Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-21

Eprr0Bs or APPEAL: In yeur issue eL tnis inorH- !
me. iind the following
& aPofsrrcs MzkE STRANGE BEDFEtLo'FS--Tbis fact |
never more strikingly illustrated than 1t was
an Wednesdav last in Odd-Feliows' Hall, where we
find our olEodaa friends, Currin and Avery sitting
together in the Convention Of the Seceders. What
has brought about this strange coincidence ne
are unable 70 give an account. Last summer when
sese gentlemen were canvassing the district for 2
Coat in Congress-, we rec0llect very dstincty tnat
Gen. T. L. 7. Sneed, the opponent Of them BOTH was
the only candidate in the race who took deelded
eronnd for the doctrine of protection 20 slavery m
the Territories by Congress-, Avery and Currln
both repudiated the idea and Sneed was the Only
rsan in the State who had the holiness, the honesty
and the courage to esponse and enforce the aoclrs
Very well It was upon this ground that the seceS-
sion at Charleston took place. This was the rock
uuon which the party splitter rather upon winch
a fragment chose to split or
LET it be az it may, both Avery and Onrrlh owe W.
an explanation 20 their constituency. lhas Nr,
Currin should be found in the ranks OF the seceoers
i natural but that VIM. T. Avery should pc ionhu
there is inexplicable Come out, Mr.. Avery and let
your friends and the country know tne lnnuensses
and the reasons that have forced you 10 tne posio
you now occupy" ;l;
consistency and substantially charge that my pres
ent position in reference to the power ana GUY OF
Congress to protect slavery IN the Ierr.torles Is
different from that which occupied last summer
when candidate for Congress.
A s;n,ilar charge was made by some correspond
emit of YOURS through the columns OF your paper;
| about month since. That charge then received
vour ouasi editorial endorsement; and instantly
H. eoTv roonent observed it'll replied through
! the same columns to yourselves and your cores
nondeDt That reply Il waive the absence of all
courtesy to say nothing of fairness, which the ACT
| az vour paper where nobody looks for political
matter and where it would probably escape the at
tentlon of your general readers. But you dlq
not attempt an answer you made no issue with
me Won did not venture TO gainsay one single posi-
fiOn assumed You were silent. your stlehce uiu
1 not SUNRISE me- You felt, doubtless, that there
was not one word in my communication winch you
caTld fairly deny and hence wisely acred upon the
old maxim that silence is better than poor reply;
At the same time, |, very naturally las proDaOy uiu
else who took any interest in the eontro
5 yersyl thought that was warranted IN construng
YOUR silence into an admssionof what had stated
and hence was content to take Judgment ~ COMES
$ sion if may be allowed lawyers phrase, anu ~
Won 90 In fact considered it sacit cry Tor quar-
r Tor or at least a proposition for truce, when
was more than willing to grant peng aFerse ~
newspaper controversy-most espeClahy WIKI
! ia waped with -.quondGm friends" Under such CT
e cumstances you may conjecture my surprise wiien
% obsarved this morning after the long silence on
} vour mart to which have referred-aiser youl
l. | whole months process of incubation epfouuG
T ton of this exploded Misrepresentation Oh hyseN
u and my position am sun reIugIsnt -
believe the Misrepresentation wllltul ana, -unere
fore forbear for the present tOdenounce II In suci
p terms as would otherwise be most richly deserved
y But you seem to think that owe an
U TO my constituency" Very wen. TRUMP Il
answer will be found in the following eAIfaC
o. from nv communication to you, nearly molti
n since and which you virtually suppressed, IN III
s. manner l have before indicated. In referring
10 the respective positions of myself and my Opposi
III ton competitor John l.. I. Snee9, ESD during I'll
;; last canvass for Congress, wrote as fohows;
or "Now, as to myself, it my custom to say Z
h NV Opposition competitor pleasantly, of course
a. for always entertained for him high personal re
ld snectthat il was the extreme of impotence Tor nm
he ~ those associated with him. to talk about slav
of codes etc ETC. said, that so far AZ the abstrac
tie mower of Congress TO protect slave property IN I'll
