Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1855-12-08

For some years past, the Southern branch of
the Democratic Party have held Mr.. SEwARD
up as sort of scare-crow, to frighten timid
Southern men. Ofall the enemies of Southern
Institutions in the North, he was by them pro-
nounced the most dangerous, because he had 8
| powerful influence over the minds of the mass
es of anti-slavery men outside of the Abolition
organization. So frequently did they "play
upon this harp of thousand strings, and so
4 loud and apparently earnest were the anathe-
mas heaped upon the terrible agitstor, and all
who did not make war upon him, the i'm
was man to be feared, and whosoever acted
with him, man 10 be suspected. But the
recent election in New York proved all this to
have been delusion, that Southern men had
! been dreading mere shadow. In the canvass
preceding that election, Mr. Seward was most
lindustriously engaged; his voice was heard on
every part of the field, urging on the forces of
the Slack Republicans, and if he had been the
great leader, the agitator of wonderful irflu
ence and proves that he had been thought to
/ be. the time had come for him 10 prove it.
/ But he and his ineendiary followers were NJ
terly routed; they hardly made a respectable
/ fight. One would have thought that, after this
result, no respectable politician or political
journal, would have had the effrontery to men,
/ ton Seward again for the purpose of arOusing
/ the fears of Southern men. A thing so prepos-
ferrous, SO absurd, so Imaginable, was not to
have been expected. Yet, the thing has oc-
Cured, we are in earnest, reader, actually
occurred. The Montgomery (Ala.) AdUertissr
has had the bardihood to harp on this strain
again. Hear the AdcertiSer. 1t says
ave know that our opponents in this region will
Indignantly deny that they be brought to affii.
ate politically with Seward and his party. But they
deny that three years only have elapsed since
they did act together in support of Gen. Scott Sew
ard and his friends advocated the election of Gen.
Scott, not because they expected he would give
them every thing they asked, but because they
knew they had nothing to expect from Gen. Pierce;
and as Gen. Scott would have to be elected bv the
North, if elected at all they thought he would Sc
lcct his counsellors from among them, and modify
his measures 20 some extent, at least, to suit their
views 1t is not likely that the Black Republican
leader will change his policy. He knows that he
cannot carry out his designs against the Constitu-
ton so long as the Government is in the hands OF
q strict constructiOnist. lie knows too that his
sectional party as at present organized has not the
strength to elect a President of avowed Higher
Law sentiments. He is a shrewd, practical politi-
clan, and will shape his course with an eye to the
most practical results.
The best he can do, under present circumstances,
is bring his forces to bear against the candidate
of the party that is most strongly pledged, by pro.
ession and practice, TO strict construction of the
Constitution and in support of the cand ate of the
party that ridcules the doctrine Of State Rights
az absurd and impractcabe theory. Hence we may
reasonably conclude, that Seward will co operate
with the socaed Americans in the coming election;
for do not believe they could select a candidate
who would be so unacceptable TO him the nOmi-
nee of the Cincinnati Convention must necessarily
be-"
To speak ofSeward as a dangerous man now,
is, rs we have said, preposterous; but to say
that he will, in the coming election of Pres-
dent, cooperate with the American Party, is,
by all odds, the most ridiculous assertion that
the opposition to Americanism has given birth
to. Seward has been the most determined
enemy of Americanism. he has never exhibit
ted the least disposition to tolerate it. He, and
Mr.. Pierce, and the Cabinet, have been loving
allies in the attempt to stifle the patriotic res
piration of the American Party, and to crush
the Party, as an unholy thing; and it is far
more probable that they will be still found in
active cooperation in the canvass for the Chief
Magistracy next year.