Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1855-12-06


In answer to an invitation to attend the
great American Mass Meeting at Louisville,
our distinguished fellow-citizen has addressed
the committee letter which does high credit
to his great ability, and bis patriotic devotion
to the cause of Americanisnl and the Union.
We wish that we were able to insert it entirely,
but the crowded state of our columns prevents
! it. We wish that Democrats throughout the
length and breadth OF this State and Union
would ponder well the words of one who has
observed closely the workings of men and
things during these troubloIis times, and has
had the manliness to cut himself aloose from
the car of party, and attach himself to that
cause and those principles which his sound
Judgment teaches him is now the only refuge
of the patriot. The following extract is peril
nent to Tennessee politics:
! This is the humbuggery of Pierce and bis Cabinet,
and this is the humbuggery which the American
party propose to destroy, and which it must des-
troy if We expect to maintain the Constitution as
We received it from our fathers.
| Here in Tennessee, where the thunder Of the old
hero jackson has not yet died away the demagogues
who pulling the wires for their distant allies have
been forced to resort to the most shameful dupcity
and hypocrisy. They may be said to have formed
two schools-the one teaching that Democracy is
the Jacobs Ladder OF the sacred Scriptures, and
that there is round upon it or every one to stand
upon no matter to what ism of party he may have
belOnged-the other taking its revelations from the
Mount Pisgah Saint, who told US rhatthe compromise
Of 1850 such awful thing that his heart would
break rather than rejoice at its passage These
schoo-masters both claim to be Democrats, and al
thGcgh the one looks to the Abotionst for ultimate
support aud the other to the tribe of Southern
Nuhers and SeoedeTS, yet they unite their interests
at home, Just as the Softs of New York and the
Fire eaters of the South did at the last Baltimore
convention. They both rant largely about State
rights and the limited powers of the Federal Gov
ernment-the one however proposes to change the
Constitution so that the President may be elected
without the agency of the electoral colleges, and
the judges Of the Supreme Court without the agency
of the President and the Senate, thus giving the
anti slavery sentiment unchecked power should it
ever be able to control majority of the voters
| the other more timid and cunning, is willing to
maintain for the present the alliance with the null
fers, and to declare with Archbishop Hughes that
Pierce is as good Democrat and ought not to be
complained OF.
! Ii YOU ask these new school Democratic saints to
point out the party which is acting against the old
Washingtonian and Jackson doctrines about State
rights they retreat forthwith 10 their higher law
oracles self convicted but they come back full OF
curses against the American party because its lead
ing principle is the suppression of slavery agitation
and opposition to whatever tends TO weaken the
bonds of our beloved Union. This is another hum
buggery which the people of Tennessee will put
down unless the memory of the great deeds of her
early statesmen and warriors is already blotted out