After speaking of the Constitution and the
mode of submission adopted, the Detroit
Free Press says
Upon this constitution, upon the question beth
er this instrument should become the supreme law
of Kansas the peOule are not allowed the privilege
of votiDg--of saying yea or nay.
There has never been anything like this in the
history of this country. An attempt such this
has never before been made to impose upon the
people OF State about to ask entrance into the
TTuin if,rfsou -E, r
them. The Kan-as Convention has GisgrAced it's If
in the ey' 8 of all decent men. 1t has not only
sought to impose upon the people an obnoxious
constitution, but it has deliberately couspired to
violate the sacred compact contained in h Kansas
organic act, success in which would involve the
country in new aRt-sliVcry agitation in comparI-
son withsThch the violence of all former sgitaIions
would sink into utter insieni6cance.
Of course the free-State n of Karsls will have
nothing TO do with the mOckeIy OF an ell ction re-
gar"lng this constitution, and Of course Congress
will treat this constitution With the came disregard
that it treated the Top, ka concern the Que having
no NOR validity than the other.
Again: says the Press, in another article
1--WE echo the declaration of our Phadelp ia
contemporary cont lined in another column that the
Northern man in Congress or 10 other position
who shall lend his aid any attempt or plot to de-
feat the will of the majority of the people of Kan
sas viii be punished with political humiliation. And
We have to Southern extremists, in and out
OF Congress, not to delude themselves with the im-
preston that they will have the support of the
Democratic party OF the North in any iuggle to
fetch Kansas into the Union as a slave State against
the wishes of its actual Inhabitants On this ues-
ton the Northern Democratic party will be actuated
~ one impulse: 1t will not recede one inch from
the preservation of the integrity of the great prin
ciple of the Kansas organic act"
Senator DOUGLASS organ, the Chicago
Times, says
The ADMINISTRATION AND Kansas teIe-
crap ic despatch appears in our columns this morn
ing, furnished by the New York Agent of the asso-
ciated press, in which it is stated that the Admin
istration approve the action OF the recent COnVen-
ton in Kansas, and have concluded that the ques-
tOns at issue have been fairly submitted to the peo-
pie. Such is the statement by telegraph; no au
thorty is given, and DO grounds furnished upon
which the statement Is founded.
We doubt the statement made by telegraph.
We doubt the assertion that the President has de-
clared that the action of Convection il with
holding the constitution from vote upon it by the
people, meets his approval. 1t is due to our read
ers that we should state the reason why we think
Mr.. Buchanan has not approved such action, and,
as n consequence, why he wiH not approve it. Ia
1854 Congress passed the Kansas-N ebraska act,
hich act contained tie following rect and posi-
tive pledge: that Congress did not intend to 'eg-
lsate slavery into any territory State, nor ex
clude It therefom but to leavr the people thereof
perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic
institutions in their own ,, subject only to the
Constitution Of the United States"
The Times here gives extracts from
Mr.. Buchanan's record to show that he is
pledged to the reverse of the course the
telegraph states he is about to pursue, and
closes as follows:
We have omitted all comments on the language
of the President which we have quoted. The coun-
try e cted him TO the Office of President, and has
sustained his Administration since then under the
that the privilege of voting for against
the constitution would never be d. MED the people
OF Kansas. Upon any other ground Mr.. Buchanan
would never have been nominated at Cincinnati or
if nominated would never have been erctrd. II
the bright hope that the people Of Kansas
could, at the bsot-Oox, repair oil wrongs and ex-
press their own free will, that enabled the Demo-
cratic party to place the Administration 10 power.
We do not b.. heve, therefore, that in the face
of all the cardinal points of the Democratic faith
the Ada inistraton will endorse any action which
denies TO the people OF Kansas as IF .ctuany as il
denies the people of En- land the right of estab-
fishing constitution for the State of Kansas.
In another article in reply to interroga-
tories from black republican touching the
position and intentions of Senator Douglas
the Times says
Without any authority from Senator Douglas 10
answer these or any other questions which DOR
neighbOrs may put to him, venture, however,
the opinion that, enjoying be does the Unlimited
confidence OF the Democratic party of this Stat,
and knowing he does their unanimous wishes
be will at the next session of the Senate be has
her, ioloFe done, insist with all his power by vote
and by speech, that the provision of the Kansas
Net rsska act-"Ihst the people OF Kans e shall be
free to regulate their own domestic institutions Ia
their own Wayh-shall be observed in good faith,
and positively carried into practical execution.
Forming our opinion from the same reasons, We
also venture the prediction that he will not stand
colby back while the South Grams slavery down
the threats of the people of that any other Terri
tory, without the consent of the people themselves
FOrneys Press closes a long article
against the action Of the Convention as
follows:
We struggled with all our enerses for the passage
Of the Nebraska bill; for the triumph of its princi-
ples before the great tribunal Of the people; for
the election OF Nr. Buchanan; for the defence Of
his Administration, ncluiing bis Kansas policy.
and 10 defence of the official action Of Gov Walker;
and We now desire earnestly any man in the
country fair and peaceful settlement of this whole
question. But We ask that the people should have
the right TO form their own Institutions 10 their
own way and that this right should be secured 20
them freely. fairly, aud unsquivocally. We ask
that when Kansas comes into the Union il shall be
under constitution which has received the en-
dorsement OF a majority Of her citizens fairly
proceed; that she should take her place = MEM
Der of the Confederaey under instrument which
has in every line acquired that foil degree OF vita
" that popular approval alone give, DOt under
A constitution framed nnder restrictions which tx.