Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-02-26
prohibition of slavery in ths Ferritoris'

Prohibition of slavery in this Territories.
We clip the following from the Cincinnati Com
Ysrcidl:
Tba Southern newspapers are in the habit of
ouotng largely from the Springfield (ll Journal as
/. the organ of the President elect" Anything par
tieularlY ultra to fire up the southern heart
a. tho most exemplary manner. In late leader the
editor of the Journal says tO protect the South IN
their clearly defined. constitutional rights, we are
willing to go to any length and IN their defense Wall
cheerfuuy yield Up both property and hfe' should
such necessity ever arise"
Also 9 we are in favor of any hoporabe adjust
r,ant of existing national differences. We are ESQ
in favor of supporting the Constitution, maintelq-
inc the Union and enforcing the laws, and we VIII
stand nv Mr. Lincoln in the discharge OF his duties
win our Southern exchanges give this an airing!
We give it an airing with great pleasure. We
have vet to hear of any member of the LINCOLN
marty who has expressed himself as opposed to pro-
toctinp the South sin theF clearly defined, Constr
tutionaI rights or as opposed TO "any Aoporaole
adjustment of existing national difficulties" lhe
iosurmountable objection to the LINCOLN party s
that they do not admit that those rights winch the
South claim as clearly defined, constitutions" are
rights. and they differ most widely from us
asto what wopld be an honorable adjustment
There is an irreconcilable conflict of opinion be-
tween the Black Republican party and inc 0ou'h
upon these two points. The Chicago PLATFORM upon
which Mr.. LINCOLN Wa elected and OF when lie
said few days since in his spseah at Pittsburgh
In fact this question tariff as ioel as q! Other s'
jeets embodied in that platform, should not be 1dTiedyr4
oGt 9aUe the people TO understand oodd be our POI
icy lohen zee Gttsiued their UOeS.
That Chicago platform emphatcally announces:
THAT the normal condition Of ell the territory OF
I limited n
Republican fathers when they had abolished slavery
in all our National Territory, ordained that per-
son shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property
without due process of law becomes our duty bJ
gis alton aaheeUer such legislation Is necessary L
maintain this pr0riSiOR OF the Constitution dqdins al
attempts ito U'i0Ldie Il and we DENY the authority
of Congress, of Territorial Legislature or of any
individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any
Territory of the United States"
The doctrine here promulgated is regarded by the
rejecting of the South as more fatal to our right.
in present and our safety in the future than all the
Northern Liberty bills, underground railroads and
JOIN BRowN raids. They are comparatively limited
in their effects. The prohibition OF slavery in the
territories is universal in the ruin which it bring,
unon all men and all interests at the South We ar
d not unaware that thsre are some Southern politi
clans who, having higher regard for their OWL
promotion than for the * ests of the people they
seek to represent, point to'the very small number
Of slaves at present in the territories, and sttemp
to persuade their people that the right to carry
slsvery into the territories is mere abstraction
and unworthy of a struggle. We are not unaware
that these false teachers have some confding fol
lowers even here in Tennessee. Nevertheless We
have no hesitancy in asserting that the prohibition
of slavery in the territories, its confinement to l
present limits would not only be wrong 70 TIE slave
holder who desired to move there an outrage Qpof
the non-slaveholders who desire to emlgrate theirs
with their families, but runousy calamitous to al
classes of our population that remained in the States
Such policy would lead perhaps to the emancipa