Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1854-02-03
TIE TENNESSEE DEMOCRACY.

The Democracy Of Tennessee has never besn
more cordially united than it is in the support Of
the present national sdministraiion Theexcepaon-
among our politicians of influence and standin is
solitary; while the democratic press, so FAR as we
know, is aunt We have from time to- time had.
the pleasure of copying from our cotemporaries in
different portions of the State articles III defence ana
approval of the policy of tire administration; and
we to-day add to these expressions the following
from the jackson Democrat:
." As the conductors of a journal devoted to tie
maintenance Of the democratic principles and be
leving that the only surety for the successful MAIN
tenance OF those principles, depends upon the uni
'ty and entirety OF the party it is with extreme
greet that we notice the factous course and appar-
ent opposition Of gentlemen, who have, heretofore,
stood deservedy high in the esteem Of their party
The course of these gentlemen is more to be pitied
than harshly condemned, when we reflect that it is
adefection-the offspring Of disappointed ambition
on the part of themselves or their friends rather
than deviation from the great political landnar ks
of their party. We are all more or less liable to
this frailty, and none so than political aspir-
ants but it is an evil that will cure ITSELF for op-
position to an administration, grounded on. mere
personal pique and malevoence, without the shad-
ow of principle to sustain it, will soon fade away;
for principle, in the end, must, and viii, prevail
For most of these gentlemen, of our faith, who are
now seemingly antagonistic to President Pierce
and his Administration, we have had great admira-
ton and respect; their selfsacrfcing course en-
deared them politically, 10 U.s. but in their present
course cannot sustain them. The strongest at
taehments and prejudices must and will give way,
when party leaders, without just cause and in the
face of principle abandon their party organization.
We have yet to see that President Pierce has prov
ed false to solitary principle of that platform of
principles" which carried the party SO triumphant
ly through the last Presidential contest; and until
he does prove recreant to the trust reposed in him
by his party, we will sustain him. In his nomi-
nation and election, the party had great ends in
view--the correction Of the corruptions and abuses
of former Administration, and, in fne the mod
cling of the Government to the standard Of Demo
cratic principles; administering it in all its various
departments, according to the doctrines Of Jefer-
son. This was the aim and object of the party
They never had in view the elevation and aggran
dizement of any man or set Of men. 1t was .prin-
| clples and not men, that they commended for and
no man, or set of men, on personal grounds, has a
| right to take advantage of misplaced confidence
on the part of their constituents and expect them
to sacrifice principles, on the advocacy of which,
their very existence as political party depends, to
| to their personal advancement and ambition And
these gentlemen will yet learn, if they have not al
ready done so, that a party which stands and acts
| upon prinGple-organized with a view to great
political ends is not easily led astray by mere man
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