Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-04-26

TIE CoSvEsrtoN AND ITS Nosnsss1-t.,n o'iT h'se
page viii be found the proceedings o. she oae
ocratie Convention. held at Nashville on tae zfin
;,,ss We /, love that the resolutions wliliuy &C.
cod :f The democratic sentiment Oh the state and
z-;g 7,eet with hearty response. On the know
No,b;rr sisul the resolutions are particularly tlcid
sns enerpetic Toey leave no rconl foT doubt as
"a the position of the democratic party and rs
candidates on the subjects of religious liberation,
secret oath-bound political societies. and Hartford
Convention 'isns." The Democracy Of Tennessee
present bold and defiant front, and CALAMITY offer
the wager Of battle to all and every faction which
chooses to array itself against it. Confident in the
immutsble truth aud sscreiaes5 of its principles 1t
Tears neither open and honorable opponents or con-
cealed and secret Toes Contrary to the expecta.
lions OF our opponents we have taken unequvocai
grounds of opposition 10 Kuow-Nnothingism, ask
ing no quarter and determined to give none:
Our candidate fully alive to the crisis IS preparedto
hunt down the subteuaneans in every corner OF the
State, from the Mississippi river to the Virginia
line, and those who know him can form some Idea
of the kind of canvass he viii make. II the eio-
quent and gifted Henry, battling for the old esta5-
llshed principles of his party filed with devotion
to those principles, and ambitious Tor success with
burning accents appealed in vain 10 the people of
Tennessee, how this subterranean org izsth
whose deeds and designs shuu the hight OF day, and
whose PRINCIPLES as far as known, are odious to
every true republican, expect to stand the attack
of his ponderous batlle-axe and his unanswerabie
logic Andrew Johnson goes into thisfght TO aci'a,
He has no such word as defeat in his vocabulary.
He has always triumphed and he always will TIL
umph. because he relies upon the intelligence OF
the masses instead Of the machinery Of politicians.
He is erninently the man of the people. Hespraug
from the people, they have made him what he is,
and he repays their generous confidence, BY I'M
eeviating devotion, and eloquent and efficient adj
yocacy of their best and tEuest interests Consist
ent in his political conduct, eloquent and irressta-
bic upon the stump, he has won the affections OF
The masses and they win sustain him. In the pre-
| sent canvass the democracy present him to the
| people IS the embodiment of their hostility to
| acknowledgement. Upon this issue he takes his
stand, and he viii fight it until the last gun
! fires.
1t because he is the representative Of demo-
cratic principles that our party claims for him the
| support of every true democrat Ifthere are any
who have personal pejudices and are hestating
| whether they will give him their support or not
let them remember the glorious motto of our party
| -" Priaciples not men"-and rally around the
man who represents the genuine democratic sent.
ments of the country, and whom the party has
selected as its exponent; remembering that in view
of the fact that he stands by the convention of the
I party as its nominee opposition to him is opposi'
ton to democratic prnciples-that his defeat is The
defeat Of the party. If there are any such We
urge these considerations upon them.- GlqTkSviN
| JefeTSonioal.