Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-06-08
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 8, 1859.
rTOII INT UVIIUsIIIOH.
Slavery Agitation.

In the platform of principles adopt
ed by the Opposition Convention held
in this place on the 29th of March last,
it is declared
''That while we will maintain with unwa-
yerinp firmness our constitutional rights in
relation to slavery, we believe that the furth-
err agitation of the question tends to no prac-
tical good to any portion OF the country. and
should, therefore, Cease"
The policy here declared is the poll
CIV recommended and advocated by the
official organ Of the present admlinistr0-
ton, In it's semi-weekly issue of the
18th of March last, the Washington
Union said:
awe are tired and sick of thrusting slave
~ into cv ry dish. II it is good seasoning
for soup. is that any reason why it should be
sprinkel over fish? Is it like garlick in
Spain to be- rubbed on the plates, cooked
with the meats, eaten with the dessert, boiled
with the coffee? If slave
ry is to be made the football Of politicians, all
that we have to say is. that the tenure by
which shareholders command the service of
the neg Oes are not such as we would invoke
In this view, he is not the best friend Of The
South 11ho SEEKS 10 occupy the public mind Of The
nation ocih tie spreqd or protection Of Slavery"
In another article in the same issue,
the offic al organ of the administration
uses this strong language:
"For mere than twenty years class of
politicians lave labored ZealOusly and sleep
lessly 10 create an irreconcilable antagonism
between the free States aud the slave States.
This has been done by p rsistent and malig-
nant mlsro presentations at the two extremes;
and has been successful to this extent, that
the two sections are positively more ignorant
of each other than they were when the con-
troVersy commenced"
What were, and are, 'the persistent
and Indignant misrepresentation at the
tt0O ertremeS" of the Union, the North
and South, which are here referred to?
The official organ of the administration
goes Oh to state them:
1T has been repeated" says the organ,
'On every stump i'll the North. that it was
the settl' d purpose of the slave States to force
slavery into every State and Territory of the
Union"
1t is thus, according to the official
organ of the administration, that the
people OF the slave States have been,
and are, persistently and indignantly
misrepreseated at the North, by "a class
of politicians" in the Northern section
of the Union.
Then on the other hand" continues the
l.. IL III l. II
taking the language OF lew crazy abolition
lists as their authority, that there is a settled
purpo at the North to override every con-
stitutiOnal barrier, and to its power to
strike down the institution OF slavery: that
the Northern people have been banded to-
gether for years in regular siege, against the
rights of the South"
1t is thus, according to the official
organ of the administration that the
people of the free States have been,
and are, persistentlg and Indignantly
misrepreSented at the South, by "a class
of politicians in the Southern section
of the Union.
To what party belongs this "class of
polite ans" il the S1uth, whom the Of
fcial organ If the administration thus
directly charges with persistently and
indignantly misrepresenting the people of
tie North-w"om it charges with
''takip the language of few crazy
abolitiOnists as their authority" to lead
the people of The South to believe that
there is IA settled purpose in the
North" Ito use its power to strike
down the institution of slaveryl" To
what party, we ask, belongs this 'class
Of polit Gems in the South, whom the
official organ of the administration
charges with this unpatriotic, this
"malignant," this wicked, this section
al, tbs dsnnion proceeding? They are
Democratic politicians" every one of
theml Aud the charge applies to
eueyy DeraOcratie politician IN Tennessee
who has at any time endeavored, or
who is now endeavoring, to make the
people of Tennessee believe that there
is settled purpose among any portion
of the people of the North, except "a
few crazy abolilionists," Ito strike
down The Institution of slavery What
has the whole brood of Democratic
politician, III Tennessee, from Govern-
or HARRIS down TO the most ignorant
candidate of his party for the legisla-
ture, to say in reply TO this charge, de-
liz srately preferred against them by The
official .4argan of the administration, of
persistent and malignant misrepresen-
tations" iii enaeavoring. as we presume
it will be adnittrd they all do, to lead
the people of Tennessee To believe that
there is "a settled purpose in the
North settled purpose in the
dominant party at the North, the
Republican party, "to strike down the
institution OF slavery p
A CURIosIrY.-A few weeks since a child