Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-05-11

The Nashville Patriot Of yesterday quotes The Chs
eia,dG Commercial to show thstLhe Opposition il Ken
lucky are in advance of the Democracy in advocacy
of the propagandisn Of slavery. But the Patriot
does nos quote from q subsequent article of the
Commercial referring to the position Of the Louis
vile Journal and JOSHUA BELL, Opposition can
didaie for Governor in fayor of slavery code in the
Territories, in which that Journal says:
| ''Now We do not believe the Opposition Guberna-
toria candidate the editor Of ths journal are sin
| cere in this position They evidently assumed it
for the sake of cutting under the Democratic or Ad
minisiratiOn party on the slavery question"
Nor does the Patriot allude to another paragraph in
the same article in which the Commercial expresses
| its belief 'ltbat A LARGE PORTION OF THE OPros.
InoN IN KENTUCKY strongly rprObats the slaUe code
proposition, AND WOULD GLADLY SEE THE GROWTH OF
a LEGITIMATE FREEsOIL ELEMEET."
We cannot see how any one can doubt the insin-
certify of any professions the Journal the leaders
of its party may make in favor of the extension Of
slavery. The editor of that paper characterized
slavery as q DEADLY VAMPIRE DRAINING THE LIFE
BLOOD OF THE REPUBLIC" Yet he has received the
patronage and support of his party in Kentucky
! He again and again denounced slavery as q moral
and political evil, andannouneed Z" the necessity and
expediency of its ultimate msncipatiOn" Yet he
continued the acknowledged organ of party of
! which JOSHUA F. BELL was active member He
pledged himself as editor of the journal, to press
forward !" tlat great revolution rhOss Vhess Ito use
! his own lauguage) must continue to until they
reach the goal Of uaipsrsal re.dOm." Yetth Journal
vas received as the exponent of the principles of
the party which is now supporting Mr. BELL for
Governor. As late as 1S47, the Journal openly ad
vocated the emancipation OF slaves in Kentucky by
an alteration of the State constitution and denouno
ed slavehOlding as crime which meTited the cons
demnation Of earth and Heaven.
Only few months ago the Journ1l advocated the
fusion Of Black Republicans and Southern Wings,
into this mongrel Opposition, of which it is the
most influential advocate in the South, for the ex-
press purpose of giving Black Republcansism
" strength " to accomplish its aims"
Now that the opposition has been organized in
accordance with the Journals wishes, the editor of
that paper and his candidate, Mr. BELL, think they
can more efectually aid their Black Republican
allies by making hypocritcal professions of devo-
ton TO the South. and thus selucing pro- slavery
into the unholy coalition. They are not, as the
Commercial says sincere the opinions they express
They are endeayoring, by pretended friendship, to
beiray the South into the power of her enemies.
The freesoil sentiment which the Commercial ats
tributes to portion of the Opposition" in Ken
lucky, is due entirely to the influence of the Journal
If its effects had not been neutralized and destroyed
by the triumph of the Democracy, it would have
made Kentucky an abolition State in less than ten
years. 1t is striving to accomplish that result
by enticing the voters of that State into the support
Of ihis mOngrel, hybrid Black Republican OppOsi-
ton We believe the people of Kentucky have in-
tegence enough to foresee the fatal results of an
Opposition victory, to the rights and institutions of
the South. They have penetration enough to see
through the shallow devices and transparent hypo-
crisy Of GEORGE D. PRENTICE and his candidate