Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-05-17
orr CORRESPONDENCE.
RUTHERFORD Co, May

RUTHERFORD Co, May IA.
MEssRs EDrToRs: I feel Inundated to think that
the great wing press of Tennessee should be so
controlled by these modern phosphorescent Ram
shackles, that an honest, daylight wing is not even
allowed corner for word or suggestion to his
old party associates This brings me under the
necessity of submitting few reflections to them
through the democratic press.
l wish to ask the true wings of Tennessee, the
old line Clay wings, why was not our nomination
for Governor made as heretofore, in Convention, in
accordance with the will of the majority? Must
the great wing party of Tennessee tamely submit
to be forestalled in its action, and that by man
who has never recanted the remaks made by him
in Congress in 1852, with reference to destroy
ing the wing party" branding them with infamy,
&c. For what end are we called on in the name
of Brownlow, Cullom, Gentry, &c, to relinquish
the timehonored name of whig that name under
which the fathers of &c were proud to rally, to
band ourselves by solemn oa:hs into secret So
ciety, whose name and purposes are to the worlds
matter of conjecture1
Who Is there so blind as not to know that their
alleged object of putting down Catholics and for
eigners," is mere paltry pretext2 Was our sup
port of Gen. Scott such an infamous deed, and is
our condition as party so desperate, that we must
ioin this inflated Caesar in his work of promised de-
structon, and go back with him and revive the
principles of religious intolerance, that were so ef
fectually crushed in Great Britain by the lsbors of
Burke, Canning, Brougham, Chalmers, and O. her
illustrous patriots of the wing party of England2
Can any one for moment suppose that sensible
men can be duped or frightened into the notion
that the Catholics of North America acknowledge
the political supremacy of the Pope2 l am at
loss to know how any Southern man can reconcile
it with his feeling, to be bound by oath to support
the DEGREES and nominations of this organization
when he has every to believe that tour-h'ths
of their members are the vilest abolitonists. See
ing that their elections at the North, have almost
invariably resulted in the elevation of abotionists
to Office, we cannot regard the ostensible opposl-
ton of some few prominent aboltionists, but as
the merest affectaton for the purpose of seducing
the South into it.
II they remain stesdfast to their league until the
next presidential election, their oaths will bind
them to support the nominee of the majority, who
it is evident must be an abolitonist and they may
then, if not before, well ask themselves what has
the wing party gained by this disgraceful episode
It will then be seen, that it has done heavy work
in denationaliziug and abolitionizng both parties
the North.
If Gentry is elected, which do not expect, I
shall disdain to claim it a wing victory; and IN
til candidate is brought forward, who is a repre-
sentative of the wing party, will "stand alOcf from
The contest" am free to say, however, thatif one
role would decide the election between the present
candidates, would not hesitate to cast it for John
SON SCoTT WIG.