Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1855-12-14
Charge of AbolitiOnism against the
American Party North Unfounded.

terrain sentiments hostile to the further spread
of slavery in the territories, or to the admls-
sion of more slave States into the Union, il
does so at the expense Of its own character a:
candid and reliable journal. When it tells
its readers, as it does in an article on Tuesday
morning, that "Abolitionists proper, the Fn'
sionists and Northern Know Nothings," las it
styles Americans,) differ only in regard TO the
American measures of reform, and agree IN
their opposition to slavery and the interests Of
the South, it tells them what it cannot adduce
an iota of evidence to prove. 1t was con-
scious Of making a statement which its con-
science could not sanction as true, and hence
it seeks to divide the responsibility with its CO
the assertion as adapted to all ATTITUDES, evin-
cling a desire that it should be extensively
copied. 1t perhaps hopes it may gain strength
and force by repetition. 1t cannot do it. II
1 is one of that class of charges whose very abb
surdity proves their falsity. No amount of en-
dorsement, in quarters high or low, can lend 1t
O shadow Of truth, or give it dignity or de-
icency Though a thousand throats should
proclaim it, and the winds of as many lati-
tudes should watt it to every corner of civil
zation, it will still be what it was when fresh
from the lips of its originator, ptiful SANDER
upon large portion Of well-intentioned and
patriotic citizens of the North
That there are abolitonists in the American
party in the Northern States that there are
free-soilers in it, that there are in it men who
believe African slavery to be an evil in the
sight of Heaven, ard blighting curse wherev-
er It exists, and who desire to see it hemmed
within its present limits, we do not doubt, but
we deny that a very large majority of that
party hold these opinions, or desire to act with
those who are fanatically attempting to force
them on the people Of the South.
That paper knows this to be true, and knew
! it when it consented to repeat the charge of
the Times 1t knows that the national au-
thorities of the American party did, in June
last, what no National Convention of his par
1 ty ever did or dared to do. 1t assumed such
broad, national and patriotic premises of ac-
ton, that sectiOnalists and abolitionists openly
broke ground and left them even before they
had adopted their platform. Immediately their
ears caught the thrilling notes of patriotism
which sound through every line of the Phila-
delphia platform, they fled precipitately.
They held nothing in common with the glori-
Gus band of patriots who framed and adopted
as their political creed, that matchess instru-
ment of wisdom and conservative statesman
ship. When the national democracy meet to
construct platform, they take care to have
convenient corner and an accommodating
plank for all sorts of men, with all sorts of
opinions With the magic Gordon of the
spoils, they can bind together extremists OF
every section and every hue and shade of po
ltical complexion. These accomplished politi
cal alchemists have discovered in the spois of
office a wonderful agency, enabling them to
blend and mingle into one harmonious whole,
all the incompatibilites and contrarieties of
sentiment. This done the spois-agglutinated
party can boast loudly of lis nationality, and
thunder forth its denunciations of great and
growing body of patriots who have formed an
association purged and purified of everything
which does not look to the interests Of the
country as paramount to those of party.
We scarcely know how to speak in respect
full and becoming terms of some portions of
the Union and American'S article and yet do
Justice to the unreasonable contempt we feel
for it, In itself, it is beneath notice, but its
appearance in the leading print of its party in
the State, will give it more or less Importance.
1t ought to have had more respect for the
common sense Of its readers, than 20 try to
make them believe that the Americans of the
North and the Abolitionists are striving which
could perfect better the "Anti slavery organi-
cation" Shame should kinde consuming fire
on his cheeks whenever his eye meets a repe
titon of bis monstrous and unfounded charge.
In a comparison of the blackness of Sam and
Sambo," he should look inwards and contem-
plate the condition of heart which instigated
this aspersion Of the patriotism Of Northern
Americans.
What the Louisville Journal stated in re-
gard to the American ticket, in the Northern
States, being separate and distinct from the
Black Republican, Fusion, Free soil, or Abo-
litiou ticket, was true, and the inference which
it drew was that which every fair aud i'm
partial mind could only draw-that there was
between the tickets direct antagonism of
views and feelings-the one advocating meas
ures of reform, which will protect our gov
eminent and people from tho dangerous influ-
ence of foreign Interference, and the pernicious
designs of a foreign church hierarchy, and de-
string to Danish from the public counsels and
public mind the discussion of the slavery ones
ton; the other promoting lis agitation and
engendering sectional strife. That is q true
statement of the case. The American party
North and South desire that the country shall
rest from the perplexing disturbances which
grow ont Of that question. Americanism and
Aboltionism are the aniipodes of each other.
Whenever you see true American you do not
see an Abolitiouist or Disunionist, no mat
ter what State or section of the Union claims
his nativity. lie is committed against ex-
tremism in whatever shape it comes. 1t is
opposed to every law of his nature, and every
trait in his character. Conservatism is the
one great aud Interchangeable idea and object Of
his being, as indispensable to liS existence as
the circumsmbient air is 10 physical life. His
heart is big enough to grasp 10 the fold Of its
affections every inch of his country's territory,