Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-03-13

We desire information from the Pdtrio.
Did the Opposition of Missouri send Delegates
10 the Black Republican Chicago Conven-
ton. or the Third Party Baltimore ConTen-
si0n?-Jnion and American
You shall have the information: The Mis-
souri, Opposition Convention did not appoint
delegates to either of the Cons entions named,
= nor to any other. 1t adopted platform.
nominated Mr.. BATES and then adjourned
90 the polLs, we presume.
Now, neighbor, do explain to Us in what
respect the record of Mr.. DoUeIAs, on the
slavery question, is sounder than that Of Mr..
Bates
Gov. WISE has solemnly affirmed that the
doctrines of Mr.. DOUGLAS, touching the STA
very question, are "a short cut to all the
ends of Republication" The Nashville
Union, che Memphis AvdLanohe. ihe jackson
Al.sissypsan, the Richmond Enquire. the
Charleston Mercury, and the great majority
OF the other democratic journals ofthe South,
have denounced the said doctrines rs worse
that the Wilmot Proviso." Nevertheless,
you say you will support Mr.. DoUGLAs. if
nominated at Charleston and, whilst say
ing so, condemn any Southern man who may
see proper to support Mr.. BATES You must
have some very satisfactory reason for this,
founded upon the record of the two men on
the slavery question. If so, why not, in an
sweriDg US, give your readers light on the
subject.
Whilst you are coudemning Mr.. BATES as
unsound on the slavery question we find one
OF your Illinois contemporaries, The Spring
field STATE Register, bringing to bear against
him. to prevent his nomination at Chicago,
the following resolution. adopted by the old
Line Wing Convention which assembled in
Baltimore ia 1856, and nominated Mr.. FILL
MORE:
z. "The recognition of the right of native
bora and naturalized citizens of the United
States. permanently residing in any territory
thereof to frameiibeir constitution and laws,
and TO regulate their domestic and social
affairs in their own mode, suhjcct only to the
provisions of the federal constitution, with
the privilege OF admission into the Union
whenever they have the requisite population
for one representative in Congress; provided,
always that none but those who are citizens
Of the Units d States, under the constitution
and laws thereof, and who have fixed resi-
.
pate in the formation of the constitution, or
The enactment of laws for said Territory or
State"
Mr. BATES presided over the deliberations
of the convention which adopted this reso-
luton, and its proceedings went to the coun-
try with the sanction of his name and au-
thority.
The resolution asserts the principle that
the people of a territory-that is, the native
born and naturalized citizens-have, when
they come to frame a State Constitution, the
right to determine the character of their do
mestic NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., it rejects both allen
aud sYuatter sovereignty. Is this MOB sound
doctrine, Is it not pretty much what the
South has commended for-near what South
ern supporters of the kansas-Nebraska bill
believed to be enunciated in that bill. Tried
by this declaration of principle, the record
OF Mr.. BATES is far sounder, on the slavery
question, than that of Mr.. DOUGLAS. Mt.
BATES presented to the country upon it, and
Mr.. DOUGLAS upon his "wOrse-thsn the Viii
mot-Proviso.r -''short-cut-to all-the-ends-of-
repubIicanism" record-why should any
Southern man hesitate to choose the fDrmer
We have not written as friend of Mr.
BATES. nor as one who expects to support
him; but as an earnest inquirer after truth.
We have never found anything in the record
of Mr.. DOUGLAS rs sound as the above posi-
ton of Mr.. BATES, and we desire light, CIV
ing at the same time reasons for our opinions
respecting the two meu.