Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-05-19

rAon MOST nIPoRTAsoE. Ia Baltimore, Richmond,
Ssvaunah, Mobile and New Orleans sympathy Nth
the ortmes not cith the prinspIss Of the great aorth
organization are Enthusiastically Hantfestsd By Jour
mails haring the largest eircHlaon and he nostusnes
in moulding opinion araoeg he eemercisi classes In
THIS REELIEo THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY FINDS as IT
WERE A POWERFUL CITADEL. It may not express
Itself at the ballot box in 1860 directly, but should
tho Repu5kcan President, notwithstanding his hostility
t0e eriensioa Of ssvey, provs himself rise end ale,
there be e doubt that It arH vote IN he Congress
sioadl elections Of 1862, to sassaia him.
Before that time The aueleas Of Republican oygaHi-
cation TH be formed eUry stage State IN the Union.
and iChafeber odcatiaRs in The general platform loraL
e1igeAees may require there ggI be bat t0 parties IN
CoRqrsssthe ssqeeg ezensiOHists and non-eIteRs'on
ISIS WITH TEE LATTER TIE OPPOSITION IN THE
SoUTH WILL cHEEeFULLY identify ITsELf, when It
is demonstrated that they cherish sentiment and
observe in practice, the States Rights doctrines
This grand development however cannot be witness.
ed until the slavery question is reduced to lis ola
posit0n-uuii II Is localized IN The States, not an INC
Territories IA long as Il is permis9to eFteT me ItT
gitoriss, so long Eat Il Be .pssaferoas ISSUE me
simple mode Of solgiag he intreaees Ct the Pro0ef Is
10 confae SLAVERY to the States If are asked how
this can be done while The bred Scott desclsion
stands viii answer that Slavery wIA cease to al
rance Uten ne national legislature and E1eeHtiee o.
pose defsf aaissa front 70 its 1drance. Besides Re-
PsaercI JvaieiIry rH Be gradually hrrmoaissd '7h
III ,cH Of The 2eopEe The Ord SCOT decision u.s. Gf
Ter G no ezposition Of constitutional doctrine IN rsd-
tsoR 10 tie Territories The sum and Substance OF 1t
is that negro is not q citizen Ct tho UHlied states
Certainly the opinions Incidentally expressed IN the
renderingof tie decision, have 70 weight apart
from that which the personal qualities Of their
authors may have impaired TO them.
The cessation Of the slavery agitation is the desire
of the Southern Opposition party, and of large
ana respectable class in the Free States When
pirates caught on the high seas with negroes stolen
from Africa, ars brought into Northern ports and
hung when the question of slavery can come up
in Territory only when the people framing their
State Constitution; when provisions are made fer
oOOnizng free negroes as our semieiVllized Indians
the slavery agitation will cease. Those aekO desire
The suppression of the agitation accomplish thar
purpose only BIZ establishing the RepaJlicaa party IN
pover From time to time the flying footsteps Of
gone negro on his way to Canada may strike spark
from the dying embers, but no sectional flame will
be ever enkindled. Let the srebly dark element Of
slavery instead Of being difused throughout the
continent be confined within impossible bounds In
the disposition Of il let onr statesmen consult the
lessons of Nature who presoribes tue path Of the
simoon and restricts the deserts by metes and
bounds; who imprisons the subterranean fires in the
interior of the globe, and the hghtni1gin the depths
of the cloud-who has given to every element its
appointed place in the world, keeping the destruc-
tive ones in eternal duress,
Strange as it may seem, we believe the day is not
distant when the debates Of Congress, and the mes
sages of the executive will be as innocent of the
word slavery, as the Constitution. Reference viii
be made to it only by eircumlocutoTy phrase The
non-agitationists can hasten this consummation by
cooperating with the Republican party What ether
course Of action they pursue calculated 10 anne
liorate or suppress agitation? Cooperation with
the National Democracy, will drag them from one
abyss to ansther-from Executive Intervention to
Judicial Intervention, thence to Congressional inter-
vention, thence to the African slave traffic. thence
to the right of domicile with every species ofprop-
erty in the Free States and so on to depths beyond
their utmost ken.
We intimate above that the opposition party in
the South may not aid the Republican party at the
ballot box, antecedent to the election of President
This hypothesis requires explanation. We BELIEVE
IT Is IN THE POWER OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
TO GET TIE VOTE OF MISSOURI, MARYLAND, Ten
KEssEE, AID PERHAPs KENTUCKY, WITHOUT LOW
ERING THEIR sTASDARD AN INCH-wITHOUT
STOPPING 10 CONQUER, IN TIE SLIGHTEST DE-
GREE. The plan of operations which would give
them the border States would also give them an
electoral ticket in all the slave States except South
Carolina. In any event they are sure of success,
but only By mode they aatoadlzs ITEMS elUss at
once, and consolidate the opposition North and South,
by single stroke.