Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-02-25
The Hammer Again and for the Last
Time.


We take the aim and drift Of the Ban
ners Saturdays article to mesh that we
have made an illogical deductkp from its
Tuesdays article, and that we did it in
perverse spirit. Our heart has erred as
well as our head We beg to assure it
that however liable to error may be our
reasoning faculties, our feelings towards it
are not improper, or such as would lead us
tc pervert its meaning. or place a wilful
misconstruction on what it might say. As
we stated on Thursday, we have made il
our study from the moment that we saw
collision of opinion with our American
friends was inevitable to give no just cause
of offence, while in obedience to our con-
victions of duty, we fully, firmly, but not
didatOriaHy, set forth our views, on the is
sue between us. On the 10th inst, in vim
dication of ourself, we published extracts
from various newspapers in the South
American, Wing and Democratic TO give
our readers information in regard to the
view taken Of our contemporaries position.
1t was comparatively new question. We
knew there was much misapprehension in
the public mind relative to it, and it was
especially brought to our attention that this
was the case among our American friends
Many regarded it as patriotic move to
Danish the agitation Of this threatening
question from the public mind, and as such
were prompt and ready to support it. Our
course did not escape animadverSon. We
were tainted with a disposition to section
alize the party. Can we be blamed for
wishing to adduce evidence to justify US in
the opinion of our party friends, by show
ing that the whole South were with us !?
Certainly not And as evidence of the
admirable temper which actuated US, we re-
fer the public to our article of that day.
We disavowed an endorsement of the Sc
we're criticisms contained in the extracts By
their republication. We were careful to
state that we were forced to it in order to
justify ourself and not to condemn them
Caudidly and kindly we told them we were
fearful they had imposed an additional bur-
den on themselves and us, IN the discussions
of the coming Presidential canvass. We
well knew that INSCRIPTIONS partizans
of the opposition would charge their pro-
posal to ignore" no matter how pure their
motives in making it, as disposition to
fuse and fraternize in the wild hunt af-
ter Office" with men in the North who,
nominally, were members of our party
but in reality were the leaders of purely
sectional Northern party, styling them
selves Republicans. How entirely have
our fears been realized in the universal de-
nunciation and misrepresentation, which
have rOared from the broadSides of the
whole Democratic press South Our ar
ticle of Thursday, which the editor Of the
Banner thinks so perverse in spirit, was in
reply to his answer to our article accompa-
nying the extracts. We do not intend to
speak Of that answer again. We could not
do so without using language which is as
painful to us as to those to whom it is ap-
piled. Our opinion of it, however, is not
changed. In dismissing this controversy
with our friend, we will say that we have
never desired to detract from his well-earn-
ed reputation as a well-informed, sagaciouS
and able editor nor would we impair his
means of doing good in the future by at
tempting to underrate him. We wish to
cultivate amity with him if he will allow u.s.
Our future course will take its shape from
his own.