Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-06-22

4 sound1ess. which they were aware would lead
aim to an early grave. Nor is this very much 10
be regretted There is no denying that among ns
qualities there was decided rredc minarcy OF 'ie
uBwhoiesome. He was not 'gp~Rs sdaG az eo'Po'e
S1no His body wasa complication OF '"u'e'e
diseases his soal nest OF ferocious passiohs' Iu
his mind a tumble of homogeneous opihohs. nc
was at once hypocrits and = 'ana'lc.s
for righteousness and offender against every
moral precept-s boaster anu aeo"AiuS pa
tan and lbertine.
No one can DENY that SAN died q natural death,
and came TO an end which was most appropriate as
!. Termination to such an existence. Constituted
so a. 10 be necessarily the embodyment of con.
fictng anaticisms, the tendency TO intestine dis
turbance in his system has been imminent and per-
petual and il s probable that posterity will be will
ing to admit that The only thing really commend
able in his history is the fact that he died 1t has
for some time. been becoming more and more
evident that he had lived long enough for he who
survives his friendships is, of all Others, the most
unhappy. AS his powers deeayed, it was apparent
that his friends were deserving him. Our cotem-
porsries Of the Cincinnati Go=ette Ohio State Jour
nal, Cleveland Herald and so forth, only few days
ago pattng him upon shoulder, sleeping with him,
drinking his liquor, and trying to win his money,
have found another upon whom they are lavishing
their affection, go that in etrcmis he had none TO
receive his parting sigh but poor old Pdp-none
but be to howl q melancholy requiem over his cold
remains. Requaescati Reguiescot in paoef
1t is evident that the Convention at Philadelphia
has included among its members the extremes oil
both Northern and Southern fsnaticisms This is
an idea that is worthy to be borne in mind by those
who prone to trenble premsturely for the safe.
ty of the Union. Neither the average Northern
nor the average Southern sentiment is represented
in that body Its debates are the clashings of two
.ar
could have expected anything else? Understand
that know-nothingism is merely form of religio.
political fanaticlsn, and there is no difficulty in the
solution of the problem. We suggested, some time
since that ii would probably be found that those
who had been previously infected by other form;
of fsnsticism, would run the most readily into this
and that experience would demonstrate that know.
| nothingism at the North would embody large
! proportion OF the ant-Slavery and at the South
large proportion of the pro Slavery zealots. Such
appears to be the fact and the death of know moth
ingsn, as national political agent, by the mutua
repusion of its elements therefore, is natural a:
| anything IN its history.
We have, on several occasions, remarked thai
the existence Of fanaticism might be detected by
its constant tendency to act in opposition to it
professions. This tendency is especially observa
bic in the doings OF the assembly at Philadelphia
This body of men is composed of UNION SAVERS
individuals who have risen to the third degree il
Nothingism, and who have assumed to them
selves, under the sanction OF solemn oaths and i'm
posing ceremonies, the sacred and especial duty t
| preserve this confederacy from dissolution. Ii
view of their mission to save the Union, and witt
the declared intent to devise ways aud means fol
that purpose, they convene. For several day.
they wrangle, they debate, they discuss and nego
ciate; and, in The end, unable to agree, iucapsbl,
to compromise, incompetent to reason, with pas
sions heated to rage and bigotry stimulated 10 fe
rocity, they part in hate, amid volley of rnutua
threats and ordinations So far as they can do it
the Union is dissolved, but, let God be thanked
the Union-the blessed, glorious Unions not il
the keeping of these madmen, Little is it thai
KNow-NoTaNG SAM-the embodiment of political
idiocy-can do to save or to destroy. Let US res
content: the Union, in spite of thousand such
omens, is not in danger. 1t is Sam who s dead
and not the confederscy.