Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-31
. NASHVILLE:
MONDAY, AUGUST 81, 1857.


III the management of affairs in Kansas
the sham democracy have played upon the
country a system of ''sharp practice" un-
precedented. The Kansas Nebraska bill
was, professedly, designed to restore to the
South constitutional rights of which she
had been deprived, and accepted as such
by her. But no sooner did she attempt to
avail herself of her rights in the territory,
than the sham democratic leaders set their
wits to work to circumvent, and whilst
hoodwinking and deceiving her, to make
Kansas an anti-slave State. BY what
means and appliances this result was to be
effected, is plainly indicated in a letter from
an indignant Virginian, Mr.. Richard T.
Archer, to the Richmond South, who says,
" though jealous advocate OF Mr.. Buch-
anan's election, and an admirer of Presi-
" dent Pierce's messages on the slavery agi-
tation, I do, on the statement of the
" United States Attorney for Kansas,
"charge that, qohjle Mr. Pierce gueI1ed the
"peop5s Of the South aOith honeyed aoOrds and
" messages, which we all approve, he sent his
" agents to Kansas SECRETLY INSTRUCTED that
at o0as necessary for the SALVATION OF THE
NORTHERN DEMOCRACY that KANSAS SHOULD
"BE BROUGHT INTO THE UNION AS FREE
STATE. This continues Mr.. A, twill
q account for Mr.. Perce's failure in three
appointments of Governor of Kansas
from free States, never being able Twill
ling) to select one true man. This will
account for his recalling Reeder, not for
q his free soil principles, but for specializing
L" in lands This will account for his re-
tanning Mr.. Isaacs m the Office of .. S.
Attorney for Kansas, although Mr..
'Isaacs speculated in land, aVOwed it, and
Justified it. Mr.. Isaacs knew the duplici
3" ty of President Pierce and the men so
instructed by him. If the people of the
"slaVe States are willing to be Sold let
"them say so. But for the love of truth
land integrity, pray them not to sane
ton the duplcity by which they have
"been betrayed"
This is plain and Ineligible. The "salva-
ton of the democracy of the North" over
slaughs the rights of the South. Kansas
must be made an anti-slave State to keep
the Northern branch of the sham democra-
, cy from going over in body to black re-
. publicanism, but the South must be kept
in the dark, swindled without mercy This
r was the policy inaugurated by "Brigadier''
Pierce, and which Mr. Buchanan has sue
ceeded to. Walker and Stanton are the
, instruments of the latter to perfect the
work begun by the former. So Mr.. Ar
cher believes, and so also believes the Hon.
JAS A. WOODWARD, late a member of Con
gress, from South Carolina, who has just
returned from Kansas, and in a letter to
Hon. B. H. Hill of Georgia, says
You perceive that assume it as a fact, that Gov.
Walkers "plan" and policy had the approval OF
the Administration. l have not made this assump-
ton without feeling myself fully authorized in do
ing So But do not understand to insinuate
that Walkers mOdHS opera'ld5 has been altogether
suited to the wisdom aud taste of our President.
! Walker has, doubtless, committed some blunders.
! He has prOfeSsed openly, what be expected TO
perform i1tSidiouSLy. he has uncovered uhat ShOGId
haze been kept dark He has looked the same loay
he TOtosd INSTEAD of Hooking tody and r0tgiRo
the other" He has employed what you would call
''hectoring instead Of barney. He has not evinc
ed a due appreciation of the counsel given by Peg.
gy of the Mug to "LeetIe Paul" that when he had
a point carry, do il "by gsinivatiOn not bias
, ter" Herein Walker has probably snned And
such is the depraved moral taste of the times that
you need not to be surprised to hear the rant OF
Implicitly charged upon him, affording just
grounds for Democratic censure.
There is no mistaking what Mr.. WooD
=. WARD means. He talks to the point, just
: as Mr.. ARCHER does. They throw aside
! the mystic veil which has covered sham
= democratic operations in Kansas and ex
I, pose the secret plOttings and cOunter-plot
3 tings of the corrupt leaders who engineer
the party. We ask the people, who have
been deceived by the duplcity and double
dealing of the sham-democracy, into con
3 tributing to its successes, to behold the
> secret machinery which has been at work
: to drive Southern Institutions out of Kan
sas; and to say whether they are sucl
f slaves-so lost to principle-as to feel dis
t posed to pallate or excuse such monstrou
depravity? Has it come to this, that du
3 plicity is virtue, and the want of it's crime
i and that you are prepared to yield up you
a rights-your independence-under thu
practical enforcement of such sentiment
4 If you have become so callous to high-ton
J ed political morality and virtue, then i
: our country trending the path to ruin
and her doom prefgured.
WHAT DO THEY MEAN?- correspondent of tn
8 Richmond Dispatch, writing from Knoxville, width
|. he had gone TO attend the great Southern Con
o vention, says:
e ITO realize the comfort of a Virginia hotel on
ie ought TO travel into Tennessee"
3 Another, writing from Petersburg, who appear
- to have been rubbing his sides against some of tn
ID delegates, remarks:
er delegates from Knoxville are fast returning
i their native element disguised with their trip an
'e down on the starvation hospitality which many
them met with.
~ Has the supply of whisky been exhausted
n, East Tennessee?
~ The Alumni Association of Erskine Collel
iGa.) elected their Orator for next year, Pre-
r. j. Il. STEWART OF the Nashville University, Mas
= vile, Tennessee and as his alternate, Rev. HKNI
y QUIGG, Of Covington, Georgia.
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