Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-04-04
HOS. JOHN BELL AND HIS DEFAMERs

10 PRESIDE.
HoY. JOHN BELL AND HIS DEFAMERS.
If the Nashville Union had established any
character as prophet--if its predictions and
prophecies had not invariably been falsifed by
the facts Of history, We might have serious ap
prehenSions as TO the disastrous consequences
that may befall the Hon. JOHN BELL, for his
bold, manly and patriotic course on the Nebras
ka bill. But unfortunately for the Union and for
tunately for the reputation of Mr.. BELL, the I'm
ions prophecies like those of Miller or Joe
Smith, instead of quilting honest, sensible men,
only invoke their sneers and excite their con-
tempt. That the Union should oppose Mr.
Bell and endeavor to defame him, is as natural
as it is Cor the Union to oppose any thing that
is right and just; such is the enoiaJLe reputation,
that what it favors is almost invariably wrong
and what it opposes is rarely ever right. Mr..
Bell needs no defence against the Unions at
tacks. Little dogs will bay the Moon, let John
Bell do what he may, and who cares if they do
let them amuse themselves by their barking
and yelping, they can hurt no one except them
selves. The Union says Mr.. Bell has proven
himself a traitor to the South in opposing the
Nebraska bill. That is grave charge even for
the Union to make; but who expects less from
such a source, when it is remembered that the
Union is edited by E. g. Eastman!--the same
individual who edited the Nashville American
in 1850 when the compromise was pending be-
fore Congress; and when that infamous band of
traitors-of shOm E. G. Eastman was one
met in solemn conclave in the Nashville Con-
vention to plot the downfall of the Union: East
man opposed to the "btter end" the Compro-
mise and was in favor Of disunOn. If his course
in that matter was not treason we think good
old Noah Webster knew but little what he was
about when he defined the word. This Conven-
ton Of traitors laid down platform which was
50 rife with treason, that the Hon. Andrew j.
Donelson denounced it, and the Hon. VIM. H.
Polk and other patriotic Tennessee Democrats
There being no wings in it) left the infamous
gang of foul conspirators, and Eastman took his
stand upon it and declared that the gates of
hell should not prevail against it, And now
the Scribe of This convention, " hith has become
more odious than the Hartford convention,
charges JuHN BELL with tgeasont The devil
never had more mpudence.
Towers are measured by their shadows and
great men by their slanderers and calumniat orS-
If the Union wishes to prejudice the South
against Mr.. BEEL, it has taken the wrong course
it should have praised, not sian tered him.
Mr.. BELL has done what was right and Just,
and the South--the nation, will sustain him.
Tennessee is with him. He represented the
voice Of the peopLe-not of a few boy members
Of the Legislature perhaps-but the bone and
sinew Of the land-the patriotic masses who
can never be gulled, deuded or deceived BY the
Nashville Union. The Nebraska bill is an in
famous fraud-a miserable numbug. 1t is a
trick, deep laid, BY that vile little demagogue,
Steve Douglas, to make him President and at
the same time to build up, resusitate and ele.
waite to public favor the corrupt Administration
which had by its treaehery to the South and
the national men of the North, Frustrated itself
in the dust. These are the objects of this bill,
and Mr.. BELL most ably exposed it. Other
Southern men saw through this infamous SWIM
die, but had not The nerve to meet the issue
JOIN BELL who met and conquered Old HEX
org, met it like man and a patriot, looking
alone to the good of his country. The same
courage that animated his bosom when he stood
forth solitary and alone and battled against the
Hero Of the Hermitage, nerved him in standing
firm and opposing solitary and alone among the
Southern Wings in the Senate, this bill. 1t is
peculiarly proper that the man who planted the
Wing banner over the Hickory tree of the Her
mitage, should stand fearessly by the Union
and oppose bill which, if passed will arouse
tempest of agitation that will shake it to its
centre, if it does not produce its DOWNFALL
JOHN BELL is not the man to run after any
weak and fimsy dogma to-day merely because
It may seem popular. He looks to the good of
his country and acts accordingly. His course
is marked out by wise craftsmanship and
prompted By the purest and loftiest impulses OF
patriotism This Nebraska bill is corrupt
1tdu0 IL dOCS IuS COMPROMISE VI AO-"j ."
solemn compact entered into between the North
and the South. The South should abide by it,
HENRY CLAY immortalized his name in the
course he took in favor of the Compromise of
1920 and won the title of the great Compro-
miser. Let us stand by the Compromise, and
not rive nothern abolitionist an excuse for vio-
lating and disregarding the Compromise of
1850. Both were adopted as ".fuat'ty," and
let the South be true to her plighted faith and
preserve her honor. This scheme of the little
giant is corrupt and no good can emenate from
= The fountain is corrupt and the stream can
not be pure. Tennessee is with JOIN BELL
aud the gallant CULLUM, BuGG, and the eio'
ouent and gifted ETHE 'IDGE, her representa-
tiyes in Congress who have nobly opposed this
bill. Eonorto these gallant sons OF gallant
State, for their noble course. Tennessee VIII
nobly sustain them. Tennessee is a Compro-
mise-abiding, Union-loving State, and will al
ways sustain her representatives who will prop
erly represent her.
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