Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-04-22

TO defeat the admission OF Kansas, says.
eon Saturday last, while tie discussion upon the
Kansas question was in progress and while all par
lies in TIE House we're more intent upon arrange
menss for the final struggle thaa upon the arguments
u Speakers and while al xeTe in doubt as 10 what
might be the ultimate course Of Mr.. Gidlngs and /
his oonfreres, the Hoa. Mr. Crtenden came into the
hail. and, near the door, was Joined by he Hon. Hum
ehTey Marshall. Bus a moment vas permitted them
for communication when Mr. G:d1iB rs went forward,
aud taking Mr.. Crittendsn warmly ny the hand,
With recognition Of Mr.. Marshall AZ the same time,
ne said: Woo could have believed this Of me, that
| should be found with you, following you? But
while ! have spent long life in fighting against
enemies and ready still to ght them, have
never fought, aud cannot fight against my friends.
gush Of warm tearsof true patriotism here came
forth from the three united, and the fate OF Lee
compton in the House sealed past redemption"
Here was the FIRST open avOwal Of the lion OF
the anti LecOmpton men into an OPPOSITION party.
This man, tGlDDnGs) who congratulated CRIT-
rESDEE on Lis course, and with tears OF joy an
nouOe d his readiness to follow him, said in one Of
his speeches
II look "a, ward to the day when there shall be a
SsrUte rectoR in the South when the black man
armed wi h BRITISH b0yonets and led on by British
officers shall assert his freedom and wage var OF
extermnaiion ag aiBst his master; sheR The torch Of
he iacepd0ry shall light the torcas ard cities Of the
South, and blot out the astves ige of slavery And
though may not mock at their calamity, nor laugh
when their fear comelh. get Ilg hail as The aSieR
old political mReH1uH."
lie supported CRIrrESDEN's amendment, aud
here are his reasons for Il. Mr.. GmDMGs says;
'The proposed amendment denied IN The liost un-
/ miaakeable language that Kansas Slave
State, as the President had officially asserted; it
placed him the records of our counry a fasifer
! of truth, and constituted unqualified reputation
| of his avowed policy. Nor could we disguise the
conviction that the friends of The President in the
! Senate would never agree TO the bill when thus
amended. They could only accept it by an aban-
denment of the President and OF his long cherish
ed policy. All were conscious that beth the Exe2u~
tive and Democratic party were under The control Of
| the Slave Power; that power demanded the rueon-
ditional admission of Kansas a Slave State and
that several Stales and many policiansweIe pleds-
ed 10 dissolve the Union unless Kansas was Rncon-
ditioaally admitted with her Lecompton COnsiitu.
ton Ii was therefore morally certain that aaher-
encs to the amended bill by the House would coEsti-
| tute defeat of the Executive and his party, and
would prepsnt Tie enactment Of The Lee0mpOR CORSti
ton into laO.
/ can clearly foresaw that every fiend OF the
President in the House, and in the Senate, would
vote against the amended bin, and We supposed
slI who voted for the bill solemnly pledged TO
adhere to it. We all saw that to make Kansas a
Free State we must first defeat he Presidents et-
forts TO make it Stare State. His project was be-
fore u.s. was forced upon Us for decision. and must
be met and disposed of before We could take the first
! sep 10 ward making Kansas fIee. Ald speak not
| for myself but think for nearly tue entire Repub
lican party in the House Of Representatives, when
say that our object and design in voting for the
| amendment was TO DEFEAT THE SENATE BILL; to
defeat the Executive and the Slave Power in their
efforts to make Kansas Stare Stce To avoid that
defeat every follower of the President BOTH in the
House and in thesenate, voted against the amend,
ment."
The views of others who supported the CRITTEE-
DEN amendment aud their objects in supporting it,
may be gathered from the following extracts from
Black Republican speeches delivered in Congress,
while that measure was under discussion:
$50 help me God, another Slave State shall never
enter the Union by my vote" (FarhsWorth of H.
| linOs, in his speech against Kansass admission
Il shall never consent that Ohio shall associate
with another Slave State" (Giddings of 0hio)
al will not vote for the admission of a Slave
Sta.e-eertainly not" brigham of Ohio
81 would net vote for the admission of Kansas, if
the whole people came here with a slave Consiitu>
/ ion." (Colfax of Indiana
In the same discussion Gen. ZoLLIcoFFEE said:
+" The great mass of those who oppose the admis-
sion of Kansas into the Union, oppose ii because it
Genes with pro-slayery constitution. Many of
them have, indeed, gone so far as to pledge them,
selves never to vote for the admission OF another
Globe 1st Sess. Both Con. psgs 29I.)
Here is what the Nashville Patriot said during the
pendency of the LscOmpton question:
whatever may be said to the contrary, the
gravsmen Of the objection the ad 4s5ion Of Kan
sas is thst the Elask Republicans did not have the
formation of its constitution, ami that the
! presented toleTates slavery. There IS not voice
/ in all the Opposition which would be raised against
the constitution if il had prohibited slavery and the
| couId hav oliba init midi tod
/ power under its operation"
The New York Tribune at once made overtuces
for union of the Opposition on, the LscOmpton
/ question. 1t said
sit seems to US the plain duty of the republicans
to regard and rect brothers al 'rho stand 1rh
in opposition 10 the Lee0mPton tr0ua-to inrits them to
oar councils and confidence, while cheerful as
sentinE to their prosecution of their share il the
common enterprise under their own banners in their
own fashiOE-to act freely and faithfully in accor-
dance with our own CONVICTIONS and accord to them
| the utmost liberty in doing likewise.
To US the path of duty Is plain. Henceforth to
the end Of this struggle, kOW all 1rHO resist the
imposition Of the LeeomPt0n tTaRdoH Kansas, as Jretr
ghite Tegdrd those C0 uphold that fraud deadly
enemies not merely Kansas and tie republican par
tn, but to the principles of American independence,
the inalienable rights of man. Politically, the
champions Of that fraud are our enemies is oppo>
nents, so far they Willing TO be, are our
friends We shall urge the recollection Of erey Demo-
cratic OF American member Of Congress cbo ressfs the
Lecompton fraud TO hc bitter end and then declares
himself the determined and persistent adversary Of its
authors and a6ettoaS, demanded alike By fidelity
to principle and to the interests Of freedom (7r6-
He on the policy aud plan of the Republicans dur,
ing the tendency Of LecomptoE.)
Here the Tribune declares it readiness to treat
anti-Lecompton men of all shades of opinion as bre
thren, and to support them fer Office.
The n. Y. Times, edited by HENRY J. RAYMOND,
about the same time said
$50 far, therefore, from agreeing with the Jour
nal Of Commerce in the belief that the Republican
party is dead, dying, believe it is just
ing upon a new and still more important stage of
it's existence. We have very little doubt that
leading Southern men win be found in its ranks,
shaping its organization, defining its purposes, cor
rectr its errcrs giving it conservatism and nation
atty Of tone, and aiding to place it in control of
! the Federal Government"
Thus We are told that "leading Southern men"
are expected to take control Of the Ba k Republic
can party in the next canvass for the Presidency,
as they have recently done in Congress. SEWARD
is to give way to CaITTENDES, HALE is to be sup>
planted by BELL, &c, Sc, until the great Repub-
licsn army is marshaed under the lead Of Southern