Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-07-15

Brown ana Cow Eerd IN CeaneA To-
gesler-
The ertor Of the Banner has been attempting to /
expla,u swhere the sbclition vote comes from" For
urtber il ght upon this subject we refer that paper
u Hon p E. ZaLLIcoFFEE, who declared upon the |
door Of Congress:
my opsnlon IL, that the advOestss Of the Con-
stituions power Of Congress to prohIoi' slavery IN
he territories Of The United States Ihopga tey aoy
iiVs IN tie Sout, though fAs may profess 20 % aeeo
Gates Of ne Constitutional rights Of the SoEth-are DO
ug 10 the South more damage and are more danger
Gus than the Abolidonists OF the North
There is much truth in the remark Of Gen. ZoLLI-
ooyFKz and he doubtless had acme gentleman in
mind or else there would have been proprieiy in
the Language.
In further elucdatiou Of the subject inviie the
attention Of the Bannsr to the speech Of Hon. Tho.
Il FoRD. Of Ohio, delivered Jrne Is, 1865, in the
Philadelphia Know Nothing National Convention, Of
Of which he was member ia conjunction with the
Hou. NEILL S. BRowN OF this city If that paper
really desires to enlighten its readers as TO where
the abolition vote comes from, it should publish the
whole Of FoKD's Speech which il will find copied in
the UNION AND AMERICAN, of july "a, 1856. FoRD
was EnOw Nothing in high standing. and leader
# tsa party in Ohio; the Bdnaer, therefore, cannot
question the authority The following brief extracts
win prove entertaining TO cur readers; especially
those who may chance to hear Ex-Gov BROwH in
this canvass:
81 appeal to representatives from the South, in
the name of all that lie honoFAhle-in the name of
Col, t. be once influenced by the pure promptings
of right and justice, and restore this Missouri)
Compromise ine iIsteTdicting slavery north Of 360
S0'1 from this ~ hide your deornnsd herds andm
your appearances among intetgsat beags But
[ am resolved to place the gentlemen -those chTal-
rons Southern gsntlemen-rght the record.
Many of them do say that the repeal Of that time
honored line, ito their words s0ds wrong,
an IsJURY, and OUTRAGE, and that IL Oight 10 be
restored. say many OF you have said so to me;
and inasmuch as every gentleman from the North
has been challenged 10 give the name of any South
ernsr who has dared TO even breathe one word IN fs
Of FREEDOM, -herefore, to avoid being asked to
do So CONE UP 10 the confessional or shall without
hesitation name the gentleman TO this convention
| [Cheers and laughter.
At length The Hon. KENNETH RAYEoR, of North
Carolina arose and stated that he had SO sal and
took this oeelsien 10 cay that he considered the
! peal Of the Missouri Compromise lcrong and an
outrage, TO WHICH THE NORTH OUGHT NOT
| TO SUBMIT lie said if he had been q member of
Congress be would have had his right hand severed
| from his body before he would have consented to
| the iniqnity.
"
it was vTOng and unjust to repeal that act; but in
asmuch as it vas passed. he was opposed to agita,
tati0a on the tubject by reinstsing it, Four five
at this point took the door at once, FORD re-
1 marking pleasantly, "keep cool, gentlemen; We
are going to have interesting class-meeiing here,
| but come up TO the Confessional one at lime"
daughter long and loud IA number of gentle
men confessed in substance Dhat Cor. BroWR did.
Mr.. FORD proceeded. And
| mark ye, gentlemen Of the South, the days of
! hunkeyism at the North are numbered The North
ern fiuDkeys are all dead and damned and IL ever
another appears to your vision, rest well assur-
ed he is illegiimate. We haye elected tgenty-one
representatives from Ohio ALL nearly ALL elect
ed as Know NOihings, all pledged for the repeal
of this Nebraska iniquity; and you vH fadUhen you
drrive hsregoE eH kaUe accession of just tVeHts
one Hales and Wilson's that question with not .
turnkey among them.
Thus the Banner viii be enabled TO see its way
clearly in attempting to account for the increase in
the Abolition vote and to understand more correct
ly what it that brought about that state of cir
cumsaaces that caused the Nashville Patriot to ex-
claim, while acting with the Democrats in their eff
forts TO secure the admission of Kansas under the
LeeOmptOn Constitution;
Whatever may be said to the contrary, the gra-
vsmen Of the objection to the admission of Kansas
| is, that the Black Republicans did not have the
formation Of its constitution and that the one now
presented tolerates slavery. There is not voice
| ii all the Opposition which would be raised
against the constitution if it had prohibited slavery
and the Black Republicans could have glided into
undisputed power under its operation"
This " Confessional" scene between RAySon,
BROWN and FORD, in the Know Nothing National
Convention of 1856, may give the public better
understanding Of that state Of feeling between
Opposition leaders, which has enabled Northern
Black Republicans and Southern Know Nothings to
form, as Boris terms it, a " Holy Alliance" that
they may "meet the Democracy in 1860, and extir-
pate them forever" They may better understand,
also, the concurring circumstances, which, culmir-
ating in the defeat of the admission of slave State
into the Union, prompted THUILow WEED, the
! prince of abolition editors, to exclaim:
THE nations heart throbs with new feelings.
Hope is giving place to despair, and freedom is
sorting its claims to reverence Everywhere at the
North and suen an the South we see that the spirit of
liberty sbolitiOnism) is working among the people,
and he Voe IN Congress is but indeE of that
feeling. This awakening of the conscience OF the
people should inspire with new zeal and lead to
redoubled efforts in the cause of freedom Black
Republicanism) The overthrow Of the slave pow.
is approaching.