Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-10-13
Hon. EDWARD Bates.

aid him by throwing away their votes on his friend,
Mr. DOUGLAS
Hon. Edward Bates.
Mr. BATES. of Missouri, who was one of the dis
tinguished gentlemen invited to the grand Opposition
meeting held at Memphis, in August, 1859, at which
Messrs BELL and ETHERIDGE were present and made
speeches, at which Mr.. BATES was not present, but
to which he wrote letter that published in the
Banner, Memphis Enquirer, and other Opposition
papers. that same Mr.. BATES is now an ardent advo-
cate of the election Of LINCOLN He has recently
written to the Black Republican Committee of Keo-
kuk, Iowa, which we find in the New York Tribune
After alluding to the Democratic party and saying
it is easy to understand that party, he says:
But it is not so easy TO understand the Constitu-
tiona Union party, because 1t is new party, with
out any history and without Ony pledge, in case Of
its success to support any particular line of govern
mental policy 1t contains undoubtedly mary eX
cellent men whose private opinions are known and
respected but party, it leaves itself by design
perfectly free do whatsoever it pleases and unite
with whumsoever it pleases when it comes into
power.
It pledges itself to nothing hut to support the
Constitution the Union and the laws, and that every
honest citizen of every party, knows to be a COM
mon duty. Every President, Of whatsoever party,
mus begin his official life by swearing that he will
"preserve. protect, and defend the Constitution of
the United States,' and that Constitution makes it
his especial duty to take care that the laws be
faithfully executed As a party then there Is no
thing to distinguish it from any other party.
Once in power it may carry out the views of pol
icy entertained by the hottest Democrat of the
South or blacklist Republican of the North, free
from any charge q inconsistency or breach Of
plghted faith. Any party, think, in order to grow
in strength and to become useful 10 the country,
must needs have some distinguishing characteristic
Of its own. Without some such nucleus of attrac-
ton and bond Of union, no party can long survive
Mr. BATES believes in the DOUGLAS doctrine that
slavery Is the creature Of local and positive law
that in the absence of local law upon the subject,
no man has or can have a Constitutional right to hold
slaves in a Territory. Abiding to the contrary
opinion, that under the Constitution the Southern
man has the right to carry his slave property into
the Territories, he says: If that opinion be well
founded then of course it IS the duty of Congress
to protect slavery there for it were absurd to say
that there IS or can be any Constitutional which
the government is not bound 10 protect"
The InsurrectiOnary Plot in virginia.
There seems to be some foundation for the rumor
mentioned on Saturday. that insurTectonary plot
has been fermenting among some of the negroes il
folk papers of Saturday bring us various exciting
accounts in regard to the affairs. The Argus, Of
that city, says
Several negroes have been arrested in Princess
Anne and their confessional ms ONE cases.
cxtorted-have developed the same story, aRd led
To further arrests. The confessions show that a
rising was contemplated at Hickory Ground in Nor
folk county, tomorrow Sunday night, and that
the matter was instigatcd by free persons some of
1r.,--o ly,.. IL
Norfolk city, and the trail IS fully struck.
The citizens of the two counties have resorted to
vigant measures to suppress this vile conspiracy,
and to detect all offenders Of all colors. Active
patrols have been Organized-dHd gone TO ICOrE. We
advise all suspected white persons quit the parts
between two days On Thursday night a white man
named Flynn was shot dead by patrol party in
Norfolk county, on the line OF the canal about Il
miles from Portsmouth There were several men
en- gagged in dItching, and they camping out in
Oh at neighborhOod The place was suspected and
the ir tent visited by the patrol for search. When
the patrol approached the tent and hailed, the man
Flynn came out and aimed his gun at Mr.. Warner,
one of the party; but before he could fire he was
shot dead by another of the party. At the same
moment negro darted from the woods. A free
negro, named Dick Smith, has been shot also he,
however, is not dead. We understand that hc was
shot while running from some gentlemen who were
CndeavOring to arrest him for some lncendOus eX-
pressiOns that he had used. Ten negroes are said
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folk city.
The Norfolk Day Book of Saturday evening has
the following
We continue to receive information from the sur
rounding country of the most intense excitement
among the people. They thoroughly aroused
and generally ncenscd. and the leading gentlemen
of the two counties have taken hold of the matter
with a determination to probe it to the bottom Al
most all with whom we have COnvcrsed are fully
impressed with the conviction that another raid was
on foot or ut least that an extensive underground
railroad scheme has been broken up by its timely
discovery. 1t is little singular that these opera
tions should have commenced in the county In which
GOV. Wise resides. and 1t Is supposed that the mad
fanatics who had the direction of this movement
had some design him and family, for the firm and
decided stand he took in the capture and execution
of John Brown. Everything is wrapped in mystery
as yet but will be fully developed before 1t is done
with.
A free negro named John Whtehurst who was
TO iail this morning by Justice Gibson in
formed that gentleman that plan OF operations had
been maturing ever since last spring and that free
MORO named Dick Ryan had written 10 the North
and engaged the services Of parties there who were
., arrive at old Point or Norfolk this evening in
vessel with arms and men, who were to assist IN
fine liberation of our slaves tomorrow Sunday
uirht Upon the reception OF TINS Information. Tour
as respectable gentlemen as can be IOuhd IN NcFioh
country addressed a letter TO Mayor Lamb, who VIII
rs The necessary steps towards the development OF
the scheme and the arrest Of the vessel should II
arrive on our coast.
Three necroes-two free and one slave-who had
been examined by the justices OF the county, were
to the Portsmouth Jail this morning by
Justice Gibson. The developments IN thelr case 20
far towards proving their completely IN the scheme'
Thus far fifteen or twenty arrests have been made
and the parties viii BE- held for further hearing
which hearing will be had soon as the necessary
witnesses car be gotten together. In the meantime
armed men are securing the woods and swamps OF
The two counties named and the negro Dick Ryan
viii be captured. but is feared that he will be shot
down before anything like information can be gotten
from him. The excitement against him is very
great he is regarded As one of the ringeaders in
the movement
Bright didn't vote for the Black republican State
ticket in Indiana, hUt Thompson. Edwards and near
~ the whole Of the Know Nuthings did There win
be no complaints made. ct course bv the RoDrIas
ties here, who We're terrible indignant ovnT. tho
caHdrd about Bright. but who allow their Rer
friends on the other side Of the Ohio any latitude
they waut-LOuSUils Courier.
The THOMPSON here alluded to Is RIcH'D W. TRoyp
son, the leading BELL man Of Indiana Whenever
BELL men talk about BRIGHT voting for LANE. the
Black Republican candidate for Governor in Indi-
ana tell them this, and ask them where they get the
that BRIGHT so cast his vote.
The disappointed and embittered Squatters and
Bellgcriues whose folly or knavery or both, more
than anything else, gave Indiana the Black Re
putIcans on Tuesday, attributing their defeat
10 Mr.. Bright who. they falsely allege voted for
Lane aud his ticket. If they don't prove this charge
against Mr. Bright, honest people viii rightly take
II for granted that the lie was cut out of the whole
cloth LOuSUile Courier.
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