Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-08-09

frame their Constitution and ask admission into the
Union as a State This was the last great labor of
Mr.. CIAT. Worn down with public service, vener-
Grated by mez of all parties, he was taken to his
rest The great principle Of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. still
lives treasured in the ark of the covenant of the
Democratic party, but still the object of attack from
false friends aud open foes Il was embodied in the
Kansas and Nebraska bill of 1854 against the com
bined efforts Of Mr.. BELL and the entire Abolition
party It was re-asserted in the Democratic plat /
form at Cincinnati in 1856. and triumphantly en-
dorsed by the people in the election of Mr. BucHANAN
as the Chief Executive Of the Government 1t was
confirmed by the tribunal of last resort, the
Supreme Court of the United States, in the case OF
DRIED Scorr, and when Mr.. BELL candidate Is
asked to define his present position relative to the
future maintenance of this great principles he refers
the public to his "past political history connecieo
with the public service" 1t may satisfy these who
co-operated with Mr. BELL against Mr.. CLAY IN 1891
but it cannot satisfy any sincere and honest friend
of Mr. CLAY and those who sympathise with MN IN
re-asserng this great Constitutional principle upon
which depends the rights and equality of the States
and that good faith and sense of justice essential to
the perpetuation of Republican institutions.
! Wr. Fillmore for DiSEnlOH ga A 80
\ Contingency In Is56--Where steep the
Thuuders of the Union savers!
A CORRESPONDENT furnishes with an extract
from a speech of Mr. BELL. in the Senate, IN wflch
his fierce passion against sectionalism eliminates into
disunionism. The candidate of the Constitutional
Union party looms up almost as fiery disunionist
in the contingency named by him as YANcEY himself
IL charged to be- or even the coal eating RHETr OF
South Carolina Let the Union orators cut out the
extract and put it in their scrap of disunion
extracts Let them read it at their meetings with
: terrible emphasis and furious meaning. Let them
mitch. and cauorf, and throw their arms wildly in
the air. when they see that their chosen leader was
implicated IN the terrible conspiracy ~ to break up
this glorious Union"
And when they have exhausted their passion upor
this new development of the conspiracy" let then
refer to the speeches of exPresident FILLMORE a
Albany and Rochester in 1856. of which the sub
Joined is an extract Mr.. FILLMORE was himself ther
a candidate for the Presidency, and spoke very de
cidedly and feelingy of the probable effect OF FIRE
Noxrs election, appealing to his audience to know
if they would submit to the domination OF South
ern sectional majority over them Our neighoor
t the Patriot had better pause before he again an
l nounces the Union saved" as he did Tuesda
' morning. because COMBS has been probably electe
!. Clerk of the Court of Appeals of Kentucky. ID
!; had better reconsider his announcement that " be
/ carries the United South" IS good omen for I'M
Union. For even supposing that Mr.. BELL Shout
!, accidentally carry the United South and enough
the North to elect him President will he not dissoy
the Union if the Black Republicans continue thei
examinations and agitatiOns! For has he not re
it ferred the country to his political record for hi
If opirions? But, to the extract from Mr.. FILLMORE
u speech:
e sBut we now see a party organized in the Mort
for the first time selecting candidates for Presder
;, and Vice President exclusively from the Norther
States with the avowed intention of elecuCg them
govern the South well as the North by VIVA
IT, rule is President thus elected to select his cabnt
councillors his foreign Minister'S Judges, and admin
" istrative officers Are these also to be selected e!
. clusively from the North?--Or may you take cal
90 met officer from the South, though you cannot
or President OF a Vice President! These IN pracsic
d, as have said another occasion, must becom
r embarrassing questions The North Is beyond a
question the most pOpulous, the most wealthy. an
IS has the most voters and therefore has the power
a infict this injustice upon the South But we ca
best Judge of its consequences by reversing the cas-
Suppose the South was the most populous, the mo-
wealthy and possessed the greatest number of ele
tora votes and that it should declare that for
H. fancied or real injustice done at the North it wOu
AZ elect none but President and Vice President
II shareholders from the South to rule over the Mort
e DO YOU think fellow-citizens you would submit
. this injustice? no, MOI No, truly you would moi
- but one universal cry Of no, would rend the skie
y And can you suppose your southern brethren le
vs. sensitive than yourselves, or less jealous OF the
rights! If you do let tell you that you are mi
VI taken-and you must therefore perceive that tt
W SUCCESS OF SUCH PARTY with such an object, MUS
DC BE A. DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION"