The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-10-04
!, ocsption OF the Union Representatives
81 Nashville.

ReCeDItOm
at Nashville
,t,;, u,eetinV has been held at Nashville, |
u = r,bIio dinner rendered, to those members of
Sr.-rrsss who have promoted the settlement Of
~ Questions which threatened the peace of the
country At one time we heard a good deal of
some similar compliment to be paid Mr.. Downs,
Init of late the matter seems forgotten. We again
call the attention of our citizens to the subject.
Mr. Downs will soon be here. 1t is certainly due
to him, that his constituents should by some pub
lie demonstration, testify the high approval they
all feel of his patriotic conduct. We insert, as
embodyiDg our own sentiments, the reported speech
of Mr., Nicholson, late Senator of Tennessee, and
for so many years the leading democratic eullor Oh
the State of Tennessee:
called mon to address The meeting He begged to be excused
from responding 70 the call except mse Was present
by accident having returned the city aer an IN
several weeks but he regarded me prcoo iae That he
et II his duty 10 be present and participate IN ine h
deep soSade to Capitol for the last nine months rs db
fate of glorious Uni9n was felt to Be nvS 5 fearful nte
resi- the aborou exerions Of patriotic u o
Rbongh we might not be able approve all me details OF
the several measures brought i9iM ie with ne Terms
Of settlement which they embraced Without looking to al
ee result il was but Just right that our Congresspen
who labored adnousy, anu whose ao H nave oeeh
peen KS ,d sb hearty welcome upon their return
home T6ev may not succeeded in securing all that in
Strict right he South was entitled to demand but they had
secnrad enongh 10 fill the patriots heart with joy that
Torions Union longer in danger The passage of the
seveaI hills put aaT oil the fear OF d solution and this
sufficient for assembling and exchanging
He prepared to that the slavery
nneson fnaly set sdthe fell spirit Of fanacsm Id
continue agItae the suteCtit had indeed already com
menced wo-but there moral force and weight il
The passage OF the several measures through Congress- which
the present, least, has rendered AbolOnism
| less and harmless. We know that large por
lion the Northern people have repudated all
/
AbOiiiOnism. This lmpo tant fact made manifest
and shows that with union and harmony at the South tn
against the assaults and aggressons Of tanatcm. Thes
sufficient with him for giving bis cordial appTovl
of the objects OF the meeting and he should gladly
congressman on their return home with hearty welcome
-S$s--
| Uleducdted POets.-Southey, some years age
edited little volume of poetry, under this title
They were the productions of illiterate men, who
TO some imagination, joined an ear for poetic mea
o sure. The following lines were written by
5 Scotchman, a deck-hand on a steamboat. TIL
orthography proved his ignorance of the ordinar
rules of the language. His measure is frequentl
defective but these stauzas we think remarkable
u as the production of man ignorant of the laws
Il rhythm. The patriotism of the sentiment may we
atone for some badness in the metre. Atany rate
;, we advise our new correspondent to continue.
is better thus to spend the leisure Of his folsom
n life" than in the cultivation of those low habit:
n which render so many of his laborious elias
wretched. We await the award of the Statesman
- which is our authority in such matters.