Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-10-26

The following preamble and resolutions
were presented in the House of Representa-
tives yesterday morning, by Mr.. BAYLEss,
democratic representative from Washington
county. We shall hereafter present come
views and suggestions in relation to the sub
ject and object of the resolutions:
Whereas, most dangerous epoch has
arisen in the history of cur country, based
upon the fanatieal aggressiOns of Northern
Rack Republicans, on the reserved rights of
the States and the Institutions of the South,
seeking to abolish slavery by preventing the
extension into common territory, and render
ing it insecure and hazardous in our midst.
And whereas, in the recent instruction at
Harper's Ferry. as well as in the revolu-
tionary scenes in Kansas, we recognise the
legitimate fruits OF that Reasonable policy
avowed by the acknowledged head of the
Black Republican party, William Ii. Seward,
in his famous Rochester speech, in which he
These antagonistic systems [free and slave
labor1 are continually coming into closer
contact, and collision results. Shall tell
you what the collision means? They who
think that il Is accidental, unnecessary, the
work of interested or fanatical agitators and
therefore ephemeral. mistake the case alto
tween opposing and enduring forces, and ii-
means that the United States must, and will,
sooner or later, become either entirely a
slave holding halion, or entirely q free labor
nation. Either the cotton aud rice fields of
South Carolina and the sugar plantations of
Louisiana will ultimately be titled by free
labor, and Charleston and New Orleans be-
come marts for legitimate merchandise alone,
or also the rye fields and wheat fields of
Massachusetts, and New York must again be
surrendered by their farmers 10 slave culture
and to the production of slaves; and Boston
and New York become once more markets
for trade in the bodies and souls of men. It.
is the failure to apprehend this great truth
what induces SO many unsuccessful attempts
at final compromise between the slave and
the Tree States, and il is the existence OF this
great fact that renders all such pretended
compromise, when made, vain and ephemeral.'
And, whereas, HENRY WILSON, another
Black Republican Senator from Massachusetts
has declared:
LET us remember that more than the three
millions of bondsmen, grooming under name
less woes, demand that we shall reprove each
other, and that we labor for their delIverance.
al tell you here tonight that the agitation oi
this question of human slavery will cOntin-
ne while the foot OF slave presses the soil
OF the American Republic"
And Mr.. WADE, another Black Republican
Senator from Ohio, has said:
There is really no union now between the
North and South. and he believed no two
nations upon the earth entertained feelings
of more bitter rancOur towards each other
than these two nations of the Republic. The
only salvation of the Union, therefore, was
10 be found in divesting it entirely from all
lint of slavery"
And whereas, Seuator SEWARD, addressing
Southern Senators from his place in that
body, proclaimed to the world that:
.'At last new voice issues from your own
region, from the South. from the slave States,
and protests against your further persistence
in this mad enterprise [of extending slureryl
and admOnishes you that il must and will
fail. The cohorts are gather ring from the
South; the men of moderation and conserya-
tism. who, as they have heretofore moderated
in favor of slavery and against freedom, will
now be obliged, in consistency with their just
and well established char icter, aud their ha-
bitual patriotism, to moderate against you in
favor of freedom, and rise up unanimously
against slavery"
And again, at Rome in New York:
at will be the show by the next two years
publican party within slave States. under the
lead of brave and true men, such as Frank
L. Blair, of Missouri, and Cassius NJ. Clay, Of
Kentucky. What remains of organization
as national party to be effected is sure
and certain as what has already occurred,
and is now SO distinctly seem"
Therefore, Resolved by the General Assem-
bly, of the State OF Tennessee, Thatwe recog-
Dize in the recent outbreak at Harper's
Ferry, the natural fruits of this reasonable
.'irrepressible conflict doctrine. put forth
by the great head of the Black Republican
party, and echoed by bis subordinates; and
that it becomes the Imperative duty OF
national men of all parties throughout the
Union, TO announce to the world their sense
of its infamy, aud to unite in crushing out It's
authors as traitors TO their country, and as
deadly enemies to the public peace. the
rights of the States, and the preservation OF
our republican institutions
Resolved, That we record it as the sense of
the Tennessee Legislature, that the declara-
tions of Mr.. Seward that respectable por-
ton OF the Southern people, under the lead
of such men as Cassius NJ. Clay and Francis
Z. Blair, will unite with the Black Republic
can party TO prevent the extension of slavery,
and will eventually rise up against slavery"
is libel upon the honor and loyalty OF the
outhern people, and will but serve to make
them more Watchful ana eXactlnS OF tucr
public servants in the national councils
Resolved, That it is the duty of our Repre-
sentatives i'll Congress to recognize as enc
mics to the Union, and especially to the
Slave States, all who, in any way, favor or
affiliate with this sectional Black Republican
party; aud that any action on their part,
which iavors cooperation with the Black
Republicans, in organizing the House, and
thus placing the officers and important com
mittees of that body under their control
would be false to the sentiment of the people
of Tennessee, an insult TO their constituents,
and disgraceiul to themselves.
ResOlUed, That we acknowledge our appre-
citation of the prOmptness with which the
national administration took steps to check
the recent conspiracy before it obtained the
huge dimensions of a revolution.
Resolved, That our Senators and Represen-
tatives in Congress be furnished with u copy
OF these resolutions. rl.