Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-06-29
The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ResOlutiOs In the
last Legislature.

ted States, meet our hearty approval and our Sem
stors iE Congress are hereby instructed, and our
h presentatives requested to use al honorable
means in their power to prevent the repeal OF the
same, or the restoration OF the Missouri Conpro-
mise"
These reported by Mr.. LooNEY, on behalf of
a majority of the Committee, read:
"Rpsolved by the General Assembly of Tonnes.
see, That aOe Ocq'eSce in and WiH abide b. heleg-
isL0t,o7t Of Congress, c.mmory krlOtca as the Kan
sas o''d Nebraska Act. believing that the preserva-
ton Of the Union, and the peace and harmony of
the country demand it at our hands, but in doing
so we deem il proper TO declare as the sense ofthis
General Assembly, that Congress possesses no
power under the Constitution 10 legisltte on the
subject OF slavery in any way but il does it sin
expedient and dangerous TO exercise it.
"ReSOLUed, That while deny this power to
Congress- and the policy of its exercise, declare
in equally equiVocal terms that the people Ofthe
Territories have, in like manner, power to legis-
late upon the sutect OF slavery, either to prohibit
its introduction or to provide for its admission,
further than TO protect it. like all other spec les of
property, if found within th, ir limits but hatupon
the formation of a St1te Constitution, and not
until hr7, they hoUe the poDer to 0dnl,t eTcluIe
this institution OittOut any limitation or reStrjc-
ton
''ReSOlUed, That we regard 'Squatter Sovereign
ty, or in other words, that provision in the Kan
sas Nebraska Bill under which the right is claimed
for the Territorial Legislature to impose upon said
Territories the odiOus and unjust principles of the
"Wmot Proviso" as detDstable heresy, and a
species Of rAdcalsm not only inimcai to the insti-
buttons OF The South, but war with the spirit OF
the goVernmet itself.
"ReSOtUed, That so much Of the Kansas and Ne
braska Act 81 permits foreigners. before they are
naturaized, TO erjoy in the Territories, the rights
OF citizens, either by the of suffrage, or by
the acquisition OF a homestead upon the public 90
main, is unjust to our native born population, un-
wise as n matter OF policy, and in violation Of the
Constitution Of the United States; against that part
OF said Act We enter our solemn protest"
The vote was in effect, as between these
resolutions, the democracy supported and
passed the former, the Americans voting
against the former and for the latter slight
ly amended.-See House Journal, pages SO,
$50, S7l-2-3.
A few days ago the Union Dc american in
referring to these resolutions, charged Col
HATroN with being opposed to the principles
of the Kansas Nebraska Bill, as g whole.
Now, we submit if the resolutions supported
act, so far as it declares repeal of the Missou-
ri Compromise, and the non-intervention of
Congress on the subject of slavery in the terri
tories; and protested only against the Squat
that had been infused into it. These doc
trines, according to the construction put upon
the power Of territorial legislatures, at the
North, were a part Of that act. These have
been pronounced odous and monstrous by all
parties of the South. Upon the Squatter SOve-
reignty part, we showed from the debates in
Congress (see our paper of May l6) that
DoUGLAs and bis black republican colleague,
TRUMBULL, construed the Kansas Bill precisely
alike upon this subject That Alien Suffrage
was an element in that Bill, we have the testi-
mony of such democrats as BUTLER, of South
Carolina, Brown, of Mississippi, and CLAY, of
Alabama, published in our paper of yester-
day. the last named going so far as to say
that he felt sit due to himself to confess that
he doubted the correctness of his vote in
yielding to TIE action of the House of Repre-
sentatiYes, by which the Clayton amend.
"ment TO the Kansas Nebraska bill was slrick-
cen out" While that bill was before the Sen
ate, Mr.. CLAYTON, of Delaware, offered an
amendment combining the right Of suffrage to
citizens Of the United States. The Senate
agreed to it, and it was stricken out in the
House, and it was lis vote agreeing to this &C
! ton of which Mr.. CLAY doubted the correct
ness.
These facts clearly show that Mr.. HATToN
did not, in the last Legislature, oppose The
| non-intervention principles of the Kansas act
nor the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
And the attempt to place bin in false posi-
ton before the people on this subject, is wholly
at variance with that fairness, which, accord
ing to our judgment, ought always to prevail
in political discussions
J UpoE the same course of reasoning we might
charge the entire democratic delegation 10 the
last Legislature, with having voted for Squat.
ter Sovereignty and Alien Suffrage, in opposing
the resolutions reported by Mr.. LooNEY, a:
given above. But we believe that there were
comparatively few of that deleg ton who
believed 10 the propriety OF the doctrine; and
although Gen. HARRIS has avowed that other
most iniquitous doctrine of alien suffrage, we
believe that the people will, with the mass Of the
southern democratic Senators 10 Congress, re-
pudste il 10 the most emphatic terms. 1t may
be as well for Us to say here, that we regard
the articles of our neighbor of the Union and
american, on this subject, as an attempt to
change the course Of the paramount discussions
of the canvass, and to divert the public mind
from the issues which he must feel are depres-
sing him, his candidate and party. We can
not consent to let this be done; as We announ.
ced 10 the beginning, we shall stick to the issues
ourselves, and we must not be expected to
follow hil in any OF bis by-path rambliDgs, or
to engage IN a guerrilla warfare upon imma-
teral points.
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