Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-04-07

What meFs esn Black Repubicanisn ask3
The pelicy Of Getting apart the proceeds Of The |
sales Of the public lands sor the extinction Of slave
sy ism, new one. 1t carries With it, too the moral
influence Of distinguished in the public ser
vice. and would be more than folly in the South to
shut her eyes to the fact, that majority Of the
States, and msjOrity Of the people Of the United
States regard slavery as al evil It is contrary to
the unenightsned instinct Of liberty, and there is
danger Of its abolition whenever plan, having
show Of constitutional right, can be DEVISED which
shall st the same time, have only such seeming
equity about it to satisfy the minds of the mere
honest, but less intelligent people of the North.
The grounds Of hostility to such policy are too
broad to be enumerated in single article
The Appropriations ana the Veto Power.
The Baansr does not deny that majority Of the
oppO i'ion have encouraged, by their votes the ex
trsvsgsnt legislation which has up the expenses
Of government to eighty millions Of dollars Nor
does it deny that q majority Of the Democratic mem
bsrs have almost invariably resisted such legiss
ton. These are facts that cannot be contested
sill the Banner and its party insist on turning the
Democracy out Of power, to give place for this
spendthrift Opposition. .r
/ But says, our contemporary, the president wAs
Democratic and he might have vetoed these extrsva-
CANT appropriations Now, it is known to the coun-
try, and We sup oss the Banner kuoss, that both
Mr. PIERcE and Mr.. BucHAEAN, by the timely inter
position of iheis veto. prevented the expenditure
of millions of dollars which had been recklessly
voted away BY the Opposition members Of Congress
But Why have they not vetoed sill Easteful e1psndi
turesf Because these wastcful and useless appro-
pristiOns generally tackled On 10 Bills which are
absolutely nocesssryto carry Oh the government
The President cannot veto one portion Of the bill
without defeating the whole and thus preventing The
passage of laws, which are Indispensable for the
| public service. No President has assumed the
fearfsl responsibility of arresting the wheels Of
government in order defeat
When these prOHigate appropriations have been sent
to the President GsconuectedfrOm measures of ndis
penssble necessity, he has vetoed them and he
will continue to guard the country, in this way,
from many schemes to waste aud squander its rev.
enues, Bat what could We expect in such cases
from an Opposition P1esidentf They have always
contended that the President should never exercise
the veto power except in cases where the cOnstitu
ton had been violated. Mr.. CRITTESDES, Mr. BELL
and Mr. SEwABD, with most Of th Fir followers are
committed to this policy. The Banner, we are pret~
ty sure is committed it. If then, either of those
gentlemen should be elected President by the OPP
position and the Opposition Congress SHOULD appro>
priste hundred million year. according to Mr..
Bells idea of eoouomy,-in that case, We say,
Mr. BELL, Mr.. SEWARD, or Mr.. CRITTEEDEN, would
be bound by their declarations to sanction the ap
/ preparation, and the Banner, as the administration
organ, would be bound to defend it.
1t is q little absurd that organ which has sd
! vocsted further restrictions on the veto power.
should now censure the President for not exercising
it in manner which no President from WAsHIEG-
TON to BUCHANAN, has felt authorized to do.
The Patriot thinks we have done the great leader
of its party injustice in our analysis OF his speech
at the capitol We attributed to Mr.. BELL-Whst he
uuuuestionably expressed-s great distrust Of the
! continuance and permsnsncs Of our government.
Our Deductions think were perfectly legitimate.
! Mr. BELI coincided with MAoUALAY in the opinion
that the experiment of Republican government
can not yet be pronounced successful, and thought
there we're causes at work which might prove dis
astrous and destructive TO it in short time. In his
enumeration of those causes, he referred to the fact
that the eff RIG Ct JoHs BRIGaT extend the right
Of suffrage in England had been impeded and EN-.
barrassed by the evils which have attended uni
versal suffrage in this country, and he stated that the
opponents of that reform pointed to our example as
an argument against it. What conclusion could we
draw from these arguments and statements of Mr..
BELL, except that he distrusts the capacity of the
masses of The people for self government, and de-
sires 70 impose additional restrictions upon the
elective franchise? This view of the case is strength
eued By The fact that the GAINESVILLE Chronicle prom
inent BELL organ, srenously advocates the old Fed
era theory Of excluding the ignorant classes of our
citizens from the Ballot Box, and he Franklin Re-
Uisv has avowed its predictions for the doctrines
of the Federal party.
The Patriot understands the last Democratic plat
FORM affirming that the Constitution of the United
States protects slavery and the rights of slave hold
ers in the territories as an endorsement of JUDGE
DOUGLAS views.
The Patriot and its party also understood
resolution in the Cincinnati platform to contain the
doctrine Of squatter Sovereignty, and so under
standing it, they adopted similar resolution in their
i State platform. We cannot be responsible for our
contemporaries understanding in either case, but
shall hold its party responsible for it. They have
deliberately embraced principle which they defn-
ed to be "Squatter Sovereignty" The Democratic
party repudiates that doctrine, and We shall make
the issue before the people.
The Memphis Bulletin exults in the fact, that The
political Bedams who met at the Capitol the 18th
ultmo, have succeeded in cOncOcting compound
that he's no name They had the recipe, no doubt
of the Witches He'll Broth, in Macbeth, and might
have been similarly addressed, as they stood
around the seetbing csuldrOn into which they had
gathered all the elements of political corruption
How new, you secret, dark and midnight Hays
What is't you do 7"
Aud they could have replied in the very words of
the "Weird women
deed without namel"
DENYIHG THEIR IDEsI1ITY The continual change
of name under which he Opposition to Democracy
DISCUSSES itself to escaperesponsibDty for the past
reminds of the piOus old darkey, the burden OF
whose prayer was that "de Lord d come and take
Caesars soul to hebben" One night, just before re-
firing, he staitled by Hncck at his cabin door
''WhO dar ?" he called out. "The Lord" was the
response, in a sepulchral tone ''What do de Lord
want" he tremblingly asked. wants Ceasers
SOUL" broke on the solemn stilluess. Pop went the