Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-09-09

WEDNESDAY,, SEPTEMBER Q, 1857.


Oens " htt4eId and Kansas
The Louisville Democrat recently repub-
lished the following sketch of a speech
made by Gen. J. w. Whitfield at demo
cratic meeting at Leavenworth. We com
mend it to the attention of members of the
sham Democratic party who have disap-
proved the course of Gov. Walker:
He said that his position and his duties now
were not of political character; bot he al
ways felt it his duty. when called upon by his
feIlow-eitizens, to give his opinion upon any
public questions, fully, frankly, and fearlessly.
he was q Democrat, first, last, and all the
time. He was also a pro-slavery man; but
didn't hold that individual likes dislikes
upon the slavery question, was any test of bis
Democracy He thought that as good Demo
Gratis lived in Maine as in Georgia, and as
good in Ohio as in Tennessee.
He aoGs eDlphGticGtLg IN faUOT Of submitting
the Constitution aohicb aOiJL be framed IN Sep
TENDER nert, at LecOmpt0n, to the people for
ratification As to who were the people, he
did not assume the province of determining
but thought the Convention should leave this
question to be settled by the Territorial laws,
which prescribe a residence of six months as
one of the qualifications of a voter. He had
heard with establishment that there were men
| to the proposed submission. He was prepared
to tell all such men that, as one who fattered
| himself that he was somewhat posted upon
| this question, it would be unparalleled impu
| dence to ask members of Congress who were
| pledged to the doctrine of allowing the people
| to govern themselves in their own way, to
stultify themselves by voting for a Constitu-
ton that they were not satisfied expressed the
will of the majority of the bona tide citizens
of Kar sae. He alarmed the members Of that
Convention that a failure to refer that COnsti-
tuition to the people for ratification eoould not
meet q0ith the sanction Of the party az Kansas ;;
and he pledged himasekE that IN such an eUent
he aoOuId be the first Ia calling a meeting Of all
true Democrats Of the Territory, for the pur-
pose Of opposing the Constitution and petition
ing Congress to reject 1t.
He endorsed Coz. Walker IN all has speeches,
pTocLanGtiORS and acts, and he expressed an
abiding faith that the Governor would yet
solve the great problem Of selfgovernment in
Kansas 'amicably, equitably, and to the entire
satisfaction of al rational men.
He spoke in scathing terms Of those Know
Nothing emissaries who have sought and are
seeking to lead the Democracy of Kansas; par
ticuarizing those who, without ever having
had tone drop of Democratic blood in their
VEINS" had even gone so far in their fanaticisln
as to ask the people of Missouri to come over
and vote at the October election. He knew
them well, and the motives that actuated them
After selling out to the Black Republicans OF
Kansas for money, they sought TO reinstatt
themselves in the good graces of the Missouri
ans by just such contemplate humbuggery as
that IF invoking their aid in the coming cleo
tions. Such men were entirely unauthorized
and all their efforts in this regard will bt
"Love's Labor Lost" No sane person believ
ed that a single man from Missouri was com
ing to Kansas to vote.
1t will be noted that Gen. Whitfield moi
only endorses all the speeches, proclama
tions, and acts" of Gov Walker in Kan
sas-eVen those which have given such of
fence to the party in Georgia, Mississippi
Alabama, and Louisiana, and 10 the URlO7
and Americaa-but also takes it upon him
self to warn the convention against re
fusing to submit the Constitution to The
people for ratification, threatening, in the
event of refusal, to call a meeting of al
"true Democrats for the purpose of Oppos
ing the Constitution and petitioning Con
gress to reject i'll" Verify, our former un
assuming felow-citizen, since he has become
an Ofice-holder under Mr.. Buchanan, hal
taken degree in presumption This in
reference of ofice-holders in the concern
of the people, is one of the evils of tn,
times, an offspring of sham Democracy
and is growing under the protecting car,
of Mr.. Buchanan. The accession of Gen
Whitfield to the support of Gov. Wake
indicates that the policy of making Kansa
an anti-slave State, for the purpose of pre-
venting the Northern Democracy iron
going over in a body to Black Republican
ism, is making Roadway. 1t gives a cleu
too, to the cause Of the return of Ger
Whitfeld's slaves to Tennessee. The Ger
eral has been initiated into the mysteries c
Buchanan-W alkerism, and takes advantag
of the information thus obtained to put hi
slave property in place of safety. We
may the Richmond Enquirer admit, in vie,
of such indications as these, that the gam
is up, and the South beaten.