Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-04-27

another time 1t had discussed that question
as every other newspaper in the Union, bat
whatever might have been its opinion upon
the subject, it had no relation to Mr.. READY,
his name was not mentioned, and it was
not intended to have any particular applica-
ton to him.
Mr.. READY had said the Missouri Compro-
mise was unconstitutional, be would merely
say in-reply to this argument of Col. READY,
that no one ever pretended the Missouri Com
promise was constitutional, all admitted that
it was unconstitutional or rather extra-con-
stitutional-"out side of the constitution"
That men might waive their constitutional
rights and that the Missouri Compromise was
contract between the North and the South
in which they agreed, as they had the right
to do, to waive their constitutional rights and
make final adjustment of their differences
and thus form compact which they were
bound in honesty and good faith to preserve
invioIate. He thought that the repeal of that
Compromise had been as Mr.. FILLMORE said
Pandora's box out of which had sprung the
Republican party, and whatever evil results
might ensue from creating that party. The
South saw now that the doctrine of non-inter-
| yention contained in the Kansas Nebraska
bill was all wrong and that Southern mem
bers were insisting that Congress should inter-
vene for the protection of Slavery in the
territories. That there never was anything in
the Lecompton question, and as Senator
HAMMOND ofSouth Carolina, who voted for the
bill under press" had said. it ought to
have been kicked out of Congress. But that
all these questions had passed and gone, and
were entirely foreign to that controversy be-
tween Col. READY and bis constituents. That
Col. READY seemed to follow the advice of an
old lawyer in North Carolina who when ask
| ed by young man first entering the profess
sion, ''wbat he should do in case where all
the issues were against him." told him Ito
say nothing at all about the issue and give
| Sodom and Gomorrah the devil" In the same
way Mr.. READY had said nothing at all about
the issues between himself and his constitu-
ents, but had consumed his time in giving
the aboliliOnists the devil. For himself he
did not believe one word of all that talk ABOUT
the Republican party manufacturing free
States by machinery for the express purpose
| of altering the constitution so as to abolish
Slavery in the Slaveholding States and ''turn
| our negroes loose upon us armed with British
| bayOnets to drench our hearthstones with our
blOod"-it was all a tale to brighten children
and old women. But if such was in fact go
ing to happen, and there was no possible way
to avoid the calamity, if it was really nevita-
bLe as Mr.. READY had said it just amounts to
! this that we are very precariOus position,
but he couldn't see how sending Mr. READY to
| Congress would help the matter Mr.. READY
couldn't alter the fixed decree of an immuta-
Bile destiny any more than any other man.
Thatall this bunc5fnbe ofCol.READY was mere
ly Throwing tubs to the whale'-a feint to
decOy the minds of his constituents from the
true questions in dispute. That without in
tending in the slightest to impeach the veraci-
ty of Col. READY he must say it was very
singular that articles from the Franklin Re
Uie1o concerning his course upon the Kansas
Nebraska billand the Lecompton Constitution
should have been republished in Northern
papers, laid on Col. READY's table aud
sneeringly thrust in his face by the
Abolitionist to show that his votes were
disapproved of by his constituents
Since he (Mr. PAsCHAL) had neper seen
one of those article, copied into any Tennes-
see paper, and The Rerie0 did not exchange uih
any paper north Of Mason and DaIon's line
That Col. READY had saidrthat he would not
ba a haH hax-o
for an article in the Repieto least November
assailing his course in Congress and calling
a convention to cut off his head. This was
giving the Repie0 reputation it could not
have aspired to, for not only did that article
have the effect of bringing out Mr. READY as
an independent candidate, but it even had
retroactive operation and produced this won
derful result before it had in fact been published
For tie first article in which Mr.. REApY's
name had been mentioned appeared in the
RtUiao of Thursday, November %, 1858.
The ReVie,o could not reach Murfreesboro be-
Mr.. READY's card announcing himself can
didate, appeared in the lHirtreesJoro' Telegraph
on Friday morning, Nov. 20.
Mr.. READY-My card appeared on the 9th
of November.
Mr.. PAscHAL-No, sir, it appeared on Fri
day morning. Nov. 26, in the Mi.freesJoro TEL
graph; have the documents and can prove
it if il is disputed" lie said he had every
confidence In Mr.. READY's integrity as a man,
and that Mr.. READY would not say before
that audience that he had ever seen or heard
of the article in the Rerielo when he published
his card or that it could have had any effect
upon his mind in deciding to become a can
didate or in announcing that fact to his con-
sttuents through the Murfreesboro' Tsleqraph
That bis card was the proper and usual
place for Col. READY TO have signiied his
willingness to submit his claims to a conven-
ton, and if he thought majority of his par
ty opposed his course, there was the proper
place TO test it. That the ReVie,c did then
advocate a convention to nominate a candi-
date aud did oppose Mr.. READY, not because
he had voted for any particular measure,
but because he was not an available man, un-
der the circumstances, and because the Re.
riele, ms the organ Of our party, and rejecting
the sentiments of large majority of the con-
stituents in that county, thought that Col.
READY ought to step aside for the present
and allow some other man to. carry the
of the Opposition, 10 whom the
same objections could not be made.-That |
the Reeie,e had not expressed its preference
for any particular man. and had not beea ac-
tuated IN its opposition 10 Col. READY by |
any personal enmiIy, but on the contrary, had |
the highest admiration Tor f,,I ID ,.lo,.