Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-09-15

UPON THE NEBRASKA BILL, AND CARRIED TERROR INTO
 THEIR RANks," and he concludes by expressing hope that Mir. BElL's commanding and commenting talents may be long exercised in the Senate, or I some HIGHER capacity where the country may equally enjoy their advantage"
 BLACK REPUBLICANS IN FAVOR OF BELL FOR THE PRESIDENCY.
 | What MT. Greely meant by the ''hgher capaci ty'' to which he desired to see Mir. BELL exalted may be easily divined from the following editorial leader of his in 1858, in which he discussed the l claims or various persons suitable to place on the black Republican ticket for the Presidency in l 1860:
 "Most certainly we would prefer an oriqinal republican-Gov. SEWARD or Gov CHASE, for in | stance, but we shall HEARTILY and zeaLously SUD- port one like JOHN BELL, Edyard Bates or John M. Bots."
 Agaln: In speaking of the contemplated Chi cago convention, and the probabilities as to who would be the nominee, the New York Times, a black republican paper, said: The candidates pro- | nnnent before the convention are SENATOR CAME RON, SENATOR SEWARD, WM. L. DAYTON, SENATOR l BELL, SENATOR CRIrrENDEN, Gov BANKS, ABRAHAM LINCOLN and JOHN c. FREMONT" 1 And in the same paper it was affirmed as the opinion Of several prominent republicans that it would De more polite to nominate southerner, so that It might not be said 1t was sectional struggle | for power-it was further urged that BELL, of tennessee, WAS THE MOST AVAILABLE CANDIDATE FOR | THEM"
 In an article written by Horace Greely, in the Iftbune in July, lS59 he distinctly set down forr propositions, covering the whole ground of the sla- very agitation, and pledged the strength of their party to the support of the candidate whose record it would fit:
 Those who originally opposed the repeal of | the Missouri compromise, and the passage of the Nebraska Kansas bill, and are still hostile to that measure.
 U-Those who resisted the Kansas policy of PIERCE, and now condemn it.
 lll-Ihose who denounced the Lecompton Eng fish bill, and still repudiate its authors apologsts and abettors.
 IV-Those who will resist strenuously and Der sistenty theacquiston of foreign territory in order to increase the area of slavery in the republic
 And in enumerating the distinguished individu- als South, whose political record endeared them to the North, placed them upon this platform and en- titled them to support, he said At the South, un- less Ue misundrstand their position, it mouM en- bruce such men as JOHN BELL, Edaard Bates, 1T. Winter Daois, John M. Bolts, Emerson Ether. idge and Kennah Rayner."
 | And in the same article, the N. Y Tribune con- tinues: "ls there any ncOnsistency-any inst pera- ble obstacle in the way of cordial cooperation
 
 sons holding the opinions these gentlemen are sup posed to entertain in respect to the acquisition of foreign territories for the purpose of planting sa l very thereon-the re-openng of the African slave
 trade, and congressional intervention for the estab liShment of slavery in the territories? cannot they | combine to overthrow the nulfers and propagan- dists o the CALHOUN school in their efforts to over | ride the constitution and make negro slavery the dominating interest of the country? Are not these fte issues upon uhicA the presidential contest is 10 turn? O not SEWARD, BELL, Chase, Bates, Col taT, Hicki'dn, Fulton and Clarke HOLD PRECISELY | THE SAME SENTIMENTS IN RELATION TO THESE? And l shall these gntemen, and those who think with them unite md giue efficiency TO THEIR COMMON OPINION, in tr next national administration, or bv ioa'r'ng on etch other, insure triumph 10 Meir common joe (th South?"J
 We submit to the people of Arkansas. and esne cialiy to the democracy, if they can in these try ing times, suppor for the high office of President ol these united ohtes, q man whose whole politi- cal life Is thus chanoterized by a reckless betraya of their dcerest righs-a man whose anti -southerp anti states-rgs, aI' State qualify views, speeches and votes, have won for him the confidence of their old bitter and sworn encmies-the abolition ists, acho 1iliing q nake him their STANDARD BEARER, whose edelegateseo-operated harmoniouslv and voted for him in he Baltimore convention which nominated him? fig man ,rho ,ras uilliag Co recetoe ne notnation 0 ae bLack repuJ[ican com
 oention, as acas erinced byY1mitng his name 10 gs used for hnt purpose in h CHICAGO CONVENTION | that nominated LINCOLN?
