Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1855-12-18
Ihe Election of Speaker- Democratic
Partfsaufsm.

prospect of an election. The Democratic news
papers are generally encouraging the Demo-
cratic members to adhere to their position to
the bitter end, and few of them are max
ing assaults upon Hon. II. NJ FULLER, the can
dldate upon whom the national Americans
have concentrated. The Washington Union
has given them the word, and we may soon ex-
lPect all Of the pack TO open in full cry, deter
mined TO hnnt down this conservative Nation
al Statesman, whose record should command
for him the respect aud confidence of every
citizen who desires to preserve tie peace aud
qaie; of the country. In pursuing this course
the Democracy are giving - aid and comfort u
to the Black Republicans who are bringing
every appliance to bear, publicly through the
press, sud privately by personal appeals,
to detach from Mr.. FULLER portion of the
Northern memters supporting him, and TO
carry them over TO Mr.. BANKS. Should tie
! Washington Union and its colabOrers succeed
in sowing seeds Of distrust IN the minds of
Southern American members. as to the sound
ness of Mr.. Fuller, and cause ttem, or por-
/ ton of them, to abandon him, then there
would be no chance for the election of any
National man. Greeley, Seward, Wilson, and
other Black Republicans who are daily in at
tendance, cheering on their friends, and en-
deavoring to break down Mr.. Fuller, and his
gallant band of Nationals, would see their
candidate elected through the instrumentality
of "a Ipmnprapy- 10 lly oh
for Mr.. RICHARDSON. The caucus which nomi-
mated him adopted resolution declaring
that the American Party had assailed the
doctrines Of civil and religious liberty "a
wanton and undignfed sspersIon of the pa
triotism of every member of the Party-aud
with that insult still ringing In their ears, they
could not with any show of selfrespect, if they
had no other reason, aid in eecting Mr.. Rich
ardson Speaker. Under these circumstances,
unless the Democratic members wish to place
the Black Republicans in a position which Will
increase their power for mischief, they ought
having stood by their candidate sufficiently
long to attest their confidence in him and
their attachment to the principles he rep
lreaents-to meet the other n ational members
of the House and end the contest They
can elect National man in Mr.. Fuller, a man
committed against all agitation OF questions
connected with slavery, and thus defeat the
great Northern Black Republican movement.
The dictates of true love of country point
10 such a course. A demonstration of this
Oh would rasplt rrOkahI,, an IIoro of
good feeling" advantageous to the conserva-
tism of the Nation. Prompted by patriotic
conservative impulses, the Virginia Senti-
mel, democratic paper published at Alexan-
and in its impression of the 1lth, deprecates
the spirit which governs "many members" of
the democratic organization in the House,
saying
They have shown more partizanship than
patriotism. Some even aver that they would
'like for the ABoLITIoNIsTs TO CONTROL TIE
ORGANIZATION in order to make them respon-
''sible before the country"
The Sentinel goes on to disapprove the policy
OF putting Abolitionists into power as a means
of destroying them, asking with striking peril
nence, ifputting Giddings, Seward, and Others,
into power, or Office, has destroyed them, or
their power to DO mischief. Such reflections
as these are entitled to great weight, and if
democratic members of Congress disregard
them, the honest masses of the people, We are
sure, will not. If sectional agtator succeeds,
upon the democratic members of the House
the responsibility will rest. The people should
understand this now, whilst the movements
are in progress which must end either in a tri-
umph of sound Conservatism or of Abolition
ism with the connivance of the Democracy.
The latter is to be feared, for the Democracy
caused the agitalions which have brought the
present condition of affairs upon the country;
and the party reduced to desperate straits
would keep up strife, in the hope, like Wilkins
Macawber, that something may {" turn up" TO
its advantage. Such a result the excessive
partisanism Of the Democracy leads US to ap-
prehend. We may do that party injustice
but the future will determine. We shall lie
gratifed if it prove otherwise.