The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-11-14
Legislative Summary.

Legislative Summary.
In the Senate, in the morning, memorials in
regard to Merchants License were presented
by Mr.. Whitthorne, from citizens of Hickman,
and by Mr.. johnson, from citizens of David
son, and referred. The bill to increase the
salary Of the Attorney General and Reporter
of the State to $500 per snnum, was reject
ed, ayes IL, noes II. The Committee on the
Judiciary recommended the rejection of the
bill increasing the jurisdiction of Circuit
Courts, VIRTUALLY abolishing Chancery Courts
and the bill and report were laid on the table
The bill to repeal the Free Banking Law was
rejected, ayes 10, noes 10, and motion enter
ell to reconsider the vote. The bill to estab-
lish the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, composed of
the counties Of Bledsoe, Morgan, Scott, Fem
tress, Putnam, White, Cumberland and Van
Buren,, and adding Sumner county to the
Fourth Judicial Circuit, and also providingfo
the election of Judge and Attorney General
for the said Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, was Ia
ken up and discussed, and finally passed second
reading, ayes IA, noes 9.
In the House, in the morning, number of
resolutions were introduced, which lie over
under the rule. Bills of a general character
were introduced, by Mr.. Cox, to protect the
lay members of all religious denominations in
the State from the domination of the clergy;
also, to prescribe the duties and liabilities of
inn-keepers, and by Mr.. Travis to authorize
railroad companies to increase their capital
stock in certain cases. House bill prohibiting
Justices of the Peace from serving on Grand
Juries, was indefinitely postponed.
In the afternoon, Mr.. Temple introduced
bill exempting certain property from execu-
ton. The bill to enforce the laws of the State
was indefinitely postponed.
ts- Some days since we cut from an exchange,
among news items, article on the Baltimore cleo
tons. The True Wing says that this article was
changed from the Baltimore Clipper, and made TO
censure the Know Nothing party by "transposng
the position of parties" This same paragraph, ex-
acty as we published it, has appeared in many OF
the Southern papers. If the statement OF the True
Vhiq is true, about which we know nothing, then
somebody is entitled to the merit Of changing
false paragraph SO as to make it tell the truth
VITO did this we know not. We printed it as we
cut Il from an exchange; and as printed it, It
told the truth. But the merit of making truth
out of falsehood is not, in this case, OURS The
paragraph in our paper did not pretend TO copied
from the Clipper; and, therefore, the calling It
forgery" is-agf.
The Union and American excuses itself for /
publishingan articlefrom the Baltimore Clipper
fastening the responsibility of the riots in that
city on the anti-American party, altered so as
10 change its meaning, by substituting "Know
Nothing" for Democrat or "anti-American,"
by saying that it was published in many of
the Southern papers," and claims the chang
ing of the language of the article writ
fen by the editor of the Clipper, so as to make
1t mean directly the opposite of its original
meaning and intention, as a INERT" 1t may
he merit to forge and counterfeit in this
way in our neighbours estimation, but we hold
Il 70 be rascalty Of the most unblushing cha
racter, whoever perpetrates it. The Union
and american says "the paragraph in our pa
per did not pretend to be copied from the Clip
per, aid therefore the calling it forgery is
,ta6." OF course ait did not pretend to be
copied from the Clipper" but it '0ds copied
from the Clipper originally, fact which we
have abundantly proved by publishing the
whole article from which it DdS cut; and
therefore it was most INSCRIPTIONS aud ia-
grant forgery; and though the Union and
American disclams what it calls the "merit "
Of this forgery" that paper occupies the po-
sition, and refuses to purge itself Of the igno-
my, of particeps crimiHis, having palmed this
forgery on its readers as a genuine document.
We hope it enjoys the "merit" thus far, at
least, and 10 secure itself in the perpetual en-
oyment thereof, it will be certain never to
tell its readers how it has duped and deceived
and imposed upon them.