Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-11-30
TENNEsSEE LEGISLATURE.
H0UsEa0F REPRESENTATIVES,.
MONDAY. November 20 h. 1859.
AFTERNOON SESSION

| AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House resumed the cor sideration of the Bay
less resolutions, pending at the time of taking tn
recess for dinnsr.
| Mr.. CAN'T did rot know hcW to reply to tht
/ charges that the Democratic Iarty South vas thC
free soil patty. This proposition absurd Jhs
| he did not know how to meet it He would 20 to
the fapateal hosts North and South, aud ask which
psrtv il is that keeps the sgitaton of the slavery
question, in to he charge that it is the Dem
| ocratic patty which keeps up agitation The EN-
oc1stc party stands upon the Plst Orm tAet slavery
can be controlled by States and Territories subjeo
| only to the constitution of the Uuted stdes; snd
sl opposed to that principle stood opposed to the
| great National Democratic Party.
Mr. Clay was not the author # the Missouri com
promise as vas declared this morning but he felt
| proud when lie thought how noble Northern Demo
crats slpp Jrtcd the compromise measures lie W9snoi
| Douglas man. but if Stephen A. DOugias we're nom
mated by the Charleston Convention and stood upon
the Cincinnati platform, then Douglas was his choice
| as aga nst any Opposition man North or South The
gentleman this morning said the great masses Of
the North we're sound on the slavery question, and
| in the same speech he said there was only hand
fu Of true men in the North and they rallied around
the standard of Millard Fillmore. The gentleman
has got SO much in the habit of changing, why not
let him change in the came speech
He traced step by step the treason and tracked
higher law doctrine, from that declaration ooWn tC
! the foray at HarpeF's Ferry aud defed gentlemen
| to rick single flaw in link OF the chain. Tins
HIGHER aW doctrine has ran C 20 600 Of our slave =
made the stealing Of slaves science IN the North
and has black host If oas hundred and thirteen
supLOrters on The aoor of the United sF3les House
of Representatives. We should say to our repre-,
sentaiiYes that this organization is unolean and
should not be tOuched-w don't want them TO snake
hands with members Of that organization Strike
down Seward GiddinEs, Greeley, and such set OF
leaders IN this organ alton or e3a never 60 VIII
| them. Never lever can We ter INTO any suoh an
| uuhoIy alliance. We say TO Ihe Opposition: Help
us to strike down these leaders-help as to tight
these leaders, it the organization sud the leaders
we fight the masses follos the leaders,
Mr. G init spoke il reply Mr, Picketts forepocI
speech, and IN support the resolutions prde- eon
slderatiOn.
Mr.. BUTLER Mr. Speaker: When gave wsy
| for this house to dj0urn on SaturdY, was In
| ten ling to ansTe the gentleman from Sumner MY
BenaeI! and vas going to say, that II was re
markably strange that he be mad occupied the pubh
| time nearly one and half hours, and never men
! toned the amendment offered by the gentleman
| from Bedford Mr.. Wsener that amendment bein
the question under consideration, and repeat, 1t l.
remarkable and an st loss how to account for IL
Does be sympalhise with the reeaters a. the South
and when we denounce them as enemies 10 our Mon
do we tramp his toes? hope not. l entertain qii
| ferent opinion of that gentleman. l can't oelleV
| such of him. Yet l am constrained by his oHI
course in this debate TO pause, and ask myself I'M
question is it possible that such can be the faelE
| such is not the fact, why did he not discuss tn
| amendment, which is that we ask cur represents
tyes in Congress not 10 coslese with the cesessonis
| or disuniobist of the South Is there any thing
| wrong in that propOsitOnf Are gentleman upon
the oIner side of this house afraid OF making thes
Southern fire eaters madf Are they for dissolvipt
| this Union? l trust not. Then, hope gentlemen
who usy follow me in the discussion of the resolu
tions under consideration, will march up and discus
| the amendment Of the gentleman from Bedford
Why shall we not ask our Representatives not t
unite with the Ie-eaters and disunionists? Is her
| no danger apprehended by the unlon-loving en-
conservative people of this grand cOniederacy tror
and by the reckless and imprudept course OF tnes
fanatics South? | believe, sir, there is great dan
| ger. Ibelieve we have much to fear from them
| / believe We have men South who would tomorrow
sink the Union into oblivion, if they could sdvsne
their own interests. believe We have men Sout
| who fer The Presidency Cf Southern Confederac
| would deluge the South in blood, IN the tWinkhn
of an eye Have we nothing to base these opinion
uponY We uum's akably have. During the las
contest for the Presidency, We heard Gov wise, 9
| Virginia, publicly developing the scheme and IN
| means of carrying out Q dissolution OF the Union
He smoke of narional civil wsr as what they Woul
invitably have to encounter but that, he said, va
| not what he most deprecated. 1t was the neghbor
hood civil war as he terged it, which they woul
have to carry on with the fifty thousand unionist
| Of Virginia that he deplo.ea. What he deplore
that there were fifty thousand citizens Of the goo
Old Dominion Whe loved the union of these States
who were not willing to follow any distracted brai
| IN overthrow this Union, And to keep down an
overcome these Union loving citizens, he would arr
the negroes of Virginia.! Can l find language t
express my condemnation Of such sentiments! All
the negroes to murder the friends Of the Union!
