Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-04-22

"a Those who are looking for solution Of Mr..
BEI1s course upon the recent proposition to admit
Kansas into the Union, may fndit, perhaps, in his
speech Of July, 1850, advocating the admission Of
California into the Union IS Free State before
she had even territorial government In that
remarkable speech this paragraph occurs:
.sWbie thst prOtraoted domination Of the
South, which has been so long and keenly felt al
lhe North was always more imaginary than real;
no Southern man having ever attained the Fresl-
dency except by thu concurrence often times OF
more than half and always of large division Of
the North yet now it cannot be disguised that the
period of Southern ascendeucy-if it ever had
real ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS its end Political Po17er
and asesadsaey m sectional eg, haze already passed
dl5ay from the South forever. And this is 30 mani
fest that Senator, who spoke in this debate, could
not forbear haunting the South with the prospect Of
their declining fortunes. 1T is longer, he eX-
ultingly exclaims the South and the North; 1t is
now the North and the South"
TWAS in this same speech that Mr.. BELL reminded
his northern friends-aud may it not have been in
view of the fact just announced, that political
power and ascendency had passed away from the
South forevsr!-that they should not forget the few
southern men who had always stood up to the North
in every vicissitude Of political fortune. Hear
him:
al cannot forbesr further to remind my northern
friends that in the south and southwest, there IS
body Of men who, for long period, have continued
faithful and just to them; sustaining them en- then
FAvORITE POLICY through every Uieisstuds Of political
fortune; body Of men Of liberal and Catholic
views Of national policy, who look beyond the
limited horizon Of sectional interests spuFn the IN
hueuce of sectional prejudice, and embrace the
whole Union as their common country"
No, these men should not be forgotten. True,
they we're small in number, but they had been Of
essential service to the "favorite policy Of the
North. Upon every issue of the slavery question
these fewfaithfu men have stood by them. They had
stood by them in securing the repeal Of the 2lst
rule that Congress might be flooded with abolition
petitions. They had stood by them in their OPpo
sition to the acquisition Of all southern territory
They had stood by them in their attempts to pro-
hibit the sale Of slaves in the District Of Columbia
They had stood by them in their struggle to defeat
the Clayton Compromise, which was accomplished
by the aid of eight southern votes They had stood
by them in their efforts to secure the admission Of
California as q free State, without territorial or
gsnizatiOu or any chance having been afforded tC
the South Innumerabe are the instances In which
they had stood by and sustained them in their IA
Vorite policy" 1t was but natural therefore, no "
when the period of southern ascendenCy was sP
preaching its end, that Mr.. BELL should desire tC
impress the minds Of his northern allies with tn
! services he had performed, that he might not be
forgotten in the plenitude of their power. May
the same considerations have setuated him in hi
subsequent course upon the Kansas bill and in hi
more recent opposition to the admission of Kansas
with slavery constitution !