Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1855-12-20

from day 10 day, they are answerable for the
continuance Of that strife The gloomy pros
pect which this day greets the patriots vision,
is the legitimate and unavoidable result OF the
introduction of the Kansas and Nebraska Bill.
1t was an evil hour for the Republic when
the scheming brain of that arch demagOgue,
Stephen A. Douglas, originated that movement.
Il has robbed the country Of its peace, and
racked the public mind with anxiety and dire
full forebodings. 1t has undone what all good
men had fondly hoped the Compromise of 1850
had DONE II has renewed the agitation of the
slavery question, and raised up in the North
sectional party more powerful and dangerous
than such party would otherwise have be-
come in fifty years. The flames of discord burn
to-day fercer and hotter from the fuel lent
them by that measure. Its introduction was a
feast of fat things for the fanatics OF the North
They seized it with avidity, and have used it
well in carrying out their purposes. l: has
weakened the bonds of affection and interest
which should bind together the different Sec
tions of the Union. 1t has unsettled the foun-
dations Of the Republic. 1t has precipitated
the nation upon a dreadful crisis. 1t has caused
civil war in one of the States Of the Union, and
crippled the great popular representative
branch of the Government.
The Bulletin is wrong in sscribing the ina
bility of the House of Representatives to or
ganize itself, to the American Party; it is due
to the large number of members which the
anti-Nebraska feeling, generated. in the North
by the passage of Douglass bill, has sent there,
giving the anti-slavery interests in that body
almost a majority. And yet we are told that
the American Party are to be held responsible
for this state of affairs. 1t is not SO, and none
know it better than those who make the
charge The American Party now is the only
party which can be relied on to extricate us
from the dangers which surround us. We con-
fidently believe that none but high-tOned,
gallant, National American can be elected
Speaker The thirty-three Americans who are
voting for Fuller, of Pennsylvania, will yet be
the means Of organizing the House, and reliev-
ing, for he time, the distress under which
every patriot mnst labor.
The Bulletia talks about a" one ideaiSn1. :"
We have heard that before, but have so far
failed to perceive its point. The American
Party is not founded on one idea; it has three
ideas, every one of which should be embraced
by every man who rightly rerceives the inter-
est5 Of the country, and desires to subserve
them; one is to resist the influx of foreigners
into this country, and to curtail their growing
influence and importance; another is to guard
against the policy and dangers Of a Church for
eign in lis theory and practices, and repugnant
to the spirit Of our republican institutions; the
third principle or idea of this great party is to
dismiss from the public councils he discussion
OF every question connected with involuntary
seryirude, and to foster devoted attachment
to the Union. sentiment which is growing
faint, and sorely decaying under the tlme'serv-
ing trickery and demagoguery SO extensively
practiced among the politicians of the day.