Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-06

The Address of Coils. Carroll ana Waiter.
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This document viii be found in our columns this
morning. These gentlemen have written, and we
give them TIE full benefit of our circulation We
regret that they, without the slightest hope of car
rying Tennessee for Mr.. DOUGLAS, should have at
tempted to introduce into the State the policy of
"RULE on RUrN.a But swhat is writ, is writ We
must add Would It were worthier." These gen.
tlemen have arrsigned the Democracy of Tennessee
for refusing yield to the dictaton of Mr.. DOUGLAS
friends and for raising their voices in favor of BREcK
KRDGE and LANE. They have thrown down the
gauntlet. We take it up. They have rendered the
issue. We aeceptit. o, @ 4.st -
The first objection made is that one of the d eIe-
gates and the alternate from the second district and
also from TIE seventh being absent the from Char
lesion the delegates present appointed Judge THOMAS
c. LYON Of Knoxville, and Mr.. WHITTHoRNE, of
the State Electors to fill those vacancies snotwith
standing the protest of several of the delegation"
If there was sny protest made are at the first
of it. Some of the delegates may have voted against
these appointments. We not of the delegation,
but our information at Charleston was that Mr. We.
B. JONES of the second district did object to the ap
pointment CT Judge LYON because he believed Judge
L. preferred Mr. HUNTER to Gov. JOHNSON but that
Mr.. JONES aequiesced, Mr. wnrrrHoRNE being ap-
pointed to nil the vacancy in the seventh district,
Mr.. JOKES knowing that Mr.. WIIITTHoRNE was an ar
dent friend of Gov. JOHNsoN and would neutralize
the vote Of Col THos- JOKES, the delegate present
from the seventh and who was believed to be fer
Mr.. HUNTER At any rate the delegation fearing
that each delegate would only be permitted
by the convention to cast half vote and de-
string that Tennessee should have the benefit
of her full strength filed the two vacancies, and
filled them with gentlemen who voted for Gov.
Johnson long after Col CARROLL deserted him. "The
same power, says the Address, "was again exercised
in Baltimore, when the convention re-assembled in
that city and seven vacancies were then ard there
thus filed" True and Col. CARROLL designated the
who should fill the vacancy is his district to wit:
Mr.. FARMER as ardent DOUGLAS man as Col CARROLL
himself The delegation had the numbers to put in
an antiDeuGIAs man. if they had felt disposed to do
so. Mr.. COOPER, of Chattanooga, with strong DoUG-
LAS proclivites, chosen to fill the vacancy occa-
stoned by the absence of Judge RowLEs, who was
opposed to DOUGLAS first last and all the while. In
no instance, Coils. CARROLL and WATTERsOX well
know, did the delegation fiji vacancy with any one
who was any more opposed to Judge DoUGIAs than
the original delegate was known to be. But on the
contrary, as in the of Mr. COOPER, they did give
to one kindly disposed to Mr.. DOUGLAS position va
cant by the absence of one of Mr. DIS Dtterest op-
posers. The writers of the Address win not pre-
tend say that the absent delegates would not have
withdrawn seeded as soon if sooner than their
substitutes did 1t is that Mr.. WHTTTHORyE was
not resident of the district which he represented
st Charleston, and Mr. HOWARD was not resident
Of the district which he represented Baltimore.
But Nessrs. c. and W. we'll know that in some of the
other delegations that in order to fill their delega-
tons, they appointed gentlemen who were not even
residents of the State which they chosen IN
part to represent For instance, the chairman of
the Oregon delegation, Gov. Stevens, who was on
the committee on credentials with Col. CARROLL. as
the committee man from Oregon. is not a citizen of
that State but is citizen of and delegate in Con
gress from the territory of Washington. But these
objections are merely formal. They are evidently
after-thoughts. They DO not reach the gist of the
case.
