Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-12
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1s, 1850.
The recent speech of Hon. John H. Gro.

Tenth H. D. DIhDIOANOf VI LAY WOON'
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1850.
The recent speech OF Hon. John HI. Gro.
zier.
As the reporter for the Patriot misunderstood
Mr.. CRozIER's remarks on Saturday night last we
give synopsis of mis- speech, in reference to the
UNION, which viii make the points he made on this
subject much more ineligible than the report in the
Patriot, which does his remarks great injustice.
Neither Of the editors of this paper were in the city
Saturday night and therefore did not hear Mr.. C.'s
speech but the synopsis furnished by our reporter
is as follows:
Mr.. CRozIER, after short exordium, remarked
that the North had commenced an unconstitutional
war upon the rights of the South forty years ago.
This war commenced with the passage of the Mis-
souri, Compromise. The Supreme Court in the DRIED
ScoTT decision had decided the Missouri Compromise
unconstitutional But Notwithstanding this decision,
Mr.. BELL and EVERETT, and Mr.. DOUGLAS and their
friends refused to abide by this decision of the high
est tribunal in the countryside court of the last
resort and whose duty it is to decide the const
nationality OF laws passed by Congress. Thatthis po-
sition of Messrs. BELL and EVERETT and DOUGLAS,
and their friends in disregardng decision of the Su-
preme Court solemny adjudicated on full argument
was practical notification and disunionsm That 1t
nuIed the provisions of the Constitution securing
the rights of the South, and that this example in
disregardng the Constitution, the band Of our Union
was worse than anything that had ever been done
in South Carolina or Georgia towards dissolution
Of the Union.
Mr.. C. said he did not believe there was single
man in the United States in favor of dissolution
of the Union They all in the South desired the
preservation of the Union if they could get their
Constitutional rights.
Mr. C. said the most common and important
point that the friends of BELL and EVERETT made
in the canvass was to taunt the BRECKINRIDGE par
ty by asking them if they would submit to LIN
CoLNs elect on. That the position of Mr.. BELL
seemed to be that of political JoHN THE BAP-
rrsr. that of fOrerunner to prepare the way for
the election of LINCOLN and a quiet submission
to his Administration. That the object of Mr., LIN
COLIN was carry out his rrepressble confictto sub
jugate the South, to pen up Slavery in the present
States and rob the South of their rights in the Ter
ritories and finally to make the number OF slaves SO
great in the cotton planting States that they would
rise up against their masters and that the great and
glorious South would ultimately be made waste
bowling wilderness That the Squatter Sovereignty
doctrine of Mr.. DOUGLAS land he understood Mr.
BELLS friends had finally come out and occupied
the same position as DoUGLAs led to the same result
as the principles of LINCOLN. That the Abolition
Emigrant Societies of the North if a Territory
were TO be settled adapted TO the culture OF cotton
and sugar could send thousand Abolitonlsts into
the Territory while one STAKEHOLDER was getting his
men-servants his maid-servants and his wagons
ready TO start the slave holder was always man OF
property who had to make considerable preparation
before he could move. And that the Abolition Socl-
etes at the North under the BELL and DOUGLAS doc
trine would furnish money to pay the expenses OF
Abolitionists who could conveniently start 10 the
Territories with shirt collar or two in their peck
cts at few hours notice and in six months the slave
heder woald be entirely legislated out OF the Ter
ritories. He further remarked that Mr.. LINCOLN
having avowed the irrepressble conflict doctrine
that the North must continue the war upon the South
until Slavery was abolished, though the Constitution
recognized Slavery and protected 1t if he was elect
cd President and took an oath to support the Con-
stitution. while he intended to wage this war upon
the South he would be perjured traitor. That the
South might be overpowered by numbers, but for
himself he could not be subduedi that if LINCOLN
an inch higher than he cid the day before
the election; that he would not be white
Niger for the Abolitonlsts asecOnd of time
that lie would wage war on LNcoLAs Ad-
yninistration the moment he inaugurated, and
the milder his Administration the tiercer he would
make the war; that tyrants never outraged puGhc
sentiment in the beginning Of the usurpauon OF
mower that they were always cool, cunning and
crafty and stole nsensbly upon their subjects lie IL
Illustrated this point by the career of LOUIS NAPOLEON
and others He said that Chief Justice Lord CAMPBELL
had said that the purest and most patriotic eood OF
ENGLAND had flowed on the scafold, and that he
would prove proud rebel to resist any tyrant that
might attempt to usurp power in this country lie
said he would further define his position. That he
lived in a section OF country where there were SO
few slaves that in money point OF view, they would
scarcely feel their loss if they were robbed OF all
of them. But his duty a citizen was to feel an
unjust assault upon any of his feloW-cItlzens as
keenly as if he had been outraged himself And as
the shareholders in the eight cotton States were IN
this contest struggling for existence and the lives OF
their wives and children, that whatever they might
determine was necessary for their selfpreservaton,
though he had weak arm, his heart should be with
them and his duty would require him to assist them
with his means .....
He said the position of Mr.. EVERETT, who was for
the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia
against the introduction of slavery into any Terri
tory. and against the admission Of any new State !
into the Union whose Constitution tolerated slavery
was rs bad as that of the Black Republicans. That
he knew no difference between an Abolitionist and
a Black Republican That the first was the greatest
fanatic. and the last was the greatest hypocrite.
He lastly remarked that BRECKENRIDGE and LANE
the only true Union, Constitutional candidates
That the election of BRECKENRIDGE would preserve
the Constitution and the Union, That for himself
he was determined to follow the Constitution, as
given us by our fOrefathers through veal or through
woe and that the highest political testimonial that
he desired was for his descendants to be able to say
hereafter, in reference TO this great battle of the
Constitution, that their ancestor was an humble vol
unteer in that battle and fought for the Constitution
delivered to him by his forefathers
ALL RIGHT IN LOUIsIANA--The New Orleans U.Eu
hitherto the leading Breckenridge organ in thar it
mas taken down his NAME and now escheyys polit,cs
altogether.
Tie above paragraph is going the rounds of some
of the DOUGLAS papers. The Delta has never had at
the head of its columns the names of BREckNRIDGE
and LANE although it has been and stu is the warm
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