Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-10
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1858.
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Estate.
fFse The instincts of the Pnytot are very
often right; the pity is that it does not always
follow them. We hope that, on this Kansas
question, that paper will adhere to its first i'm
pulses-Jnion & american.
The PATRIOT is not governed by ''instincts''
or s.impulses' alone. 1t investigates all ques-
tions of public policy, and when its judgment
is convinced, it assumes a position and main
tains it to the best of its ability. Having
weighed all the facts which have been devel-
oped in the Kansas controversy, and espous-
ed the cause ar we believe of right and jus
tice, we shall steadily uphold it to the end
1t is a matter of real qualification to us, too,
to know that our hands uiH be ooheId by all tie
Southern americans ~ tie LO1cer branch Of Can
gress, with a single exception, and he an indi-
vidual who has rendered himself obnoxious to
the South by concessions to Northern anti
slavery sentiment. We have no sympathy,
whatever, with the instruments in Kansas, of
Northern emigrant aid societies, who have
from the outset resisted the territorial gov
eminent, and endeavorcd to subvert it, that
they might build up an abolition government
upon its ruins. They have ''sowed the Storm"
let them ''reap the whirlwind." If consti-
tuition establishing slavery as domestic in
stitution has been formed, majority of the
people of the Territory being opposed to it,
the responsibility rests ,ch that majority who, Jy
Disregard Of their priUiLeges suffered the electons to
40 against them. The constitution was made in
pursuance of law, and is as much a legal in
strument as the constitution of Tennessee
No one outside the territory has any right 10
complain of it; and certainly no one inside of
the territory, who folded his arms, and
stood aloof from the election of delegates
to the convention, should murnur. If
they have brought disaster upon their own
cause, let them bear it like men, and not come
before the country snivelling or clustering
about what they will do if compiled to
swallow the result of their own conduct
We confess, however, that we have a deep
and abiding sympathy with the pro-slavery
men in Kansas. We have beheld with pride
their noble struggle to assert their rights, and
to resist the revolutionary and REASONABLE eff
forts of their abolition enemies TO crush them.
to the last resort, if necessary, when we saw
the President of the United States through
his INSCRIPTIONS satraps, WALKER and Stan
TON, interfering against them. And now, that
they have triumphed over all opposition, and
despite dangers and difficulties which would
have appalled, men less constant and coura-
geOus, we feel that it is not only our duty, but
the duty of the whole South, TO stand by them.
We are aware that to sustain them is TO throw
ourselves against men of the North who were
with us in the last Presidential election. We
are sorry to admit that they are bowling to
the Serpent of Abolitionism, whose claInmy
coils are winding about our government and
preparing to break down the dcicnccs OF our
domestic institutions. We would that it were
otherwise; but we can't help it. They pursue
the dictates of their own cOnscienccs. SO
shall we ours. We seek no allianccs-we
want none-North that do not permit us to
stand erect, in the full stature OF Southern men,
conceding not one jot or title of our constitu-
tional rights. Until the American Party of
the South stand upon this basis, and this
alone, in their cooperation with the North
we can neither command respect there
nor increase our strength in the South.
The appearance of yielding to Northern SEN
timent on the slavery question--lne desire, on
the part of portion of our party leaders to
ignore that all important question, combined
with the issues arising from the Kansas i'm
broglio, have driven us into Il minority in ey-
-,
TO recover our lost ground, by continuing the
same suicidal policy? On the contrary, hy
sustaining Southern interests and rights, on
all occasions, inflexibly, may we not build up
an invincible party in the South, beat down
the sham democracy, and barring estIbiisb,d our
setUes here, as a GREAT AND CONTROLLING POWER.
COMMAND \ PARTY IN TIE NORTH, that
will respect us and our rights, and demand of
Us no sacrifices, whilst cooperating with Us
in a contest for the control of the National
Government? This seems to us to be the true
policy of the American Party of the South
and, as such, we commend it To the considera-
ton Of all who desire the success of the party
andit principles What matter, ifin carrying
out this policy, we support measure approx
ed by Mr.. Buchanan Shall we throw down
the Bible, reject the Supreme Head of the
Christian Church, and bow the knee to Baal,
because to pursue the path of duty leads us
beside those whose opinions, on other matters.
we abjure and despise? Shall we clap hands,
and shout, and join the followers of DOUGLAS,
in bestowing incense upon the arch Magician,
to whose incantations the country is indebt-
ed, in a great measure, for the election of the
corrupt and facile Pennsylvania to the Pres
idency? What good are we to realize by
magnifying the importance and prestige of the
Senator of Illinois? He may create cOutu-
sion and discord in the ranks of his party
he may, for he nonce, divide it-but will the
benefit enure to us? Most aSslHedly IL tcH not.
In the end his course will only strengthen hirn
in his aspirations for the sham democratic nom
ination for the Presidency, and it will bind
the hands and clip the tongues Of all Ameri-
cans who now sustain him, if he should be-
come the nominee. Then let the American
Party, South, pursue the policy which we have
indicated, and at the present moment, by their
appreciation, nerve the arms of their Repre-
sentatiyes in Congress, who are sustaining the
Lecompton Constitution, and endeayoring TO
give voice to law and order, instead of sue
cnmbing to the revolutionary and reasonable
plots of abolition emssaries in Kansas
The He'll Resolutions.
The House of Representatives were again
engaged on Monday night, in discussing the