Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-09-15

favorable to the extension of slavery, tt soud haue been aH act of unusual BOLDNESS to hape declayed fhdt he Cass) tcould disregard the former PRACTICE ot he gonrnent and gice TO ,oeiqh to the precedens of Me Missouri Compromise, AND THE OREGON TER. RIToRIAL ACTS"
 Here we have clearly defined the course MT. BELL Will pursue, if elected, when taken in con- necton with the fact that he is opposed to the ezcr- cse o the ueo po,oer with an abolition Congress he would not only give them the aid of his sympathy, but the full benefit of his approval to any law they might pass: he would not be so bold ssGs to disre gard the former practice Of the nment as fore shadowed "m me Oregon territorial 0cts," contain ing the Wilmot Proviso
 But if any doubt remains as to what would be his course; hls line Of policy is clearly defined in his speech Both July, 1850, in which he fully ex- plains why he voted with the abolitionists for the Wilmot Proviso, on the Oregon bill-he said: | "Ihdt the .trst questions connected with the new territory should be adjusted as speedily possible and secondly that the ADJUSTMENT uhen made should De FINAL and IRREVOCABLE; for these reasons I ,cas not saisfed rith the Clayton Compromise. | And consequently he advocated the amendment | which did not submit the matter to the courts and the people; but which settled the matter FINALLY, by incorporating in it, the Wilmot PyOpiso, and thereby established precedent, that would require more than ordinary "bodness, in future Presidents to disregard, in the settlement of OTHER TERRIFIC RIAL QUESTIONS in aH future time.
 In pursuing Mir. BELLS record little further it will appear that, though at present sailing under that banner, he is not such a stickler for the
 ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS,
 touching the question of slavery: as one would suppose from reading the journals in his interest, or hearing stump speech in his behalf-the Su- preme Court in the celebrated Dred Scott case de- | cided the favorite measure of Mir. BELL and his 1 fha to be unconstitutional and unjust because it denied to one-half of the States of the Union rights guar l anteed to them by that instrument Now what does MT. BELL say in regard to that opinion? Does he adhere to it? Does he hold it to be of binding force? In his speech against the admission Of Kan sas under the Lecompton Constitution, speaking of that opinion, he said: "Whatever may be the decis ion of the Supreme Court on the powers of Con- gress to interfere with the question of slavery in the Territories, and however clear and we'll found ed in principle and authority its decision may be- have supposed that inasmuch, as it is question of constitutional construction interpretation and re
 ates to the jurisdiction and the power of a special | department of the government-a department al ways or less under the influence of political considerations, the question ac0uld not Dc regarded as permanently settled and that whenever in future as heretofore, Congress shall be called upon to legisate concerning Territory, the question will again become the biect of decision, and such de- q Ies | The black republicans have avowed their deter imitation to revoutionize, remodel and change the judiciary, so as to get Supreme Court that will | construc the Constitution to suit their ''hgher | law' notions; but Mir. BELL here tells them it is unnecessary to be at that troubles he points out to them ''high cut'' to the end sought, and that is | simply to pronounce all questions in which the NEGRO is involved "practicai questions of constitu-
 ional construction and intrpretaton' disregard the opinion of the Supreme Court, and decide them ''as q MAJORITY MAY think proper" The practical effect of which would be to break down every con stitutonal guarantee, and leave the States and citi zens in the minority, at the mercy of fanatica and corrupt majority.
 | KANSAS AND NEBRASKA BILL.
