Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1857-01-03

| AAtusdS NOuiu Oe adDllJISQ. lOLO the Union Us
aJree State through the management and ex-
| ertions of the Buchanan administration and
| the leading spirits, North and South, of the
Democratic party. During the whole Presi-
Dental canvass, we heard nothing from the
Southern Democracy but long homlies and
| speeches upon the importance to tho South ard
To the stability of the Union of Kansas being
made Stare State, and we " ere constantly
told that it was only by means of the election
of the Cincinnati nominees that this vital OBJ
ject could be accomplished. We listened the
while to all this foolish defamation, not
without settled conviction that it was only
CANNON and humbug, intended as a Tuse ID
catch votes and secure the triumph of the De-
mOcratc party. Such being our clear impress
| sons on the subject, we hesitated not to de-
clare it as our fixed belief that the election OF
! Buchanan would almost certainly result in
bringing Kansas into the Union as a free State.
And do not all present signs in the political
heavens Indicate that our declarations and our
warnings contained prophecy, which is now
very near its fulfllmenI?
We have heretofore adverted to the tone of
| the Northern Democratic press, and the en-
! phatic language of the Northern Democratic
Senators on this subject, both of which DIS
! close the purposes and policy of the in coming
administration in regard TO Kansas. Mr.. Bu~
chanan himself, it is boldly affirmed, and with
| out the shadow Of denial from any quarter,
| desires, in common with the entire Democratic
| party of the North, that Kansas should come
in as a free State, and, we presume, only as a
! free STATED Such being his avowedprefers
in respect to this grave question, it is reasona-
| bic and natural to infer that the power and
influence of his administration will be brought
! to bear upon it. And if so, there can be no
manner of doubt that Southern men and their
property will be etfectually excluded from that
| territory, and the Freesoers and Aboitionists
| will be allowed and encouraged to take pos
| session of it, with as much despatch as pos
| sible. Even, however, should Buchanan de-
cline to exert his official influence in behalf of
making Kansas free State, that result will
| still be inevitable, should he-as appears to be
| almost certain-lend his countenance and sup
port to the doctrine of squatter sovereignty.
| That he will do this, is now perfectly manifest
| from the giviDgs out Of his confidential friends
and advisers. Indeed the sQuatter sovereignty
principle, in relation to the territories, is the
corner stone of the political faith of the whole of
| the Northern Democracy. The repeal Of the
| Mi-souriCompromiSe was defended a. d justified
| upon that principle alone-a principle which,
practically carried out, will administer death
| blow to the hopes of slavery extensionists and
prevent, forever, the admission of another
| slave State into the Union. What credit is
| due Northern Democrats for advocating and
sustaining the Nebraska bill solely upon a
| ground like that, we leave to our readers to
! determine Certain it is, that the doctrine of
| sduatter sovereignty is the most ingenious and
| mastery device ever conceived for the promo
| ton of Freesoilism and the Gripping of the
! slave institutions Of the South. There has not
| been day or an hour, since emigration first
! commenced pouring into Kansas, when the
| application of that doctrine by the Territorial
! Legislature would not have resulted in the to.
! tai exclusion of the STAKEHOLDER with his prop
| erty, ard in making Kansas Immediately and
| perpetually free. And this, we predict, will
| be the upshot of the matter in a short time
| after the Inauguration of the new administra-
| ton. And this, too, is what the President
elect is in favor offs what his party at the
! North all desire-and what his Southern
| friends will unite with his Northern to accom-
plish.
We repeat that the Southern Democracy
| themselves, Notwithstanding their loud aud
noisy professions to the contrary, will yield to
the dictation Of their Northern allies, and aid
them, as far as may be, in introducing Kansas
into the Uniontas free State. We already OBJ
! serve significant and striking indications OF this
purpose on the part of some of the faithful"
here az the South. For example, we find the
following paragraph in the Missouri Repu6H.
! can, paper which supported the election of
Buchanan with signal ability aud with indOmi-
table zeal This Journal devotes long leader
to the question of slavery or freedom In the
Territory Of Kansas, and concludes thus;
ave, therefore, say in conclusion that it is bet~
ter for the whole country, better for the West, and
infinitely better for Missouri that Kansas should be
free, aud in declaring for such issue, declare
Tor white men aud against negroes, for free labor
against slave labor, for commerce, industry, and
talent and for the rights and interest OF eight hun
dred thousand against those of twenty-five thous-
and"
There is the explicit and emphatic language
of a Southern Buchanan journal on this SUBJ
! ect 1t does not mnce its phrases, but declares
boldly and positively that it would be bet
ter for the whole country, better for the West,
and infinitely better for Missouri, that Kansas
should be free" And not content with an as
sertion like this, it goes still farther, and says
that, in declaring for freedom in Kansas, it
declares for white men against negroes for. free
labor against Stare labor, and for the rights ami
interests of eight hundred thousand against
those of twenty live thousandp What Is this,
we ask, but the language and sentiment OF pure
and unadulterated Abolitionism How, and
with what reasons, would Seward, or Greeley,
or Sumner, or Giddings, urge the erection OF
Kansas into a free StaIe2 Aud yet this is the
utteraDce of Southern Buchanan journal Of
wide and powerful influenced
We conclude, therefore, that it is the wish,
the design, the policy of the Democratic party,
North and South, to make Kansas free State.
1t being, in their Judgment, "better for the
whole country, better for the West, and inhs
ntely better for Missouri" we can hardly find
| it in our hearts TO blame them for the course
they seem TO have resolved to pursue. We do
censure them, however, for not making their
| purposes known in regard TO Kansas during
| the progress OF the late canvass. Ii they had
taken the same ground and used the same ar
| guments then that they do now, think you that
the Southern people would have rushed so zeal
ously and with such unprecedented unauiInity
to the support of Buck and BreekP We leave
| the question TO be answered at leisure by tue
thousands at the South, who already feel that
they have been outrageously deceived and be-.
| trayed by the friends of the in coming admin
istration.-R Richmond Wig.
The ACCIDENT TO THE STEAMSHIP ANERcA-
Yesterday morning the British and North American
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