Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-31

Inc CONSTITUTION, the Union and the enforcement
of the Laws is the broad platform upon which
Messrs. BELL and EVERETT stand. But they have no
advantage in this any of the other candidates
BRECKNRIDGE, DOUGLAS and LINCOLN, all profess to
stand upon these same general principles and yet
there political principles about which they
widely differ. LINCOLN holds that it is the right and
duty of Congress to exclude the Southern man with
his property from the Territories. DOUGLAS says
the Territorial Legislature, composed of those who
may first rush into the Territories, has tie power
to exclude the SOutherner either by direct or IN
friendly legislation. BRECKNRDGE says the Terrific
res are the common property of all the States North
and South, and that the citizens of all the States
have the right to go there with their property and
no power exclude them until the people act
when they come to form a State Constitution. The
BELL and EVERETT platform, says nothing upon the
subject but leaves each State Convention of its par
y to declare either in favor of the Black Republican
doctrine of Congressional prohibition the DOUGLAS
doctrine of Squatrer Sovereignty or the BREcKN-
RIDGE doctrine of the equality of all the citizens of
all the States and the duty of the Federal Govern
ment protect the rights of the citizen in the Ter
ritOry from wrong. Mr.. LEvERETT SALToNsrALL
writing for Mr.. EVERETT the other day to a gentle
in Alabama, says:
We do not suppose that The Natioadl Union Convention
intended 70 interfere t0 the discretion Of the local conUen
tons Of The states IN adopting Platforms l0ithn their
OJ1R limits But as the National Union nominations
1oee made at Baltimore, and hare been accented under
the dboue cited preamble and resolution the candidates
are precuded from endorsing any other platform, hot0
eUer respectable the source from 11hict endaates
This announcement of Mr. SALToxsrALI. leaves it
entirely Ito the local conventions of the States in
a., ,fo
which ever side Of the issue may be most acceptable
to the party in that State But how would an Ad-
ministratiOn, Senate, or a House of Representa-
tves chosen upon the BELL and EVERETT plan act in
concert? Who would then prevail? To which side
of the party would the President incline? To which
side would the Vice President lean2 To which side
would the Secretary of State throw his influence?
We would find favoring the LINCOLN doctrine,
another the DOUGLAS notion and the other the BRECK-
RRIDGE principle. There would be as great antagOn-
ism in the party there Is between the politi-
cal friends of BRECKNRDGE DOUGLAS and LINCOLN
II is idle TO say that Mr. BELL and his party would
ignore these questions when in power 1t cannot
be done. Every Black Republican in either House
of Congress involably pledged press their doc
rines. They attempted to give them legislative
power in the last session of Congress, and they will
make the effort again in the next When the effort
is made the BELL and EVERETT men from the North
and the South viii have to take sides either with the
Black Republicans, the Squatter Soveregns or the
friends of Equal Rights. The Banner in its review
of Mr. Bates letter written befoze the Baltimore
Convention, indicated the very course pursued, ac-
cording to Mr.. SAIsToNsTALL, by the BELI-EvERETT
Convention:
49, to
rectness or ncorrectness of the views upon the sub
ject of slavery which he Mr. Batesl has put for |
ward-d question upon IOIch conservative, UEiOIlOU
ING men must and l0W dfer-he has completely and
entirely forfeited their support candidate in the
approaching Presidential canvass, by permitting /
himself. under influences and from motives which |
we shall not attempt TO define, TO become wholly |
sectionalized, and by cOnsenting to be considered
sectional candidate for the first office in the gov
eminent
He cannot expect. of course, after this letter, to
receive the support of the Unien party de has
put forth manifesto IN which he discusses the very
question which the Union men of the country are
seeking TO put at rest by refusing to agitate.
The Banner says the question is one upon which
I" conservative, Unionloving men must and viii
differ. Mr.. SALToNSTL says it is left "to the local
State conventions We submit this is not fairly
meeting the issue rendered by the Black Republi-
cans. The Patriot, / January last, fired by the
of the Black Republican Governors,
thought that the issues of the Black Republicans
would have to be met. 1t said:
Thus in the midst of the excitement caused by
the brutal and bloody conspiracy of John Brown,
we have the outgivngs OF Republican Executives
in grave State papers Whilst condemning the lnva-
sIon of Virginia they are firm IA the oppression OF
ieey7niaatioa 10 driUe the Southern people from Tie
Comment of the TgH to carry SIdUeS into and keep te
b TIE TtTYqiorieS-a right guaranteed them by the
Constitution as expOunded by the highest authority
known TO our Government the Supreme Court
This Is question 1oe shall be compelled to meet 'oeSS
RefatbcaRiSa recedeS from It's position, thing dHogd-
n improbable at present"
But how is it met by its own party? First, by
is political associate in this city taking the position
hat the slavery question is one upon which con-
sentative. Umonloving men must and Will differ"
Secondly, by its National Convention leaving II TO
the discretion Of the local conventions Of the States
in adopting Platforms within their own limits.
Thirdly, by its candidate Tor the Presidency re-
using to respond 10 any questions propoundeo 10
i'm touching the issue and lastly, by its candidate
for the Vice Presidency turning his letters to
be answered by Mr.. LEvERETT SNToNSTAIIg who
says that the candidates are precluded by the Balt-
more Platform from endorsing " any other plat
form, whether it be for against Black Repub-
canism, whether il be for or against Squatter Sow
ereIgnty. whether it be for or against the en-
phatic doctrine of Equal Rights upon which BRICK
NRIDGE and LANE stand.
A gentleman writing from Marietta, Ga, to the
Savannah NeicS says:
/ am told there is not a Douglas man in this conn