Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-12-11
The WashingtO" Union and Chicago
Times, Sham-DemOcrats, Lock Horn.


Times. Sham-DemOcrats Lock Horn.
The other day tie Washington Union put
this question:
But those of our Democratic contemporaries who
object to the action of the convention insist that
the whole constitution should have been submitted
to o popular vote and because that was not DONE
thew denounce the convention, "a violators Of the
principle of the Kansas law Val anu one of our
objectirg contemporaries pretend that Uhen the Ham
Sas 6jY peHdi"g, IL eUer ~0S contemplated By
anybody that lie pODao0r sovereignty clause had
ference to ana other subject than that of SiaUery ?
Surely not. Then it i mere sticking in the bark
to say that the convention has filled to carry out
the great object and true spirit of the Kansas law
The Chicago Times of Friday the 4th inst
says:
The above question can easily be answered by
asking another-viz: Will the Washington Union
or. tend that Congress, in passing the Kansas-Ne-
hra.k act, designed giving the people of Kansas
the right of regulating slavery in that State and de-
MED them all right to determine any other question
in their domestic concerns? Did Congress intend
to contine the right Of "self-govaFnmFnt" 10 the
single issue of slavery? If so, 0aS not the Kansas
Nebraska act gross SlCindle-dd it not deprive
the people of the right to regulate all oer domes-
tic institutions? The Union is at liberty to take
either horn of the dilemma; either position is fatal;
and this fact strongly illustrates that the pre-
sent position of the Union is in direct hostility to
the Kansas-Nebraska act.
| The Times follows up this point blank shot
| by quotations from speeches in the Senate, OF
| WELLER, Brown, HUNTER, and OAss, advocat-
ing the possage of the Kansas N ebraska Bill,
! wherein Weller said:
The simple proposition is to leave the people oil
Kansas and Nebraska free and untrammeed tc
decide on ALL THEIR LOCAL INSTITUTIONS for them
| selves.
Cass said the same thing in other words
which the Times quotes, and follows with thi.
! comment:
Noble words, and yet the Washington Unton
! purporting to speak in behalf of the g6vernmen
| OF which Cen Cass is an honored member Gail1
interposes plea, and endeavors to make it accep
table TO the American people a., behalf of tina
tyranny, tchich denies to the people Of Kansas Il
say aye or no upon that ttt7damental la,0 whicb i
to govern their family aud social relations thea
affairs and their property. In the declining year
of his life the venerable Secretary of State Is helC
up to the American people az justfying and applaud
! ing that Tyannical deprivation OF right from tn,
! people, which in the speech we have quoted he 81
eloSuently denounces.
! We might 20 on end quote from every spec cl
made in favor of the bill TO show that the popula
! sovereignty clause not confined nor intended
to be confined in its operation to the slavery clause
! IL was designed to cover all question of dOmest
| or internal relation. We leave the Union TO diges
this small dose and if il desire any more il can b.
supplies by applying tn, Kansas sot, and the de
bates upon tia published in theCong gre sonaG lobe
| Having made good our answer, we leave the SUI
| ject.