Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-13
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The Breckinridge Party.

The Democratic party has fallen to pieces.
In to the final action of its Convention al
Baltimore. resulting in the nomination of
two candidates, there was some hope that the
difference between the two wings might be
healed That hope is now gone: the National
democracy, phrase so Extensively obtruded
upona large portion of the American people.
is now TO be changed and its place supplied
with "Northern democracy" and Southern
democracy" This is consequence not 10
be depIored. The democratic party has lived
long enough-its sins are many and great
aud in the Just order of things it should fail
to pieces. and leave room for its place to be
taken by better, if not wiser rulers. For
long while it has been great power, over
shadowing every other party, railing the
country with the sole yehemence of lis will
that lriH, the hope of rewarG-and has al
last brought itself to destruction, and the
unity of the nation to danger by its adherence
to the same policy which marked its rise,
and up to this time had served its Success
Gen. JACKSON was the founder of the party.
lie never had but one principle Of policy, and
that was to reward those who had been Of
service to him. Upon this principle alone,
he founded a party, which, with few
thread-bare catch-phrases, has for thirty
years ruled the country. The party Is dead
who can say, ''let it rest is peace" We
turn our attention to the skeletons which ap-
pear in the place where the party stood. y
minority of the delegates at Baltimore sepa-
rated themselves from the regular organiza-
ton and nominated Nr. BRECKINRIDGE for
President and Gen. LANE for Vice President.
The principle upon which they act is essen
TALLY sectional. They declare it the duty
Of Congress to pass laws to protect slavery
in the territories They put this declaration
in the shape of resolve, and say in sub
stance, if the people of the whole country do
not vote for it in the next November
election then the Union is dissolved. Upon
this cry and this resolve they appear before
the countryside slavehOlding States. There
is at present no territory in which there are
owners OF slaves needing aud demanding
protection for their property. In all the
wide domain of our public property there is
no such necessity, nor no such demand. The
resolve is therefore purely an abstraction
As such, it is unstatesmanlike and incense
quential 10 propose it for subject of debate
before the people. There might he some
propriety-but we cannot see it-in propos-
ing such principle to the Senate for a vote.
But the people do not take no tee of alb
stractions. They wisely act upon necessities.
Political leaders in proposing such ques-
ton in a mere canvass for the election of
President, show to the thinking mind, they
have some ulterior object.
But, again the voters of the free States are
people who have grown up away from the
presence of slavery, who know nothing Of its
realities, and whose moral aud religious i'm
pressions are opposed to its existence. If
two opinions could exist in regard to the
rights of the owners of slaves in the public
territories of the Union, they would certainly
take the opinion that is opposed to the ex-
istence of those rights. They would deny
them in their whole extent. TO expect then
any considerable, or any hearty support, or
advocacy of the resolve of the Breckenridge
party, by the people of the free States is
simply absurd. We speak TO the minds OF
the people. There cannot, in the nature OF
things, be Breckenridge party in the free
States. That party, then, in Tennessee or
wherever in the slaveholding States it has a
head, is sectional party. Its appeal is to
section, and its hope is on a class. If the
appeal is i'll vain, if its hope is not realized
the ''ulteriOr object" whatever it may be, will
be resorted to. We speak TO the hearts of
the people. Let him who looks to, and who
loves the war-stained glories of his revo-
lutionary fathers look 10 it. Sectional parties
must be put under the feet of the people.
Y.