Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-18

We publish to-day article by an intelligent
member of the Opposition who clearly sees that the
question The ISSUE in this purely and simply
one oSate rights and State equality He further sees
that these who deny the doctrine of State rights and
State equality are the real dislioniSS as they
tributing to advance policy which must inevitably
lead to dissolution of the Union or cause the peo
pie of the South to occupy in our Federal relations
the position Of tgciUzi5sd Immoral interiors. 1t
not be denied that it is in greater less degree,
that fanatic spirit which denounces the Constitution
as q covenant with death and league with hell"
which denounces slavery the sum of all villain
les" as "a eauseupon the body polite" as
"a political sin" moral gangrene," that drives
the masses of the North to maintain that the South
ernman shall be excluded with his property from the
common territories and they be devoted entirely and
forever to the emissaries of abolihOnsm Unless we
of the South are mistaken in the view take of
the institution of slavery morally, politically, social
w. unless we are mistaken in estimate of its i'm
portance to the commercial, manufacturing and
agricultural interests not of this nation alone but
of the world, unless we are mistaken in our
opinion as to equality under the Consti-
tuition with the citizens Of the Northern States the
further aggressions, the further success Of that
fanSticism, whether it be much little, can
but have a disastrous effect upon future
peace and prosperity The lstless and the reckless
may, for party purposes endeayor to influence the
result Of canvass by stale repetition of partizan
watchwords But the thoughtful lover of his coun-
try, he who cherishes Constitution and the
Union, which is its creature, he who fully appre-
ciates our institutions will in these perilOus
times Danish party prejudices and seek for princi-
pie. Anti-slavery is intolerant and aggressive.
SUMNER and LOvEJoY and all of that class would have
been regarded few years ago raying maniacs.
They would have been esteemed as we now esteem
GARRISON and FRED DOUGLAS. But to-day, SUMNER
and LOvEJoY are among the chiefs of the tribe.
They invited to address the regular associations
of their Republican brothers, and their infamous
speeches published and circulated as campaign
documents by the Republican National Executive
Committee. Anti-slavery being aggressive and in
tolerant can Its progress be stayed by yielding in
the least to its demands or by open and avowed in
action! No II is bold and defiant, and must be
met in the same spirit. The most desperate maniac
can be subdued by the determined eye of intelli-
gence. The unblenched cheek and steady gaze of a
united South can drive Abolition from his
throne, and turn thousands who are now his minons
into his bitterest prosecutors HOS many thou
sands are there in the South who are willing, for
the sake of peace, to admit that the constitutional
doctrine of Southern equality IN the Territories
is an abstraction who are willing to yield to the
Territorial Legislature the right to abolish
cIuie slavery from the territories who are willing
to admit that If the Supreme Court has decided, or
NAV hereafter do that the territorial legislature
has no such power, then itmay by 'unfrendy legis-
lation shut out the Southern man There thous-
ands who favor inaction for the purpose of pacyng
the ntslaverv sentiment for fear of arousmg it to
. further demands Such however patriotic they may
be know nothing of the nature of the enemy with
whom they contend Concession and cancellation
in the past have brought us no peace The right
and duty Of the National Legislature to abolish or
exclude slavery from the territories and opposition
TO the admission Of any other slave State IS unhes
tatingly advanced as the basis of the Black Repubi
can organization In April last one of the members
of the party introduced into Congress the following
preamble and resolution which received the support
OF thJparty:
WasREIs, The chatteling of mankind and the hold,
ing OF persons as property, is contrary 70 natural
justice and the fundamental principles OF our polt
cal system, and Is VIGOROUSLY reproach toour
country thrOu Zhout the civilized world, ana Sc
riOus hindrance to the progress of liberty through
cut the nations of the earth
ResoJed. That the Committee on Judiciary be IN
structed inquire into the exPediency OF reporting
bill giving freedom TO every human being, and IN
terdictmg slavery wherever Congress has the power
20 legislate On the subject
In the language Of the resolution passed at our
Democratic State convention in January last we
believe
That the Federal Government has no power to
H. In
duce or exclude il from the Territories and no duty
TO perform in relation thereto, 6a to pnSe the rights
OF e from wrong and restore tWgitiDeS from
labor; heSe duties cannot l5thOld elthoad hactdtion
q tie Constitution
Ia there man in the South who controverts this
doctrine! If not, let us, a: least give it an en-
phatc endorsement at the ballot box