Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-04-23
STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
SATURDAY, APRIL %, 1859.
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Soon after the adjournment of Congress
Senator DOUGLAS published pamphlet. con-
tanning his speech in reply to Hon. A. G..
Brown Of Mississippi in the S nate on the
23d February last, together with an appendix
containing other matter pertinent to the
matter discussed, which was the matter of
the rights of the people of the territories, &c.
Mr.. Brown has written letter to one of the
Mississippi papers in reply to certain passages
in the pamphlet, from which we make the
following extract:
"On page 25 Of the pamphlet he Introduces
an extract Of speech Of the Hon. A. G..
Brown, of Mississippi, delivered in the L. 5,
Senate, July I'd 1856 On referring to the
appendix to the Congrc soional Globe, "a n
Congress, LIST session, page SOL" | find the
qnOtation TO be from few brief remarks of
mine, in reply 10 Mr.. Touccy, then the Sena-
tor from Connecticut, and now Secretary of
the Navy, and to Gen. Cass then a Senator
from Michigan, and now Secretary Of State,
on the. gerlern question OF admitting Kansas
as State. brt more particularly and especial
ly on the point of r'jrctng certain prO-siaUey
and other, to them. obnoxious laws passed a
short time before by the Territorial Legisla-
turc OF KaR.as. They insisting on their re-
lection, and opposing on the ground that it
would be an infractiOn oftheir favorite theory
of non Intervention and popular sovereign
tv.' At that day, Mr.. Douglas, Mr.. Cas-,
Mr.. Toucey and. | believe. eyery other Northern
Democrat, some Southern men. and, of course.
all the Republicans proposed 10 ''iqieTyene.n and
blot ont The lars Of HePopuidr sOUeyagns IN Kan
sas. They said the laws were Odous. but
obscrv d that most Of item ,cere prO-slarery lars
and haif suspected that a good deIL Of their
''od,un' came out Of that circumstance. At all
events. ! called loudly on the friends of 'non
Intervention and sqaaner sovereignty" to stand by
their doctrines, but they refused to do it
Mr. D"UGIAs. Gen. CAss and Mr.. TOUCEY
taking the lead
1t is true that in voting for tho Kansas bill
of 1854, agreed to - nOn-intervention " to
the extent expressed in the bil-that is that
Congress was " neither to legislate slavery
into the territories, nor exclude therefrOm,
but leave the people thereof perfectly free 10
regulate il in their own way. subject only to
the constitution Of the Unit, d States and In
the same bill agreed that the Supreme Court
Of the United States was the rightul arbiter
in any matter of controversy between citi-
zen Of the South and the territory of Kansas
on the suljrct Of her (Kansas) constitutional
rlgni to exclude slavery. What | contend
for now, l. that the controversy did arise
that We did submit the point, and that the
Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case, did de-
eide 1t in our iavor-and that therefore the
law has been fulfilled. NOn-interventiOn has
been worked out to its conclusion. IL was a
Greek gift, but il turned out for us Il Shib-
oleth Of strength.
Aud having introduced the names Of Gen
Cas- and Secretary TOucy. il is but just that
should say, lest | may be misunderstood
that have the kindest feelings towards both
of them. That they are upright citizens
pure p iriots aud able statesmen, no one will
a sticn. They hold 10 O7inions on the SLAVERY
9'eS1o" 10 whtch / By mems agree bat they are
az s"hpdno on the question us Isupposed them 10
De ~ ne ,H'es passed
A portion Of the italics are Mr.. BRowN's
the rest ours. This is high Democratic testi-
ny to facts which we have charged for the last
four or five years on the national Dcmoc-
racy OF the North. DOUGLAs, CAss and
ToUCEY, the ablest and most trusted leaders
OF the Democracy ut that day, are thus
shown TO be as fagrantly hostile to the ex-
tension OF slavery as the Black Republicans
themselves. The only difference being that
the Democratic leaders concealed, as fur as
they could, their hostility, and the Republi-
cans avowed theirs openly and above board
The fact is distinctly affirmed that it was pro-
posed, in 1856, TO "intervene" and blot out
The Jaws which had been enacted in Kansas
TOR the protection of slavery, DOUGLAS, CAss
aud TOUCEY TAXING THE LEAD DOUGLAS is
now ostracisrd by portion of his former
friends in the South; but CAss and TouCEY
are both in the highest favor with the South
ern Democracy. Yet that party here in the
Sou'h, through its organs and speakers, are
denonncing the Opposition as allies OF the
Ere '-solers Of the North
In another part of the letter Senator
BRo"N says: e l have persistently and con-
sist atty from first to last, in season and out
OF season, opposed the whole doctrine OF
'Squatter Sovereignty as being fraugh ruth
ireaIc"ia6Ie n'iSehi: and noe that as enoru.ty Is
becoming apparent, l am not willing to be
den,ou tue c. edit that Is due to my consis-
( cy.' Yet Gen. CAss, who may be regard
ed a. The father aud founder OF that doctrine,
was sustained and supported for the Presi-
dency by the Southern Democracy, after its
avowal, aud now occupies the highest posi-
tion IN the Cabinet of Mr.. BUcHASAN. More
over, Hon. G. W. JONES, one OF the most
trusted Of all the Democratic leaders in this
State. has again and agaiC avowed this very
doctrine which " fraught with incaleula-
bic mischief and whose enormity is now
becoming apparent" While we have eharg-
ed these things upon the Northern Demo
cracy, they have been denied by the South
err wing of the party. We respectfully ask
what reply they now have 10 these reyela-
lions.