Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-06-04

The Unions Chime DIssOnant and Dis
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If we could be astoniShed at anything
that appears in the democratic press, we
would be astonished at the article in the
Union and American, of yesterday, under
the caption of "a political chime" The
recollection of the delight" with which the
editor once listened to the bells of Trinity
church" the almost imperceptible differ
ence Of some of their mellow notes, and the
wonderful harmony with which they rang
out their plaintiye cadence to the breeze"
seems to have caused him to indulge in a
dreamy revery, and whilst in that pleasant
state Of mind, he detected harmony between
the dissimilar and discordant notes of Black
Republicans and those of the Patriot We
would admonish our neighbor that be lives
in matter-offact age, and he must not
seek to impose upon the public the
creations of his fancy as tangible en-
bodiments of reality. He must discard
poetry, and come down to the realms of
plain prose. With these gentle admoni-
tons, we proceed to comment upon the
mistakes which he has made in his endeavor
to place rs in the coach with Black Re-
publicanism.
The Patriots article of Saturday touch
ing the kansas Imbroglio," our neighbor,
whilst in his dreamy mood, characteristics
as "a soft refrain to the tune of the Abo-
lition press" but as he penetrates deeper
into the regions of Somnus, touch of
nightmare comes over his mind; he sees
things through most distorted medium,
and mutterS in horror, the hair of his head
on end,
'Like quilIs on The fretful porcupine,"
''The Abolition press charge that border
rufianism' is seeking to outrage all justice
by forcing Kansas to become slave State.
The Patriot, and other Know Nothing pa
pers of the South, sag tile same thing"
Think of that, reader! The Patriot charges
that "border ruffianism" is seeking to out
rage all justice by forcing Kansas to be-
come slave Staten Whether made sleep
ing or waking, the charge is a serious one.
1t is either true and susceptible of proof,
or it is untrue We think the Union and
American will be puzzled should it attempt
to substantiate the charge. We have
never said any thing to give the least foun-
dalton for it, The truth is, it is the very
reverse of our sentiments. We have never
doubted that the supporters of the terri
torial laws in Kansas had right and justice
on their side-that the free State men who
have defed those laws are guilty of revo-
lutionary acts and deserve punishment.
But, at the same time, we regret the feudS
which have disgraced the territory, and
brought reproach upon our free institutions.
Every American freeman, proud of the
character of his country, must recur to the
scenes of folly and bloodShed which have
occurred, and are still occurring there, with
feelings of deep and profound humiliation.
Not to do so would be libel on his repub-
licanism-his love of the liberty with which
his country blesses him. 1t is most true
that we regard the bloody feuds in Kansas
as precursors of a coming storm" And
are they not? Have they not been brought
about by the injustice and fanaticism of one
section of the country, which seeks to de-
prive another section of its rights in the
common property of the people of all Sec
tions? And are not the aggressors by ev-
cry species of Misrepresentation and exag-
geration, by the most artful and the most
wicked appeals to sectional feeling, en-
deavoring to so exasperate and infame the
great Northern masses, that they shall,
when Kansas demands, if she ever does de-
mand, to be admitted into the Union as
slave State, compel her to stand aside as
unworthy? And will not this bring about
a storm in which the Union may be wreck
ed2
And is it true that Franklin Pierce is
not "chargeable" with having done some
thing to precipitate this state of affairs up
on the nation? Was it not he who drag
ged the traitor Reeder from merited obscu-
rity in pennsylvania, and placed him in
position to direct and give effect to the ef-
forts of the abolition agitators in Kansas,
to break down the territorial government?
And when coerced by public sentiment to
remove Reeder, did not the President make
speculations in lands the ground Of bis re-
moval, without so much as limiting a CEN
sure of his active intervention in behalf Of
the traitor-brood which the North had
spawned upon the territory?
The present condition of the domestic
affairs of the nation, portentous of evil, is
Justly chargeable to the Black Republicans
and the Democratic Administration. They
are the "stirrers up Of strife" and an in
suited people should, in the language of
the Union and American, wither them with
indignant scorn. The times, we repeat,
call for union of all conservative, consti-
tution-loving, law-abiding men. They alone
can save our institutions from "inglorious
wreck" In the administration Of Mr..
FILLMORE they have an assurance that, I'M
der his lead, there is safety. As glorious
old HARRY Clay said, ''he has been tried
aud found TRUE, FAITHFUL, HONEST AND
CONSCIENTIOUS" II they are not deaf to
the demands Of patriotism, they will rally
| aronnd his standard and crush ont the