 Gan any one doubt, alter boxing at these facts, that If the South shoad becOhe so disunited in the present contest, as to let Mr. BELL, carry anuph southern States, by the fusion which is being Sfect ed between his friends and the friends of Mir DorG- LAS to go into the House of Representatives, that failing to elect LINCOLN, every buck republican in Congress would cheerfuy unite on Mr. BELL to defeat Mr. BRECKENRIDGE? If the do doubt that such would be the result, we ask them carefully to read the following extract of recent speech de- 1 ivered at SmithutHe, Tennessee, by Mr. STOKES. 4 member of Congress and friend of M BELL: | 'None of the other candidates cal be elected before the people, and l will not say tht Mir BELL can; but will say that he can and wihbe elected if the election goes into the House. Tie republi- cans came to Mir. LAYTON and myself betre pe Jeff Congress- and PROMISED US that if the electon went into the House. if MT. LINCOLN stood nochance. THEY WOULD CAST THE VOTE OF THE REnB1IcAy STATES FOR MR. BELLE
 | MR. EvERETr's RECORD. MR. EVERETT, though patriotic in all his ims,Ises and no doubt conscientious in all his acts has also
 record on the subject of slavery ill the States And Territories, whose abotionism, if possible, sr- passes, in enoImty, even that of Mr. LINCOLN al as a contingency might again arise, as in lS4l am | lS49, wherein the Vice President might be called l upon U uiScHdISc uutleS or President It be- hooyes every voter to examine well his political record. MT. EVERETT is no doubt a good and great man and filled with some of the holiest impulses of patriotism, but the country should not be seduced
 into his support by the praisworthy efforts which he | has been making recently as missiopary of the noble and patriotic ladies of the United States in behalf of MouNT VERNoN-the home of WASHING TON. If thefuture perpetuity of our glorious Union | depended upon the consummation of this noble en- | torn "a atfOrts bo hac aJa in LoL, might with some consistency be urged as a qualif- cation; but the EQUALITY OF THE STATES IS Me qreat bond 0f union; and if Mir. EVERETT is pledged to this, his other qualities of head and heart eminent ly qualify him for the second office Tn the gift of | the people. The record which he has made him. self, however stands out boldly against State equaA | ty-d9ainst the SOuth and in fdpor Of the North | While Governor of Massachusetts, the following resolutions were passed by the legislature of that State and were approved by Mir. EVERETT as Gov ernor, viz:
 Resolred, That Congress has, by the constitution the power to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and that there is nothing in the terms or circumstances of the acts of cesson of Virginia and Maryland, or otherwise enforcing any legal or moral restraint on it's existence. Resolrcd, That the rights of humanity-the claims of justice and the common good alike, de. mand the suppression by Congress, of the slave trade carried ill and through the District of Co., lumbia.
 Resolped, That Congress has, by the constitution po,cer to abotsh slapery tn the Territories Of the United States.'
 The Hon. N. A. BORDEN, of Mass, subsequent ly addressed letter to MT. EVERETT, and submit ted to him thefollowing questions on the subject viz:
 "lst. Are you in favor of the immediate aboli- ton by law of slavery in the District of Columbia and of the siaue trGfic BETWEEN THE STATES o this UnionY'
 '2nd. Are you opposed to the admission into the Union of any new State, the constitution ol which recognizes domestic slavery?" To which MT. EVERETT replied as follows, viz: "Dear SI-On Saturday last I only received your letter of the 18th, propounding to me certain interogatories and earnestly requesting an early answer. You are aware that several resolves on the subject of these inquiries and their kindred topics, accompanied by report, were introduced into the Senate of the commonwealth, year before last, by joint committee of which the lamented Mir. ALvoRD was chairman. These resolves, after having been somewhat enlarged by amendment, were adopted by the Legislature. They appedy to coDer the hole ground of your interroqatories- Hacing cHEERFULLY co-oPERATED in the passage of the resolves, and concurrng in the general reason ing by which they are sustained in the powerful report the chairman of the committee-I respond to BOTH YOUR ENQUIRIES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE The
 first of the three subjects of your inquiry is the only one that came before Congress, while 1 was mem- Der, voted in the negative oa the motion to laU on