Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1852-07-22
Nashville Dem Oeracy.


land, we find the rank and file Of the
Nashville democracy all at their
ppsts, EARN ed and equipped as the
law directs with powder dry and
plenty Of it. We like the report of
their first guns-theyB are well d.
rected, and cannot fail to tell well in
November next Read the following
extract talk en- from Gov A. T. Brosgn's-
speech, deli vered on The 10th inst,
on Broad ST rect, Nasty He:
"Let US how look to the action of
the wing pArty in their first attempt
to write th4ir principles IN their BAN
ner. The friends Of Mr.. Webster
and Mr. Eli Imore were In favor Of the
Platform. Mr.. Webste r7s friends
were Northern wings. Mr.. Fill
more's in the general, we RE Southern
wings. These united, framed and
voted in THE wing Platfol m, a major
lily of Ge4. SCOTS frif nds voting
against. it Gen. Scott had Isl
votes. Ofthese, &C (the majority
Iyoted against it. Now strange to
say, Mr.. Webster's fife hds and Mr.
Fillmore's were strong en- ough togiye
the Platiofm to the party, but yet
not strong enough to give the can
didate to the party. How is this
strange and almost astoh nding fact
Ito be accounted for? Southern
Fillmore wings clamored for Com
promise platform. L hey staked
their existe nee as a party upon it. I
Northern Webster wings came boldly
and calamity to their re fef With
out them they had no chance
without n orthern help the South
has no cha nce. She is in a fixed
and settled minority. When the
Democrats acted on the subject,
their Northern brethren came freely
to the work in almost unbrokdp col
umn. Every resolution was read
slowly and distinctly by probably the
best clerk in A nerica- pause was
made at the close of each, and loud
and fervid Plaudits given. Not one
distinct and audible no, was heard vi
brating thr ough the Spacious hall
| No North, no South, but the Consti1
tuition, the Union and the equal and
Just rights Of all sections, was the
ruling, eliminating, all absorbing SEN
timent Of the occasion.
GLOW different do we find the
state of things in the wing Conven-
ton. Strife, discord and madness
seemed to rule the hour. The vote
on the platform was taken by ayes
and noes, and sixty six sole nly
voted, that they would not acquiesce
in the fugitive slave bill In other
words, that they would not abide BY
the Constit tuition on which it is
founded It hat agitation in and out
Of Congress- should still go on, until
it should be repealed and swept fro m
the statute book! These were the
black coho rts of Sew ard, Greedy,
Garrison, and Fred Douglass, stand
ing in firm and solid pha around
Gen, Scott. Nothing could move
him nor them. There they stood
in dark, moody, and determined reso-
LUTON against the platform, whilst the
N. Y. Tribune and other great and
pow rful organs exelaime d: eve de-
spise your platform, We spit upon it,
we trample upon it, we scorn it, Il
o. fiat that moment, or at any tin be
bef6r its fatal elimination, Generh l
Scott had aid one word or write On
one line, pu bllcly, in favor of the fll-
gitiYe slave bill; il like Cass, Buc-
hanan, Douglass, Marcy, Houston
and others, he had declared that it |
was founded on the constit ution, and
that he would veto any bill to repeal
or 70 impair its efficiency, what a
blessing it would have pro we'd to this |
distracted country! These 66 black |
cohd rts, headed by Seward, Greedy, |
and Garrison, and all the rest would |
have retired from the convention, pu-I
rifyihg the Fhig party and leaving it |
to bhild up, though at a late day, a |
Nat ona al Platform, and to place up
on it a national candidate, worthy Of
the respect and confidence of the
Anne rican people. Yes: one word or
one line from Winfield Scott before
the Convention, would have restored
natid nality to our great party divis-
ions, and possibly, added one hun
lred years to the duration Of our
glorious Cohfederacy.
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