Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-07-26

submit to the people Of Tennessee is, are you viii
ling to aid in striking down the only party in the
country that has had the will and the power here,
tofore to maintain the constitution and rights of the
citizens under it, and thereby perpetuate the
Union? That party, under whose principles and
policy you have been more prosperous and happy
than any people upon the face Of the earth. That
party that has for ninetenths of your history stood
at the helm of your ship of State and guided it tri-
umphantly through every storm. That party, the
wisdom Of whose policy stands vindicated to-day
by the actual experience of the country. So emil
nently wise and successful has been that policy,
that there is now no voice raised throughout the
whole country that insists upon changing it, except
with regard to the galvanized humbug Of distribu-
ton
Are you willing to strike down that party and
venture out UPON the field of wild experiment under
the lead Of the mere faction Know Nothingism,
that does not even propose to change the Democratic
policy, except upon the land question: and does not
indicate a policy for the government of the eoun-
try?
These, said Gen. H, are questions that the people
will answer on the 9th of August.
MY competitor will tell you when he comes to
speak, said Geu. H. that he is the candidate of the
American and Wig parties. Does it not fall
stragely upon the ears of the audience to hear a
member of the Know Nothing party claim to be the
representative and candidate of the Wings, when
1T is not forgotten that but one or two short years
ago my competitor and every member of his party
were solemnly sworn to prescribe not only the
Catholic and foreigner, but every old line Wing and
every Democrat in NE country and even so late as
last fall they denounced in tones of burning Bit
terness, traitors. every old line whig who dared
to determine for himself the grave and vitality i'm
portant issues involved in the Presidential contests
But after being crushed and defeated upon every
field last summer, they feel the necessity of aid
from Wing ranks and the harsh notes of denuncia-
ton are changed to those as soft and soothing as
those of a sucking dove, or the tones of flute at
midnight. But, said Gen. H., should like to know
when and where the rites of matrimony were
solemnized between those two parties. We know
that they were but short time since independent
OF and antagonisic to each other. Have the
Wings abandoned their principles and gone at last
into Know Nothingism, or have the Know Nothings |
abandoned their positions and Joined the Wings. or
have they met upon some middle ground, and If so.
1919 anu uPVh NHdt principle!
Gen. Harris said that his competitor was in the |
habit of Directing to two three points in his DO
itlcal record. He would tell his competitor that it
was very fortunate for himself and the country that
his opportunities to make political record had been
limited to single session of the State Legislature
For If he had had the same opportunities for max
ing record that l have, there is no GUESSING what
sort of record he would have made.
will notice few of the points in my competi-
tors record as a member of the last Legislature
find my competitor voting against the following
that Congress has no power to legis-
ate slavery into any territory State nor exclude
therefrOm, but the people thereof should be left
rec to form and regulate their domestic institutions
n their own way, subject only to the Constitution of
he Uuited States. YET CONGRESS MAY PASS SUCH
Avs AS ARE NECESSARY AND PROPER for the restor-
t,on Of Jgitiges from ssrriee; and on the same day
le voted for resolution declaring that Congress
a8 no Pager under the Constitution to lsgislats upon
he subject Of slavery in dny coy.
according to these resolutions nv competitor
must hold the fugitive slave law unconstitutional
len H. continued my competitor while member
t the last Legislature introduced bill proposing
appropriate $4,000, to establish, and $4,000
ear to support Normal school The object
eng to educate une boy from each legislative dis
ric in the State, for the purpose of making teach
RS of them, and when established thus at public
1pense, they were to return to their respective
Ounties and teach school, provided they were paid
'r it like other people.
tell my competitor, said Gen. IT,, that if he re-
red tn tbo
very little bright eyed, Gght-hearted boy and girl
the State, he should have appropriated that $780,
JO and that $4,000 per year to the common school
md, so that its benefits would have penetrated ev-
y neighborhood and put within the reach of every
Md in the State. You proposed to draw the mon C
alike from the pockets of all of US and its bepe u
5 should be eqdlly distributed, as far as possible.
My competitor, said Gen. H., voted for the bill
eating the office of tax assessor and also for the
Il creating the Office of County Judge, and is to c.
at extent responsible for the creation of those Of
es He now admits that each of those measures IL
e wrong, and favors their repeal But, says Gen. st
, tell him that he should go back to the legis-
ure to repeal them as the Governor has no power
accomplish the object. 81
My competitor, said Gen, H., voted against bill CT
1t passed the Senate and came to the House. and
defeated by the vote of my competitor and 9TH 81
A mechanic has made improvements upon proper ca
at the instance of the vendee, upon which the
ldor has lien, that when the vendor subjects the
pery to the payment of his debt he shall be La ir
to pay to the mechanic the amount that he has Oe
N really and actually benefited BY the labor and ~
perty of the mechanic. Now, if the vendor has co
been benefited by the improvement, by the labor III
property of the mechanic he does not pay WI
t. But if he has been benefited, this bill made Io
liable to pay the mechanic Just to the extent he wy
been benefited and is it not better for him 10 pay DC
he mechanic for the benefit that he has derived l..
n his labor, than for the mechanic to loose it? w
IN the planes principles of common justice it is by
therefore think the bill should have passed. ho'
that my competitor did wrong to vote against It. POI
ALIEN SUFFRAGE. Is
he K. n. party, said Gen. H., have for the last to
years suffered much with the apprehension that Ah
Catholics and foreigners about to take pos the
ion OF the country, subvert the government, &C.,
But, recently, they have ceased to fear the HE
and have concentrated all of their fears upon eae
rec
nd when you hear my competitor you will be led -
conclusion that the policy called by him alen ono
age" in the Territories is the most important 9TH
tiOn involved in this canvass. Yet my COMPETE