Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-09-30
a Contrast.

into being BY the danger Of the subJeoton Of our
vast national territories to human slavery and the
necessity Of resisting and arresting that calamity
Il declares "that the surrender Of these territories
70 slavery would be st once national crime, ma
tional disaster, and national shame, " and stigma
tsss the entire Southern portion Of the Confederacy
Is pest-bouse Of enslsved, benighted and embruted
human obattels 1t asserts, in effect the doctrine
Of negro equality, aud places that class Of pOpula-
ton in the category with all who live by 'hOn-
est muscular exertious" 1t utterly repudiates the
DIED SooTT decision, and declares that despite tho
opinion Of the Supreme Court, Congress has the
power to exclude slavery from the Territories OF the
United States. Thus, while disclaimiDg all intent
or vish to war upon US, the Black Republicans deny
and oppose every principle which the South deems
essential to the preservation Of her Constitutional
rights stamp our institutions with the brand Of inS
fanny, and announce their unalterabe determination
to resist the admission Of any Slave States in
to the Union. The bare statement Of these propo-
Sitons is quite sufficient to satisfy the people Of the
soHth how perfectly grOundless is the assumption
that Black Republicanism has abated one jot or
title its obnoxious resolves. The triumph of such
party would be the inauguration eff policy, whose
inevitable cOnsummadon is disunion
Directly opposed to the Black Republican party,
continues the South, stand the Democracy of New
York On every question involving the rights of
the States and the integrity of the Constitution they
have taken issue with the avoWed enemies of the
South They defend and sustain the Kansas policy
Of the Administrations reafrm the principles of the
DRED SoOTT decision; declare their purpose to main
tain the rights and equality of all the States of the
Union, and viii resist every appeal to the strength
Of sectional numbers against the constitutional
guarantees Of equal rights all the citizens Of all
the States. There is no attempt at Cancellation or
compromise with Black Republicanism, in any color,
shape or form. There is no effort to cover up in
ambiguous expressions and unmesning generalities,
the important questions in controversy. The Dem
ocratic platform is Short explicit and to the point
fully meeting the exigencies of the occasion, and
Contradicing the unjust imputations of the OppOsiN
ton here upon the fidelity Of the party to the right
full claims Of our own section. Contemplating this
scene, who can deny that the Democratic party is
only hope Of the Union Of these States Where
e are We to look for resistance to the encroach-
ents of the antslsvery power? Does any other
Official organization dare oppose its aggressive
arch, or openly denounce its traitorous designs
bOs VIC ObblTb 70 huOM lub udulS anu btItuElu VI
the patriotic association. 1t is duty to watch
political developments at the North in a spirit
earnest solioitude, and 10 note carefully every
event which tends to influence the currents Of pop
ular sentiment For the time at least, all partisan
bitterness all petty differences jeaOuses and strifes,
should give place to the vital issues which sectional
fanaticism has forced upon the country. Surely no
man in the Southern States can remain an idle and
Indifferent spectator Of the occurrences which are
taking place throughout the North. All must feel
deep interest in the question where this anti slavery
movement is to end; and all must be convinced that
the answer to the question greatly depends upon the
result of the approaching Gubernstoral election in
Nov York We shall then have the means Of calcu-
lstiDg with come show of certainty what will be the
condition and attitude of parties in the PRESS
Dental contest, and whether we are to aPpTehend
the worst consequences to the country from the issue
Of that struggle.
Here we have in striking contrast the principles
advocated by the Black Republican and Democratic
parties Of New York, and they may be taken as a
fair criterion Of the principles of those parties
throughout the Northern States. The intelligent
reader will not fail to observe the extreme doctrine
upon the slavery question and the rights Of the
States promulgated by the Black Republican party,
and the consequences to which their practical adop
ton by the majority of the people must inevitably
lead 1t will be remembered that not long since the
Louisville Journal, the most Influential Know Moth
ing organ in the South, m de bold and labOred
effort to effect consolidation of the KnoWrNOthings
and others Of the opposition in the South with this
very Black Republican party, in order to defeat the
Democratic party. And how did the Journal, the
organ of Southern Know Nothingism, speak of that
party to which it aIdenty desired TO turn over the
fortunes and the principles of its OWnf Here are
the words of this political gambler;
.,Tba attention of all thoughtful men should be
t,,,nad 10 the means of consolidating the masses of
the opposition The principal difficulty IN the way
Of an effective combination of The elements
great and triumphant opposition party is supposed
- lie in the position Of the Republicans Of the
Northern States In many Of these The intelligent
norton Of the people have been driven with singu-
lar unanimity and by the force Of circumstances TO
form q political organization, which, partly from
nisconoepton fits aims and partly from he
tional feelings which il enlisted its support has
been regarded with disrUst and aversion in our
portion Of the Union. Undoubtedly, the Repubi
can masses greatly mistOOk the real spirit Of the
South, and, on our part, we no less misunderstood
the prevailing sentiment Of that party 1t was held
responsible for the sentiments uttered by the violent
and radical spirits who acted with 1t for the time
being and who most unfairly represented its aims.
The last fen months haze gone UsTy far 10 Espe tru
Utssgs and to harOnize those aCbo upon eUy prHcDs
ought 10 be acting IN concert and 10 prone that The
masses eUeryOheTe disposed 10 do jul justice 10 their
eOuntryaen Of all SeetiolS UhatsUsT ground there
aay hare been for The charges Of sec0HaiSm brought
against The Republican party an Tie heat Of te contests
IN ohich &c had us birth, The signs that mzHyoT
those composing Il di'pOssd to take position
fiORdI and conservative grounds"
Our contemporary, the Patriot, adopting the same
line Of policy, said:
"Ths Philadelphia North American, The organ of
the black republicans Of Pennsylvania, Hon Thos
Corwin, Horace Greeley, the Cincinnati Ggzets
and others of The leaders and organs ARE ALREADY
ABATIEe THEIR DEMANDS and taking stand beside
Che northern Democracy in regard to the admission
Of slave States. "
Our neighbOr expressed the opinion in the same
article that the South can have peace, i she use
little policy, and that policy" was clearly indica
ted to be union of the remnant of Know NOlbings
left in the South with the Black Republicans. The
idea was held out by the Louisville journal and
echoed by the Nashville Patriot, in order to bring
about the desired consolidation Of the masses Of the
opposition with the Black Republicans, that that
party had materially abated their demands in re-
gard to the extension of slavery. And what DO We |
find in the action Of the first State Convention of
that party, held after these efforts thus made
"a 3nprass the peorIe of Keufuekv and Tennessee