Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-10

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People knew how TO organize their OWN gov
erf,nent: bat Congress here was organizing
the government, not the people hr. Chase
proposed that the people might have the priv
iIege TO elect their own officer. but his
amendment was voted down with insults by
the men OF the South and the white slaves of
the North
lie hoped nov, that the people q lie North
,rolld gre the !SoJdh 70 understand that eUsYy
qlseslon 6s,reep freedom and slager rcgs once more
IT issese-Eu gifige .SItre lar and al; and he
wanted that the South shonld understand
that though they had for tie present triuiIhed,
having q Slave Congress and Slave President,
THE EUTURE WAS FOR u.s. and the future was a
good deal larger than the present. or the
past of our Government either. For the fu-
ture. let the South have THEN pound Of flesh,
but cot one drop of blood.
He hoped that every Democrat woHld read
the bill, and the scales would fail from their
eyer. as they had from bis. The only freedom
given in the bill 10 the people Of the terrific
RIGS was The freedom 10 establish slaYery-it
was like giving man chance TO hang or
drown himself. When white men went out
TO California they wanted j government
They made il for themselves. His friend
the editor oil the Enquirer, was The printer oil
that peoples constitution. He knew how
| free constitutions were made, and what was
popular sovereignty; why did he tell rs lie
now?
'fWheg the free constitution Of California
| Was before the Senate, the hypocrites OF the
South who were no,g for popular sovereign
ty. voted against it, knowing that it con
tanned popular sovereignty, pure and unde-
fled. He hoped the Northern people would
occupy higher ground, that the North would
show pluck and establish popular sovereign
| ty in Nebraska, III spite Of the subterfugr 81
Douglas-that base, unmiXed lie.
Al later day, March 9th. another meet
ing vas held and the following declaration
OF opinions was made:
I'VE hereby announce, a cur opinions,
that. a. freedom aud equality are the basis
upon which rests, and also the rule which
| governs the social condition of man, So every
| idea OF right of property in person was. aud
! necessarily should be. excluded from our con
| stituti0n Of government: and Congress pos
| seSsingt 40 power 10y that instrument 10 dis
| turb or restrain freedom ~ equality, can only
| enact laws in preservation thereof. and can
/ not enact laws tending to their suppression
| &c ) stcadi;ist integrity to principle Is the
| only secure basis OF Democracy. and, as we
| regard the declaration of The rights Of man.
| a. set forth In the Declaration OF Indepen-
| dence, "a leading and fundamental princi-
| pie which should be sacTediy observed, We
| cannot become parties to violation oil that
| prIIciple by restricting freedom, Or extending
| slavery; and we hereby rebuke any who, IN
] the name Of Democracy, seek so 10 do.
= If the slave States are not satisfied with
| the Missouri act. and The large additional
| concessions we have since made, but are de-
| termfued again to become aggTesSors; II, III
| accordance with the opinion oi Mr.. Calhoun,
| they are determined to possess superior pow
| or. although inferior in the legal qualiliea-
| tions which give power; if, having matnTely
| delibcrated, they are determined to draw the
| sword upon US, We shall not hesitate to throw
| the scabbard away; and then. claiming for
| ourselves all the rights, powers and priv
| leges to which We would have been entitled
| had no concessions been made. for the main
| tcuancc OF those rights, for the sovereignty
| Of our State, ior free territory and free men
we will renew all the pledges made by UuG
fathers on the fourth day of July, l176
That all territory north of Sc deg. 50
! min is, and OF riRhG should BE-. tree territory,
| for the occupancy aud enjoyment OF free
men; that il is part OF the earth now the
pinucrty ot The United States, which Is ulti-
mateiy to become the home Of the oppressed,
who, there seeking, shall Gud secure refuge
from the opprcSSpr. and under no ciTcum-
stances would il I've right or proper that IT
should be Inundated, N dish"nored ny The
footstep of the slave
Just before the adoption ot the above lie
| claratiou CHARLES REENELtN, Esq, made a
speech of which The following is an extract
Douglas and his master. President Pierce
! would put i new test in the Democratic Plat
! form; we i'm the North arc to be driven It
| admit, that we have already refused 10 admit
--laj ,Siacry IS adtt0a1dt. Travelling Ill hu
| rope. and frequently getting into discussions
[ ti,..It- lost
| was the Hing you have no real Democracy
! in America You uphold the worst form o
slavery" Ny ready reply always was
| Slavery Is not nu.iioHal but sCctIoUai-it wa!
| foretd upon lis while colonies, and is coaf;Ree
| Ia q fer Stairs arc not Our Brother
| Keeper.
| But. fellow Democrats and fellow citizens
| pass this Nebraska Bill-legtslate slavery
| into the Territories, and how will You an
! swer the scorn of Christendom? Think OF rs
! being done in 1851, when Austria aud Russia
| and even farthermost Asia, is stirring in be-
| half If human freedomi Shall America
! alone, recede from freedom!
| The Democratic party is to b. Cunyulsed
| nv this new test. Men who else would act
together on great questions OF national poll
| tics, are TO be- separated and estranged. W.
! of The Northern Democracy have long fought
! the battles of the South, and at the expense
| Of position at hcme-our only reward IS the
0yetseer' g demand for greater sacrifice"
| These arc the sentiments Of this republi
can recruit into whose hands has been IN
| trusted the BBEcKUSRIDGE-GANCEy STANDARD
| in Ohio. An anti-slavery fanatic, lac is nad'
the leader in movement estcusibly designed
| to advance the doctrine OF protection tt
slavery in the territories. Can Southern
democrats put their faith in any party whic'
adept policy fatal as this.