Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-01-14
THURSDAY, JANUARY "A, 1858.
The Kansas CowpIications-The North
and the South.


and the South.
Neither our principles nor our feelings
have led us to sympathise or act with thai
class of politicians in the South, who have
been variously denominated as extremists
fire-eaters and disunionists But it is not
to be denied that there is a universality Of
feeling and sentiment peryading the South
in favor of slavery and its protection. i
the political schemes of some, and the ex
tremely nervous temperament and tender
sensibilties of others, have caused them to
take ultra positions, tending to and perhaps
aiming at a dissolution of the Union, it is
nevertheless true that the body of the South
are determined to maintain their constitu
tional rights. We prefer, and we believe
the conservative masses prefer, that this
should be done by an active nationality OIL
feeling, by patriotic observance of con.
stitutional guarantees and by union of the
conservative and misunderstanding sentiment
of the entire country, organized and acting
above sections. But this desire has not
been reciprocated by large portion of the
northern people-especially that portion
that has prompted and furnished material
for the factionists in Kansas. The neces-
sity is becoming, every day, more apparent
and imperative for the South to guard and
protect her rights. Under the operation
of the higher-law doctrines of those who are
organized with an isolated view of depriv-
ing the South of her rights, of checking her
expansion, and eventually crushing out
the institution of slavery, the constitution
offers neither safeguards to justice nor bar
riers against oppression. With them the
law of might is the law of right. Against
such doctrines and those who unblushingly
aVow and shamelessly advocate them, it is
the first duty Of patriots of every name and
section to plant themselves. This we do,
though it may subject US to the charge of
being ultra sectional, while we scorn the
taunt and denOunce the imputation. We
cherish the union Of these States as the
highest object Of patriotic desire, and be-
lieve that it can only be preserved by strict
observance of the constitution as it is, and
of just and equal laws enacted under and
in accordance with its spirit.
But what spectacle is presented to the
country 10y the political events now occur
ring and foreshadowed as iuevitabIe2 The
North is gaining power with celebrity and
certainty which will very soon leave the
South without hope or security, except in
the kindness and justice, or mercy of her
superior To the present Congress Oregon
and Minnesota are applying for admission
as anti-slave States into the Union and
there is no one so short-sighted as to be-
lieve their application will be rejected. A |
vigorous and powerful effort is also making |
TO force Kansas into the confederacy as |
rec State, over the head of the people who |
nave attempted to manage its affairs and !
to express its sentiment according to law
The champions of this effort, too, are raw
shed from the leaders of those who have
Wanted their attachment to law and order,
and Justice to the South; nay, we even see
a disposition manifested by southern jour
nails to eSpouSe this cause, and entrenching
themselves within the widest distractions
and the most fallacious of theories. They
propose to yield the material rights of the
South, to follow the political lead of Judge
Douglas, the Polyphemus of demagogues,
who swallows up all other rivals of that
class at single gulp, in pursuit of the
vilest within of squatter sovereignty. We
ask southern men, national, conservative
men to pause before they give themselves
over to the terrible infatuation.
Suppose you yield Kansas-against law
and -ight-make it an oblation, a sacri-
ice to appease the higher-law, squatter-
Iovereignty men of the North, what has
been gained? What impulse of generosi-
", what sober sense of justice and polt
cal equality among the States, will have
been touched and aroused? The DESTINY
Of Nebraska and of Washington and of |
The Territories of the West and Northwest |
viii have been sealed as against the South.
Will the war upon Southern institutions
,aye ceased? Will it not the more Quick
Y and furiously blaze up in Missouri, and
pread all along the Southwestern frontier
rom the Mississippi river to the Atlantc2
flushed with triumph and with increased
power, Fanaticism will make the whirlwind
md the storm her chariot, and with the
ensign Of the higher law, dictate her terms
% the South. Have We a reader who
would calmly survey the field and indiffer-
.ntly pronounce this an improbable vision
Have we not their organs and their asso-
GATED communities and free-labor corpora
lions in Missouri at the present moment,
iuSolent and overbearing.
such as Louisiana or Mississippi CON-
munitv could not tolerate for single day.
unless at the risk of servile insurrectionP
In the railway cars, upon the streets,
along the highways, and at the firesides of
the North, sanguine and fanatical coteries
NAV be found every day discussing the
probable shortness of time when Missouri
will become one of the brotherhood of the
rec States. So long as the bitter auimos-