Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-01-12
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lmuR,Dlr, JANUAnE r, 1850.


The Fremont Convention Of 1856 appointed
Naioaal C,mnaiee" % to superintend the maneu-
,eriugs of tie Republican party in 1860. That Com
mittee rave issued their call winch we have already
.,,en a srauitous insertion. for e National Repub
hcan Convention at Chicago, on Wednesday the l5li
of .Tnne next. That call invites the presence and
cooperation Of ethe Republican electors Of the sew
erai States, the members Of the Peoples party Of
Pennsylvania and the Opposition party OF New
Jersey. and al Others who are willing to co-operae
with them n support Of tie candidates which shall
there be nominated and opposed to the policy Of
the present administration, to federal corruption
and usurpaton to the extension Of slavery into the
Terrltories-to the new and dangerous political doc
tne that the constitution of its own force, carries
slavery into all the Territories Of the United States
10 the re opening of the African slave trade, to any
inequality of rights among citizens, and who are in
favor Of the immediate admission Of Kansas under
the constitution recently adopted by its people-of
restoring the federal administration to a system Of
rigid economy and the principles Of Washington md
Jeferson-of maintaining invioate the rights Of the
States and defending the soil Of every State and Ter
ritory from awless invasion and Of preserving the
integrity Of the Union, and the supremacy of the
Constitution and laws passed in pursuance thereof,
against the conspiracy Of the leaders Of section
al party to resist the majority principle as establish
ed BY this Government, even at the expense Of exist
ence."
Thename of Gov. MoRGAN ofNew York, chairman
Of the National Republican Committee in 1856, is
signed to that call, and is likewise signed to the
HELPER recommendation. CAssIUs NJ CLAY, who
says HEIPER's took is just such aloort as Is needed
IN the present array Of political aHtagoHisms is
member Of that Committee, and has his name ap-
pended to the call The names Of nineteen others
who stand high on the Black Republican roll are
also subscribed to it. HELPERS is not signed to
it. because he was not one Of the Committee but we
are informed by the New York city press, that he
was present. and in consultation with them when
they issued their call. Il TO be hoped that such
a call issuing from such a set would receive the
hearty detestation Of every honest Southern man,
without regard to his political associations or poll
teal prejudices It was to be hoped that the claims
Of this convention to nationality to any sreH and in
every respect would be treated by every friend Of
the Union every where, with the utmost scorn and
contempt It certainly was not to be expected that
such q call would receive endorsement, directly or
indirectly, by intmation otherwise, Of any mem
Der Of the Southern Opposition What then must
be the establishment of every man, who appreciates
in the slightest delee the dangers that surround us
and feels that the hour is past fos any further con
cesslon to Black Republicanism What must be the
establishment Of every such an one to find one of the
leadiag papers Of the Southern Oppositon-the
leading paper Of that party in Maryland (the Baltl
more Patrio0-proclaiming to the world that
aThou1h he oaH Of this Convention l5qs made b The
uofh
Ten that he eTteason Of The RUG0n TO The other t'7O
parties mentioned BIZ name made at the express de-
sire their representatives. Ia Congress- so that, IN
thus 0pe ing The door to these parties, l0eH TO al
offers rho may Be l5Hg to cooperate upon the basis
sci FORTH TIE CONVENTION DHEsTs ITSELF OF an Ex-
cLUsIvEIY REPUBLICAN CAST. AND BECOMES TO THAT 1
EXTENT A NATIONAL OPPOSITION ONE
In lengthy notice, from which the above is clip |
ped in relation to this National Republican Conven-
tion, we find not one word of reproof for these /
moral traitors but on the contrary every solitary
pracipe enunciated IN their call is specifically ap-
proved by this organ of the Southern Opposition. |
The third item in it is opposition to the extension
Of slavery in the territories the fourth IS opposi-
ton to the new and dangerous political doctrine
that the constitution of its own force carries |
slavery into the territories of the United States'
" Well" exclams the Patriot may the Chicago |
Oppositionists call for Union in support of these
inlp.tructible principles. We Eno0 no Opposition /
aqa in he o1ols country ,olo 1oH refuse to sustain
these propositions" CAN'T be true that there is no
Opposition man in the whole country " that does not
oppose the extension Of slavery IN the Territories?
Can it be true that the entira Opposition in the
South are to a man opposed to the extension of
slavery? Are they in favor of combining it to its
present limits? # they are, why is it, Do they
believe slavery morally. socially. or politically an
evil in the South-or do they believe that it would
be so in any Of the Territories? If they do, then
they ought to oppose its extension, and favor the
speedy removal of it from the States. But we do
not believe that the entire Southern Opposition
gard slavery such obnoxious institution that it
ought not to be extended into the Territories and
we call upon them everywhere to disavow, as a
portion Of their political creed such doctrines as
the Baltimore Patriot alleges are "irdestructible
principles which no Opposition man in the whole
country (vithin its knowedge) will refuse to sus-
ain" We call upon the Opposition press Of the
south to proclaim in unmistakeable language, to
his Maryland organ, that they believe southern
slavery right morally right socially and right polit-
eally; and that they not opposed to the extern
ion of any institution, right in all these respects,
nto any place where the people may desire it. The
entimr1.s thus expressed by the Patriot are the ]
sentiments Of the entire Black Republican party.
The Boston Atlas and Bee, speaking Of this very
alEof the Republican committee but the otherday,
aid: S
standing on the immutabe principle Of justice as {
,etween man and man claiming, our glorious IA {
hers claimed the inaliensble right of every human
eing 10 his life, liberty, and the pursuit Of happ
ess-the Republicans oppose the institution of hui
81 md nfarFninn1 that II shall d
urse another foot of the Territories of this
,epubhc Is not this lust Does not the conscience
f every man approve it Equally do the Repub- .
cans oppose the usurpations Of the Judiciary
Such coincidence in sentiment between leading p
orthern and a leading Southern Opposition journal
lmost causes US to fear that there may be some b
ruth in the Washington dispatch, 10 the n Y. Her
a. a few days since that there had been the night
reyious meeting Of forty Americans, ito devise n
plan for the concentration Of the entire opposition
the administration for the presidential contest
ct Southern men beware how they unite with men 81
tho have purpose as firmly fixed as the eternal p
liars Of Heaven to abolish slavery" a
outhern friends be not deceived by their cries Of n
nion and their protested anxiety TO preserve its
tegrity "and the supremacy Of the Constitution fa
ID laws passed in pursuance thereof Remember =
st HEPER who was in consultation with this ma n
1na Republican Committee" has proclaimed it to al
e four winds of Heaven that our (ther) motto is "
E ABOLITION OF SLAVERY AND THE PEFPErUArION or :,
z AMERICRN UNION" Remember that 'the chair O,
an and other members of that Committee have A
eny and VIGOROUSLY given all their aid to the cir re
llation Of this work Remember these things and ~
eat as untrue TO the South untrue 20 the Const on
ton and untrue to she Union that man who re-
mmends any kind Of utilization with these political 10
riahs. ar
Free Negro RiIls pi
The House commenced the process Of voting on fe