 | Pending that long and exciting debate, on the | Nebraska and Kansas bill, MT. DIXON, ofKentucky, l whig, introduced an amendment, in express terms | repeating the Missouri Compromise. Mir. BELL poed for his amendment in obedience 10 instructions from the Legislature of Tennessee. This was the most obnoxious feature in the bill to those who opposed it. The "National Intelligencer' r'-the organ of the whig party, opposing the bill, and the whg members, fearful that that paper would lnislead the minds of their constituents, held q caucus, composed of the southern whigs, MT. BELL
 included and passed unanimously the following l resolution:
 l "ResoLUed, That we dsapprove of the course of the "Natonal Intelligencer" upon the Nebraska bill, and that in our opinion it does not truly re- present the whg party South;'' and it was further agreed that Mir. Badger, who was going to speak l on the bill the next day, should declare authora lively that the whigs of the South, were UNIT in | favor of the bill. Yet to the surprise of every southern whig in the Senate, after having voted 1 for the most objectionable feature of the bill-n the very teeth of his caucus resolution, and in di rect opposition to his instructions Mr. BELL aban- doned the South, and voted with twelve of the 1 ol.,l,t American or know nothing. against the bill. There were but fourteen votes cast against it, The fol- l lowing are the names;
 'NAYs-Bell, of Tennessee; Chase, of Ohio; Dodge, Fressenden, of Maine; Houston, of Texas James, of Rhode Island; Seward, of New York ; l Smith, of Connecticut Sumner, of Massachusetts; Wade, of Ohio; Walker, of Mississippi
 This treachery was justly censured by the leg l slature of Iennessee-they never have forgiven | hm-they never will, and the ides of November will roll up such majority against him as will as tonsh his friends and will tell future statesmen that the South will not again confde in one who | has thus betrayed their trust.
 1 Kansas, in 1857, applied to be admitted into the Union as a State, with constitution adopted by a convention regularly held, called by legislature regularly elected, and every way authorized; yet | Mr. BELL, cheek by jowl with SEWARD, HALE, HAMLIN, CHASE, SUMNER Co.,, opposed with all the force of his intellect, and his vote, the admis
  because it in conflict with the precedent he had aided his black republican associates to establish | in Oregon, excluding slavery theretrom.
 WHY MIR. BELL CO OPERATED WITH THE ABoLITIoNIsTs
 Seeing the North expanding westward, filling up and occupying the territories, which by virtue of the WI,nOt rouiso, fast destroying the equi- | librum of the States, and with commendable fore | sight, beholding the great advantage man living in the South and advocating northern sentiments would possess, Mir. BELL was willing to sacrifice his friends and his native South then, order that he might, by the aid of northern support, triumph | in the f1ture That he saw or thought he saw the period approaching when southern recreancy would | be rewarded by dominant North, is evident from the following extract of his speech, made on the compromise measures of 1850. Ii sad
 sI cannot forbear further to remind my northern friends, that in the Soath and in the South west there is a body of men, who for long period hare continued FAITHFUL and just TO THEM in their FA- VORITE POLICY, THROUGH EVERY vIcIssITUDE OF POLITICAL FORTUNE" And again:
 "While that protracted domination of the South which has been so long and so keenly felt at the North, was always more imaginary than real, no southern man having ever attained the Presidency except by the concurrence often times of more than half, and always of large division of the North; yet it cannot be disguised that the period of southern ascendancy, if it ever had a real exis- tencc, appreaches its end. Political power and ascendency, in a sectional view, have already pass- ed from the South forerer, and this is so evident that senator who spoke ill this debate could not for bear taunting the South with the prospect of their declining fortunes A change, he said, had taken place in the political vocabulary. It was now no longer the South and the North-it is now the North and the South.'
 That same North with which Mr. BELL had so consistently acted in opposing the Indian war-the French difiicuty-the north-eas boundary-the Mexican war-upon all questions connected with slavery "through every vcissitude of political for tune,'' he beheld rising and about to reach its eliminating point and when the infamous SUMNER tauntingly spoke of the "declning fortunes of the Souh," MT. BELL the first and only southern senator recreant enough to his native South, to rise in his place, and in affirmation of the truth con tained in the taunt, to add insult to injury. That PRorRAcTED domination which has been so long end so keenIy felt at the North'' he said, approaches its end,' and boldly asserted, to the infinite joy of his abolition friends, that political power and lcendancy have already passed away from the South torerer." And now he appeals to the North to lwhom he had ''continued taithful" sustaining Them in their tavorite policy through every vcissi
 ude of political fortune,' to remember their friends 1l ABoLITIoNIsTs' OPINION OF MIR. BELL.
 That the abolitonists fully appreciated the ser | vNo nf nd rboIl. 4..y