Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-04-25

FRIDAY, APRIL Is, 1855.
The said CLAW whix,, and the .sPatriot.,,

We assure ian Old Clay Wing" that the
Patriot and its editors can live without the
smile of his courtesy, and that they rate
his compliments and his arguments by one
standard. He devotes three columns to
our rhetoric" and defamation" but
passes over our facts in silence. He makes
continual parade of his "plain, unvarash-
ed" statements, whose plainness we admit,
but whose yarnish is many layers deep. 1t
is transparent, however, and throughit can
be seen the ingram of garbling and mis-
representation. We propose briefly to look
to the "iadestructiuc foundations" of his ar
gument.
He Pounds his charge in part, that the
majority of the American Convention were
Abolitionists, and that they OVERRIDE and
voted down the Southern members of the
Convention on Gov. CALLs declaration, that
after the admission of the Edie delegates,
he in company with WALKER of Alabama,
and GALL THE DELEGAT FROM
THE SOUTH" retired. We state that
Gov. GAIL never made any such declara-
ton. We give the extract from Gov.
CALL's letter, as garbled by IAN Old Clay
Whig," as follows:
On the morning of the 23d Of February, /
retired from the C0nUention after full and
frank decl ration of the causes and motives by
which was actuated When | retired from
the Convention the distinguished representa-
tive from Alabama, Mr.. Walker, retired also,
AND ALL THE DELEGATES FROM THE
SOUTH
We now call attention to Gov. CALLs
language, ungarbled and unmutilated:
Mon the morning Of the 23d of February, |
retired from the Convention, after a full and
frank declaration of the causes and motives by
which was actuated. When | retired from
the Convention, the distinguished representa-
tive from Alabama, Mr.. Walker, retired also,
AND ALL THE DELEGATES FROM THE
SOUTH. AND INDEED ALL THE CON-
SENTATIVE MEN FROM THE NORTH
WOULD HAVE RETIRED BUT FOR THE
HOPE THEY ENTERTAINED THAT THE
DISPOSITION OF THE CONVENTION
WOULD ASSUME A MORE FAVORABLE
ASPECT. IN THIS HOPE THEY WERE
NOT DISAPPOINTED.V
"An Old Clay Wing" represents Gov
CALL as saying that "aH the delegates from
the South" retired with him; Gov. CALEs
letter says they "WOULD have retired,
but for the hope they entertained that the
Convention vouId accupoa n mora 20 vora bIa
aspect" and furthermore, that this hope
ocas gratiJGed. This is a specimen brick
from the 'ndestructble" 4! } edfce which
he fatters himself he has erected. He stands
convicted of garbling to sustain his posi-
ton. He abruptly breaks a sentence in
two, perverts the meaning of the writer,
displays in startling capitals as much as
suits his purpose, and withholds the bal
ance And yet with consciousness of
such diScreditable conduct, he never tires
of priding himself that facts" and truth"
constitute the basis of his articles. Would
it have been thought possible, that one who
seemed SO all-Sufficient in honesty and fair
ness, could descend to so diSreputable a
resort?
Among his questions at ISSUE" he class
es first, THAT the Philadelphia Know
Nothing Convention was compounded of
discordant elements" We never made any
snch issue We never denied but that the
Convention contained disorganizers, who
were determined to use it for their own pur-
poses, or else dissolve it. The issue we
made with him was that they failed to do
either, and by the ConrentiOn's own record
we triumphantly sustained these positions.
We examined the statements of accurate
and reliable reporters, and drew our facts
and conclusions from them. he draws his
from garbled extracts and detached SEN
fences BY admitting the excited" condi-
ton of his informants, he admits their liza
bility to err. In this connection he makes
statement that would surprise us, had we
not discovered his utter want of candor,
by the exposure we have made above. We
quote from him as follows: "the direct, ma
ked question of ABoLImoNIsM without any
admixture" was the disturbing element"
in that Convention. We doubt not that
the most ultra man in that body would re-
pei the charge Of Abolitonism with scorn.
This INSCRIPTIONS asSalant not content
with miSquoting the language of portion
of the members to prove the remainder un-
sound, calls his passions to assist him, and
uses language in regard to them only war
rauted by the necessities of one who feels
the weakness of his cause, when tested in
the crucible of truth and is forced to alloy
it with extreme and violent expressions.
Those who have read the papers of "An
Old Clay Whig," have perceived that his
great object was to produce the impression
that the unsound men in the body were
majority, aud that every vote obnoxious to
the south, (or at least so regarded by him, }
consisted affirmatively of Northern men ex-
clusively. He labors TO show that the
Northern and Southern members of that
Convention were irreconcilably divided on
a purely sectional issue. He seeks 10 es-
tablish that the North made imperious and
humiliating demands on the South, which
the latter submitted to. After quoting
Gov. CALL's account of the adoption of the
,nrnsent nlnffnrm nc a snhsti,nto fnr thO an,