, 1840-10-03
FIRM tie Nashville Union.
1.-THE BALLOT BOX AND THE
CARTRIDGE BOX"

The Wing papers of Nashville dare not
law that this was Crittenden's toast at a
d;nnsr in Nashville during the late Conven-
ton. They dare n. deny it for they Know
that we can give p~roofof i;s truth. Ihey
NAV assert that Mr.. c. intended to aliude
TO the ballot box as referring to our politl-
cal divisions. and the cartridge box as refer
ring to foreign encmies-but it will not do
for @The cartridge boz and the ballot boz
was the to- st, the whole toast, and nothing
but the toast. He may, now that 1t Is ex-
posed, try to explain it away-and his Wing
friends may aid him. if they can--but taken
in connection with Bells sleeper passions
and "other energies and a catalogue of
similar sentiments lately expressed by Wing
leaders whom we are about 10 name. no one
can doubt the Intentional Specification of
Mr.. C~riHenden'S toast at the time.
Mr.. Crittenden is only one of the nU-
merous Federal Leaders who have made
threats of violence upon the people as a step
to coerce them into a blind fold support Of
HARRISON.
WIN. C. Preston. a Wing senator from South
Carolina, was recently at a federal meeting
at Richmond, (Va.0 The Enquirer reports
MS SpeeCUs Ill NlllCu Cuhthiutu hC ioiio''
ing language:-"If Mr.. VAy buren, cannot
be displaced through the ballot Dor in No
vember next, |. for one. am ready to resort
to such means as GOD and NATURE have
put within nv reach, to FORCE a change"
The Enquirer adds. that The reasonable dec
l~aration was uttered within hearing of from
five to six hundred men Of both parties. and
was loudly ~applauded by the federalists!!
YIN. j. Grares, a Wing member Of Con-
gress from Kentucky, attended a federal
meeting at Charleston. Va, and made a
speech on the occasion. The language he
used is reported in. and vouched for by, the
Jeffersonian, as follows: "lF 1T WERE NOT
(said he) FOR THE HOPE OF REDRESS, THE HOPE
OF A CHANGE THROUGH THE BALLoT-Box,
WOULD HERE-so HELP ME GoD.!-UPoN THIS
HOLY ALTAR!!! TAKE AN OATH THIS NIGHT. TO
TAKE UP ARMS. AND MARCH WITH
YOU TO WASHINGTON. AND PUT
DOWN THE PRESENT DYNASTY BY
FORCE!!!m Upon this we can only COM
ment with the word "Shamaer' SHsME!!
John Bell. a Wing member Of Congress-
from Tennessee, in a late letter to n pariizan
in East Tennessee, which was published in
the Banner, more than thinks at these senti.
ments when he says:
.sThe appeal il NOW to reason. No feelings hut
those of patriotism, love of Justice, and equal nights
need to be invoked AS YET; though the day may
come, when a sense of injury add oppression--of in
dignation for a country's j institutions dishonored and
overthrown, may CALL FORTH DEEPER PAS
SIONS AND AWAKEN DIFFERENT ENER-
GIES. That time, l hope, may not come; but il it
should, I shaHb be ready to do my duty then as now.''
Capt. Stockton, a Wing orator in New
Jersey lately held forth at Vincennes, when
he declared to the multitude that they 'must
rally to beat the Democrats, peaceabIy if
they could, but FORClBLY if they must
He told them to drive back the BRIGANDS.
He said with the Scotsman of old you may
cry-they have robbed US of name and
pursued us with beagles; and would to God
might hear roaring from the ranks of the
Democratic Wings of New Jersey the con-
GLIDING part of that ~stanzas, viz: GIVE
THEIR ROOF TO THE FLAMES. AND
THEIR FLESH TO THE EAGLESp-
This speech is published in the Federal
papers Of New Jersey with remarks of JOY
and APPROBATION-so that it become.
the language OF the party, and not of thi:
one man only.
Senator Southard, 10 a speech at New
Brunswick, which is reported in the Whie
papers of New Jersey, said (says the Ere
DOMAIN, a Whig:) "Thdt seal under which
six federalists were ~fraudulently returned te
Congress- ,oas made in blood, and he, for one
said it SHOULD be redeemed in blood, ifir
no other way" The Cincinnati ADVERTISE
OF. the 5th inst. states that Corwin, (h,
Wing candidate for Governor Of Ohio sait
at the Log Cabin meeting, "Letus move il
a solid phalanx to the ballot boxes and there
adeposite our votes, and if we cannot carry
majority, are we not justified in using forcef