oil Territories was concerned, maintained II, an
tn whenever the occasion for the exercise OF ta Pc"
a. err might occur, would invoke it, at the sam
n time told him that he was stealing democrau
e- thunder that the democratic party mad away
" been the southern party that the whole Strength
II the Opposition North, and that, IN taking an
b. new and extreme view of the subject, he was mer
IT y striking for local and temporary efect-n othe
he words addressing himself to buncombe-as ga u
ct Louisville Journal and other presses and poltlclai
I'd of the State of Kentucky, which state consldere
er already half abOltoniZed and entirely amen 10
re in interest and sympathy. 1t was also my haDIt q
&c. ring the canvass to call the attention of my Opp
sition competitor TO the fact that though he shou
I'M succeed in being returned TO Congress and shou
Id there introduce bill enaeting the slave code, ST
us il was obvious that there would be Black Repu
ly Ican majority in the present Congress thano sue
De bill could possibly pass the House OF Represent
Of tiyes : and that its introduction could answer I
ey other purpose than to produce angry, protIaete
et and unsuccessful debate in which the South ben
tn in minority would be outVcted by fanaticsl an
zee. misguided majority. In other words saw no VI
ry In making the point unless there was reasonaD
de prospect of being able to carry the day. AT u
On same time insisted that Congress did possess u
II power to protect slavery in the Territories tn
I'D the power to protect did not necessarily involve Il
mower to destroy; that it was true that the BaC
he Republicans NIGH make plausible argument up'
the subject might insist that if Congress had pow
over the subject matter for purpose they had
rst for another but still it was my custom to reaSS
OF by various illustrations, well remembered at III
The hour against the fallacy of this Black Repubhci
re- argument This did but few days before u
election in Odd-Fellows hall, IN this city; wher
: together with my competitors, addressed one
up the largest audiences have ever seen assemo
hey here on a similar occasion. Many gentlemen WI
were present will remember as DO. IL Is haru
IN necessary to y-(certainly not 10 such as ma
of happen to know me)-that the opinions there ute
=, ed were the same expressed during the whole
' that canvass and were always entertained by Ii
said that Penegades from other parties had folst
Op- themselves upon US, and were now assuming kno
ices az ttev were) to teach Democrats what Demo
racv meant predicted that these renegades wou
'eu endeavor to impose upon US Stephen a. douglas
o. whom you had taught US to believe was IN alIsh
a with the Black Republicans-as candidate Tor
MT presidency in 1862 Please refer to old MES OF yo
~ paper Ihave been informed, | know not how &C
recty, that those files are not visible or accesslo
MS It IS possible that they may have been destroyed
EN- some fire or other accident At any rate, II "
mt will allow me access to them, will very soon sell
IF this question of consistency between yourselves
EAT correspondent &C." and myself.
| to IF you will re-pubsh what you wrote IN lS4
Asst in 1852 and in 1885, viii be sufficiently vndlcatt
Will you even re-publish what you wrote IN I
spring of 1857 when you were justly, denounci
| Mr. Douglas for his onslaught upon Mr.. Buchanan
Jay Administration, and HIS thorough Identification
oI'' you then charged with BlackRepubcans and alb
litionists?2 -... ........ ---.-.......
py, Once for all let that suffice The euloges you nc
'ur bestow, however wei mertsd they may be, up
the late Opposition candidate foc Congress (and
ay which he will hardly thank you,) may be readl
the accounted for: .r.r lHrrl-srT
be "A fellow feeling makes wondross kind" - ga
INIT will here venture the prediction that two yea
"a froTa this date will not have elapsed before y
e and your political associates in this State I'll be
inc open alliance with the Opposition party Thus
s of my predictions have met with very speedy fuin
7 20 ment This will but add another instance. mu
lust here be allowed to congratulate you that
by have at last had the candor and manliness to assu
your true position-that of an antl-Admnlstratl
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