Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-03-22
Opposition State Convention, 18th
~ ~ - of March.
AdministrafiOn--Tb Party split in
TO Shivers-A Southern Organiza-


of the Tennessee Democracy reads as follows:
Resqlred, That we have an abiding conf
dence in the ability and patriotism of the
President of the United States, and that we
approve generally the ideas contained in his
message and the acts of his administration.
We therefore renew our pledges to his sup
port, and our faith in his adherence to the
principles Of our party.
The "ideas" contained in Mr.. BUCHANAN's
"message and the acts of his administration"
are thus spoken of by the Editor of the
Washington States, ROGER A. PRYOR, former
" of the Washington Jnion and late of the
Richmond Enquirer, a Virginia-born and
Virginia-reared Democrat, upon whose pure
and indebted Democracy not the breath of
suspicion has ever rested. Mr.. Pryor says:
"But since there is no denying the fact of
essential differences between the Administra-
ton and the Democracy. we are pleased to OBJ
serve that its apologists have set the example
of a separation which will relieve our party
of very painful embarrassment.
"Will any Democrat, for instance, venture
to Justify the enormous expenditures of the
Federal Government? Can any Democrat
approve the Presidents protective tariff
policy? Does any Democrat of the State
rights school support the Pacific railroad, or
the military prOtectorate of Mexico, or the
proposition to arm the Executive with the
war-making power, or those other enterprises
of Federal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT which are too
familiar to require recapitulation? Then,
why attempt an apology for measures which
fidelity to principle obliges us to repudiate?
Such conduct would not only place the
Democratic party in an equivOcal attitude
before the country. but would fatally impair
the effect of its resistance to the attacks of
the Opposition.
Mr.. PRYOR ought to have made specific
mention of the bank bankrupt law, the most
odious to genuine State-rights Democrats of
all the ideas to be found either in Mr.. b.
CHANAN's messages or the acts of his admin
istratiOn, instead of including it among
"those other enterprises of Federal aggran-
dizement, which are too familiar to require
recapitulatiOn."
That the Virginia Democracy think, as Mr..
PRYOR does, Of the "ideas" which character
ize the policy of the Administration, and
which are approved; by the Democracy of
Tennessee is abundantly proven by the voice
of the Democratic press of the Old DOmin-
ion, the leading and most influential member
of which recently affirmed that it had "yet to
See the first Virginia Democrat who fails to
denOunce entirely the leading measures of the
Presidents message"
In accordance with the views of the Vir
ginia Democracy of the policy of the Admin
istratiOn appear to be those of the Alabama
Democracy. The Montgomery Advertiser, one
of the organs of the Democracy of the latter
State, says:
mo Democrat can defend the heresies pro-
mulgated by Mr.. BUCHANAN in reference to
our tariff duties, nor can he defend the Pauld
ing outrages, nor the Kansas settlement, nor,
in fact, several other prominent measures Of
this Administration"
With the Democracy of Virginia and Ala
bama coincide unquestionably the Democracy
of South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi and
probably of North Carolina.
In the meantime the breech between the
Southern and the Northern Democracy is
every day being widened. Senator BROwN,
of Mississippi, thus writes to the editor of
the Natchez Free Trader, respecting the Kan
sas question under its latest and newest as
pect:
Not only is the territorial legislature not
ut liberty 10 exclude slavery by unfri.Rdly
acts, but il is bound to give il such adequate
and sufficient protection its nature re-
uuires; and in default of its doing so, it is
the duty of Congress to interpose and com
pei its creation to discharge il itself To
these positions the Northern Democracy
must come or we cannot stand with them in
g,abn If Il =,
and a dclusion."
On the other hand. the Democratic organ
at Cincinnati, the Enquirer, in an article on
the Charleston Convention, says, that if, at
that convention, plank should be inserted
in the Democratic platform demanding legis-
lation by Congress to protect slavery in the
Territories, it will be utterly destructive of
the prospects of the party, and that they will
not be able to carry single State in the
North.
The same paper recently contained a letter
from its Washington correspondent in which
the writer, referring to one of the most dis
tinguishcd Democratic Senators from the
South, Mr.. Mason, of Virginia. said:
al do not like either the personal bearing
of the man, or the doctrines he enunciates.
He said, in a rcceut speech. that il il was so
be the Democratic doctrines that the tenn
porarv inhabitants OF territory should
decide whether they would have slavery or
not, "the party that upheld il could not get
one vote in the Southern States. and that the
Democratic party, with such a doctrine,
would be- dissolve and the sooner the better"
lie Is at heart an aristocrat and tyrant and
Is altogether out of his place in the Demo
cratic party. He is u man whose political
sentiments Alexander Hamilton would have
admired"
The proprietor of the Esaqssirer is the Post
Master of Cincinnati.
So irreconcilable is the feud between the
Southern and the Northern Democracy that
an open and permanent sepaT alton between
them at an early day is regarded by Southern
Democrats as inevitable. The Washington
correspondent OF the Charleston Mercury,
under date of March 18th, says:
"There are of the members If Congress
fr 'm the different States of the South a num-
be- Of stannch State Rights men. IA he De
pocrafic party goa 10 pienss these win iorsn the
nucleus OF II a Southern Ory1Ri-atioa which
niust be formed to meet the aggrcssions of
northern consolidation through the general
government"
Afler mentioning by name a number OF
southern Democratic members of Congress
from the States Of Virginia, North Carolina,
Georgia, and Alabama, with all Mississippi
and South Carolina, who are to constitute
this nucleus of southern organization" the
writer proceeds
"There can be no doubt that the politicians
no less than the people OF the South, are
strengthening Ia the opinion that nothing IL
left bat taking their destinies into their own
keeping. Yet there Ia great reluctance 10
acknowledge the truth. and men hide their
eyes TO IL BE long as possible. BY the end OF