Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-13
THE CANVASS.


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From Haywood.
BROWNSVILLE, September 9Th 1860
MEsRss. EDITORS: The electors of this district adj
lressed large assemblage of the citizens of this
county at this place on yesterday. Mr. BRADFoRD,
the BREcKNRIDGE elector, opened the discussion
His speech was one of the ablest and most eloquent
efforts that have heard upon the questions before
the country. He showed conclusively. from the
compromise measures of 1850, from the Kansas
Nebraska bill and from the Democratic platform of
1885, that the doctrine of nonintervention did not
mean what Mr.. DoUGEAs makes it mean but that it
meant protection to the life liberty and property of
every man. After showing that the doctrine Of the
Breckenridge Democracy was the true Democratic !
doctrine, and exposing the dangers Of Mr. Douglas
suuatter sovereignty heresy, Mr.. Bradford took up
the Hon. John Bells record, and ere he was done
with it, there were but few in that audience who
enyied the old fellows position, notwithstanding lie
is candidate for the Presidency.
Col Guy, of Hardeman, who is filing the place of
Judge Brown, the Douglas elector, followed Mr..
Bradford, and tried after the of Mr.. Doug
las, by quoting garbled extracts from few promi-
nent Democratic speakers, to prove the doctrine
held by Mr. Douglas, to be the doctrine of the Dem
ocratic party of 1856, of the KansasNebraska bill,
and of the compromise measures of 1850 but he
utterly failed in the attempt; nor could any other
man have succeeded in doing so after such an able
exposition of the faith by our gallant standard
bearer. Col. Guy devoted the whole of his time, as
understand he has been doing through the Whole
canvass, to Mr.. Bradford and the Breckenridge De-
mocracy.
fa.l Nh I'll, Dill VT-,o As,.op
Know Nothing Eec tor after Col Guy finished, APP
peared on the stage to perform his part in the
onslaught upon Mr.. Bradford and his party, which
consisted principally of anecdotes and ridicule.
The great sympathy existing between the Doug
las and Bell parties as eynced here on yesterday, is
by no means pleasing to some of our Douglas men
in this section, and a few more such manifesto
tons will, have no doubt, cause them to reflect
upon the position they occupying and turn to the
true path of Democracy c.
Polk, Haynes and PeytOn I'm Madison
County.
JACKSON, Sept stl, 1850.
Messrs HAYNES, PEYToN and Polk addressed
twelve or fifteen hundred persons at this place to-
day. and the Democracy of Madison witnessed one
of the proudest triumphs of a campaign, that has
been a series of victories from the commencement.
The discussion was opened by Maj PoLK who
! employed the whole of his hour and half, except
that portion devoted to fun and froc, in vain at
tempt prove that he and the supporters of Judge
DOUGLAS were true to principles, and that the Demo-
cratic party who refused to embrace the doctrines
of Squater Sovereignty, had abandoned the princi-
pies of popular sovereignty, advocated by him IN
1885, when he bore the banner of the party through
out the State. He called upon the DOUGLAS men to
stand firm. The gentleman showed more tact In
this branch of his speech than any other and some
i!lnatured persons accounted for it by suggesting
that he had large experience in drilling dlsorgan-
izers. How is that? Like all the DOUGLAS speak
ers Mai. Polk was exceedingly courteous and affa,
bic towards our ancient enemy. He whom the
speaker would in 1873 have instructed out of the
United States Senate, as an unworthy representa-
tive of the sovereignty of the State of Tennessee
in 1860 less obnoxious to the gentleman than the
man whom in 1856 he assisted to place in the second
office in the gift Of the American people. Yet h
has not changed no. not he.
Col PEYToN next took the stand and commenced
his speech by stating lin Pickwickian sense Of
course) that he stood between two fires that the
representatives. of the two wings of the Democratic
I
needed proclamation as it would never have beer
otherwise discovered by the audience Not one
word had Maj. Polk uttered against Mr.. BELL, and
surely the sequal proved that Col. PEYToS was a;
equally tender to Judge DOUGLAS.
Col. PEYToNs speech was in manner, style and
argument at least twenty years ago." and he j;
truly proper representative of the "old gentleman:
party" Take out of his speech his harangue upOr
the glorious Union, the suffering memories" of ouI
revolutionary fathers his appalling fears of speedy
dissolution and you have left about five minutes fol
the defence of Mr.. BELLS record. After he hat
Mortified over YANcEY for some time, certain unso
phisticated gentleman from the country, wished te
know of friend present if YANcEY was the name
of the Pope and when he came to the United States
When it was explained to him that YASCEY was
private gentleman living in Alabama strong
Southern man. unwilling to make further concession
upon the slavery question, and opposed the terri
torial bills of 1850 because he did not think justice
was done the South that he was willing to acquesce
in the past but would yield no further and for thai
reason had been denounced traitor to his cOun
try. The rural gentleman expressed himself very
much astonished that anybody but the Pope could
brighten people So
Col. HAYNES then arose amidst the shouts of the
people Mos nobly and CALAMITY did he meet and
overthrow his two competitors. Like pigmies IL
the hands of giant did he crush the very life GU
of them.
He reviewed the history of the country sine,
1850, and showed by facts and figures that under
the wise and liberal policy of the Democratic party
our country had gone on from one step of greatness
and prosperity to another, until it is the creates
and most prosperous nation upon earth. lie pointed
to our ma gnifcent empire in the West as monumen
to the wisdom of the party. The Democratic party
had always been the party of the Contribution anC
the Union because it was the only party tina
had the will and the power to preserve tn,
Union; and still its enemies, from the daye O
JEFFERSON down. had attempted to poison the public
mind against it, by the charge of disuniOn To prove
the charge, no act of the party had ever been re
lied upon, but the opinions and declarations O.
individuals who chose to act with the party.
To the DOUGLAS party he concilliatory, stating
that he had long since learned that men to be
influenced by argument and reason rather than by
vituperation and abuse. By a close, logical anC
measurable argument he exposed the Squatter Sow
, ereignty dogmas of Judge DOUGLAS. The sophistry
and fustian of Maj Polk melted before the ''inex
orable logic of our gallant champion like frost be
fore the sunshine. He showed that the DOUGLAS
party in Tennessee could do Judge DOUGLAS good
by voting for him. for by possibility did he think
he could get more than five six thousand votes ii
the State. If he got more it would only endangeI
the prospects of BRECKENRIDGE and possibly give the
State to BELL that if the election should go to the
House. BRECKINRIDGE and LINCOLN would certainly
be two of the candidates. and the contest being
between BELL and DOUGLAS for the third place, by
giving Tennessee to BELL the chances for DOUGLAS
would be diminished.
Col. HAYNES then took up the Opposition party,
and asked the people if they were willing, in this
hour of peril and danger to the country, to risk the
Government in the hands of party without re-
cord without a platform, and with candidates who
refused to defend their positions upon questions of
exciting nterestnow before the country but refer to
their as the only pledge they giveor their
future conduct, and when we turn to their records
we find nothing indicating their position upon the
question of slavery in the Territories. Mr.. BELL
had voted with the North upon the question of re-
ce;ving Abolition petitions and expressed his indi-