Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-10-09
TUESDAY, OCTOBER o, 1850.


TUESDAY, OCTOBER o, 1860.
Hon. Humphrey Marshall in Tennessee.
Hon. HUsnHREY MARSHALL, for twelve years
Representative in Congress from the Louisville,
Kentucky, District, opposed to Democracy, address
ed the Democratic mass meeting at Gallatin on FRI
day, as has been announced, and also addressed a
Democratic meeting Broad street. on Saturday
night, in behalf of BRECKNRIDGE and LANE. Col.
MARSHALL does not claim to be Democrat or to seek
sdmittance into our organization. He thinks how
that all the other questions that have hitherto
divided the country, have passed away, in svew of
the present serious crisis, brought about by the de-
termined efforts of the Black Republicans to carry
their sectional and revolutionary doctrine by the
mere force of numbers over the compromises of
1850, the ratification of these compromises by the
Wing and Democratic parties. abstract justice and
the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United
States. Animated by the influence of this important
fact he announces his determination to dispel par
ty preudices from his mind in the present contest
and to exert his energies in behalf of JOHN
c. BRECKENRIDGE and JOSEPH LANE the only can
didates who stand upon the platform of cur rights
those enemies of our institutions, LINCOLN and HAM
LIN. We shall endeavor faithfully to give an alb
stract of the reasons which have Influenced the
mind of Col. MARSHALL in this determination pre-
missing that we cannot expect to do justice to the
powerful logic by which he gustains his position.
One Of the parties in the present contest procaims
principle, but endeavors to satisfy its followers
by placing its candidates upon the platform of
the Union, the Constitution, and the enforcement
of the laws" without telling how the Union is
be preserved, the Constitution construed, or the
laws enforced. Such a motto is without signif-
canoe, because either of the candidates if elected
to the Presidency takes oath TO observe the Con-
sttution, to maintain the Union and to that the
laws are faithfully executed A solemn oath, so
administered and received, must surely possess
more binding force than the calendar of politicians
The declaration is only equivalent to pledge to do
what the candidate viii be compelled to do, by the
terms Of his election. 1t will not do therefore to
oppose so unmeaning generality to the aggressive
sectional party now in the field seeking to accom-
plish precisely the same things which were sought
to be done in lS4S, when the Wimut Proyiso was
first introduced into Congress, and against which
the whole South was then united as one man 1t
viii be remembered that this provsO introduce
ell ~ Mr.. DAVID WHMoT, for the purpose of pre-
venting the extension Of slavery into the Terrific
Tics then newly acquired from Mexico. The ques-
ton came up before the people OF the South in the
Summer elections Of lSi9 and every representative
they returned to Congress was opposed TO this pro-
viso and they stood in Congress as one man. fighting
it. The South was then united and succeeded in
defeating this attempt to brand inequality upon the
bTOws Of the Southern people, 70 deprive them Of
equal participation in the Territories which
were acquired by their blood and treasure, and TO
legisate them out of these territories by the prepon
derGnce OF mere numbers. Between the doctrine
then originated by Mr.. WuMOT and the Black Re
publican programme Of to-day there is line or
shadow Of difference. Why should we not be uni |
ted to-day as we were nten in eectua opposition to
this aggressive doctrine? Why should not the South
determine to stand fall upon the principles estab
lished by that compromise in Systematically popular
reclamation by the express resolves Of both the !
Wing and Democratic parties 1892, and by the de-
cision of the Supreme Court of the United States,
in the case of bred Scott in 1851 The doctrine of
nonintervention by Congress the subject Of slav
cry in the Territories was established in 1850, by
the joint excrtions Of the Democratic and Wing /
parties and by the united efforts of CLAY, CAss and
the record of your eminent fellow-ctzen, Mr.. BELL,
in connection with the compromise measures; but
have recollection outside Of the record. that may
be mentioned well remember that the Southern
Wings and the Northern Wings divided with refer
encc to the territorial policy Of the Administration
the former standing by Mr.. CLAY and the compro-
mise measures while thelatter urged the non-acton
policy Of the Administration Mr. ALEXANDER BUI-
LIT then the editor of the RepJbc newspaper, 1.-THE
organ Of the Administration, favored the policy Of
the Southern Wings This policy Ibeing dstasteful
to the Administration, Mr.. BULLITT retired, and l
well remember that thcIman selected TO fill the posi-
ton vacated by him the confidential friend of
Mr. BELL and that, as the Southern Wings declined
in power with the Administration, account of
their opposition to the non-acton policy, that was
the precise time when SIR BELL had the greatest in
huence at the White House.
Mr. MARSHALL had said that he would not criticize
he record Of Mr. BELL nor did he deem it necessa-
~. He regarded Mr.. BELLS claims upon the Presi-
dency being far superior to his chances He
asked what intelligent friend Of Mr.. BELL calculated
upon his election by the Electoral Colleges Even
granting in argument that Mr.. BELL should carry all
the Southern States that would not elect him by thir
ty-two votes; and where his chance of carrying
single Northern State county? And if Mr.. | I
BELL has no chance before the people what are his
chances before the House Of Representatives where
the vote is cast by States, each State casting one
voteY The complexion of the House can be as well |
ascertained now as when the election may occur. {
As the House now stands, there are Is Republican !
States IA Democratic. divided and one Tor Mr.. /
BILL. Mr. BELL then goes into the House with only
one vote Where is he to get another one? He ! ;
cannot calculate on receiving the votes Of
the Democratic States Can he expect the
Black Republican States TO come over to him?
Mr.. RsHAII did not believe that Sir. BELL would
accept the Presidency if acquired by their votes
1t would be a strange spectacle to see party
svowely organized to save the Union by the defeat
Oh Black Republicans. elevated to power by the
votes o. the secuonalists themselves; and that would
be strong dose to swallow, composed of Is parts
OF Black Repubhcanism and only part of BE1IIsN.
But even if Mr.. BELL desires their vo+.s b ooId l
not get them. The Black Republicans would nrefer '
Mr.. EvERETT-the tail of the ticket to Mr.. BrI1its
head. After Mr.. EVERETT had gone through a long L
Congressional career and had twice been Governor 2
of Massachusetts, series of questions had bccn 4
propounded to him relative to slavery. These are T
his answers: That he believed Congress had the i
power and that it its duty to abolish slavery in
the District Of Columbia. That he believed Con- I
gross had the power and ought to prohibit the inter-
State slave trade. That he believed it had the
power and that it ought to prohibit slavery in the
Territories. That Congress ought not to admit into
the Union any more slave States. There is not a a