Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-12

THE MODEL BELL-EvERETr MAN-The Hon. LEWIS
D. CAMPBELL whose oratorical services are at pres
ent in such demand among those whose creed is the
Constitution, the Union, and the enforcement of the
laoS," is the author of the following peculiarly econ
sentative sentiments"
As to the fugitive law, l condemn and denounce it
on al occasions. against its Ubiquitous and I'M
just provisions, and all men who sustain it 1t is
the greatest outrage ever perpetrated upon liberty
[ would trample it under foot. l have no right to
dictate to others, but, for myself, say WILL Ut
TERLY DISREGARD ITS OBLIGATIONS, and loiu
neUeT cease nay opposition until is lciped from our
statute books. This is the position took in the few
speeches made before the election and in maintain
ing it hereafter, shall not stop to inquire what eff
feet my course will have upon my success as poll
ucian. Political success has no charms for me
when purchased at the sacrifice of justice and right
MUrILATING THE RECoRD.-The Chicago Press and
Tribune says the files of the State Register of lS49,
which were in that year ordered to be preserved by
all the County Clerks in the State, are in nearly
every county mu.ilated in particular place. The
Register of November s. 1849 is torn and the papers
distracted. The Press and Tribune says:
This is the number which contains Mr. Douglas
Springfield speech of October %, lS4S in which he
declares the Missouri Compromise to be "a sacred
thing which no ruthless hand would ever be reck
less enough to disturb" and in which he referred
TO the WilmOt PrOvisO resolutions of the Illinois
Legislature in the following remarkable language
In August, 1S4S, he (Alr Douglas) had voted for
the Oregon bill, containing a clause prohibiting
slavery in that Territory. About four months after
wards the Legislature assembled and passed reso-
luton instructing our Senators and requesting
Representatives in Congress to vote for Territorial
bills for California and New Mexico containing pro-
hibition of slavery in those Territories In other
words, they in5truct him to do precisely what he
has just done without instructions. He had been
informed that his Wing friends, and, perhaps few
others peculiarly situated confidently expected him
to resign rather than obey those instructions. 1t
would be disagreeable to diesppOnt them in so reas
enable an expectation. 1t was serious question,
however, requiring grave and deliberate consider
alton, whether he could conscienclously do, under
instructions what he had just done from the dictates
of his own judgment without instructions, As the
decision of so important question required time
to consider he invited them to wait and see."
The Press and Tribune further remarks
Upon further inquiry at Springfield and elsewhere
we learn that all the files of the Register for 1849
in all the counties in the State, except two three
have been similarly mutllated One of the few
copies extant is in the hands of the Hon. Richard
Yates. One copy is still in Springfield One copy
was to be seen at Quincy two years ago, but has
since been stolen and destroyed. Perhaps half a
dozen copies yet preserved in the State, but the
efforts to destroy even these have been Jealous and