Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-13
From the New Orleans Delta, August
Political Ethics illustrated by late Ex-
ampIeS.

From the New Orleans Delta, August
Political Ethics illustrated by late Ex-
amPIes.
! Fidelity to principle seems to have become obso-
ete in the ethics OF National Democracy as we find
them illustrated by the Washington Union and kin
! dred organs, which endeavoriBg to whip the
South into the support of the WalkeT-Kansas poll
! cy. If they acknowledge any faith, il is faith in
the nOn-exstence of auy obligation but that of sac
rihcng principle to expediency. II they firmly be-
leVe in any thing, they believe in not letting duty
stand in the way Of place. If they sincerely
! true to any thing they are true to treachery. If
! they are blindy devoted to any body, they are de.
voted to the successful traitor. And if they have
cordial hate for class Of people, it is for those
clear-headed and hgh-hrarted Southeruers who will
/ not initiate their shameless example. Judas, had
! be betrayed the twelve Apostles as well as Christ
would have been to those precious opponents of Ma
| tionul Democracy a saint occupying the highest
! place in the calendar; and BaraObas had he not
been overtaken by justice, would have been a hero
| at least.
When the Kansas policy of Gov. Walker was
| first announced, the most of the journals to which
| we allude joined with the independent Southern
press in denouncng it. q violation of that prnci-
pie of the Kansas bill which guaranteed to the peo-
pie of the Territory the right to adopt State Con-
stituton without any interference or dictatiou by
! Congress or the Executive. Gov Walker had in-
terferred unwarrantably; he had dictated arrogant
! ly. He argued in official document to prove
that slavery could exist In Kansas, and express
! ed his official opinion that the Constitution should
be submitted to the ratification of those who had
refused participate in framing it, or had come in
to the Territory purpOsely to vote upon it after it
was framed. Nay, mOre-thvOugh the same Ofic al
medium he uttered the the threat that unless the
Constitution so submitted. Congress would in
dgnantly reject it, aud refuse admission to the new
State of Kansas Still further, he declared in put
! lie speech the Free-sOilers and rebels Of Topeka
| that unless the Convention should humbly obey his
! dictation, they would be justified in opposing its
| proceedings, that he would join them in all lawful
! opposition, and that the President of the United
! States would also join them. In a word, Governor
Walker took the Free-sOi eide of the question in
! Kansas against the Southern Rights cause. For
this he was denounced by the Independent press of
the South, aud all the big organs and little tOot-
| horns from the Union down, were either silent
| concurred in condemnation.
But soon the startling fact began to emerge into
| view, that the Kansas programme was fixed up in
Washington; that if Walker deep in the mu J,
Mr. Buchanan not out OF the mire of that mat
ter; and that if the satrap deserved hanging the
President certainly not gultess. Incontinent-
Iy then, some score of the journalists of
gandom began to eat their own words. Old Saturn
himself never devoured his offspring with more IA
chty and more apparent relish. Walker must be
whitewashed otherwise Buchanan might be black
ened They fed from sOphistry to sOpnistry, from
subterfuge to subtertug5, from classification TO fal5
fcatiOn. But disarmed of every weapon, driven
from every defense, they finally tried to save them
selves from utter and irremediable discontinue, by
arguing that the Pro-slaVery party OF Kansas, in
convection assembled, having fully indorsed HE
policy OF Gov. Walker, we OF the South had no just
ground of complaint inasmuch as that party, being
the most Immediately interested aud on the spot
a better judge than we of the justice and pro-
Driety OF Walkers course This argument is based
on double falsehood. First, no party calling it.
self Pro-SaverY has assembled in convention since
Gov Walkers arrival in Kansas. Second, the Kan
sas Democratic Convention of the Sd # July, which
is the convention aluded to, did approve that
specific Kansas policy against which the South pro-
tested, but, on the contrary, tacuy condemned it,
Moreover, granting the truth OF the two false
sumptiOns, and the argument would still be weak
and rotten; for the Endorsement would have been
subsequent to Walkers Inauguration Governor
and might have been Justly attributed TO the iutu
ence of lis dicaton and the cOntagou of his react
cry. The principle of post hoe, prOpter hoe, never
would have been more applicable than in such a
case.
We said that the Kansas Democratic Conven-
ton did not approve, but tacitly condemned the
specific policy OF which the South complaimcd-
that is the interference of Walker, backed by the
Administration at Washington, to have the COnstitu
tionOi Kansas submitted tor the ratification of Free
Soil squatters. The only resolution passed by that
Convention which mentions Walker does not en-
dorse anything he had done but only pledges the
party to support him future in the preservation
OF peace, &c. Thus It reads:
Resolved, That the National Democratic party
Of Kansas Territory pledges itself to the support
and maintenance OF his Excelleucy, Robert J.
Walker, in preserving the peace aud harmony of
Kansas and in executing the laws Of the cOun-
try"
But the Convention did more than tacitly con-
denim Gov Walker. In the seventh resolution, the
Interference OF the Executive with outside
OF its constitutional province is Ehus pointedly de-
nounced:
Resolved, That we hold firmly to the doctrine
entertained by the trainers of oar Constitution,
that the executive aud judicial are separate aud
distinct branches Of our General Government in
respect to their duties and powers, and that any
attempt the part OF either branch TO encrOach
upon the right aud powers OF the other is but
subversion of the aims of our Government,
and that most heartily deuouncs them"
Thus We see the last refuge Of the Buchanan
Walker organs TO hide from public scorn and oblo-
Guy their disregard OF consistency, iuhdelity to
principle, and deserIion OF she rights and interests
Of the South, is proved untenable aud they stand
Ia naked shame before the Southern people. But
many Of these miserable outcasts from principle
aud renegades from duty are beginning to parade
their shame political virtue. They declare
the treachery OF Walker 10 be a good thing, be-
cause il viii bring Kansas Into the Unou a Free
State and thus save the Democratic party oi the
North from destruction They tell the Southern
people that they should r, joice TO thus pr
served a national party whose President, through
his satrsp, bad just sold her tor baser price than
IscaFiots forty pieces. This is not argument t IS
insulting moekeTy.
Let the South, If she will, save the Northern
Democracy by oonsentiug % DC sold out IN Kansas
20 AboiiLonism. Let her, if she choose, suffer
herself 20 be covered with The mantle Of national
parts fed lat upon her losses. Let her, If she
IT. strengthen the arm which now holds the sword
thrsting tor her life az her very door. But cell
her, she do all this. that bargain and tFeae cry
viii not end with Kansas; that the mantle which
she vii will be deadly the shirt OF Aes-
/ sus; aud that the sword nov LIKED in menace will
not cease to giimmer before her eyes until il Is
/ sheathed 10 her breast II she does not learu
. use fai lesson from the ethics OF National Party
sm as Illustrated by late examples, &c feat she
+ past instruction add out Of the reach OF praying
I for
! THAT BLKssED BABYl-MFa Cunningham con
/ Iinues 10 be much gusVed al The inhuman treat
/ meut alleged 10 have been received. She Wept
/ much this morning, exel.iming, They've got haF-
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