Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-06
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IN & III. X. McCAY,


National Democratic C0RVeatiOR lt.... .,..
HERsCHEL V. JOHNSON,
THOs p. SAFFoRD
IN q II. X. McCAY,
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When We take into consideration the views OF
Judge DOrGLAs as to the power of territorial leg
islature and particularly his declaration in his
cent great speech in the Senate that he believed
"a territorial legislature had the pOscer TO EXCLUDE
SLAVERY" the authors of the Address will certainly
admit that there is vast difference between the
position of Mr.. DOUGLAS and the position held by
Gov. JOHNSON on the Attn of last month.
Mr.. SouLE, the great captain of the DoUG1As men
n the South, has always held position in the fore
most rank of Southern fre-eaters. There Ia not
speech made by him while in the U. S. Senate that
does not breath the extremist Southern views and
since his retirement from public life, his name has
been prominently connected with every fllibuster-
ing movement that has been made by the restless
spirits IN Mobile and New Orleans. In 1850, Mr.
SoUIE and Mr.. YANCEr both believed that there was
cause for the South to secede from the Union
When California was admitted and the internal
slave trade between the States and the District of
Columbia was destroyed by Congress. A short ex-
tract from the recent speeches of each of them at
Baltimore may not be uninteresting- Mr.. YANCEV
said:
Some nine or ten years ago he desired and endeav-
ored to obtain disruption of this Union, because he
believed then, as he believes now, that there was
then existing cause why that Union should have
been observation-disclosures the Constitution had been
violated in the admission of California upon the prin
ciple of suuatter sovereignty" and because the IN
terna slave trade between the District of Columbia
and the States had been destroyed by Congressional
legislation, by that act initiating the great policy of
abolition l went before the people of the State of
Alabama, and asked Of them if they would secede
from Union that had thus forgotten to observe its
pledges She thought fit in her wisdom to decline,
and voted down the seeding party. From that day
to this have urged no measure Of dissolution, but
have bowed in submission to the viii of my State,
TO whom owe my allegiance. From that day to
this, under all these wrongs, have not urged them
sufficient canse why tine Union shG.' he dssolY
ed and though injustice and wrong has since been
done to my section yet they not Of that charac
ter which, of themselves, call for disuniOn. And
when it has been stated, for the purpose Ofinjurng
the cause with which am connected that am urging
my friends to dsunion and to the disruption of the
Democratic party, that has been stated that is ut
terly false an inference and false IN itself Zap
plause;l .EE. #..E# "a. .
When this Government fails to meet the ends of
its formation, when the spirit shall have died away,
and when this Government of ours destroys the
rights of persons and the rights of property it
built maintain, then, say, let the Government 60
down. But that hour, thank God, has not yet
rived. [Applause.l There is hope for the country
through the Democracy. Applause. There is
hope vet that the Constitution through its integrity
will be administered Fo. the sake of the Constitu
ton, and for the Union we derive through the Con-
stitution, that hope rests nhappily am sorry 10
say-rests alone upon the power of this national,
Democratic organization that is assem-
bled here tO-day-to bear the Constitution aloft to
victory above all the assaults of faction. APP
plausel do not deem it necessary TO say anything
further in relation to my position. Botn my State
and my position have been deliberately assailed re-
Gently by the distinguished gentleman who has just
received the nomination at the hands of the
squatter sovereignty faction Could L have had the
opportunity, as had not to defend my State and
myself in that body face to face with his chief
friends and advocates would have been enabled to
show that these charges were incorrect, and the
unfair and garbled, both regards my
self and my State [Applause.l
Mr. SOUIE said
have, IN my experience Of the past certain
strong reasons why cannot bring myself to the
suppOsition that the South under the circumstances
can respond TO that movement, (the withdrawal of
the Southern deegates.) and will briefly lay them
before yeu. In lS49 and 1850. when California was
about being admitted INTO this Union the South
against her admission. passed resolutions and I'M
pressed upon the minds of the North that if the out
rage was perpetrated, she would secede from the
Union. Many of us, who were then representatives
Of the South in the National Councils believing that
the South in earnest and considering ourselves
bound to follow in her footsteps fought the battle,
not with the view of creating the contingency con-
emplated, but TO defend the rights of the South |
and oppose the introduction of California into the |
council of the nation That that time was to the
South the great wrong and the creating of great
LANCER, because not only California coming into /
he Union with constitution celebrating the Mis- |
souri, Compromise; not only was she coming into |
he Union without having passed through the ordeal /
If Territorial existence; not only was she coming |
ntO the Union organized by the military forces of |
he Federal Government but her entrance into the |
Mon was going to destroy that power Of numbers
Which was the last bulwark of our protection in
he Senate. In the higher house of Congress we
ought against that wrong We engaged in that bat.
lie 10 maintain our rights to the last but when the
question came to the last one after the other we
aw the States of the South receding from their
Ostion. discerning eUerV effort zee had made 10 main
1i rights, ald let me say ,cih SOrrosc, dragging
$ mo The rery gutter for the rery deu0tiOn had
bolca them
1t is an uneonrovertble fact in the history of the
asst decade that Messrs. YANCEY and SoULE were in
he estimation of the extremists of the South par
Obae tratr1u, brothers in the same faith until the
pposition of the administration to the movement of
ertain Central American FilIibusters alened Mr..
OULE, and the fayoritism of Mr. DOUGLAS to these
AlADusSSlsr WIN liAS SACSudtOT IfOl Louisiana TO
he DOUGLAS cause. We believe that it has never
cen denied that Mr.. SoUIE is pecIniarly interested
some Central American grants or land specula-
ons. Ithas for a long time been shrewdly suspect
that Mr. DOUGLAS has ventured certain moneys in
lie same speculation Whether the report be true
not, perhaps the world will never know. There
such a rumOr and as such we give it,
If Coils CARROLL and WATERsOS think that Mr. |
ANCEr is criterion by which to determine the
laracter and designs of those who support BRECK-
RIDGE and LANE what are Mr.. DOUGLAS northern
lends to think of his views in relation TO reopen
g the slave trade. Col. GAULDEN, the leading
DUGIAs delegate from Georgia in the convention at
larleston and at Baltimore earnestly advocated
reopening of the slave trade. Is it to be under
bod from tins that Mr.. DoUGLls and his party ,
50 advocate it, If such be the case it ought to be
own for, while it would injure him at the North,
might benefit him in some portions of the South
The Sotger, Coryedgdcy, paper published at !
lanta, Ga. is ardently enlisted for DOUGLAS and 4
nNsoN. Its-very name indicates its political predi-
,lions. No paper in the South, not even the !
Iarleston Mercury or the Montgomery Advertiser, {
S been more extreme in its views than the Soutlsn
1gedyacg Therefore, according to the logic of I
E Address, the DouGLAs party are disunionistS. :
e authors Of the Address are continually haunted
Mr.. YANoEY. They seem to think that he led and h
, whole South followed. Do not those gentlemen