Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-02
Speaking at ROgersviIIe.
RoGERsvILLE, August 9th,

RoGERsvMLE August 9th, 1860.
EDITORS UNION AND AMERICAN: To-day the candi
dates for eector for the State at Large were here
and addressed one of the largest crowds that was
ever assembled IN Rogersville. We expected thai
the Opposition would make grand demonstration
in the way of bell ringing, as informed that
they had been for several days collecting all the
bells in the country, in order to have genralrngn5
to-day hoping by this, no doubt, the ener
gies of their party. But althoughthe sky cloud
less and the shone brightly yet sound of bells
broke in upon the ear, save one that was drawn 10
Suspended over a barrel of cider and basket OF
cakes, whose melancholy sound now and then chill
ed the nerves of the BELL-er-ers.
The hour for speaking came on and Col. TAYLOR
having the lead, mounted the stand and after shrug
gng his shoulders if he feared the task, began by
preaching short sermon upon the death of the old
Wing principles and upon this subject the Col grew
warm. He then continued by saying that there
was new but one question before the people,
and that was the Nigger Question: that this ques
ton had been thrust upon the people by the Demo
cratic party; that the Democracy were responsible
for the slavery agitation that the North had been
true to the compromise measures of 1850, and that
the South led on by the Democracy, violated these
compromises, aided by few Wings 1oho left the par
ty in the passage of the Kansas Nebraska, out Of
,ohich Sprang the Black Republican party and that
the North observed in good faith the Missouri com
promises, but the South, led on by the Democratic
party, was false to its pledges He then attempted
to indicate the political record of JOIN BELL by
saying that BELL never conceded to Congress the
power to abolish slavery in the District Of Columbia
and that he himself believed that Congress had no
such power" The Col had forgotten what he had
said at cambridge, very far from here, that he
believed, any other must believe that will read
the Constitution, that Congress has the power to
abolish slavery in the District of Columbia and has
never until to-day taken, as learn, any different
position, although he has been dashed with it
every day since; his explanation having been
that ne meant to say when he made the
above concession, that Congress had the power
to abolish the stare trade in the District of Column
bia. When he sees the article in the Patriot and
campaign BELL paper, published by their Executive
Committee referred to by you in your paper of
the Esd, he will again maintain that Congress has
power to abolish it in the District. He then com
menced the cry of dsunion, and said that the Dem
ocratic party was disuhion party, because W. L.
YANCEY was one of its supporters. Next he eulO-
gized the DOUGLAS party; spoke of their gallant
and patriotic leader aud of their patriotic and ma
t:onal principles He made no war upon the DOUG-
LAS party, but to the contrary, one would have
thought that he was elector on the DOUGLAS tick
ct. He then concluded his speech with short re-
view of the question of disuniOn in which he spoke
of the bloody horrors of civil war; by this, no
doubt he aimed to scare the people into the support
of his candidate for the Presidency, but the people
are too well accustomed to this method of political
discussion, and expressed no fears at his terrible