Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-01-02
EXTRACTS FROM TIE SPEECH OF HON. W. H.
ENGLISH. OF INDIANA.

com pletely cOTnered humphrey MARSHALL Inc |
latter person indeed was forced TO repudiate the
Abolitionism of the Louisville Journal. We re-
greet that we have only room for the following ex-
tracts from the speech Of Mr.. English:
Mr.. English. If Governor Willard ever invited |
any man to meet him, he always proved himself |
equal to the occasion, and he certainly did not |
shrink from any contest with his political enemies
which gentleman might honorably engage in
If he backed out from an association on the stump
with q negro, as I presume he did, it was more
than many of my colleagues associates would have
done.
Now, with a view of showing the position the
Democratic party of Indiana did occupy in the late
canvass, and also with the further view of show
ing the position the Black Republican and the
Know Nothing parties occupied In the same can
vass in nv State, will read the resolution Of the
Indiana Fusion Convention. adopted May l, 1856
being the same convention which nominated Mr..
Morton, the Fusion candidate, for Governor, at the
late election:
ResOlUed, That we are unc ompromisngly op.
posed to the extension Of slavery and that we Ut
terly repudiate the platform of principles adopted
by the selfstyled Democratic Convention Of this
State, endorsing and approving the Kansas and
Nebraska iniquity.
Resolved, That we will resist by all proper
means, the admission of any slave Slate into this
Union, formed out of the Territories secured to
freeeom by the Missouri Compounds, or other
aOise.
Now, these resolutions were adopted at State
convention composed of Republicans and Know
Nothings, and they show conclusively not only the
position which the Democratic party occupied, but
the position also of this fusion party. The Demo-
cratic party avowed itself in favor Of the priuci-
Piles and doctrines of the Kansas Nebraska bill,
while the Republican patty repudiated thoss doc
trines, and announced to the world thst they were
opposed to the extension ofslRvery under any and
all circumstances, and would not vote TO admit
State if she presented herself with constitution
tolerating slavery, even though it should be the
unniamous wish of people ofthe Territory. And
what is more, this same man Morton, who was
nominated by that convention as the fusion candl-
date had been member of the celebrated Pitts
burg con yention, over which Mr.. Blair presided,
and was a member Ofthe committee on resolutions
And vet sir in q contest between this man, cover
ed ali over with Fresoilism, and standing upon the
sectional platform which l have read, and Gov
Willard, who stood upon broad national grounds,
regret to say that not only the Black Republican
party supported Morton, but, in the main, the
| Kow Nothing party did the same thing. And IS
| it may be g matter of surprise 10 some persons
upon this floor will state that in a contest OF
this kind between seCtionRlism upon one side, and
nstonalism upon the other, involving the most
vital interests of the South, in neighborng State,
and in the district adjoining the one represent,
il the district represented by the able aud dlstn-
| guisbed gentleman who addressed the House the
other day, TMr. H Marshall the Louisville Journal
the organ Of the Know Nothing party in that region
Of country, encOUEI ged his Know Nothing trsthren
of Indiana to rush to the rescue in aid OF this AbO-
! lirionist Morton il order to defeat Willard and
| PROSTATE the Democratic party.
| Mr.. H. Marshall. l merely wish to correct a
| misapprehension of the gentleman in representing
/ the Louisville Journal as my organ. de is mlsta-
| ken in point OF fact and when he speaks OF the
paragraph from that paper to which he has alud ed
| which I never saw, bat have heard commente d
| upon-I merely desire to say that the suggestion
/ imputed to that jOurnal-snd correctly, presume
of q desire upon the part Of that journal that
| the Know Nothings Of Indiana should take part IN
| the election Of Morton as against Willard, does
not find response in the Know Nothing party IN
| my section OF the country.
Mr. English l have no desire to misTepresent
the gentleman and certainly shall not do so inten-
tiCnsly but the fact is notorious that in several ar
ticles preceding the election, the know nothing OF
Indiana were encouraged and solicited to cast their
! votes for Morton as against Gov. Willard. Here
is one article from the Journal, which will do for
o sample
estate ELECTION IN INDIiNA-Our opinion is
frequently asked by our American friends IN Ind
ana, as to the course they ought to take IN their
October election. They have better means, and
are no doubt better able, to form just opinion up
on the subject than we are. Nevertheless, we do
not hesitate to assert our very strong belief that to
promote the great national cause which they and
we have alike at heart they should 10ith their 10b0Le
hearts, support Ilr. Norton against Nr. Willard
for the office Of GoUsrnor.'
| Such hints rs these met with a cordial response
on the part Of the Know Nothing brethren 10 In
4 al, H. re-,wrr -aHfNnR
issued to the faithful by the New Albany Tribune
the chief organ of the party in that State, and
which is published within four miles Of the Louis
vile Journal:
"Let there be no clasling JstlUssn 1.-THE friends o.
| Fillmore and Fremont, because their cause is on,
cause Let the energies OF the friends Of each b.
united against Buchanan, and we will have no
more slave soil TO curse our government"
| think the gentleman from Kentucky will not
make an issue with me touching this point that the
Know Nothings of Indiana, in accordance with the
suggestion of the great organ of that party in hi:
own State generally voted with the Black Repub-
hcan party and with the sbolitiOnists for this man
Morton and the rest of the fusion State ticket
And undertake to say that not only did the Know
Nothings tof Indiana pursue that course, but that
many OF the Know No,hings of the State of Ken.
lucky, in that particular region, sympathized with
| the Black Republicans and with the AboltionistE
in their contest with the national democracy.
Mr. II, Marshall | desire to know of the gen.
teman whether, when be speaks of the Know No
| things of Indsns he means the Fillmore men Of
that State and whether he means TO represent here
that the Film ore men Of the State of Indiana css
their votes for N On2
Mr.. English. / do and l have the evidence o
the New At89y Tribune and many other of the
Fillmore organs of Indiana, to sustain the correct
ness of the assertion.
Mr. H. Marshall ask the gentleman whether
be does not know that the Hon. Richard W
ThompsOn-whOss character Is known to every.
body there ami who stood at the head ofthe Fill.
more ticket OF the State of Indsns-was on the
stump, as active an advocate of Wizards election
as the gentleman himself
Mr. English. I do not mean to say that the en-,
tire Know Nothing party in Indiana voted for
Morton but generally they did. There were a few
honorable exceptions. l believe Mr.. Thompson
did not support Wiilard-st least upon the stump
or with his vote-but, being a national man, il IS
likely his sympathies were with the DEM cratic
party as against the Black Republican
There were only 5,224 more votes cast at the
Presidential election than at the Governors cleo.
ton, Mr.. Buchanan receiving but G9l more votes
than Willard; the former receiving 1lS,672 votes,
and the latter III 9Sl. Morton received IL, 1879
votes, Fremont "a 376, and Fillmore y 1885, These
! figures show ConCusvely that thel Fillmore party
| of Indiana with very few exceptions, voted for
! Morton and the Republican State ticket and that
ton with the 61l kDOwla10 that the rasuIt Of tha