Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-11-16
From the Memphis Bulletin Il
Bad for the Antf-Douglas Ffre-Eaters.

We have several times referred to the sub
sidence in virulence of the anti-Slavary
mania at the North. and have warned our
political fre-eating friends that the fnlcrnm
upon which they were trying to priZ. the
UNION asunder was gradually crumbling
beneath their lever. Every months devel-
opments prove the correctness of what we
have told them; and we warn them afresh
that they had better make haste to patch up
their separate and ind pendent Southern
Confederacy," or it will be too late. Fana-
ticism in the North is furnishing less and less
aliment for folly in the South. and the time
is not far distant when he who shall seek to
keep alire the old sectional excitement and
agitation about niggeriSm. will be universally
regarded. everywhere, as simply the verlest
Ounce of demagogue.
The NezC York Times is an acknowledged
exponent of anfi-Slavery northern sentiment.
Latterly the Richmond South made statement
of Judge DOUGLAS position. The Times
copies these. and controverts with cores
pendent the question of their aceeptability.
We subjoin the paragraphs in question::
l. Judge Douglas affirms the original and
essential inferiority of the negro.
2. He denies that the negro was intended
10 be embraced within the distractions of the
Declaration of Independence, and asserts
that the right to freedom and equality was
predicated only of the dominant race of
3. He denies the privileges of citizenship
to the negro.
Z. He supper is the decision of the Supreme
Court. and asserts for slavery the right of
colonization in the Territories.
The Times says in regard to the first three,
that
We can very well understand that. as
matter Of individual opinion. men may differ
from Judge Douglas in regard to the negro;
but what party will adopt the negro as
the essential element Of its political plat
form? Not the republicans, certainly, for
they have uniformly and most emphatically
repudiated the idea that they had any thing
whatever to do with negroes or negro rights
Even in the heated canvass of the year 1856,
they resented the imputation of proposing to
legislate for the negro, and declared always
and everywhere, that they aimed at the good
of the tchte men of the country, and had
nothing to do with negroes North or South
slave or free. We do not believe they intend
to change their ground. And we are quite
certain that, if they do, they will not be sus-
tanned by any considerable portion of the peO-
pie of the Northern States. Senator Ham
mond, in our judgment, was quite right in
in saying that the North was not prepared to
sacrifice or subordinate the interests of the
nation to an abstract love of the negro. So
far as we may Judge from experience. there
is not a single large State in the North or
West that is prepared, even in its own local
legislation, to assert and enact the natural.
civil and political equality of the negro and
the white
That is very bad for the fire-eaters who wish
to keep playing etcrnally upon the "harp of
thousand strings" that demagogues NAV
get into Office. But the following is as bad,
worse. The Times saws the North will not
help these southern agitatOrs by keeping up
upon the Supreme Court. Says that
Journal
The republican party. in 1856, asserted
the right of Congress to exclude slavery from
edral territory, and probably most of its
members individually hold to that opinion
still. But this is not enough for a basis of
political action. The Supreme Court has
decided against the republican party on that
point; and it will not he easy for that or any
other party to carry on nationl canvass in
the teeth OF decision of the Supreme Court
1t may do well enough for enthusiastic, in
terested and sanguine men to proclaim war
upon this tribunal-but the watchword will
not bring strength. The people will not
rally to it. We do not believe that, out of
New England, single Northern State could
be carried upon this issue if it could be pre-
scented apart from all others. That fight is
over. The issue is dead. The whole country
has been compelled. willingly or unwillingly
to accept the principle of popular sovereign
ty, in the Territories as well as the States,
for the settlement of the slavery question.
That's pery bad for the fre-eaters and we
would advise our friends of the AUdLqHche to
''stand from under" 1t will hare to support
DOUGLAS yet. The conspiracy against him of
the Administration clique is bowed sky-high
-'into thousand flinders" Mark it!