The Nevada journal., 1858-04-09
G. P. r. JAMES.

WASHINGTON, FEB. 22.-John Bell,
Senator from Tennessee, presented to-
day certain resolutions of the Tennessee
Legislature, instructing him to resign,
because four years ago be voted against
the Kansas n Nebraska bill This mod
est and opportune expression of the ON
impotence and wisdom of the Tennessee
democracy was criticized by the gentle
man against whom it was directed, until
it grew to be foolish and ridiculous, and
reflected these same characteristics on
the illustrious body from which it eman-
yated. Instructions from legislature are
Legitimate, when in reference to pend
ing question in Congress. Who ever
heard OF er post fatto Instructions
Obey or resi- ign used to be the democrat
ic rule. How has that rule been OBJ
served by the national democrats in the
United States Senate who voted for the
Kansas Nebraska bill ? Cass, who is
member of this administration, was in
structed to vote against the bill, and he
responded by voting for it. Jones, from
Iowa, who is also one of those who voted
for the Kansas-Nebraska bill, read the
instructions of the legislature from his
State the other day, requiring him to
vote against the admission of Kansas
under the Lecompton constitution, and
he cody replied that on the contrary he
would vote for the admission of Kansas
under that constitution. These are but
two instances out of many. The right
of instruction has been contemptuously
and outrageously trampled upon by the
national democratic leaders and when
retribution had we'll gh overtaken
them, the administration received them
with open arms Disobedience of the
voice of Michigan procured Cass the first
secretaryship. The same kind of trea-
son procured an asylum for Dodge away
In Madrid. 1t is useless to recount the
incidents OF history so recent. The
Pierce administration offered premium
for the votes which misrepresented the
sentiments of the constituencies and
among the debris of the violated public
peace and sectional fraternity, caused
by the policy of that administration, the
right of instruction was entombed. The
national democrats having apostatised
from their other principles it was but
consistent in them to repudiate this also
Yet with the most dolorous hypocrisy,
they deprecated John Bells resolution
of disregarding "instructions" which re-
fer to an act which passed four years
ago. 1t is evident, that if he deferred
to those er post facto obstruction" he
would substantially admit that the SEN
ator who obeved the will of his people
to-day is justly punishable for his obedi-
ence if the opinions Of his people or the
fortunes of his party should at any fu-
ture time undergo change. Another
circumstance in his favor is the fact that
neither he nor any other whig ever rec
ognized the right of instruction in its alb
solute democratic sense. He may be
blind to the true doctrine, he may be an
infdel, but he is not an apostate like the
doughface senators from the north, more
especially the secretary of state, who is
the most unmitigated humbug of the
Anglo Saxon race.
Bells remarks upon the resolutions of
instruction brought his colleague And
rev johnson to his feet. johnson is a
man of fair sense until he is drawn into
the whirlpool of niggerism, when all
reason and discretion desert him. His
mannerism of delivery, combining the
worst vices of the stump-school, is very
ofensive--or very ridiculous. He COM
mences sentence with shrill and loud