Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-11-03
srAvERY-Tbe Democratic is the on,v mar.

SIAvERY.-The Democratic is the onlv PAR
ty which has managed the ielirate and irrita-
ting subject of slavery with anv cert Of salts
faction TO both sections Of the Union and II
is the only perty. ell mnst admit. that has the
power and disposition TODD linstice to the
slave States. and to save the Government from
the domination of the Black Republicans.
which would necessarily result n the iissolu-
ton OF the Naturalization Aissis1ppian
1t is by such arrant humbuggery as this that
the democracy of the South have hcen able
to obtain the support of the people. The
democratic party has never managed the
delicate and irritating subject of slavery with
any sort of satisfaction tn both sections of the
Union" 1t is the only party, all must admit,
whose policy and measures have brought into
existence at the North a party whose basis is
opposition to slavery. Ard recent events
have shown its utter inability @to save the
government from the domination of the Black
Repu blicans." Even the very numbfr of the
Kississippian which contains this prepostarous
assumption of democratic power. admits that
on all sides the friends of the President were
recently beaten down and overpowered in
Pennsylvania. and that in the next Congress he
places are filed by band of bowling fanat-
les who are pledged to thwart the policy of
the administration in its every attempt to re-
deem its pledges to the South.D
How, indeed, has the democratic party
managed the delicate and Irritating subject
OF slavery? By the proposed annexation of
Texas, that party gave the slavery question
national nr0niDaDca in - ho1
yer before enjoyed since the Missouri contest
and Compromise. The administration elected
that year, added new territories to the country,
In reference to which the slavery question at
once became the chief and most exciting.
During that administration the Wilmot Pro-
viso bad its origin. and at the end of that adj
rninistration we have the first serious organi-
cation of the abolition party as political ele-
ment of moment in a national contest In
lo4S, that party was expelled from power
and the conservative Management and whole
some settlement of the delicate and irrita-
ting" subject. were left to the opponents of
the vain-glorious democracy that had prepared
the public mind for storm seriously threat
ening the integrityof the Union. The oppo-
sition did so settle it. The storm was ap-
peased and the wisdom and conservatism and
Justice of the administration of Mr.. FILLMORE
was acknowledged on all hands. His official
term expired in an hour of profound peace.
The country for once was rid of this delicate
and irritating" subject-not at the hands of
the democracy but at the hands of the Wing
administration. Leading democrats of course
concurred in the measures which made the
year 1850 memorable in the annals of the
country but those measures were carried I'M
der the auspices of an opposition administra-
ton. The democratic party managed to hum
bng the people by an avowal that the peace of
that year should he religiously adhered to at
all hazards, and in 1852, were able, upon this
avowal, more than anything else, to regain
their lost power. Not year had elapsed
from the re-inauguration of the democratic !
dynasty. until these solemn avowals 10 stand
by the Compromise of 1850, were remorse-
lessly broken and measure brought forward
which put an abrupt termination to the peace
which bad been SO happily consummated I'M
der the preceding Observation-Disclosures which !
gave rise to the very party, which is based |
exclusively on the issue of slavery. 1t is !
thus the democratic party has managed the |
slavery question. BY their tampcring with,
and agitation of this question; by opening
every door by which it could enter into nation
al politics, and closing every door through
which it could escape or be elected from ma
tional politics; by cherishing it and fostering
it, in every conceivable shape and form, the
democratic party has made it the great ques-
ton of the day, and upon which a sectional
organization has grown up at the North which
threatens to utterly overwhem and consume
that party.
Yet we have respectable newspapers, lead.
ing organs of the party, to PROFOUND the alb
surd claim that 1.-THE democratic party is the |
only party which has managed the subject of |
slavery with any sort of satisfaction to both
sections of the Union!'