Their principal assumption is that Mr.. YANCEY,
who supports BRECKNRpGE and LANE, is a disunion-
list, and therefore everybody who supports that
ticket is a dsunionist This is the special thunder
bolt of Messrs CARROLL and WATTERsoS 1t may seem
little strange that these gentlemen after having
voted with Mr.. YANCEr all their lives except in l848
of Tennessee as disunionsts, because Mr. YANCEY is
going TO do just as he has always done heretofore,
except perhaps in one instance vote for the candi-
dates of the Tennessee Democracy for President and
Vice President We not the apOlogists or defen-
ders of NJ. YANcEY. What his views may be has
nothing to do with the relative merit or dement's of
BREcKNRIDGE and DOUGLAS, or of LANE and JOHNSON,
1t has nothing to do with the platforms upon which
these gentlemen, we wiz place Mr.. YANcEY against
Mr. SoUIE, the leader of the DOUGLAS delegation from
Louisiana or against Gov. Il. V. JOHNSON of Geor-
gia the DOUGLAS candidate for the Vice Presidency.
Reviewing Mr.. YANcEY's career the address uses 1
the following language, portion of which we ital-
icise:
Look first at his course in the National Democrat
ic Convention at Baltimorein 1913. On that occasion
he proclaimed fie doctrine Of iReTUenoa" Hpr0tec
ton for the first time; but failed to get single
State to stand by him. He entered his protest Sc
ceded from the convention, went home and opposed
the election Of the Democratic nominees, Cas- and
Butler
We propose to show that Gov. II. V. JOHNSON at
that time proclaimed tie same doctr,e of "INTERvEN-
TIoS" or PRoTECuoN . that Mr.. YANCEY did. In
the Baltimore convention of IS4S. Mr.. YANcET was
one of the Committee on Resolutions. Not concur
ring with the majority, he presented minority
port The report of the majority not in the
opinion of Mr.. YANcEY, just to the South and he pro-
posed the following resolution:
RCSolUed, That the doctrine of NON-INTERFERENCB
with the rights of property of every portion Of the
people of the confederation, be it in the States
Territories by any other than the parties interested
IN them, is the true republican doctrine recognised
by this Convention.
This is Mr.. YANCEYS doctrine Of Intervention or
Protection" in 1913. In a speech Gov. II. V. JOHN
son made in the United States Senate the 9TH July
lS4S, referring to this very resolution he said:-
IL certainly did express the doctrine of non-inter
Jeence by Congress refer 10 it merely 10 show the
action Of the convention upon it as an index to the
sense IN which the seventh platform resolution was
adopted upon which Gen. CAsS stoOdl 1t (YANCEYs
resolution was voted down by a large majority.
But why! Was 1t because the convention did not ,
intend to avow the doctrine OF Roa-interfeTenoe by
Congress, NO; but because it was considered that
the seventh resolution presented by the majority {
fully embraced the doctrine" Z
So that according to the DOUGLAS candidate for the
Vice Presidency, Mr.. YANcEY did not proclaim the
doctrine Of Intervention Protection at the Balti
more convention in lS4S.' Gov H. V Johnson Mr. =
lANCEi and the body of the Democracy of the South
stood together against Squatter Sovereignty out 3
Mr. YANcET differed from the rest in believing that i
Gen. CAss' NICHOLSON letter announced Souatter r
Sovereignty and the Baltimore Platform permitted r
it. As an indication of the sentiment of the Democ .
raey Of Tennessee in that respect in the canvass we
quote from the Nashville Union of June u, Is4s.
mo one will deny the right of voluntary sasso /
ciOn to abolish slavery among themselves IN the ter
ritOries if they prefer 6ttey oq,aOt Say daf Oh
1oo choose 10 tae Stqce property into he terrific
sies shall not ENJOY IT, This hey hare not tie yigJf
20 90 under tie Constitution and Gen. CAsS has never
said any such thing. The people of Virginia under
stand his position and most cordially approve it, So
do the people Of Alabama and majority Of their Z
delegates supported him. If Mr. YANCEY chooses h
to misrepresent him it no fault of Gen. CAss" q
Mr.. IasCEY went for a clear unmistaka- n
bic declaration in favor of "NoN-rNrRRtER- T
Ec;E BY CONGRESS" The new theory had not /
then been preached that 'NOnnterference by Con- Ii
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