Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-10-03

The BeII-EveTeIts i'm KROxvfIle--HiIl, of
Georgia, Reaffirms his Dudley Letter
East tennessee All Right for Breckln-
ridge.
We make the following extract from private
letter from friend in knoxville;
The BeIl-Everetts have had their Mass Meeting at
Knoxville as it has for some time been advertised
The number Of persons present was not SO laIee as
either party expected would be assembled The
speakers on the occasion were Hill, of Georgia,
Combs of Kentucky, and House, OF your District
with side speeches or rather night speeches by
Vance (cf North Carolina, Campbell, of Virginia,
and one or two others. Hills speech was The speech
of the occasion, and was attentively heard by the
peoplo He occupied two hours and half in an
effort to show that John Bell is prO-slavery man,
and as such to be trusted by the South. In the
course of his argument he ventured to express his
own conclusions to rightfulness of slavery, and
went as far as anything before uttered by any
slavery propagandist-even any one in favor of re-
opening the African slave trade. You shall have
his language as nearly it can be repeated by one
who listened with interest and the closest attention
to what he said: 81 believe" said he, 'that the
right to hold slaves is DiUme and 1adeaa5le, in
alenabe the right to repeal the Lords Prayer,
and distinctly recognized by the Holy Scriptures
as the marriage relation; therefore do | say that
Constitutions made by cannot destroy SLAVERY, But
SLAVERY CAN DESTROY CONSTITUTIONS, for that 10iict IS
DiUiReg established WILL PREVAIL OVER ANY WORK OF
the speaker uttered in reference to the real issue
dividing the country could not but listen with
some astonishment to the applause it received, es-
pecialy from the same party that is reported to
have applauded Ex-Governor Bebb, when he decar-
ed that if he lived in Northern State he 1ooud UOe
for Lincoln to defeat the Democratic party. Hill re-
ferred to his Dudley letter, and said he reafirmed
all its contents, which certainly show him to be
ultra and relentless q tire-eder as any man of the
| South, for in that he takes the ground that the
"MERE CHOICE" the 'NERE ELECTION" of Black Re
publican is Just cause for Southern RESISTANCE So,
If he adheres to this determination he is to be one
of those who is to march over the dead body of
Nathaniel G. Taylor.
Again, in the course of his speech he denounced
the Lecompton Constitution as a base cheat, fraud,
swindle, and those who voted for it men who in
tended to cheat and defraud not only the people of
Kansas, but the people of the South. This was said
in the hearing Of Maynard who voted for Lecompton,
and of House, who from Zollicofers district,
and yet neither Maynard for himself, nor House for
Zolicoffer. repealed The charge.
| need say nothing of the speeches of Gen. Combs
/ and Mr. House. as the was only characterized
by olity, and the other most Of your readers have
/ heard.
Suffice it to say of the whole affair, that while the
Bell men seemed to be satisfied with its results the
Breckenridge men certainly were.
| As the canvass approaches its termination, the
signs of the times and more certainly indicate
that Breckenridge will carry Tennessee by decisive
majority. Certainly, in East Tennessee he will
gain upon Buchanan's vote of 1856, unless most
accurate observers in such matters are most eyre
| giously mistaken. There is not county from
which we have reports, that does not show acces-
sions Of good men to our party from the Opposi-
! ton