Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-06-10

Supreme Court OF the United States has be-
come the expounder ofDemocratic principles.
Since when? Since they declared the Bank OF
the United States TO be constitutional. which
you repudiate in your platform? Since the
jndges of that Court held the old sedition
laws of John Adams to be constitutional,
which Won repndiate in your platform. Who
constituted the judges of the Supreme Court,
the makers or expounders OF Democratic
principles? Certainly not Thomas Jefferson,
who pronounced them the sappers and miners
of the Constitutions; certainly not Andrew
jackson, who told them be would interpret
his own oath. as well as his own principles,
according to bis views of the Constitution.
No C,,trt shall make me platform. When ,oe
qet TO gong BIZ Courts 1t seems 10 are hare de-
ported from the whole spirit and principle ofate
Deuoerofic r,oyfu
But the Senator from Virginia speaks of
their rights under the Constitutions; be says
that the Constitution gives them the right to
carry slaves into the territories. Where
Will the Senator give me the article aud the
section? Where is it? There is no such pro-
vision
The opinions of Mr.. PUGH are the
opinions of the Ohio Democracy. 1t
will not be pretended that he or they
are hostile to the administration. 1t
will not be pretended that he and they
are not just as sound on the slavery
question as any portion of the North
ern Democracy. At meeting of the
Democracy of Butler county, Ohio, on
the 2lst inst, which Mr. PUGH attend
ed and addressed, the following reso-
lutions, among others, were adopted:
"Resolued, That the Democracy of Butler
county repudiate the doctrine. whether it
comes from North or South, that Congress
should legislate for or against The Introduce
ton of slavery into the Territories of the
United States, or for or against its manten-
ance believing as we do that it is
question that should be left solely to the bona
tide inhabitants of said Territories to settle
for themselves.
"Resotued. That we regard with undissem-
bled indignation and alarm the attempt to
mutilate or abridge the great principle of
popular sovereignty and non-interventiOn-
that we maintain with mistaken frmness the
doctrine that the power of the people of
Territory, with respect to domestic legisla-
ton, Is as plenary as that of a State and
stamps as unsoalnd the theory which Limits the
right of the people of Territory to the one
particular time when they come act in ret
erence to the institution of slavery to or
ganize their State government
"ReSOLUed, That we have no more respect for
the Pro-slavery fanatics of the South, who
clamOr for a Congressional slave-code, and
attempt to nulliiy the laws for the suppress
sion of the African slave-trade, than we have
for their co-fanatics of the Nerth, who insist
upon the Wilmot Proviso. and trample upon
the Fugitive-slave Act"
The two first of these resolutions, it
will be seen, maintain, in its whole
length, depth and breadth, the DoUG-
LAS doctrine, which the Union and Anne
rican denounces as "mlre fatal to the
rights of the South" than the Black
Republican doctrine Of Congressional
prohibition or Wilmot Provisoism
That this, according to the Union and
American, more fatap doctrine of
DOUGLAS and the Illinois Democracy,
and of PUGH and the Ohio Democracy,
is the doctrine of the Democracy of the
North, no Democratic leader of the
South, of any pretensions to respecta-
biIity, will dare deny. THE fact as no
toriOus. On this point hear the Charles
Mercury, than which there is not in the
whole South a Democratic journal of
higher responsibility: