Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-06
q. Il. HaIieff.

: "' exclusion Of this gentleman from e
i'eul'cratic Convention at Baltimore. is j
up as one of the grounds to justify the
cfding delegates in leaving The Cor
No doubt Mr.. HALLErT would 'ehi +.
hishly useful member. II -laVe mac d
gulshed as the autb~ =; has been al :
platforms than p r of more democr, :;
and these aks> dy other man in the Uni ;
ing fzIls~ ,1orms have been noted for h. =
whia' i TO pieces just after every elect Il
- they were formed to accomplish. CO Il
-IALLETT have slipped in after the lamentai :
| breakdown at Charleston, he might b. g
been able to have collected the pieces, (. /
| patched up the concern in such way as wo, Id
have served for the canvass. But he couldI 3.
However, We cannot see why the disun;, =
lists and fre-eaters should complain Dr.
HALLETr has long consistently opposed their
dogma Of Congressional protection. And f.
vored the Douglas doctrine OF uon-iuterven-
ton. And he believed that doctrine would
efectually exclude slavery from The terri
tories. He has held this view since the de-
cision of the bred Scott case, as appears
from the following speech of his in The De-
moeratic State Convention Of Massachusetts,
in 1857:
Il stand here now with very great plea
sure, because, l said before. having ceased
for many years TO be member of the Con
ventiOns, think | may say, without much
assumption, that [ left behind me some little
marks of prominence: resolutions, sc. Az
plause.l They are the resolutions which the
Democratic party have adopted. They used
10 say that | wrote resolutions bv the cord.
| am happy TO say that If did not write T.
solutions which would be measured By tue
cord, they still served as bond of union in
the Democratic party.
"You cannot undertake iol th- old state.
TO attempt 10 impose restrictions upon the
new States or the new Territories about 10
form States, tlat do not exist, ~ regard 10
the old States. Why. Aig. President. it i as
tonishiug that with tie extent OF education
tina; there Is IN this Commonwealth and in
New England there should be more iguO-
rance. positive ignorance, upon the CCnstitu-
iional principles IF our goverHmegt than
prevails now in Yorkshire III England or
anywhere else. | undertake TO say that
those forty Doctors of Divinity and that Geo
logical Professor that undertook TO address
Mr.. Buchanan upon the doctrines Oi the Con-
stitutiOn- We're more igUcrant Of the Constl-
tuition OF the United States than any school
boy Ol the hiIa form. hat do they say
Why, simply that the President must not tx
ecute the laws of the States. He replies to
them. giving them this dOctriue, as plain as
A. h. G.. Here are your United States. What
makes them? The grants OF power given to
them by the States in the Constitution. What
is there about slavery, except that iugitiyes
shall be returned to their rightiui owners,
and that States may be allowed TO stock
themselves with slavery for twenty years.
That was the original construction Of the
Constitution. These men undertake to say
10 you that the Constitution really meant to
give Congress the power TO prevent slavery
in the Territories. We stand upon this doc
trIne, which is the plain doctrine of the
Union, non-interyentiOn with the question OF
slavery; and from that soH-iEtcTU6ntsOH lgiY III
tmarely come The rag thing sghicb these men are
attempting 10 reach by violence. 1t Will come 10y
the results OF It's own physical and moral
powers, the great laws Of Nature and the
Universe. And there We leave it."
We trust cur Breckenridge friends, after
reading This, viii not cherish their regrets
and hewaiI the exclusion of HALLETT at Bal
timore with 50 much melancholy energy as
they are wont to do.