Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-06


Bell, of colrse-and becsuse Tennessee Metholist
conference refused to expunge certain antisIavery
opinions which John Wesley had inserted in the dis
cipline. He cannot trust Kentncky, because Ken
lucky, forso many years, upheld sneh free-soilers
as Henry Clay and John J. CrIttenden Virginia he
did not mention. nor did he discriminate between
Virginia and other Border States because is puF-
pose did npt call for it." he then proceeds to say
ItseqElly that do not expect Virgaia to tske any
initiative sips towards Of she UionWhen that
STATE and ae considered Southern Icy Il policy which has
and and approved By the abest
that when sach movement takes place BY any considerable
her Of soaern States Virginia The other border States
ooans I so p SoSn ns 6 pps aS ~ ala ilE
out Of the nion and thus giving the souern confsderacy
1ocss Is tine Virgins aDa he other soe der
States h desired it, could join the soUTHS confederacy
charge that designed 70, and inDe2h the fidelity Virginia.
is anrTs AoYsys much o. ;suiA tAs may b ip i With refer
Fellow-citzens of Tennessee, it is as clear as the
monday sum- from the foregoing facts that the deep
laid and well connected plan of disupiol and trea-
son., Of precipitating the cotton States into rev
olutiOnp had been devised and approved in 1853 by
sOmeof the ablest men in the South Mr. Yancey be-
ing the chief insgator and prime mover of the dam
nable conspiracy. This hideous scheme of breaking
up the Democratic party and destroying the cherish
ed union of fathers, not to be initiated at
once The time for executing the movement was
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was the torch to be applied? The transactions at
Charleston in which Mr.. Yancey and his followers
took so active and ominOus a part. have plainly
proven to the world that the Convention of the Ma
tonal Democracy in 1860 was looked forward to as
the period when the Democratic party and the Union
were to be overwhelmed in one comraon ruin. - q
Are you ready, acknowledgements ofTennessea, to
follow the lead and assist in carrying the schemes
of a set of men who are so madly bent upon the
subveIsion Of the Republic, and the destruction of
that good old party which, if united is still the only
National political organization left in the country
which possesses the power, as well the will. TO
protect the rights of every section? The course
pursued by the majority Of the Tennessee delega-
ton at the adjourned Convention at Baltimore after
refusing to act with the seceders at Charleston has
doubtless astionished the whole country. That
course identified as it was with that of the secess
iOnsts, was clearly in violation of the spirit of the
sixth resolution of the Tennessee platform. which
pledges the hearty support Of the Tennessee Democ-
racy to the nominee of the Charleston Convention.
1t still more clearly and unequivOcay violatiV9
of The resolution presenting the Hon Andrew john
son at the first choice of Tennessee for the Presi-
dency, which proceeds as follows:
"But u another shall De preferred 6y TIE Charleston
Conrento and nho cordially endorses the CtRctaft st
FORM ester he resides NORTH or South, zoe atH yield aim
orr AsIrfy support" 80 afe|
From this it appears that nothing could be palmer
than that all that the Tennessee Democracy requi
red in their candidate for the Presidency, whether
daily endorse the Cincinnati platform The Ten
nessee delegation was appointed by the convention
which framed this resolution, las. also the SIKH
above referred toy These were our Instructions
and we submit to every fair and candid mind that IN
boiling from the regular convention at Baltimore
and in following the lead of fragment-a squad Of
disorganizers end disunicnists who wish to set up
new tests of Democratic OFthOdoxy-the majority OF
that delegation transcribed their powers, abused
their trusts, and msrePresented the jackson Demos
racy of our loyal and Unionloving State.
The regular Democratic Convention at Baltimore
| which nominated Stephen A. Douglas for the Presi
dency-a man who in the language of the Tennessee
resolutions, cordially endorses the Cincinnati plat
fOrm"-performed no action rot in strict accordance
with the principles and usages of the Democratic
party The States whose delegations at Charleston
had secededeither in whole or in part had been In
vied to supply the vacancies in their respective re
presentations. Such as had done so IN good faith
and according to the usages Of the party in the reg
ular convention at Baltimore were received
At Charleston the Tennessee deleg alton, after con
sultation with North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky
New York and other States, presented through Mr.
