Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-03-03

petty controversy. and they would have none
if they would stand upon the doctrine of non-
intervention
Plucky Little Giant How be taunts the
Southern Delnocratsl If they propose to
intervene for the protection of slavery in |.
Kansas, they would have no better time 7
to do so than the PRESENT. Why don't they
introduce bill at once to annul the aboli-
ton act of the Legislature of Kansasf he |
would like to see them introduce such bill | |
PASSAGE BETwIxT MEssRs DAVIS AND DOUGLAS |
Mr.. DAVIS said the petty controversy to |
which be had referred was the attempt of am |
bilious men. for personal ends. to pander to a
debased public sentiment. 1t was this that he
scorned.
Mr.. DOUGLAS said he also scorned the policy
of Southern men who would pander to an
equally debased and dangerous popular sem
timent He did not say be would not vote
for man who did not agree with him on all
| points for President he expected to find no
| such man. But he asked why they did not
| introduce their bill annuling the act of Kan
| sas?
MR.. GwIN, OF CALIFORNIA, EDGES IN WORD
Mr. GwIN said if be had understood the
Kansas ebraska bill. as il was now interpre-
ted by the Senator from Illinois, he never
| would have voted for it. He called upon
| others who voted for it to state if they had
| so understood it, 1t was evident that some
body was cheated. The Senator from Illinois
had no right to speak for the Democracy of
the free States.
Mr.. BIGLER, OF PENNSYLVANIA, HAS THE FLOOR.
He warned Southern Democrats not to
force an Issue of the kind suggested by the
gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. BRowN)
! unnecessarily upon the the North if they
| Ia Of he
Democratic party.
Mr.. FREDERICK. OF CALIFORNIA, sUsrAINs The
LITTLE GIANT.
Mr.. BRoDERICK desi ed to say that he fully
agreed to every thing that had been said by
the Senator's from Illinois (Mr. DoUGLAs) and
from Ohio. (Mr PUGH.) aud hoped every
Northern Senator at least would be com
PEELED to defire his position. He was sur
prised at the Interpretation of the Nebraska
bill given by his colleague, for the Demo-
cratic party in California had interpreted it
in accordance with the views of the Senator
from Illinois, namely. that the Kansas
Nebraska bill made discrimination in favor
of freedom rather than of slavery.
SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS IN THE RIBS.
Mr.. STUART said they ought to be engaged
in regular legislation. This debate had open
ed the whole subject of the political complex
ion of the Democratic party. and he int nded
to follow it up. Within the last ten or fifteen
years this slavery question had become the
hobby on which ambitious men sought to ride
! into power. 1t was the subject which, of all
others, should be let alone. Did Southern
Democratic Senator's intend to stand by the
platform of their party, which was non-lnter-
vention on the subject of slavery in the Ter
| ritories? The recent detection from the
| l # a att
any hostility to the creed of the party, but
to Southern men who advocated their extreme
opinions, and put them forth as the true creed
of the party. 1t did not become men who
really wished to sustain the Democratic or
ganiZation to spend time in talking about
what they would do if the occasion should
arrive. He had protested against the Kansas
! Nebraska bill because it was a disturbing
element, believing they had better stand by
| the compromise of 1850; and now he asked,
how much they made 10y it? There was no
use in making disturbance about the pro-
lection of slave properly for a few years in a
Territory, when it would be swept away as
soon as the people framed their State consti-
7 tuition If bill were introduced to project
| slaye property in Kansas. they would be
1 grayer than a rat and older than Methusalch
, before 1t could pass both Houses of Congress.
They ought TO learn wisdom from the past,
. and net denounce men here because they do
not happen to subscribe to all the peculiar
doctrines which make Southern man slide
, easily into Congress.
If the Southern Democrats introduced a
e bill to protect slave property in Kansas, they
5 soould Be grayer than rat and older than Mahu
, soseh before it could pass both Houses OF Con-
: gress- They should not denounce Northern
men, then, because the latter ''do not happen
4 Az Il.
make Southern man slide easily into Congress-
: A bard hit, that These Northern Democrat:
e fear not to take right hold of the Southern
Democrats and handle them without gloves
Thus began and ended this great Demo
# cratic fight between the most distinguished
o leaders of the Southern and Northern Democ
e racy. All the speakers whom we have quoted
are Democrats. They have taken their re
spective positons-openly, boldly, defantly
and from these positions there can be nj
, receding on either hand, because, foI the lead
ers of either section to recede wonld be pc
e litical destruction at home; and self-preserva
l. ton is the first Raw of nature.
The Southern Democratic leaders must in
e troduce and support bill, at the opening O
&c the next Congress, TO nullify or repeal tn
IT abolition act recently passed by the Terrific
e rial Legislature of Kansas, or forfeit thei
, positions at home, and become by-words o
$ scorn and contempt both at the South ant
e the North. And against such bill the North
ern Democratic members of Congress will
Z. stand in a solid, impenetrable phalanx. Ii
the meantime, the agitation and exctemen
IS will continue to increase both with the South
ern and Northern Democracy; the breach vii
h continue to become wider day by day, if j
IF can become wider; and at the next session o
u Congress the fight between the two sections
Il will be deadly and awful to behold. In cha
e fight should the comhatants. politically speak
e ing, eat each other up. until there should no
= be left so much as a hair or toe-nail of on
v of them, the ,ohois country would have exceed
e ing cause to rejoice thereat. and might well
I. with universal gratulations, exclaim ''Le
; them goi'
n NorE.-Our limited space rendered il ne
= cessary to condense this debate; but what W
- have quoted is in the words Of the severa
n speakers, as reported by the National Lnteii
ge1cer,
e Full Particulars OF the Sfcikles ans
lie Key Affair.