The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-09-08


tend the incest courtesy to his opponent, and
when be win be satisfied with nothing less from
him. We are defending great cause and q
patriotic people They are both worthy, al
least, the respect of all, who may oppose either
of them.
For the terms used by our Democratic Gov
ernor in regard to the American party, ifrsthe
late canvass, am scarcely able to measure my
contempt. / believe that they were disgrace
to the position he occupied, and to the place
i.e sought. Whether they would disgrace him
depends much upon his early raising and sub
: sequent associations, and am inclined to think
that he has not been injured by their use.
With language at his command, in which the
Hottest eloquence has been uttered, and the d.
vinest poetry has been sung, a language, whose
mildest terms burn ike fire in the conscience
of the guilty, he has sounded the depths OF his
own infamy, by the choice OF words, which
can best express it, and has hurled these in the
faces of men so much purer than himself,
that even that language cannot measure it.
Governor johnson has applied epthets to
American citizens, before mixed audiences and
in the presence of refined and delicate females,
for the utterance of which | would fog my
negro boy, should he do it under circumstances
one 1.-THE as aggravating. Governor Johnson
cannot excuse himself by saying that this Ian
gnage was used in the heat of debate. Much
of it was uttered in the very first speech of the
canvass, and some of it has been reproduced
since the election Some men grow angry
under disappointment, but Governor johnson
would seem to be made mad even by success.
His party are even now, with forced show of
qualification, offering tributes to him, in the
form of public dinners and receptions. One
would think that successful candidate, under
such circumstances, could afford to be gener-
oas, and to adopt the language of Cancellation.
But Gov. johnson knows nothing of the de-
cencies of time or place or circumstances.
The. Governor and the candidate are all one
with him. His insatiate selfsbness merges
everything in simple Andrew Johnson. The
blood u3on his tomahawk is sweet, and he has
no ''milk of human Kindness with which to
was hit of. He enjoys the unenviable singular
ity of being the only man, honored by the suf-
frages of Tennessee, whose malice never re-
Tents, and whose selisbness has no limits He
conducted his canvass with SANDERS upon the
American party, and he seems to regard it his
official duty never to let them sleep. do not
hold the Democratic party responsible for
these things. They tinge the cheek of every
honest Democrat, as they must offend the sen
sibility of every decent man. In fact, when |
reflect upon the sentiments of mutual but
equivocal esteem existing between Governor
Johnson and his party, it is a puzzliDg question
with me, whether Ito use rather an in-elegant
phrase,) they have got the Governor, or the
Governor has got them.
Another gentleman claims my attention, in
this connexion. would have been glad to
pass him by without special notice, but for the
frequent and needless manner, in which he has
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shape, from the printed letter to the published
pamphlet. allude to that amiable prophet of
Democracy, whose voice has been heard hiss
ing on every battle, but whose courage has led
in none, since his memorable sacrifice by Has
kell on College Hill. True to his instinct, lie
is valiant to fight an absent foe, but uniformly
declines to shiver his lance in honorable COM
bat. 1t was upon one of those occasions,
when no danger is nigh, that Ex-Governor A.
V. Brown, made that remarkable speech at
Columbia, only the other day-one of the
most remarkable ever uttered even by the pro-
phet of AMOUNT Pisgah.n / will be pardoned
while | amuse this vast audience by brief
reference to this and several other recent pro-
auctions of this very singular character.
believe | never in my life think of Aaron V.
Brown, without an inclination to laughter.
His valor is SO harmless, and yet his impru-
dence is so blind, that he is seduced into the
commission of some very ridiculous figures.
For instance, behold that amiable sentiment in
his Columbia speech: 81 did not enter into the
discussions of this canvass without expecting
there would be many blockheads, who could
not understand my arguments, and many
knaves who would misrepresent them but, at
the same time, Iexpected that there would be
found sound and healthy body of my fellow
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who would understand and appreciate any fair
and courteous address which | might deliver
before them. In this last expectation, am
proud to know that have not been at all dis
appointed"
When read the foregoing delectable NOR
cedu, deliberately laid down the paper, and
set myself to thinking. | asked myself seri-
ously, Is it possible that Aaron V. Known real
ly imagines that he ever made ''any fair aud
courteous address" upon the American ques-
tionl l made all due allowance for the self
delusion and Standardization, which may al
ways be looked for in his Excelleny's case
But never came to more solemn and DELHI
trate conclusion in my life, than when | salts
fed myself that the entire paragraph is a spec
linen of the most GrTGnt hypocrisy on record
Can it be that Aaron V. Brown has forgotten
his Gallatin speech, his Lebanon address and
his Dickson letter. If he has, let him know,
that seventy thousand of as bold and true
Tennesseans, as ever fought for the honor Of
their native State, have not forgotten them
There is a terrible retribulion in their displea-
sure, to appease which Gov. Brown may fawn
and hatter, but which has already consumed,
like tongue of aaine, his political soul and
body. Before penning that specious paragraph,
Gov Brown should have remembered the ex-
perience of Mr.. Polk, when he exclaimed,
"0ld documents are dangerous things" All 2
Governor, if You will say silly things, have
you no friend, who can restrain your inordi- |
nate passion tor printing them
Now let US make some extracts from these ''fair
and courteous" productions of his Exeellency, and
see how far his memory his honesty Is to be
trusted. quote from his Dickson letter, which, il
there be any fire in public opinion will burn deeper
into bis future history than did the Scarlet Letter
into the reputation Of Hawthorne's heroine. But
hear the Governor Speaking Of the obligations OF
the American Order, he says:
"Ii is certain, too, that the oeths administered
all illegal, and that both they who administer
them and they who receive them make themselves !