The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-09-26
A Patriotic Letter.

| a Ratrlofzc Letter.
We find the following letter from Hon. Wal
ter Brashear, an old and honored citizen of
Louisiana, and formerly prominent member
of the democratic party, in the New Orleans
Crescent of the South. 1t was written in re-
8ply to, letter from Mr. Miles Taylor, anti
American candidate for Congress in the New
Orleans District, soliciting the aid of Mr..
Brashear in accomplishing the work of doing
/ all he could to promote the success of the
anti American party. Mr.. B. declines doing
more than to extend the ordinary courtesies
common to friends. He could not do more.
q Although, remarks the Crescent, the frosts of
nearly four-score years have settled upon his
head, his intellect is as clear, and his heart as
full of patriotism as they were in the full flush
of vigorous manhood, when hope danced at
tendance upon a useful present and pointed the
way to brilliant future, all of which was full
ly realized in years of valuable public service,
as the records of the State amply prove. Mr..
/ Brashear could not lend bis influence against
/ his own countrymen, although requested by
Mr.. Miles Taylor He could not consent to
forego the principles be advocated nearly
twenty years ago in the Legislature, wien
| Thomas Green Davidson, DR.. McFarlane, and
many other of our opponents stood by his
side and sustained American doctrines far
more stringent in their application than those
now promulgated in American platforms. The
gathered experience of years has only strength
ened earlier convictions, and the honored and
venerable ex-senator feels renewed and rein
vigorated as the realization of what lie deem
ed essential to the salvation of his beloved
country draws higher and higher to a trium-
plant consummation.
We will not detain our readers further from
the perusal of Mr.. Brashear's letter. As an
ardent admirer of the ilustrious Henry CLAY
once said about his mouth-it speaks for
itself:
a BERwIcK,s BAY, 7th Sept, 1855.
Hon. MILES TAYLOR
My Dear Sir-Your esteemed favor of the 4th
inst was received yesterday, and the contents duly
considered.
Should the lethargy of age not prevent me, l
shall be happy to meet and welcome you 20 ST.
Mary on Wednesday next, in Franklin, as you con-
template being there on that day-when will, as
far as practicable, make you acquainted with such
of my friends will know how to appreciate your
high intelligence-the honorable bearing of your
past life, private and political.
But when you hope for my aid in overthrowing
the Native American organization-an organization
under the name of Know Nothings, which, wheth-
er viewed in its numbers its responsibility of mem.
bers, its ayowed principles offers no exceptional
points to my approval-you but ask me to retract
my course steadily pursued since 1867, and to
retract opinions then entertained in common with
the Hon. Green Davidson, DR.. McFarlane and
many other staunch Democrats, who stood shoulder
to shoulder with me in the Legislature this sub
ject while we were antipodes in sentiment near
ly every other.
You compliment me by saying that 1 have been
the ardent devotee Uf Southern interests and hence
would seem to expect my cooperation in anita
gonsm to the American organization, thereby as
Stunning that organization to be hostile to Southern
interests.
Make that inference appear well founded, and you
will have all the aid octagenarian can give to
put down such q suicidal organization; but you
must not offer as proof the slanderous false |
hoods of its enemies, since know men who do not
deny their fellowship, who would not remain an
hour in the association if but half the reasonable
motives true which have been attributed.
/ do not, however, admit as among legitimate |
means of Southern influence the new and strange |
proposition of Senator Benjamin, in effect, that the
South armed and equipped for war, should array |
itself on Mason and Dixon's line and invite the |
enemy to come onl We have had enough and too |
much of buster-too much of the cowardy gas |
conade directed to the fears of the North, and |
pointing to the battle field as ultimate arbiter-
Southerners have not learned seemingly that there
is to be dreaded from the calm courage which
marches TO the encounter of enemies without threat
noise than from noisy threat and flourshed weap-
ons. An extreme of loneliness, accompanied by /
threats of violence, has characterized Southern |
action on the subject of slavery (thereby fostering
the fire which would otherwise have died QUIT ever
since the constitutional denial OF the right of petit
ton on the subject and tone Of superiority and |
arrogance, more suited to the style of master ad
dressing his slave than to the intercourse of friends
or equals, has peryaded most OF our Southern, |
written spoken productions on the subject
This deplore nearly as much as l do the extreme |
of anaticism and folly which makes the language |
and conduct of the Abolitionist, whose members |
as hope and believe, are few, and who will, do |
not doubt, speedily, under the influence of silence
forever; or, at least, convinced that God Almighty
having admitted slavery into the world if in error
or mistake, has not made it incumbent on them to
assist him to correct il.
In what respect the American party, as SUCH can
endanger the interest of the South, am unable
to comprehend. Certain it is that the neophytes Of
the order hidden to lay aside the principles and
distinctions of the old parties and to promise de-
votion to the great principle that America shall
be ruled by Americans" In this sentiment heart
lily concur and find in the lessons of the past enough
to assure me that whenever it shall have domino
ton over public sentiment none of the disgraceiul
scenes, of Paquemine frauds, and of naturaliza-
ton without residence qualifications, as was made
notorious in Judge Bosworth's impeachment, can
again stain the archives of the country.
II bonn ofG
Ny father, who aided in the emancipation of our
country from the government of the British crown,
left me poor most of the foreigners who come
among us-haying labored through many vicssi-
tudes of fortune for sixty years industriously, So
berry, and in the practice Of economy rear large
family and provide something for my declining
age-I have never been able to perceive the right
in having that DrOperty voted AWAY throuuh dema- |