Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-06-17
THE GAZETTE ON GOV, JONES.

Brownlow's Wing announces that the Nashville
Gazette is the official organ of the know-nothings
The following from the Gazette of the 9th June,
may therefore, we suppose, be set down as the of
dJia" opinion Of the know-nothings of Gov.
JoSEs-the man whose exertions on the stump Sc
cured the vote Of Tennessee to Gen. Scort against
the efforts and Hprsyers' of Col GENTRY We
don't feel any particular interest in the natter but
Mr.. HAYwooD, the whig'candidate for the Legisla-
tire in this county, having commented on the ar
tc!e in the Gazette in his speech last Thursday
night, and defended Gov. JONES, we reproduce the
article to crafty the public curiosity. Perhaps
there are q lew other wings in Tennessee vino may
not like to see their old favorite thus treated by
the "offcial organ" The Gazette says:
JONES LErTER.-James C. Jones has written a
letter on the know-nothings to Captain John Il.
Drake Of Memphis. We think the aforesaid Jones
might, with the utmost propriety, have signed him
+, seif 'your friend and servant James G. Goose
Such dallying with "SaD, and such dlckinq to his
opponents we have seldom had an opportunity of
witnessing before. Such siekly puerile and incon-
sistent arguments we hare seldom listo ne | to-
Seeking at one and the same time to curry favor
with the American party and with its opponents he
will signally fail with both. He already is, and
for some time has been emphaticaly dead
cock in the politicel pit. If he hopes that
either party, in consequence of this last gigan-
tic effort at resuscitation, will stoop to blow the
breath of political life into his deiunct carcass, he
grieveously errs. Sam" would 80 loathe his efem-
mate, anmanly, honeyed words as to shudder at the
touch of "the unclean thing" while the opposition
party after having used him the tool whereby to
make themselves gain will kick him out at the back
door, TO take his place among those menials who
beg the crumbs that drop from their masters table.
The man who dares not assume the responsibility of
hold ground is not one to whom the nation looks
in this day of her trial. "He who is not for me- is
against me- says "Ssm" The idea Il a: the old
political opponents of Jones will now take him to
their arms for other than selfish ends is grossly
absurd They may, and likely will cajole him into
their ranks for c., purpose and then spurn him
from them a. he deserves to be. He has volun-
tarily taken upon himsefthe '9ukewarm" character,
and the American and the anti-American parties
will alike "spue him out of their mouths" HIS
brains were never Of remarkable proiundity, and in
their shallowness exhibited in this instance is re-
fected this certain truth. He fell like a fluttering
fish out of his native elemant into the United States
Senate, and there he died. His light fins alas
were not formed TO swim among whales. This late
letter is his final spasm His race s run his career
ended, and with whatever grace is left unto the
tickle and the shallow minded, let him now with
draw from the political arena. KnowNothings
and anti-K aow- Nothings, Wings and Democrats,
.mie ptiiny upon him as they wave his exit forth.
Farewell TO his transparent greatness