Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-07-15

WEDNESDAY, JULY Is, 1857.
Kansas-Buchanan and the Southern
Democracy

VI uehleu' lhcluSes the principles of Alien Snf-
rage and oquatter Sovereignty, answered its |
purpose Wen enough so long as it remained |
theory. But when it comes to be put into |
practical operation, it is quite another matter.
DOUGLAS, its putative father, repudiates it I'M
conditionally, when it is brought into opera
ton in Utah; and when it is resorted 20 for
solution of the exciting difficulties in Kansas,
the independent Democrats of the South, men
and presses, Indignantly spurn and deneunce
1t. The unwarrantabe interference of Gov.
Walker in the partizan affairs of the territory.
Is justly and severely censured; and even the
most servile defenders of the administration.
concur In this censure, and excuse the Presi-
cent denying that he appreciates this step on
the part of his prOconsul. AS TO the position
that Walker has assumed, that the constitution
20 be framed in September shall be submitted
TO the people for ratification or rejection, it Is
unquestlonable that be is sustained by the Adj
mlnistratioD. That is question which admits
OF argument, and disconnected with the pecu-
lar circumstances which surround Kansas,
has majority of precedents in its favor Not
wIthstanding the outcry against It, It will be
executed by the Administration. The fact is,
WALKER toiU be sustained The Democracy
of Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi. and
very large proportion of the rank and file
of the party throughout the South, will have
the fingers Of the President disdaiufully snap
ped in their faces, aud they will have to crouch
under the lash of power, or help themselves
as best they can. The hasty demand for a re-
call of Walker, will be incontinenuy swallow
ed, and these Democrats that have kicked out
of the traces, will either be compelled to stay
out altogether, or come back with sore heads
and sore sides, uuder the leading strings
Which alternative they will adopt remains to
be seen. Our opinion is, that those presses
meetings and conventions, which have been
so fiery in their Indignation and so unreserved
in its expression, will modify their tone and
gradually come around again 10 submission to
the powers that be. We have no word of
| comment for the glory or humiliation which
may attend such an achievement; but we be,
lieve this will be the result with most of them.
We make two or three exceptions-the Charles
ton Mercury, the New Orleans Delta, and the
Richmond South, will, in all probability, pre-
serve their consistency, and continue to de-
claim against it. But while they do this they
| will profess Democracy still, and hold their
! places around the Democratic board, without
ever sharing single morsel of the honors, or
emoluments to which their politics might en-
! title them. They have long since lost any
! controlling influence in the affairs of the party
and are guests Of too suspicious a character to
share in the spoils of the camp. They are too
proud and naughty to become suppliants, and
therefore, they are made to retire untitled from
the feasts of their own party. But this is not
the case with others, and the refractory herd
will be driven and coaxed again into the sham
bles, and will gather around the fesh-pots as
Of old.
This will be easily accomplished, and the
manner of its doing is already dimly foreshad-
owed. The resources of democracy in the arts
and wiles of deception areinfnite. They have
never yet failed in tricks and expedients. The
party will be again hoodwinked and blndfold-
ed, and all will go we'll. We have said that
Walker will be sustained, that the constitution
will be submitted to the people, and Kansas
will be erected, eventually into free State
and we shall not be at all astonshed if it shall
turn out, a democratic free State. The Presi-
dent will be relieved of all difficulty aud re-
sponsibity, and will be also bra00ed from one
end of the Union to the other, for his wonder
ful firmness in crushing out the ultra fire eat
ing. secession faction, as it will be called which
is now arrayed against him. But how is this
to be done7 In the first place the great prin-
ciple," of popular sovereignty, must be assert
ed and maintained, the people residing in the
territory will be allowed to vote upon their
constitution. But who are the people? The
Southern democratic press and speakers say
that the term people, means the actual bona T.
de settlers in the territory, having resided there
a given length of time, and intending to re-
maip. But how long must they have been
there, and how will it be ascertained that they
intend to remain2 That is question which
never can be fully answered until some law
either of the Convention or Congress, shall
make and define the solution. 1t is then left
with the convention or Congress, and thus i:
the President and Walker relieved of the very
unpleasant attitude which they, at this mo
ment, occupy, and the entire responsibility i;
lifted from their shoulders Both the views
of the President and the Governor, will be held
up as matter of the merest Indifference
and the foreigner, the advent urer, the floating
emissary of the Northern abolitonists, the
squatter aud every other character of persons
VIII have a hand and voice, in the production
of the grand final result.
The convention which has just been elected
may be pro-slavery, We know not; but it is
already heralded as a democratic body a,
such it will consult the wishes of Walker anC
the President, in reference to the qualification
of voters. Those of Walker are sufficiently
: known. He uses the clap-trap Of actual
bona .tiie residents as glibly and freely as tn
Washington Union, or the lesser Union OF thi
city, or any other of the administration or
gaus In his Topeka speech he says that he
does " not entertain doubs but that the con
: 'vention will submit TO the whole of the thel
"6oaa Tiie settlers of Kansas, the determination
" for themselves by an actual majority of tn
"whole people, whether they shall adopt 0
reject that constitution. " He holds tina
the registry of voters taken under the laws
/ lis of comparatively little consequence, if TIA,
constitution DO submitted to the aoh0Le pe0pte
those HOto here or tohO tsiH Be here in N0UeHlbs
or December merit, when that constitution
will be submitted. But the views of the Pres
| ;,t.,s ar. a liftIa mora adr,ftIv e,pcaalaI