And further, Mr.. Speaker, We find Souther
Senator, the Hen. 7. L. Clingmsn, of North Caro-
lima saying that they intended to put down the I'm
on men of North Carolina by the swift attention {
vigilance committees, that is, By orgsniztd sssass
| nation And still further, the Democratic admin:
tration organ published at Washington under ia
control and nose of the President admitted as a
undsputed fact that there is vide spread and del
perate conspiracy at the South for dissolVlng To
Union. None of these met with contradiction or II
buke from any Democratic journal Such acquie'
cence under the charges and aVoWals is equal 10 Ia
proof and in the face Of all these, and many ohei
| of which could mention, We are not to inatrut
| our members Of Congress not to coalesee with u
disunionist at the SOUTH If we are to vote on th
Bayless resolutions and are to ask our represeE
tatiTes not to cOslesce with the Black Republican
in the organization of the House, Why not say ais
to them touch not the hand of Southern disHnloT
isl! can see no good reason. None has been
fered by gentlemen upon the other side OF th
house. None presume can or will be offered. y
! fnd Mr.. Speaker, disposition among gentleme
mon the other side Of this house, to oppose lb
amendment. and they are seemingly astOnished
the ger tleman from Bedford Mr. Wisener, for sa!
. ing that he had as much respect for Gn aboitioni
| as he had for disuniOnist. Such are, l have L
! doubt his honest sentiments and they are the sci
, tments Of thousands South.
come not as the advocate of any Republican,
) l1nA haw
no sympatby for them; ard as for VIM. H. Seward
utterly detest him, and language fails me to expires
nv sbhoranee of him since he made his ROchestI
snaech and his connection with the Hsrper's FeIT
riot. endorse every word uttered in reference
him by the gentleman from Haywood, Mr.. Lea
He saws be is an arch traitor and should be hung
high as Haman Such endorse. Yet what do v
ind now in Tennessee? We frd Democratic jsu
. nal, the UNION AND AMERICAN, paper that has Il
largest circulation in Tennessee, the leading jlurn
. of the Democratic party, saying that Seward is
good or better than Douglas, and we find :he nan
= Of s. A. Douglas floating at the masthead of Il
West Tennessee Democrat for the Presi1escy nj
who, says the gentleman from Haywood is an arr
traitor, &c., the leading organ of his party say
: he is cs good man for TIE South IS Douglas, Ell
= that msu's claims urged by leading DemOcrai
journal for the Presidency
In the face of all these facts, gentlemen upon ii
floor say the Democratic party is the only par
that can save the Scutb. Is the election Of Dou
;. las to save the South Does aBy gentleman "
holds place upon this floor say that his elscti
will save the South? Does the South believe wi
him upon the vital questisn that is paramount
all questions in the country? No man SOnth ute
70 such miserable humbuggery, aud yet sir, we Fl
- many Democrats and some who have places up
this ieor declaring If Douglas is the nominee
the Charleston convention they will supp1rt hi
What confidence can the Southern peoFle hsve
: such party-a party that would forsake and dss
every principle that is in the heart Of every Il
3 Southern man and vote for man merely for 81
Or cess That is the party We are told is 10 save
Union and vindicste the rights Of the South.
the South depends upon and Is looking for prot