Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-08-11

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as any ma0 who spends his life time
preaching against It's and It was his creed that he
was bound 90 exert ell his constitutional rights to
keep Slavery out Of any country where il did not
exist. he held that Congress hadimperiai leglsia-
tive sovereignty the Territories. Lately there
had sprung up a doctrine Of Squatter Sovereignty.
Il Wss formerly called tho Nicholson letter doctrine
According to that theory any number Of men could
es to any unoccuped territory Of the United States
say The foot Of the Rocky Mountains, and set up
State and the nation was obliged to recognize them
HE1s FOR The UNION OF TnE OPPOSITION.
Hasn't The time come for iho union Of Republic
-Whiga-Whigs no longer; the church is die
continued and dissolved--seme are called Republic
cans. some Democrats, some Native Americans.
There gre honest men Of sound Intelligence in ell
tbess uarties-in cna as many honest and soUnd I
mea as ia the others. Why shcald they differ!
ms vfEws OK KAssAS
The federal governors in Kansas had come and 4
gone as If some drunken seeBe-shiiter in theater
had put up and down the curtains contrary to all /
The rules Of the drama. Five governors had come !
and gone and all FIVE had run away; each one cent /
out one day with written instructions in his pocket,
and sent back the next for-ezeeuting them
He held that il tie doty Of Congress, tho mo-
ueutthey repealed the old Missouri COmpromise-
which rcpesl was the fruitful source Of the bitter
waters whence all these eyils had howed-CoBgress
had right to repeal it because they passed it, but
IL had acquired BIZ age and the common consent Of
both sections q sacredness above ordinary acts the
saoredness Of a compact, and nothing but insanity
could have dictated its repeal, as nothing but ruin
and evil has followed it. -
It vas the duty Of Congress on the repeal OF the
Compromise act, TO have ordained that as Kansas
was a Territory in which white men could
live and labor there should be no involuntary serv
tude Therein.
He would then look at the ether, or Southern side
Of the question. Florida had been purchased in
1919, and was admitted as Slave State because
slavery was one of the institutions Of the people be-
fore We bought them. II We bought territory of
foreign country We had no right to compel people
inhabting it to change their institutions. II did
not want any more Slave States, as God knew he
didn't then we must not buy any more Slave Terri
tory. If we gave three hundred millions for Cuba,
(which they say the government has offered for it,
what would we DO with it after We got it? Would
We emancipate the saEesi Would we tell the white
men they must give up theirproperty! That wouldn't
be right. 1t wouldn't be treating them like gentle
men. Laughter
wHATHE THIEKs ABOUT CUBA AND HEBUCHADNEzzAR.
Gov. CorWin next considered the objection brought
against Mr. buchanan. that he was DESTROYS of
Cuba But why Cuba? why not st. Domingo? They
were all Biegers there, not merely PARTLY mig
gers, as in Cuba. One single regiment would cap
ture that island. Auy flibustering expedition du-
ring the last twenty years could have taken it. Tho
flibusters went to fight for freedom but they were
all free in San Domingo, and they could only re-
duoe them to slavery, a means of spreading the
Of freedom, CT else allow Cutfee to 60 TO the
polls and in all Weathers, be il hot cold, have
him in the halls Of Congress sitting like rose,
''stealng and giving OdOr." (Great laughter)
Even the Ab0litiOnists who wanted TO Cuffee
free would not like to cit in the Senate beside him
on a hot day in August. Still he (GoV G did not
think this was constitutional objection to the &C
QUESTION of Of San Domingo.
/ But sUPposing, said the Governor, you have
! bought Cuba, the treaty comes before the Senate
for ratification, and will it be ratified till you find
] what to do with il? The Southern man would ad
/ nit il it is. The Northern man would not admit
It iii the slaves we're free. And that ought not,
| think, to be done without the consent of the own
ers, who were bought by US along with the niggers;
! and they Of course would not consent How, then,
/ We 10 get possession OF Cuba? We may send
/ armies there to keep the pesee and pay their ex-
penses. But Cuba will not be State nor a Terri~
| tory, not even Kansas Kansas has had seven
/ Governors Cuba won't have one. If cur eupduy
o0mpels us to take as our own those rich coffee
plantations, Of the trade with which we have the
benefit now, solely excepting the duties, why then
We must take Cuba as we find Cuba.
Did we really want territory? We had by the
last census % millions Of people out Of the 1000
millions the entire globe, and for these 20 mil
\ lions We had tenth of the globe-as much land as
| England, France, Austria and Prussia Nebachad-
/ nezZsr wanted more territory than he had. So, he
! went 10 war with the Phenicisns and drove them
thither be had fleets and as they took all their
treasure there and Nebuchadnezzar came back with
! plenty Of territory but booty. Then he went
! down into Egypt and took one Of the Pharsohs by
the throat and shook him till he got the booty from
him Now, NebuchsdnezZar was g tolerably smart
man; as smart as any IN the Democratic or Repub-
| lioan parties, he thought. Laughter. Aud what
was the next We heard Of this smart NebuchaduezN
! Ear who grasped so much territory? Why be was
in the field maniac. among the cattle eating grass
! a. n
terpreted this differently. He says that Nebuchsd-
nezzer being fellow who knew what was good,
merely cropped mint to make juleps with. Laugh
ter
was by our example, and not by our cannon, that
We were to extend the area of freedom-it was not
by blowing out a mans brains that you could edu.
cate him-the best way to let light into head was
not by boring hole through it. This was the prin.
ciple on which an old man he knew once tried to
train his ox-tO break N Of bad trick he knocked
him in the head with his ak, and as he fell dead
under the blow, said, Z" Now live and larn."
If our missionary labOrs abroad we're ever to be
Of any effect, they must be illustrated and umins-
ted by the light Of example at home; and in due
time-in Heavens own appointed time, all the
affairs Of despoism would fall before our light as
Dagon fell before the ark of the living God. Zap
plause)
He then proceeded to speak of the State caudi.
dates for the Supreme Judge, Attorney General Pub
Tic Nofkss &C
The Republican candidate for Board Of Public
Works was good looking man with sandy hair
be saw him in the crowd Mr. Martin was press
ent) the ladies called him good looking and as it
was pleasure to vote for a good looking man, he
should vote for him. His business when elected
would be to keep the canals in order. but voters
went to him and said, not DO you understand the
canalsf" Oh, Do-that question was mt asked ct sr
but 'Do you believe in the extension of Sla7ery?"
Now, not that sensible question for q sensible
man? (Laughter.) If he said eyes, the CONCLUSION
was "You're my man, I'll vote for you"
Here again was his friend Ward-the Democratic
candidate for Attorney General. He was a pretty
sensible looking man, but not as good looking as
Martin. (Laughtsr) Well now he amt man to
be sneezed at. (ReneWed lsughter.l I had the
honor of being his preceptor, and he was q Wing
theD, but after he left he got off and ran among
the goats till his wool all turned to hair. laugh
teri The business of the Attorney General is with
the law, but the first question you put to him is
"What do you think of LeeOmptou!" Did we act
this way in cur private affairs "a voice: 'nary
time" "Nary onc'" promptly responded Mr.. Cor
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