Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-09-29
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER %, 1858
Tbe president aud the English Bill.

A large majority, if not all. the democratic
candidates for Congress in the Northern
States, have declared that they are in favor
of the admission of Kansas, so soon as she
makes application with constitution duly
ratified by the people, notwithstanding the
restriction in the Conference Bill. Mr.. Eng
LIsH, himself, the putative father of that bill.
has taken this position. number OF the
sham democratic organs of the South oppose
this course with great vehemence. There ap-
pears to be imminent danger of split among
them on the ''compronise." The Congressional
wire-workers, in effect, referred the LecOmp-
ton constitution back to the people. with the
restriction that if they should fail to vote
themselves into the Union under it. they clos
ed the door until they had population of
93.42O This was offered and passed as a
compromise, and was understood to harmon
ize the conflicting wings of the party. This
compromise has been spurned and spit upon
by the nationals of the north, including
ENGLISH. It's author. 1t becomes matter OF
interest to know what will be the position OF
the administration ON this new question of
difference. AS matter of record we subJoin
the report of remarks made at HaZlehurst,
Miss, on the llth inst, by Hon. A. q. Brown.
on this point, as contained in the Vicksburg
Wing:
The Governor expressed his acquiescence
in the Conference Bill, and hoped it would be
enforced. He stated that he calted on the Pre-
sidert before he Lett w LshingtOn and that Mr.. BIZ
ctdyuan assured him IN the most positive and "'ae
gapocaL terms. that he ,could appoint man 10
office scLo held The opinion that Kansas ought 10 be
ddutted before she has population ciich 'cod en-
tile her 10 Representative IA Congress- (dccordtng
10 die terms Of he Conference Blu and that he
rolld decqpitate eUery otce-hOLder aohO expressed
such a belief Gov. Brown went on to state
that he regarded this as solemn pledge on
the part Of Mr.. Buchanan, aud though he
considered him a ''little weak in the back, ;"
he believed he would stick up to it. When
ever he Gov. Brown pighted his faith to
any man. he always stuck to it, and he inten-
ded to hold Mr.. Buchanan to his declaration.
We have not heard that the President has
'.decapitated' any oiice-holder who has repu-
dated the English bill-nor have we heard OF
his withdrawing his countenance from Mr.
ENGLISH. in whose favor his feelings were so
feryentlv enlisted, u short time since. We
imagine the weakness in Mr.. BUCHANAN's back
is constitutional. For time he sustained
the policy of WALKER, STANTON, FoRNEY d
Co, in Kansas. but the weakness of his spinal
column caused him to abandon them incontI'
nently at the beginning of the last Congress.
lie was next for pure and undefiled Lecomp-
ton, but his habitual weakness in the back
anon placed him at the feet of the Conference
Committee, and the English bill became, in
turn, The shibboleth of the national democ-
racy and Bucks back was again made strong.
But now the English bill is repudiated, and
that same old weakness returns with excruc-
ating certainty. We have never supposed he
hld any marrow in his back bone. So far as po-
litical consistency and frmness would indicate
the presence or absence OF that material, we
should say that it was composed entirely of
gristle We shall look to the outgivings from
the White House on this subject with some in
terest. In the meantime we should like to
hear an expression from the Union and Amer
ican on this topic.