Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-04-30
NASHVILLE:
THURSDAY, APRIL 80, 1857.
John BeIl-The Union and American;
and INC Missouri DOmpromise.

TURN -bheu 10 DlS INJURY NHen bg his |
great craftsmanship, his comprehensive ma
tionality, and his magnanimity and justice
as sentinel on the watch towers of the
nation, he has extorted involuntary admi-
ration and praise, from even the bitterest
enemies of the Union, the abolitionists at
the North, he has been traduced as an
able and accomplished intriguer, concilia-
ting the North at the expense of the
South, in order to attain the Presidency.
Him, the native child of the South, the
honored and admired son of Tennessee,
who has uniformly pursued an upright and
conscientious course, keeping in view al
ways the paramount interests of the whole
country, is held up as a secret enemy to
the South and a Venal aspirant to places
higher than those within the gift of sin
gle State. More recently his course upon
the Kansas Nebraska bill has furnished the
means of assault. Taking advantage OF
an honest and patriotic difference of opin-
ion among his political friends, upon the
policy, expediency and propriety of that
measure before its passage, he is now repre-
sented as a dictator and party tyrant de-
termined to crash all those of bis own par
ty, who saw proper to differ with him in
this particular. In order 20 foment strife
in this and other congressional districts in
this State, and to create hostility towards
him in the ranks of the American party,
he is charged with interesting himself in
the matter of selecting local candidates,
and of endeavoring to GUST from Office,
faithful public servants, to make room for
those who will minister to his personal
ambition. Indeed his opposition to the
passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill and
the repeal of the compromise is now his
most objectionable sin. No betrayal of
the South, in the estimation of the Union
and American, could have been more fla
grant, no punishment is too severe for so
great a dereiction. We wish now to con-
trast the present position of that paper
with the position of one of its editors,
while conducting the daily Union" in
! lS49
When Mr.. Polk approved the act pro-
viding a territorial government for Oregon,
with the WilmOt Proviso incorporated into
it, it seems that the Banner, took excep-
tons to it, contending that in so doing,
Mr.. Polk was unmindful of the interests
of the South. The Banner appears to
have thought that no such restriction
should have been imposed upon the people
of that Territory, but that the South
should have had equal rights and privi-
leges in its settlement and government
The same doctrine which has since become
the favorite one Of the South, and now
claimed as of democratic origin, was thus
early, it appears, advocated by the Banner.
But the "humorS of those times" placed our
neighbor on the other side of the question.
Then, the "old pilot" was decidedly of the
opinion that the Missouri compromise was
quite the thing, and that the South de-
sired no change of it! He gladly availed
himself of the position Of Mr.. BELL, to
Justify the action of Mr.. Polk, and threw
it triumphantly into the teeth of the Ban
ncr, as a "bone for it to pick" We pre-
sent an extract from the Nashville Union,
May 2nd, lS49; E. G. Eastman, Editor:
s'Mr. Polk's signature to the Oregon Terri
torial Bill, with the Wimot Provs0 attached,
constitutes large amount of the capital stock
upon which the Nashville Banner has been
doing business for the last six months. With
out doing Mr.. Polk tie justice of publishing
his special message that accompanied that bill,
explaining aud fully jus'ifyng his sanction OF
! il, the Banner continues, Gay after day and
week after week, TO charge Mr.. Polk with
having surrendered the rights OF the south,
| upon the slavery question, AZ though its can
ddate for Governor was not cringingly
preaching submission to the Wilmot Proviso in
sOuthero territory, aud as though Mr.. Polk
did no., in his message accompanying that
bill, declare that if such provision were fIs-
tened upon bill in regard to territory south
of the Missouri Compromise llne, he would
exercise his constitutional prerogaiiye of de-
feating IL.
Mr.. Polk, in the spirit of compromise in
which the Missouri question was settled
which challenged the highest eulogies of the
wing party-believed it right, inasmuch as
the Oregon territory lay entirely north of the
Missouri Compromise line, where IL was never
expected that slavery would or could go, not
to defeat the establishment of a government
for our brave aud hardy pioneers who were
entitled TO the protection OF our laws, because
a msjority in Congress saw proper TO declare
what has been universally conceded, since The
admission If Missouri into the Unipn, that
slavery should not exist iaathe Uniged States
north of SO deg. 80 north latitude. Ii the
whig papers that are now harping upon this
theme, had the manlIness to publish the rea-
sous that Mr.. Polk assigned for sanctioning
that bill, their readers would clearly see an,
understand that the rights of the south are
not surrendered, but clearly aud ably main
tanned in his message, aud We should not be
compelled To expose their hypocrisy aud lrea
sonable designs 10 the soatb, upOn this sub
jec'.
THAT the rights Of the South rere not
surrendered By that BIZ; that 10 nas, IN
truth, n0thiHg more than carrying out ia good
faith the principles or the Missouri C0,apro-
mise, We have tlie testimony Of John Bell, aud
he certainly ought 10 be good Authority with
the wings If tennessee. Ia alluding 70 this
question, in his speech Al Murfreesburo last
september, Mr.. Bell said: Ills HAD BxRS AR
RAieSEp FoE SAYING THAT HE WOULD NOT QUAR-
RkL wIrn THR NOBTH For PASSING THAT (rbe
OregOo) biLls Ron WOULD HR- THE ORseoS
TERRITORY LAY NORTH OF THE Missouri CuM-
PRaMisE ISs, AocoRDiSa To TIE SPIRIT OF rHAr
; o'MPRonisE THS OREssS TKRiurohY was FRKs
: fEeiroRf; ma oOUTH ogULD N,sr ISsl.r ur,S
oARAyiNs sLAve. raGRE, wFrit,ur A VIOLATION
90 TIM sPt8iT OF TnAr ooarlaOMi~r THe SorYra