Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1855-12-19

ginning to rebuke them. A
| We presented our readers yesterday with an
extract from tile Virginia Sentinel, of Alexsn-
dris, in which it was declared that many men,
bers of the Democratic organization lad ''ShOun
more partisanisu than patriotism" and their
course of conduct deprecated.
The Pottsville Pa) Mining Register, another
Democratic paper, says:
ave are apprehensive that our Democratic
friends, in resolving TO stick 10 their nominee frs,
and last will prsrent an organization Of the HOUSE
on conprOfniSe Of U1uo,, against tie sgger
or Repu5licdn' party; and that in the end, it may
result IN Just such organization as the Admins
trnon and the country ciit most regret As the mat
ter stands, there are many national men in that
House, who, while they opposed to President
Pierce and his administration, nevertheless are in
avorof territorial sovereignty on the slavery cues
ton and like Fuller are disposed TO be reasonable
and liberal. II is for tie Administration to Sag
Uhether 1t toiU make a compromise icih national
americans, or give the BLACK REPUBLICANS THE cos.
TRoL or THE HOUSE,"
The Sentinel and the Register are not so
blinded by partisanism that they cannot see
things as they really are. The true question,
as the latter indicates, is now arbether the ID
1linistration Democrats wiU make compro-
mise upon Fuller aouh the National americans
or GIVE THE BLACK REPUBLICANS TIE CON RoL
OF THE HOUSE. And how does the organ OF
the Administration, the Washington Union,
meet this question We are sorry to say, in a
manner repugnant to every sense OF justice
and propriety. Instead of encouraging and
sustaining conservative Northern men, upon
whom the South can depend for support, in
the hour of peril, it turns upon Mr.. Fuller with
deavors to destroy his reputation for Nation
atty, and to dscredit those Southern members
who are voting for him. 1t says:
"But with all respect to Mr.. Fuller, it is proper
that should state that although ne is said to be
the best Of the Northern opposition candidates for
Speaker he is among the very last that any Demo.
crat support Though not personally identified
with Gov. johnson, Of Pennsylvania he is known to
have acted with that notorious Abo!tonist when he
was candidate; aud in the late Abolition fusion in
| Pennsylvania against the Democracy, Mr. Fuller
was, Of course, participant, or else he could not
have received the votes OF the Abolition members
of the present Congress from Pennsylvania as can
didate for Speaker The Southern Representatives
who have voted for Mr. Fuller, have doubtless done
40 believing him 10 be eminenty national Whig
but we think, when his last Congressional canvass
is developed their constituents and his more re-,
cent identity with the fusion Representatives from
Pennnsy lvania that they will not find it very easy
matter to justify their enthusiastic preference for
such a mani What absurdity and prOtIigacy then
20 expect the Democracy Of tue House TO leave such
a candidate as the gallant Richardson for FulleIl'
viii candid Democrats approve such
wholesale detracLion as this2-wi chivalrOus
Tennesseans see one of the gallant band of
Northern men who stood by them amidst the
perils of 1850, and supported the Compromise
which gave peace to the country, stricken
down to subserve the behests of party ?-to
clothe the followers of Greeley and Sumner
with power2
The charge made by the Union that Mr..
Fuller was participant" in the "late abo-
liton fusion in Pennsylvania against the De-
mOcracy," is untrue. He did not sympathise
with the fusion movement, in any way. He
maintained the national position he occu-
pied in 1850, and is opposed to all agitation of
slavery issues. In a word, he cordially subscri-
bes to the American sentiment that the perpe-
tuity Of the Union is paramount to all other
considerations, and as the agitation Of the ques
ton Of sLdUery has direct tendency to wedken
the bonds Of the Union, he IS resOLoed TO resist
and preoent by his action, the introduction be- |
fore Congress Of any proposition inpOl0ing the
subject Of Involuntary serUitude. These we
are assured are his sentiments; and taken in
connection with his letter which we published
last Monday, and which we append to this ar
ticle, they constitute him one of the soundest
and most reliable men of the North. A glow
of Indignation should mantle the cheek of
every Southern Union man, when be reads
such ungenerous aud Guwarranted accusations
as those of the Union. "RULE OR RUIN" is
the spirit which animates the administration
Organ. "Come and take Richardson, but it
must be as captain and not as captive; we
shall not move a peg to prevent the flag of
Abolitionism from floating in triumph from
the Capitol" This Is the unspeakably despi-
cable spirit which controls and gives voice TO
the Forney Administration Organ, which has
shouted when National Democrats have been
guillotined, and rubbed its itching palms" in
ecstacy when Free Sellers and Disunionists
have been appointed to offices of high trust
aud honor. In its guilty labors, it finds Hon
ACR GREELEY an active and able co-adutor-
The sheets 90 the Union containing the above
onslaught on Mr.. Fuller had scarcely dried, be-
fore the Tribune appeared with an onslaught
by GREELEY on the Northern conservatives
who have steadily refused to vote for his can.
didate. That the guilty tools OF agitation
may be defeated, is our most sincere desire.
WILKEsBARRE, Dist Nov, 1855.
Nv DEAR SIR - Absence from home has DELAY.
ed reply to your esteemed favor Of the 18th inst.
With regard 20 my opinion in the matter to
which your letter refers, | simply remark that |
supported the Compromise Measures Of 1880. and
have not changed my views upon the subjects they
embraced. ..'
The question OF slavery have ever been dis
posed TO leave with the people OF the States where