The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-07-31
Correspondence Of The Nashville True Wing.
A Warning 70 the People.

III TULLAHoMA, July y, 1880
! Important events are upon us-a great issue is
peHding-a mighty struggle is now going on, and
, between whom? Who are the contending parties9
{ The answer is-those in power and those to whom
power belongs-the Government and the People.
The right of the people to govern has become a
queston--their capacity to govern is denied-their
sovereignty has passed from them into hands who
refuse to give it back demand.
have been removed from this little post Office
concern here, for entertaining and expressing my
political opinions-not abusing any body, bat for
advocating the true Democratic Republican Prin-
ciples taught by all the fathers and the sages
Of our Government. l learned my first lessons on
} Government from them--I still prefer them, and
adhere to them. l would not abide in error if
knew it, / am now advanced in years, behind me
is trail Of much reflection, and what my judgment
approves l am not ashamed, nor am / afraid to ad.
vocste it and for this secretly, if not insidi-
ously supplanted and that, too, by being removed,
as unworthy, from little office of more trouble
than profit aud less honor than either Such an
Office is too small thing for me to hold By tenure
of gagsm, the slightest surrender of the right Of
thought or speech, on subjects connected with the
interest of my country. l have beheld for some
time, the Keeling platform of my party but was not
aware that such great ends as are perched upn the
tower of the future, were to be accomplished by
such small means; but this is all right-power is
unit.
am grateful to my friends who aided me in get.
ting the ofiice-and also, in helping me out of it
but would have been more grateful had they been
less silent and secret about it.
am sorry to find some who feel the sting OF the
trick adding falsehood to their shame, BY saving
my removal was not on political account, but on
pecuniary considerations have receipts for all
dues up to the first day of this month.
| In relation to the American party. as called
when first presented, the threatenings with which
1T appeared were such to justify every friend to
the South and the Union in looking into it, if for
no other purpose, the better to guard against any
secretly plotted innovation upon its harmony and
safety. Finding the principles TO be such as &C.
corded with those long entertained by the Demo-
cratic party, why should denounce them? So far
as foreign and Roman Catholic influence is EN-.
braced in the creed, it has been an acknowledged
principle of Southern Democracy until the present
canvass opened for Governor. You may talk to the
masses about it-about its harmlessness, and all
that, but reading men know the contrary. What
did zen. Washington mean when solemnly warning
US against parties generally" in the States, saying
at the same time, 'they opened the avenues to for
eign influence and corruption, which find facili.
tated access to the government itself, through the
channels of party passionH"
was appointed one of the delegates to the con-
vention which nominated Gov johnson. did not
attend but looked to the action of that bodv with
deep anxiety. When l saw the published pro.
ceedings, regretted exceedingly to find them pac.
ing Gov. johnson in position in which would
not have placed a friend, unless had designed
his downfall. Seeing this, waited with anx
iety for his acceptance. When that came out
upon the broad Democratic principles, yet con.
soed myself with the consideration that Gov. John.
son had too much good sense and prudence to suf
fer himself to be led into a canvass marked out by
lines too humisting for a candidate for the highest
Office in the proud State Of Tennessee His nomi.
nation being by minority of the counties in the
State, the course now taken by the old crafts.
men Of the party, as volunteers in the canvass
goes to justify suspicion at least, that they only
wish to band up the party so as to secure it from
wreck, even should johnson "fall by the hand
of Saul"
But to my grief, Gov. johnson humbled to the
plot, and stopped to course calculated to overload
the canvass with elements of dssension distracting
the public mind-spreading strife through every
avenue of society," splitting up the peace and har-
mony of families and severing the affections of
friends
| Had he discussed the leading measures Of State
polcy-our internal improvements, education, az.
| riculture, school funds, financial lisbiities-and
shown to the people how he had managed their
State affairs, his intention would have been better
known and the people more united, the government
better understood, and the people encouraged in
their pursuits and enterprise Such would have
been the course adapted to his station, and congo
NAL to the dignity of the State The people are
appreciating these things; they think about them,
they feel about them, aud are acting in reference
TO them.
This is not ell. In making the canvass a strug.
gle for the power OF Office, he was driven to the
necessity Of waving some of the principles pre-.
viously held and the advocacy of others never be-
fore owned or acknowledged, inviting the aid and
afliliaton Of the North the balancing power, by
holding out, OF rather opening the way for North
ern patronage in the next Presidential election.
The North is looking new to Tennessee and the
result of the present election as ominous of her
triumph on the slavery question. She says, slavery
is sectional and not a national issue" Democ.
racy says national platform can exist embracing
slavery. This is urged as an objection to the
American platform. Il is not national, they say,
nor it be; hence the American party has already
divided the Union, which the Democratic party has
to reunite, and that, too, By afiiating with the
North and yielding to her demands. The court.
ship Is now going on--love letters are passing
through the Cincinnati and Cleveland papers; and
when these bans shall be published the South win
have TO pay the supper and music bill
IL IA said tha L.. Il al,