Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-14
N a SEVILLE:
FRIDAY, AUGUST IA, 1857.



ern rights, he has exhibited in his inaugu-
raj, and in all his acts since, touching the
subject of slavery, that he was deliberately
and steadily opposed to the extension of
the peculiar institution" Under the op-
Grafton of his Alien Suffrage and Squatter
Sovereignty doctrines, as announced in his
inaugural, in his instructions to Governor
Walker, and in that gentleman's acts in
Kansas, not one part of which has been
disavowed by the President, the work of
crushing out the rights of the South goes
braVely on. In this every desire and wish
OF the Free-soilers are amply met and graf
flied. Are these statements argumepta-
tive merel or are they absolutely and I'M
conditionally true? If the latter, are they
not sufficient to cause the South, and the
conservative men Of the North, who have
set their faces against fanaticism, to turn
with Indignation from an Administration.
which, while it presents us bread in one
hand, carries a stone in the other for our
destruction? Well, what act has Mr..
Buchanan performed in the remotest de-
gree, favorable to the South? The cleo
lions are now over and we can consider
these questions, with calmness. On the
contrary, has he not thrown the whole
weight of his influence into the Free-soil
| scale? We defy any of his supporters,
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prospect or probability of the addition of
another slave State to the Union, under
the present Administration, or under the
principles Of the present Administration.
We have not seen a single organ at the
South, that dared to assume that there
was any such prospect or probability
Then upon what ground do they stand i'll
supporting the Administration ? What
shadows do they pursue
But does the course of Mr.. Buchanan
meet the Appreciation of the Free-soIers ?
In regard to his Kansas policy, there can
be no disputing the fact, that many of the
most rabid Fremont supporters, have ex-
pressed the highest admiration of that pol
icy. They have also discovered the fact
that the declarations of his inaugural, are
but the epitome of his Kansas policy, and
are taking him at his word, and warmly
commencing that document In a recent
number of the Chicago Democrat, long
John WentwOrth's paper, one that is as
strongly and uncompromisingly Black Re
publican as any other in the country, we
find this endorsement. We subion it, and
ask our friends to read it, and say for what
now any party at the South supports Mr..
Buchanan:
ON regard to Kansas affairs, we are willing to
take Mr.. Buchanan at his word, and hold him to
it, Ii he will but carry out his principles in re-
lation to the Constitution under which the Ter
rtory is TO be admitted a State it is all that
can be reasonably asked of him. 10 his inaugu-
raj he says:
'As natural consequence, Congress has also
pr scrbed that when the Territory of Kansas |
shall be adm tied State, it shall be received
into the Uuion with without slavery, as their |
Constitution may prescribe at the time of their |
admission
"A difference of opinion has arisen in regard |
to the point of time when the people of a Ter |
ritoTy shall decide this question for thems,l Ives. |
This IL, happily, matter of but little prac-
tica! Importance. Besides, it is judicial question,
which legtmately belongs to the Supreme Court |
of the Unit, States before whom il is now pend |
ing and will it is understood, be speedily aud f.
nally settled. To their decision, in common with
all good citizens, shall cheertully submit what
even this may be, though it has ever been my
individual opinion that, under the Nebraskl-Kan-
sas act, the appropriate period will be when the
number of actual residents in the Territory shall
I'll he Of N fiOu v;rh "a.
to its admission a State into the Union. But be
this as 1t may, it is the imperative and indspensi-
bic duty of the government of the United States
TO secure to every resident inhabtant the free ami
Independent expression of his opinion by his vote
This sacred right Of each individual must be pre-
served. That being accomplished, nothing cin be
iairer than TO leave the people of a Territory free
rom all foreign interference, to decide their own
destiny for themselves subject only to the ConsLi.
tuition of the United States"
That there may be mistake as to the meaning
and purport of this, his organ, the Washington |
Union, says that nothing could be more explicit |
than this language. MIR. Buchanan SAYS "eg RI |
resident ifhabtd1t" must be entitled to the express
sion of his opinion by his Uots. Gov WalkeT's Ian
Suage Is, that 'eUerg actual resident settler" must
be entitled to vote upon the Constitution His Ian
guage is, if anything, stronger than that of the |
President. The language OF the Cincinnati Plat |
form is detuaL residents" If majority of the sac
tua residents" of Kansas fools enough to curse
the state with slavery, let them DO il by al |
means. II they want slavery, il were al easy /
matter for the majority to establish it. after the |
admission, if the first constitution prohibited
Il. As State, they would be sovereign and indie
p .ndenL
But there is no danger that a majority of the |
actual residents" will vote for slavery Coustitu-
ton AS understand it, three-fourths Of the il
habitants Free State men, and the President
and Walker are on the record in favor OF the "lm-
perative aud indispensable duty of the general |
government to secure to every resident inhabitant
the free and independent expression of his opinion /
10y his vote. Let them do this aud there can be |
cause OF complaint. Aud nothing short OF il vii! /
meet the demands Of the country"
COngressmsn Elected
The following gentlemen have been cleo
ted to represent Tennessee in the next Con