The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-07-18
Are you Ready for the Conflict

fict rapidly approaches. Two-weeks from to-
morrow, your lines will close in with those Of
your opponents throughout the State, for VIC
tory or defeat. Are you all readyS In many
localities we rejoice to know that you are, and
that you are painting for the onset, anxious and
determined to give new pledge of your love
of civil liberty and political truth by acts of
fidelity and devotion to the great AMERICAN
cause Let your movements be active, vigi-
liant and united-as of one man-animated
by the controlling, patriotic sentiment of
antagonism to "the insdious wiles of foreign
influence" to error and delusion in all its pro-
team forms inimical to the great principle that
Americans shall govern America" and glo-
rious reward awaits you. In other localities,
we fear your organization is not so complete
and harmonious as it should be--as justice to
your cause, and the success due to patriotic
aspirations require. To members of the party,
wherever this may be truly said Of them, we
would respectfully address a word of warning,
admonition and entreaty:-"Set thy house in
ORDER" and "what thou doest do quickly"
The great American party with which you
are identified, has sprung from the heart-crav-
ing of the American people for something
more rational, more earnest, more consistent
and nationally comprehensive, than exists
elsewhere in the party organizations of the
present day, to quiet sectional agitation, and
restrain the baneful spread of foreign iniu-
ence in our political counsels. Sooner or later,
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it is destined, as surely as the American union
shall be permanent, to become the controlling
party of the country. The mission imposed
upon it by the exigencies of the times, and
recognized in the basis of its organization, is
TO strange sectionalsn, by whatever name it
may be called, at the North or at the South,
and to foster the heart-warm, profound, all
pervading American sentiment, which recog-
nizes the preservation Of the Federal Union
upon the basis of the Constitution, as para
mount duty-"the primary object of patriotic
DESIRE"
American friends of Tennessee, the enviable
distinction has fallen to your lot, of acting side
by side with your honored sister State, Ken
lucky, in the van of this great and patriotic
movement. You have enlisted for the war.
These are regarded, and justly, We are proud
20 believe, by conservative men North and
South, as the soundest States in the Federal
Union upon strictly national issues. Their
united shouts of triumph in August for our
glorious principles, will carry dismay to the
hearts of factionsts in every nook and corner
of our wide spread domain, and give new,
irresistible impetus to the great movement of
the age. The American party, if defeated in
Tennessee and Kentucky, win be "cast down
but not destroyed-defeated but not Su5dued!"
It's ultimate destiny is, certain, inevitable tri-
umph, as sure as the Union endures:
'Truth crushed to earth, will rise again
The eternal years Of God are hers! "
But THEY will lose glorious opportunity to
illustrate upon the page of history the already
envisble record of their enlightened patriot
ism, and their honorable devotion to the Con-
stitution and the Union!
Who then, in such case, with such incen-
tives to active duty, such momentous interests
at stake for the present and all the future, will
prove laggard in the hour of CONFLICT. Amer
lean friends in Tennessee, let no such imputa-
ton rest upon you'll We believe, we are sure,
you will not. Then, UP. betimes, and burnish
your armor for the fight. Your gallant lead
ers are in the field. Your cherished banner
is proudly unfurled upon every hilltop and in
every valley of our beloved Tennessee! Rally |
to il, as one man, with one heart, one mind,
one purpose. Close up your ranks. Allsy
Discussions, if any exist among yourselves
keep constantly in view the old revolutionary
motto" Every thing for the cause, nothing
for men :" These are but the recognized
teachings of your truly AMERICAN credible
patriotic aspirations and impulses it suggests
and enforces in every line.
Our opponents are making unexampled ef-
forts to overwhelm you with ignominious de-
feat. When, before, were the active efforts of
three distinguished ofiice-holders of the party,
under the Federal and State Governments,
called to their aid in a State canvass in Ten
nessee Such facts show that their hopes are
as desperate rs their efforts are Herculean.
But, Americans, such extraordinary efforts on ,
their part, must be met and overcome by cor I
responding exertions on your part.
We are glad TO be able to say, from all the
information within our reach, our prospects
for glorious victory are cheering, and daily |
becoming more encouraging. Our cause gath /
ers strength as investigation progresses. Work, !
woRK-well directed, concerted EFFoRr-unity /
of purpose and harmony of counsel, is all that !
is necessary 10 insure success. We believe the /
requisite effort win be made, and success
secured Many able and good men arc enlist
ed in the cause, with all the enthusiasm of vo-
taries TO patriotic duty. Let Others go out!
Whoever has call to duty--to active eGorl