Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-11-17

gramme and Assurances of the New
York Republicans.
The New York Herald coDstrues the result
of the recent election In New York. as an in
dorsement of Mr.. SEWARD and bis ultra " ir-
repressible conflict +" doctrines. The N. Z.
Courier and Enquirer, an organ of respectable
pretensions and influence with the Republican
party, says:
What the Herald says in regard TO the in
fuence of this election upon the next Presi-
DENTAL contest, cannot be gainsaid. But
who made the issuei Who but the Admins
tration, the Fifth Avenue Committee, and the
Democratic Press Of the whole Country, pro-
claimed that the result of the recent election
in this State. was TO be the tex of William III.
Stewards position with the Republican Party?
The Administration and the Democracy gen.
orally have forced Mr.. Seward upon the Re-
publican Party as their Candidate. whether
they desired him or not; aud now the people
of the United States will ratify in 1860 The
action OF the people of Ibis State on Tuesday.
And ell may the Herald and the Democracy
and its organs tremble for the result. Above
all, let the Disunionists and Fire-Eaters OF the
South. tremble al the certainty of political
disgrace which awaits them whenever WIN.
| III. SEW ARD or any other Republican, shall be
| elected President. From The hour that d Re-
! publican President enters upon he discharge
of his duties, slavery GgitdtiOn ceases; and
| thcBccfOrh, the present dirturbers OF the pub
! lIc peace both at the North and the South.
cease to be without consideration with tue
people. The masses Of the Southern People
are as dcvOtedly attached to the Union, as
| are the Republican Party; but their unprinci-
| pied leaders withhold from them the truth,
and excite them TO disunion. The govern
ment once in the hands OF the Republican
! party, and the opportunity to misead and
deceive the Southern people ceases, because
! Republican Administration would be far more
! conservative than any other. based as II
suredly would be.upon!the Constitution as I'M
derslOod and administered by Washington
and Jefferson and Madison. and intoxicating
a conscientious regard to the righfs Of tie States.
Republicans say and believe, that Slavery is
not national but local; and the question would
be LETT by them where ii properly belongs-to
the several States; and if any inceudiaTy
| aboltIOhlst, dared to interfere with Couslitu-
tiOnal lights OF any State upon this or any
other question, he would be punished with IL
| rigor which the Democracy dare not exhibit
because they are forever tampering with this
question of Slavery according ~ the locality
III which it happens to arise.
Here, then, If the true res son for the terror
which the recent election has caused the
Democratic party everywhere. The North
see IN il absolute political annihilation 4; and
the Southern leaders teel that they are doom
ed TO be repudiated and punished by the very
men they have SO long mised and injured
They know, just as well az we do, that Re-
| publican Administrati would within year,
| rally around il all the masses at the South,
simply because it would be just to all Sec
tions alike, and far more conservative than
| any other. They know that such an Admin
| islratiOn, adheling strictly to the COnstitu-
| ton, would give to the South security and
| repose which il has not enjoyed for forty
years, aud that of course, Slavery agitation
tcOulLd be Ut an end. True, IL Republican Gov
ernment would not consent to the extension
OF Slavery into free territory, but leave the
question to be settled by the people after the
| Territories became States, but the great mass
| of the people of the South, are quite content
! TO ignore this question, if the Government
will but secure them in the quiet enjoyment OF
! their Constitutional rights In relation TO
| slavery in the States uhert 1t ROdp crisis. This
| a Republican Government can and will do,
because they have nothing to gain except by
faithful adherence to the Constitution
| while the Democracy aud their Southern al
lies, exist only through slavery agitation,
aud misleading the people Ill regard to the
principles and the intentions ot the political
opponents"
We leave the emphasized portions, as print
ed in the Enquirer. We give the article
fair specimen of the intentions OF the Rcpub-
lican party, and especially as embodying
their views of the effect of a victory on their
part on the question which now distracts tile
country and Oh which alone they expect to
20 into power.
|, would. perhaps. be a bootless task to un-
dertake to disabuse the minds of such leaders
of the Republicans as the Courier and Enquirer
of the absurd views they entertain Of South
ern opinion, and we shall not essay it on the
present occasion. We suppose we could hard
ly convince that organ that the South would
not gladly submit to be sett off by the North
AZ a Province, or Dependency, with assu-
RANGES ofprOtection to her Institutions. Ever
distinguished Tor vagaries on this subject,
they could not be expected to be rational in
the flush and enthusiasm of victory under
which the above-quoted article was written