Howard, the following resolution as their ultima
tum, and known as the /" Tennessee PLATFORM
Resolved That all the citizens of the United States
have equal right to settle, with their property
in the Territories of the United States, and that,
der the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United
States, which recognize a correct exposition
of the Constitution of the United States, neither
their rights of person nor property can be destroy
ed or impaired by Congressional or Territorial legs
latiOn.r .tEEEtt fIfsy .ECf
Now, it cannot be denied that the majority of the
| Tennessee delegation seeded from the National
Democratic Convention before that convention had
any opportunity to vote upon the above resolution
The journal of the convention Will show this fact tC
any one who will take the trouble to examine it
and the Journal will also show that the following
resolution which is almost identical with that offer
ed by Mr.. Howard. and which goes quite as tar IN
upEOldng the constitutional rights of the South od'
almost unanimously adopted at Baltimore by its regu
| lar National Convention which nominated Judge
Douglas and it is part of the Democratic Plat
! form:
ResogUed accordance with the true Interpretation
platform that during the existence Of terrific
government Of restriction whatever it nav be
imposed by federal Constitution Of the Terrific
rial Legislature the subject Of domestic reaOns As the
shall hereafter be- finally determined by tho
Supreme Of the United States shall be respected by al
good czenapd enforced with Prompnes and fidelity BY ever
/ branch Of the federal government. " ra#r g.
| IL cannot be denied that Mr.. Douglas received
more than two-thrds of the entire electoral college
inasmuch as more than twOthirds of the delegates
elected 10 the convention renamed after the seces
| sion complete. and ali OF them voted Tor him
on the third vote
| So it will be perceived that on ground what
ever either of ancient usage of fair dealing, can
the course of th9 majority of the Tennessee delega
ton at Baltimore be defendedw when we takea glance
at the character and antecedents of some of those
fragmentary convention TO which they seeded and
which nominated Messrs. Breckenridge and Lane.
The transparent, unblushing political trickery in
which that convention originated, is apparent
to all. They are so palpabe to all who
lave watched the course of events since the
adjournment the Charleston convention, that we
need not eXpatiate upon them. Nor have we the
time in brief and hastily written paper to go into
these most fruitful but disgusting subjects. We
have only time to adduce one other signal evidence
tbo o,a In nd
denotes Of this whole disorganiZing movement It
is this that yesterday the other secession or out
and out disuniOn convention which met at Rich
mond adopted both the platform and the candidates
of the preentiOus little convention which so irregu-
arly, and defianty of ancient usages, nominated
Messrs Breckenridge and Lane last week at Balu-
more.
In conclusion, fellow-citizens, the facts we have
stated we know to be incontrovertible and we leave
to your candid judgment to determine whether the
differences and deductions we have drawn, and the
conclusions to which we have arrived, not fair
and legitimate For ourselves, we have only to say
that intend to stand by the nominees of the only
Democratic national convention which has assem-
bled since 1856 Those nominees are, for President
Stepen A Douglas of Illinois and for Vice Presi-
dent Herschell Y. johnson, of Georgia-both good
Democrats. who never owned any other faith, and
who bear the honored scars of many hard fought
fights for the Constitution, the South, the Union,
and that ancient Democratic party whose OrganiZa-
ton the masses of Tennessee believe. still cher
ish as the ark of our Political salvation.
If regular Democratic tickets are run in all of the
Southern States, as assured by our friends
from every part of the South they will be, and as
we have no doubt they will be, Douglas and Jol nson
will be triumphantly elected by tie people. The
masses throughout the Confederacy already
rising up in their behalf, and especially in behalf of
the great and glorious, but much illuminated states
man of Illinois, with an ardsr and enthusiasm which
betoken success equal to that which characterized
Democratic victories in the days of Jackson.
sl.r.4 WV. II. CARROLL
i a II. NJ. WAITERsoS.
WASHINGTON CRY, June q, 1860.
Mr. W. B. E. JONES, of the second district will bear
witness to the facts above stated.
NorE.-The foregoing address to the Democracy