Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-06
The Breckenridge ID mocracy and
CONGREGATIONAL Protect1on---If mol
GRANTED what next?

The Breckinridse ID mocracy and
Congregational Probationary mol
granted what next? 50
certain democratic leaders in Tennessee, in
1850, towards fire-eating aud disunion-which
was attended by most signal and humiliat-
ing failure-it has been considered a settled
fact that very large proportion of the peo-
pie of Tennessee are devotedly attached to
dy to overwhelm with defeat, regardless OF
party, any man or set of men who would
come before them upon such a platform.
Hence the leading democrats of this State
have been very careful to proclaim their at
tachment to the Union, and to disavow any
sympathy with those who wish to destroy it.
The recent events at Charleston and Balti-
more, which led to secession movement in
the Convention, based upon the demands of
the ultra Southern fre-eaters, have thrown
upon the supporters of BRECKENRIDGE the ne
eessity of being exceedingly warm and ex-
plicit in their support of the Union. At the
late BRECKENRIDGE ratification meeting in this
city, this necessity was duly appreciated, and
the speakers were jealous in their declara-
lions TO that effect.
These facts suggest an inquiry which we
PROFOUND with all respect, both to the BREck-
NRIDGE organs aad speakers. The question
is, what ,riH you do if Congress denies the protsc-
iion you dsnands Will any BREckNRIDaH
democrat be obliging enough to answer that
question . In Alabama, South Carolina
Florida and Mississippi. they make it SIN,
qua non to continuance of the Union. What
does Tennessee say to il?
Our Breckenridge friends say they are the
Constitutional democracy. They insist that
the right to Congressional protection is 9
constitutional right, and that refusal to
grant it, is an invasion of the Constitution
which, as we have said, is held in several Of
the ultra Southern States as a good and suf
fcient cause for dissolution of the Union
Now, there is no man in his wits, who does
not know that, under the exasperated state
OF feeling which exists in the two sections OF
the country-a state of feeling which was
created and aroused for political party pur-
poses-a slave code by Congress is wholly
impracticable. It ia well known to the lead
ing supporters of BRECKENRIDGE, that at
present, at least, it is impossible to obtain
such legislation by Congress. They do not
expect it, do not even hope for it. Yet with
q full knowledge of this ineontrovertible
fact, they insist upon this demand. There
can be but one alternative. Failing in the
demand they must give up and retreat, or
they must resort to a separation Of the
States. No compromise will answer
them, They spurn all suggestions Of
q compromise The issue was fatty made in
the Charleston and Baltimore Conventions.
and was shown to be irreconcilable. Who is
so blind as not to see that the demand for q
slave code at this time and in the manner it
il presented, is the entering wedge to dis.
union. The demand was first presented as
an issue in the democratic party by demo-
cratic journal which, at the time, was for
disunion, per Sc, as being Of advantage to the
South. 1t is entirely clear that it has been
continued and insisted on as an ultinldtum by
the Presenting democracy, with the view and
purpose of precipitating the catastrophe of
the Union, Let the people be warned Of
these momentous facts. Let them scrutinize
the position they are invited to assume to-
wards their country. and let them estimate
the value of that which they asked to give
up, before they join in movement the mani
fest tendency of which is to disunion and
war --s- -'t-la - ISIS