Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-08-31
For the Congregational Districts.
FRIDAY, AUGUST "a, 1850.
Disuni0n.--HOSSiIe LegislatiOn of the
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The Patriot seems DESTROYS of grumbling at the
President because of the multiplying acts and anti
slavery resolves of Northern Legislatures. The
President has no more to do with the acts end reso-
buttons passed by Northern States than he has to do
with those passed by the State Of Tennessee. Can
there be an instance shown in which Mr.. BUCHANAN
has failed or refused to exert his authority to en-
force the fugitive slave law? If that law were en-
forced in the most successful manner IN every in
stance, that would not alter the aiuls, the inten-
ton the spirit of the Northern States in passing
those obnoxious laws Whenever the Executive or
the Federal authorities fail to discharge their whole
duty in the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave act
we shall not hesitate to denounce such conduct in
appropriate terms Our object in publishing the
hostile legislation of the North certainly not
with the intention of charging any Southern man
with favorng ST IN legislation, but TO show that the
BELL and DOUGLAS men of the South were deneunc-
ing Southern men for talking of DsuniOn because of
such violations ofSouthern rights while they devoted
but comparatively little other time to denunciaons
of these Black Republican aggresslons Take up any
paper in the South of the BELL or DOUGLAS persua-
sion, AM judging from the space allotted to attacks
of Southern men and the space allotted to attacks
such criterion that the BELL and DOUGLAS men of
the South IRE not more bitterly opposed to those
Southern men who talk of resistance to Black Re
publican aggression than they to the Black Re
publican sggressors.
1t will not do to say that the warfare in the South
upon Black Republicaulsm will avail nothing be-
cause they do not read our papers or hear our
speakers. The people Of the North know just as
well what is, going on in the South as we know
of what is being done in the North. The Black
Republicans know the party that is making the war
direct and unrelenting upon them. Let us not for
get the language of Mr.. SEWARD few days since at
Boston to. his Black Republican friends After
giving them his opinion as to the large majority
that LINCOLN will have in New York he says:
oBut have the same testimony to give you sub
stantialy in relation to all the free States with the
assurance that for the first time, this banner will
be unfurled in safety in many Of the Slave States.
But let not your thoughts or expectations be CON
fined to the present hour tell you, fellow citizens,
that with this victory comes the end CT the power
of slavery in the United States. (Cheers) think
may assume that democrat is a man who main
tains the creed Of one or the other branch Of the
Democratic party of the present day. Assuming
that to be So tell yOu ia all sincerity that tie last
Democrat IN The United States is born" (CLeers)
Is not the inference palpabe that, in the estima-
ton of Mr. SEWARD, 'the end of the slave power as
he terms it, and the end of the Democratic party
are one and the same. The language Of Mr..
SEWARD is not the idle raving Of fanatic but
it is the language of great and powerful
leader; still great and powerful though not the
standard bearer of his party. 1t was the fear of
public sentiment which caused his rejection at Chi
cago His defeat there was triumph of the South.
The firm position taken by Southern men in and out
of Congress caused that defeat. Lei us not lose
the advantage that then gained by taking as our
leader who the close ofhis long COngression
al career so endesred himself to the very foremost
men Of Black Republicandom to draw from them
a tender Of a complimentary dinner and one whose
record was of such dubious character as to cause
leading Black Republican organ to say thatit would
be willing to support him for the Presidency upon
his past record
Let the South take no step backward and the
Black Republication which quailed last Winter
will cover again before Southern determination.