Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-07-20
The Curse ha. come Home to II COST.

Inc Surse mas come Home to IL cost.
While Gov. HARRIS is striving to divert the
popular mind from the corruption and ex-
travagance of the administration, its horrid
practices and its hideous policy and using all
his powers of ingenuity to make the slavery
question and the last hoe" &C., the para
m punt Issues of the canvass, We have given
the public, through out columns, the re-
solves of the conventions of several of the
States which show conclusively the antago-
nism which exists on that question among
the national democracy" The agitation
was originated and has been mainly kept up
by the democratic leaders to distract and di-
vide the opponents of that party, and with a
view to perpetuating power i'll their own
hands. IL has however been pressed too far,
and is now turned into an engine of torment
to its inventors. The curse has come home
to roost. The envenomed shaft which was
directed at the bosom of another sticks
quivering and ranking with all its poison, in
the vitals Of the party that hurled it, mouu-
ment of the wages of sin and of the certainty
OF retribution.
While the action of these various conven
tions in Vermont, Iowa, Mississippi and other
States, has made the fact palpable to the
country beyond question or dispute, the
. Douglas Democracy of Pennsylvania have
. published an address signed by JOHN w.
iFoRAEY, as chairman OF the Democratic
State Rights Committee" in which it is at
temptedto be demonstrated that the souattcr
sovereignty doctrine. first promulgated in
lS4S, and afterwards smuggled into the Kan
sas-Nebraska bill, is aud has been the doc
trine OF the democratic party. Whatever
may De thought OF F0RNEY himself, the truth
OF his afhrmations or the weight of his areu-
ments, he brings forward the outgivings of
leading democrats which cannot lie denied
or questioned, OF which we give the following
. from the address:
president Buchanan himself" saws the
address. land nearly all the leading men of
the Democratic party, declared that the res
oiuiiOns OF that Convention, referring to the
Territorial question. were Susceptible of but
one practical and simple solution. Said tn
President. IN his letter of acceptance with
the resolutions of the Convention that NOM
mated him dis hand, and while surrounded
Dy number OF the most distinguished mem
Ders OF the Convention that adopted thes,.
resolutions:-.The recent legislation of Con-
gross (the Kansas-Nebraska bill) respecting
domestic slavery, derived, as il has been,
from the original and pure foundation of lie.
CLIMATE political power, the will of the ma
Jority, promises ere long To allay the dan
gerous excitement. This legislation is found
edupon principles as ancient as free govern
menL Its II, and in accordance with this SIM
pie declaration. that The people of the TeyT,toru.
lake those Of State shall decade for hezaseipe,
i1hether SIauery shaA or shall not er.st tpiLA,,,
Their i7iits'
And the present Secretary of the Treasu
nv. Nr. Cobb. put the same direct and prac-
teal construction upon the resolutions. in
his speech at West Chester in 1856, when he
&c 'ur would not plant slavery
upon the soil OF any portion OF Gods earth
against the will Of the people, that the Gov
einiiicut ol lie UnlItd States should not
force the institution of slavery upon the peo-
pie, neither % The Territories nor of the .Siat.s
against the will Of the people;' and that
.pTdehcaLiy The majority Of the people Represented
~ the ierraorIa Legislature aeotd decide he saue-
~ qaeaiOn.' ~ hether,' he continued, TIM de-
e'dsH by prohibiting u according 10 the one doc
fsne or oy refusing 10 pass Llso 10 protsct IT, con-
q 'ded for 6y hs other party, IS liaHaierial,-A
AAJoRIrf OF THE PEOPLE, by THE ACTION OF
THE TERRITORIAL LEGIsLA TuRE, WILL DECIDE
THE QUESTION. AND ALL MUST ABIDE THE DEcIs-
ION WHEN MADE
Aud Mr.. Speaker Orr himself declared
that II the majority OF the people are OPP
posed to the institution, aud If they do moi
desire it engrafted upon their Territory. ALI
They have TO do is simply 10 define 10 pass la,cs
u The Territorial Legislature for vs. proiecsisn.'
Here we Lave the testimony of Mr.. BUcH-
ASAS, Of Mr.. Goes, leading member OF his
: Cabinet, and Of Mr.. ORR, late democratic
Speaker Of the House of Representatives.
Besides these We also have the views of Gen.
Cass. the father of the doctrine, of Judge
DOUGLAS lis ablest champion aud defender,
and OF GEO. w. JONES, of this State, with
each Of which the country is familiar. Earth
er still, we have a series OF disclosures made
during the sitting OF the Senate on the 23rd
of February Last, which though for the Grst
|. time developing to the public difference OF
opinion on the subject, shows yet other north
ern leaders who hold the doctrine Ia all its
mischievous aud justly odious length and
breadth. Whilst it is recognized tenet Of
the national democracy" as understood by,
those above quoted aud named, IL Is denounc-
ed, by certain democratic leaders at the
South. as the most odious Of all the Protean
forms in which abolitionisn has been pre-
sented.
These facts, not lees startling 10 the coun-
ICY than TO Democracy itssli, have pierced
tie heart Of the democratic party with
liza a ilvp,-is no balm can hesl. As che so