Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-03-06

slavery TO be AssaiIed by the Influence
ana Patronage of ale Federal Governs
meRt.
Why have the Black Republican party SO persist
emily and dOggedly agitated the question of slavery
until upon that issue, they have got possession of
she Federal Government, and, by the enormty of
their proclaimed doctrines driven seven States TO
declare their independence and form a separate
Confederacy! Has their only object been to secure
plumber! Or, are the masses of them sincere in de
string to carry the doctrines of the rrepressibe
conflict and secure the soil of the United States TO
exclusive free labor?"
They have evidently calculated deeply upon para
Tying slavery aud destroying its value by
bringing to bear against it the influence and
patronage of the Federal Government
This has been continually the cry of
the leaders and presses of the Black Republican
party. They have never claimed the power, under
the Consultation of the United States, to interfere
directly with slavery in the States. Occasionally
they may have intimated that they wond so amend
the Constitution as to give them this power when
ever they should be able to accompshIt But they
have not relied upon this method, knowing that
direct attack upon the peculiar institution, would
starte Southern and drive them into revolution
They have relied mainly upon their doctrine that ii
IS contrary to the Constitution to carry slavery into
the Territories, well knowing t at, if they could
strictly carry it out, slave labor would be hemmed
IN the states where texists and from want Of fields
vi IAOor would become cheap as TO be vasueless-
1hey nave also placed great reliance on building
up party TO carry out their designs in the slave
hoiolng states through the influence and patronage
Oh 'ne reueral Government, insidiously directed to
propagate their fanatcal ideas among the non
slaVehoiders OF the South, and amoag those mer-
cenhry minds that would sell their country for q
mess OF pottage. By the distribution Of Eedsrol
patronage among facile agents. thew homo 70 no obIo
80 fill the mails with incendarv nubIico+;or. 49,
thus to poison the minds of citizens q, d. 60
holding States, as HEIPER has indicated -. =
institution which has been the poiat of osso,It -
themselves for years past
That such is their intention, there is no do,,b. :;
the mind of any intelligent and thiDkiDy n,,n
who has watched the current course of events !,
few evidences of this design lie before us ana o.
amount might be accumulated. We think it era;
neRdy proper that it should now be produced 70
warn the people against this lnsdious but none the
less dangerous eystem of warfare against their in.
situations. low that Black Republicansm has enter.
ed upon its ih-gotten power.
In a speech, delivered before the Kentucky Legis.
ture at its late session. Col BIANToN DUNCAN said:
Wendell Phillips in a speech last week to a crowd
d auditory in Boston said
blow is Mr. Lincoln undermine SiaGeTy tohie u
the Unicn? Certainly by turning every dtoa Of pat
ronage and pecoaiGy profit IN the keeping Of the Fsder>
al Government 10 the support o. freedom.
CASSIUS CLAY said to me five years ago: IF aou
soA aRoU 10 haze The patronage Of This Gouernlaea
flee years, and ererciSe hremOrseeSsy do,rn 10 Ne,r
Orledns-NEvER PERMIT ANY ONE But AN AVOWED
ABOLtTI0NIST TO hold Office under the Federal Cor.
eminent I loia REV0LUTI0NIZE THE SLAVE
STATES Themselves IN TWO ADMINISTRATIONS, That
- . scheme Of efheIent politics"