Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-07-21
CORRECTION


BY one Of those mistakes which (much to the re-.
greet of all Interested sometimes occur in the hurry
of putting daily newspaper to press, portion of
/" the Presidents instructions to Governor Walker
through the Secretary of State" was unfortunately
omitted in our last paper. The following are para
graphs which were omitted:
Upon these great rights Of individual action and
OF public decision rests the foundation Of American
institutions, and if they faithfully secured to
the people of Kansas the political condition Of the
country will soon become quiet and satisfactory.
The institutions of Kansas should be established by
the votes of the people of Kansas, unaWed and IN
interrupted by force or fraud. And foreign voters
must be excluded, come whence they may, and every
attempt to overave interrupt the free exercise Of
the right of voting must be promptly repelled and
punished. Freedom and safety for the legal voter
and exclusion and punishment for the illegal one
these should be great principles of your admnistra-
ton.
The regular legislature of the Territory having
authorised the assembling of Convention to frame
Constitution, to be accepted or rejected by Con-
gress under the provision, of the Federal Constitu-
tion the people of Kansas have he right to be pro-
tected in the peaceful election of delegates for such
purpose, under such authority and the Conven-
tion itself has right to similar protection in the
opportunity for tranquil and undisturbe1 delibera-
ton. When such Constitution shall be submitted
y,
ed in the exercise of their right of voting for or
against that instrument and the fair expression of
the popular will must not be interrupted by fraud or
violence.
The President concurs in the hope, expressed by
you, that the Intervention of the military force will
not be necessary; but should this Just expectation
be disappointed he refers you fer the measures you
must adopt and for the necessary authority in that
emergency, to the instructions heretofore given by
the President of the United States and by this de-
partment to your predecessors. Copies of these
instructions accompany this communication, and
also copies of the instructions heretofore issued by
the War Department, and of those issued by the
present Secretary Of Warrespeetiug the employment
of the troops of the United States upon your reau
sition.
You will communicate freely with this Department
from time to time, that the President may be
kept informed to the true state of things in Kansas
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD-DEMOCRAT
&c DOCUMENTS.-BEWARE OF IMPOSITIONI
We received by mail last Friday from friends in
Humphreys and Haywood counties, copies of de-
mocratle document which, we presume, is being
circulated in all portions of the State 1t is an an
ohymous production having nothing to indicate eth
er its parentage place of birth 1t goes ont like
the tOnnding whose mother is ashamed of the issue
Of her illicit amours and lays it at some neighbours
door to be taken in and cared for. The design of
this precious bantling is to njure Bob Hatton but
we dpprenenu nJLle uanger OF that. The thing
so full Of perversion and Misrepresentation it de-
feats itself.-NashUiLte Patriot
The above is ashallow and ridiculous effort upon
the part of the Patriot to destroy the influence of
facts which it finds itself unable to answer by man
ly argument. Its reference is to campaign docu-
ment, issued by the Democratic State Central Com
mittee, in pamphlet form, from our Office made up
Except the few prefaratory remarks of editorials
which had, 1oeeks before, appeared in the Union and
American, and thus placed under tie nose of eperv
RnoW Nothing editor in the State. They saw them,
read them, caeed under them but dared not ATTEMPT
to answer them. They could not be successfully |
answered, and they knew it. The House Journal |
sustains us, and they dare not gainsay what was |
thus published But from the simple fact that this
up of editorials from the UNION |
AND AMERIoAN-had no imprint giving the Office /
from which it was issued, or other marks showing
BY whom it was prepared, they seek pretext to
create the impression that something very unfair
IS being attempted. What they cannot answer they
,hus seek to avoid by an unworthy pretence.
Why did not the editors of the Patriot cry out
q beware of imposition when this expose of Mr.
Hatton's record first appeared as editorial in our
'per? Why did they not proceed to prove it an
IMPOSITION if they have it in their power? Such
course would certainly have been much more to the
redit of these gentlemen and far more satisfactory
o the public.
We defy the Patriot and the whole school of Know
Nothing editors and speakers. We inUae them to
he issue. We dare them to take up the facts con-
aimed in this pamphlet, one by one, and discuss
hem with US. VIII they do it? No-they are
trq'd of the exposure. They prefer dealing in gem
ralities, in mere terms and phrases such as fraud
imposition" "perversiOn," sc.
We ask nothing better in support of the facts set
'rth in the document in question-and no more con-
usive evidence of the effect which they are exert
lg-than to find the Patriot, and other papers, try
lg to discredit it as an anonymous production"
hen they KNOW that had been prepared By the editor
the UNION AND AMERICAN, and published 1ceeks since
editorial. Oh, shame, where is thy blush?