Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-04
HILL on RonEIna.


Hon. BEN H. HILL is the head and front of the
BELL movement in Georgia. TIE Montgomery Mail
Iays:
On the goth July, 1859 Hon. B. II. HILL of Geor-
gia wrote a letter to J. H. Harris, Esq., of Cham
bers, which we published in the Nail 1t appeared
while Mr.. Judge was making that noble fight for
Projection TO SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES Mr.. Clop-
ton, his opponent, admitting the sOundness of his
positions, but insisting that he Clopton) was the
better man to carry out the idea. 1t had been re-
ported that Col. Hill had declared for ClOpton
hence he wrote this letter, expressing warm sym
pathy for Mr. Judge. In the course OF the letter he
said:
again. we have heard much of the WILMOT
PROVISO. SQUATTER SOVEREIGNTY, UN
FRIENDLY TERRITORIAL LEGISLATION, and
| NON PROTECTION to Slave Property, &c. but will
the people of the South learn the significant ia that
each of these HERESIES had its father in the Demo
cratic party? Yet this is not only so, but the most
vigorous and powerful of these fathers, are at this
very moment the LEADERS of the Democratic par
ty, and ASPIRING TO THE HIGHEST EON ORS
IN THE NATION"
To whom does all this invective of Col. P. H Hill
apply? Why, gentle reader, to STEI Hen A.
DOUGLAS, with whose friends in Georgia (as in this
State) Col Hill and his friends hare 0lisa;e. 'Gt
| this very moment" to beat down the FRlhNDS OF
PROTECTION TO SLAVERY IN THE TERRIFIC
| RIES!
Yes little as enc would believe it, this gallant Op-
potent of squatter sovereignty, who wrote this eo-
quen letter against Douglas and squatter sovereign
! ty and Wimot Proyisoism, and who came over to
Alabama to help Mr.. Judge contend for that consti
tutiOnal doctrine, protection the Territories, IS
with his friends conspiring with the friends of
Douglas to defeat the advocates Of Protection breck
inridge and Lane. Absolutely wallOwing in the
slime of sauatterism, the Savannah Republican, the
leading Bell organ of Georgia, publishes the Doug
las ticket with its list of electors to aid his
in Southern Georgia. Verify, thirteen months have
worked wondrOus change in the Hon. B. H. Hill.
But hear him still farther! In the same letter he
said:
1.-THE great evil of the Democratic party is, that
it gives responsibility TO wrong to the South. which
it could acquire from no other source. If the Re
publican party HAD PASSED THE ENGLISH BILL,
what would our Southern Government have done ?
If VIM. II. Seward the father of TERRIFIC
RIAL SOVEREIGNTY and NON-PROTECTlON to
SLAVE PROPERTY how many Southern men
and newspapers would be recommending him for
the Presidency?
If John P Hale had come to New Orleans and
MADE THE SPEECH FOR UNFRIENDLY TERRI
TORIAL LEGISLATION, that STEPHEN A. DOUG
LAS made, what other committee than ONE OF
TAR AND FEATHERS would have complimented
him!
Now, If "tar and feathers" were an appropriate
acknowledgement in 1859, for Squ4tter Sovereign
ty what ought it to be in 1860? But time changes all
things and the face of the great Georgia HILL has
been washed out of all political shape, by the floods
of one short year. Tar ami feathers for Doug
las in 1853; in 1860, close and fraternal alliance
with his friends, TO defeat Protection TO Slavery IN
the territories?
We understand that Col. Hill will speak in Tus
kegee, Saturday. Somebody, we trust, will ask him
while there to say where he stands the doctrine
of Protection. 1OJu He did much. last year. to get
our people committed to it. He endorsed Judge
from every stump. To day he endorses Bell quite
as freelg