Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-11-20

dent action. This position is wholly ire
concilable with that of Cass, Douglas, &c.
The two areas opposite as day and night.
The antayOnism between them can neither
be reconciled nor neutralized It is this
antagonism which has given up Kansas to
diseord and bloodshed- has inaugu-
rated there very saturnalia of fanatl-
cism and fraud-which has brought upon
ourrepublican institutions the reproach OF
government at the point of the bayonet-
which has driven JEFFERSON DAVIS, a mem
Der Of the Pierce Cabinet, and a friend Of
the bill, to declare, 'be n0l0 Looked upon the
g" disorders IN Kansas as the bitter FRUITS OF
g the SUBSTITUTION OF EFFICIENCY FOR PRIN
d" CIPLE, and the penalty Of the attempt to
q ecade the duty Of the general government By
''the transfer Of as trusts 20 IRRESPONSIBLE
20 HANDs"--and which has caused the sham
democratic Richmond Examiner in agony
to aver: at is all the legitimate result of
Z" attempting to make, so to speak, "a silk
/ "purse out of sow's ear of attempting
to constitute sovereign State-a law
" observing, order-Ioving, constitution-re-
speeding commonwealth, out of a hetero-
geneous motley of spectators, back
woodsmen, rowdies and cut-throats. Kan
sas ought to be ruled with a rod of iron
go with a strong arm Of imperial power for
" dozen years to come, without so much as
a constable being elected by the people
" God save the markD during the whole
time. Then the polls might be opened
and the people left perfectly free to frame
| their own institutions in their own way
" Then there might be an orderly, just and
" satisfactory settlement of all vexed ques-
tiOns by competent suffrage. There can
" not be until then" With these irrconcila-
! bic differences, and these deplorable results;
with the popular mind in a state of chaos
as to what the principles of the Kansas
! Nebraska bill are, is it not the climax Of
absurdity to attempt to palm off upon the
world an expression of unqualified apprO-
| baton" of them? There never has been
time when the people of Tennessee have
been satisfied as to what was meant by the
principles of the Kansas Nebraska bill
1t has been the purpose of the sham-de-
mOcracy to hold them up as something pro-
! missing good to the South; but what that
| good is, they have not stopped to explain.
! The overthrow of the rights of the South
in Kansas, is fast opening the eyes of the
people, but we fear they will acquire full
and unclouded vision only when it is too
late to discover anything more than that
they have been the dupes of those whose
design it was to cheat and mislead them
with a sort of political 10U o the a0iSp. The
elections OF I855-56-57, did not turn upon
! the merits or dement's of the Kansas-Ne-
braska bill. In the first the American
! questions, new and exciting, formed the
| basis Of our controversies, and bore away
/ from the opposition to sham democracy
| thousands who otherwise would have rail-
! lied with their old friends. In 1856, the
dread of the election of Fremont brought
disaster again to the American standards.
In 1857, discouraged by former reverses,
our friends made a HOPELESS struggle, and
were again overwhelmed. In neither can
vas were the chameleon shades of the Kan
sas-Nebraska bill, nor Mr.. BELLS course
before the people. Granting then, that
the principles of the bill were understood,
! there has been no decision yet upon them;
certainly not such decision as would JUS
tify Mr.. BELL in resigning.
A word in conclusion as to the pledge of
Mr.. BELL as quoted in the preamble of
Senator Walker Torn from its context,
it does not give his position fairly, as will
be seen by any one who will take the trou-
BILE to read the whole speech. We may
have occasion to recur to the subject. If
so, we shall make such extracts from the
speech as will represent Mr.. BELL fairly and
Justly.