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

in hand, wondering at the mighty column
and anxiously awaiting what may turn up
If the organization was formed for the benef
Of politicians, those who make the charg'
would oblige the public by informing then
who those politicians are. Who are the favor
ties of the Orderi Who have reaped the adj
vantages of it2 Has il been those who have
heretofore been regarded as aspiran:s to Office
especially in the Wing psrtyl Who now i;
the prospective recipient of the highest honor'
of the party9 If any one be in profounder g-
norance of this fact than myself, it must be
one of those INSCRIPTIONS stump-oratnrs, who
| in the face of all the facts to the contrary, is
still reQaling his credulous hearers with the
thread bare SANDER, that the American party
is a reproduction of the old Whig organization.
The most Obtuse observer of events must have
marked the fact, that the American candidates
have been brought forward without reference
to their ancient political afhnities. To make
the argument still more conclusive and un-
answerable, many of the leading members OF
the new party have been Democrats of the
highest infuenee and position, who have dared
TO look the necessity of the country IN the face,
and assert that there is no law or party allie
glance higher than the demands of patriotism.
These men have been denounced by self-styled
patriots, infinitely lower than themselves in all
that constitutes the excellence of private char
acter or public virtue. By what right is il,
that honest men, who have deemed it their
duty to come out of the Democratic ranks, are
to be recklessly assaied, their motives ma
lgned, and their objects misrepresentation Who
constituted the petty whipsters of that party
the judges of good men, in such casesf 1t was
once principle of Democracy, that freedom
of thought was the inviolable right Of every
American; but modern Democracy has pro-
claimed different doctrine, and wo to the
member Of that school who dares to be recu-
santl The thunders of the White House In
stantly reverberate about his dwelling, the
political Ourfew law is reinstated, and excom-
munication is written on all that meets the
eye or charms the taste. A thousand Kissing
tongues are loosed from the restraints of de-
cency. and neither private character nor public
reputation is safe from the poisoned arrows,
let loose BY the Paid conscripts OF shameless
administration Such is the condition of hon.
orable Democrats, who have exercised the right
of every freeman, no matter how modestly.-l
Names. which even the tongue Of SANDER had
respected before, have been aspersed by such
epithets as renegade" "traitor," "reptile,"
s1Murrel men," "hyena, assassin" and a
dark catalogue of ignominious titles, which
would disgrace any respectable kitchenin Ten
nessee, and whose utterance against any party
of American citizens, proves their author not
only destitute Of the last spark of the spirit of
the gentleman, but to be possessed of that very
disposition, in all its mean and cowardly pro
pensity, which be would falsely fix upon 9TH
ers- 1t may require the Spartan nerve, under
lying the true American spirit, TO endure such
assaults, and still prove loyal to high sense
of duty. Thousands of Democrats have been
found. all over the State, who have stood I'M
shaken by these counterfeit thunderbolts; but
many have been unable TO stand the fire, and
have faltered aud quailed at the very moment
when their pursuers were ready to fly, bad
manful fight been made, according to the in
junction of Scripture, ''resist the devil, and he
will flee from you" They profess to have been
deceived into the American party, but the
credit of the discovery is due, not to their own
consciences, bat to the inquisitorial advice of
their political priets. I-wish them great COM
fort in their restoration to the true faith, and
hope that they may satisfy themselves with the
delusion, that it is more honorable 70 be lashed
back into the bosom of the Democracy, than
TO be misled, with their eyes open, into the
American party.
Fellow-citizens, it is a device of the adver- |
sary of your souls, to charge that the Amer- |
can party is Whiggery under another name.
If it be Whiggery, why change its name p
ton in the darkest hours of the Republic
Under 1t were fought the battles of the Rev. |
cution, whose history has made it the syn |
onym of patriotism. The Wing party If the
Union have equally divided with their oppo-
nents the honors and the spoils of Office for
the last twenty years. Why should men leave
either that or the Democratic party for the
hunt of Officer The insane authors of the
fabrication must see that, if such aspirants
were worthy of Office in the new party, they
were none the less so in the old. | verify be-
lieve that very many of the leading men of
the old Wing party have never formally Joined
the American organization. With prudence
so characteristic of politicians, they have how
cred Oh the outskirts or darkled in that region
of uncertasnty which neither they nor Others
have been able to define. The organization
was neither formed by them nor for their adj
vantage. 1t was filed up by the unambitious
masses, whose view of the country was unob-
structed by the are or interposition of Office.
1t is hardly probable that such Outstanding
Wing leaders will go over to the Democracy.
1t would have been unnatural if they had done
so, however dissatisfied they may have been
with the new party, at first blush. They have
been contending with the doctrines of that
party through all their political experience,
and they could now embrace them only as a
last resort. IL it be true that the American
party Is constituted Of more Wings than Dem
ocrats, the circumstance is easily accounted for
by the fact, that 1t was formed at time when
the Wing party was disorganized and ont of |
power, and when the impression prevailed
with many of its members that il had dischar-
ed its office, in aiding the settlement of the /
domestic policy of the country on perlnanent
basis. But it is hardly true, that the American
Order originally embraced more Wings than |
Democrats. Patriots went into it without |
distinction Of party, and would have continu-
ed in it TO to this day, honestly believe, but
for The lash of their political priesthood.
An these facts are sufficient TO demonstrate,
that whiggery, as Whiggery, has nothing to
do with Americanism. They show conclusive
w that the new party was not formed TO give
Office to old Wings But the inquiry does not
stop here. now ask Of the gentlemen, with
whom am dealing. why it is that snch Her
culean efforts have been put forth to win back
renegade" Democrats, as they are pleased 10