Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-09-30

| We adverted the other day to the backslid-
! ing of Mr.. English, the reputed author of the
! latest test of orthodox Democracy, and invit-
ed the Administration organs who are so bust
| " denouncing Mr. Douglas, to give us their
views thcrcanent. The Augusta C6,lstiilaimaaJ-
| ist, is the only Democratic paper we have yet
seen which makes allusOn to the subject, and
it speaks with cofnmendable boldness and per
tineHcy. From leading editorial article in
that paper of Tuesday, we extract as follows:
Again, in a speech recently delivered at
! New Albany, Indiana. by the Hon. VIM. ii.
English, he is reported to have declared that
he would vote for the admission of Kansas,
whenever she presents herself with "A COnsti-
tuition legally formed and approved by the peopie
Of The TeyTitOJy regardless of he amount Of po1,i-
lqtion which she may have at the time OF her
application. Mr.. English was the chairman
of the committee of conference by which the
Kansas bill, passed at the last session of Con
gress, was reported, Though not its author, it
b 'aTs his namc.) and the Administration has
exhibited especial interest in his reelection
rs an endorsement of the policy OF that bill.
If correctly reported, in his New Albany
speech, he declared his readiness to abandon
that feature of the English bill which requires
y
hundred and twenty inhabitants before she
can be admitted into the Union under any
other than the LcCOmpton Constitution and
vote for her admission at any time, scih any
amount of p0Uuidtioa, and under any constitu-
ton, legally formed ,,chich has been submitted 10
tie people and ratified bg them. These dcclara-
tions convict Mr.. English of all the treason"
Cf which Mr.. Douglas is guilty, for the charge
that he repLdafes tie Drea Scot decision, SIMPLY
N I,,
position. Indeed Mr. Englishs treason
is rather more fragrant than than that of Mr.
Douglas. He declares that the next Coustitu-
ton of Kansas must be submitted to the pco-
pie. Mr.. Douglas has made no such pointed
declaration. as tar as we are aware. He de-
clarcs further that he will vote to admit Kan
sas when Sue applies without regard TO her
population.
MIR Douglas has made the same declara-
ton, but he. at the same time urges that it
is sound rule to require a Territory to
have the population which would entitle her
to member Of Congress under our
superintendent law, before in is admitted as a
state into the Uuion--that this rule ought to
be applied to all of the Territories alike, and
he intimatcs in his FreepOrt speech that if it is
yet adopted by Congress, as "A rule of univer-
sal application, that he would favor the eX-
clusion Of Kansas until she could come within
Kansas must come in as a free State with
whatever population she may have. or the r,ils
must he applied 10 H tie other Territories aIike;
Mr.. EnglIsh'S declarations are more direct in
their application to Kansas, and more unquai-
flied than any which Mr.. Douglas has made;
and we repeat that his treason" to the par
~. TO the South above all To the English bill
Is more fragrant than that of the Illinois SEN
atUr. II Douglas is traitor is not the
nominee of the Democracy for Congress i'm
the Lancaster district traitor" is not Mr..
English the chairman of the Conference Com
mittee, who reported the English bill, ..trai-
tor.' and ought not the Union TO read him
out of the party? to denounce him. and de-
nouuce the Administration which sustains him
and desires his reelection, as il has denounc-
cd Douglas and his supporters in Illinois! and
labor TO elect his BLACK Republican COMPETE
tor. as II Is laboring To elect the Black Re
publican candidate for the Senate in Illinois?
In short ought not the Union, ought not the
Administration to deal with all Democrats
occupying the same position, alike, aud if il
wages a relentless war with Douglas, wage
the same war with all those who sympathZe
with him aud sustain him ndl iey constitute q
majority Of he Democratic party.
The intrrrogatories put by the Constitu-
tionalist are exactly to the point, and such as
we have urged again and again When will
the Register open its batteries upon English
aud the multitude of Northern Democrats
who occupy like position: