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

date for reelection. and took the stump ia
vindicaifon OF his course on the Lecompton
question. While he defended his position on
THAI question, with view of propitiating the
anti-slavery feeling in Illinois, be artfully at
tempted 10 win back the friends of the adj
ministration to his support, by advocating
the doctrine of the bred Scott decision and
exposing the extreme sectional views of his
competitor Had be continued to vindicate
the principles announced by the Supreme
Court, we should have desired his elt ction
over his more ultra and Objectionable oppo-
nent. We should have preferred his success
as choice Of evils. But he has abandoned
that position. He found that bis angry de-
INDICATIONS of slavery, in the Senate, had
engendered an intolerant anti-slavery feeling
among his own friends, which he could not
control. He had raised a fierce fanatical
spirit among them, that would down at his
bidding. He gave way before the excitement
which he bad created and truckled to a pow
er which he feared to resist. In his later
speeches he has given up everything that is
valuable in the bred Scott decision, and pro-
claimed a doctrine more fatal to the rights OF
the South than the old doctrine of Congress
sional intervention. He contends that the
first settlers upon the common domain, the
inhabitants of territory, which belongs
equally to all the States aud where the Su
pre- me Court says every citizen of the United
States has a right TO carry his property and
reside, may, by legislative enactments, eX-
clude the citizens of half the States of the
Union, by prohibiting the Introduction Of
slavery. He comedies that portion of
the people of the Union, may appropriate to
Themselves the territory which belongs to the
whole people, and by unfriendly legislation
prohibit the citizens of the South from enter
ing it with their property.
We can see nothing in this sentiment to
entitle Mr.. Douglas to the sympathy of the
Southern people. Like his confederate, For
ney, he has turned against the South. In
making war upon the administration he If
striking IA blow at the rights of the slavehOld
ing Stats and if. like his anti-LecomptoB
friends in PENNSYLVANIA. he is not in open
league with the Black Republicans, it is be-
cause they refused him an alliance. If the
Black Republicans of Illinois, like those OF
Pennsylvania. had felt their inability to sue
coed without uniting with the anti Lecomp
ton democrats, Stephen A. Douglas would
now be their avOwed and recognized leader.
His ambition and mis- interest may lead him
hereafter to fcign repentance for his aban-
dOnment of Democratic principles, but he
can never regain the confidence OF the South
ern people. He deserted the President on
account of his vindicatiOn of the rights and
equality of the slave States. He is still
making war upon the administration, and
enemies Of the South"
The doctrines of Mr.. DOUGLAS, says
she Union and American, are "more
fatal to the rights of the South than
the old doctrine of Congressional inter
vention"-th is, "more fatap' than
Wilmot Provisosml Now, the doc
trine of the Black Republicans is Meth
err more nor less than the doctrine OF
Wilmot Provisoism-tha is, the pro
hbition by Congress of the introduce
ton of slavery into territories of the
United States already free.
Mr.. DOUGLAS, therefore, according
to the Union and american, is acOrse
than Black Republican, and his fol-
lowers, and adherents, and all every
where who hold his doctrine, are worse
than Black Republicans
So odious and so fatal to the rights
of the South does the UniOn and Ame-
rican regard the doctrines of Mr..
DOUGLAS, that it plainly intimates in
the foregoing article, that it did not de-
sire his election to the Senate over his
Black Republican competitor, Lincoln!
1t says:
"Had he TDouglas1 continued to vindicate
the principles announced by the Supreme
Court we should have desired his election
over his more ultra and Objectionable oppo-
nent [Back Republican LincOln.] We should
| have preferred his success as choice OF evils.
But he has abandoned that position"
But why did Mr.. DOUGLAS abandon
that position? Mark the reason given
By the Union and american, and it is a
most significant one:
"He." continues the Union and American.
found that his angry denn'ciahons Of slavery,
| in the South had engendered an intolerant
| anti-slavery feeling among bis ooen friends.
which he could not control He had raised a
! fierce fanatical spirit among them that would
not down at his bidding. He gave way be-
| fore the excitement which he had created and
| truckled to power which he could not re-
sist."
Now, who were the ''friends" whom
Mr.. DOUGLAS could not control" and
whose "fanatical spirit" would not
down at his bidding?" What was the
"power" which "he feared to resist, g
and to which he "truckledY Those
friends were the Illinois Democracy
III rs was the "fanatical spirit" which
he could not control theirs the power
to which he 'truckled;, that very
Democracy which for years past have
been held up by the Democratic leaders
and organs OF Tennessee as the true,
steadfast and unhinching friends and
supporters of "the rights of the
SOUTH"
The Illinois Democracy, then, ac-
cording to the Union and american,
are toorSe than DOUGLAS; aud DOUGLAS
doctrine. it says. is more fatal to the
rights of the South than the Black Re.
publican doctrine of Congressional in
PREVENTION, for the prohibition of the
introduction of slavery into the terrific
| reS.
But what is the doctrine of Mr..
DOUGLAS and the Illinois Democracy
which the Union and AMERICAN thus de,
nonnces as more fatal TO the rights Of
the South" than the doctrine of the
Black Republicans The Union ana
American thus states this more fatal
! doctrines"
"He TMr. Douglasl contends that the first