Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-10-27
MONDAY, OCT. 81, 1855.
will the south DOssrr the Nor,b1

rs the South ungrateful! hepublcS are
said to be proverbially ungrateful, and the
South is openly tantalized by sectional men
of the North with ingrattude to those no
bic national spirits of the North who have
sacrificed their popularity in their own sec
ton to uphold Southern States and men in
their rights. Let US, in few words, in
quire into the justice of the charge. We
have few plain words to address to those
who purpose to cast their votes in the coming
election of President as Southern men, with
a view the best to sustain Southern inter
ests. We will not here protest against the
taking of sectional view of the contest
before US, for the interest of the South is
in the Union as it is under the Constitu-
ton. If ever the aggreSSonS of Northern
union, the remedy will be still worse than
the disease in all save honor. The South
is in a minority in both Houses of our
National Legislature, and it seems that
section is for some time to come to have
also the executive branch of the govern
ment. The only hope of the South, there
fore, to maintain peaceful and happy
union with the North, is in the assistance
she receives from time to time from sound
national men in the North, who have been
willing to sacrifice their immediate person
al prospects to sustain the rights of the
South. Has the South heretofore requited
the devotion of such men to her rights with
her gratitude? In what one instance even
has she not delivered up these noble patri-
OTIS to their enemies? Daniel S. Dickinson
stood up bravely for Southern rights, and
il due time went into the retirement which
awaits such men in the North. Has the
South called him forth, to take the position
to which he is more entitled than any DEM
ocrat in the nation? Was his name even
thought of at the late Cincinnati Conven-
ton? Not for moment. He was known
to be unacceptable to the enemies of the
South, and was therefore not to be mention
ed. Gen. CasS stood in similar position,
and received much the same consideration.
Pierce and Douglas were unfortunately
standing, for the time being, in the attitude
of friends of the South, and the South, in
that Convention, cast them aside, and ac-
cepted in their stead the candidate brought
forward by the freesoil wing of the party
in the North-James Buchanan. The
South kHO10S Mr.. Buchanan was nominated
to conciate the freesoil party of the North,
with whom he has never been on bad terms.
The South knows that Dickinson, Cass,
Pierce and Douglas were cast aside be-
cause their nomination would not please
her eRemies
When Daniel Webster stood up for
Southern rights against the strong tide of
fanatcism which was sweeping from his
own and other Northern States over the
land, and when he saved the State but lost
himself in the mighty conflict, did the South
reward him with her gratitude? She re-
Quilted him with her neglect, and we have
reason to believe that great mans last mo-
ments we're embittered with the reflection
that he had served and saved an migrate
fal people. And last, but by no means
least, when WILLARD FnLNoRE, finding him
SELF by the voice of the people and of God
in the position Of greatest power for good
or evil, nobly cast aside all early prejudices,
and TO ward off the blow which was aimed
at the South and the Union, received the
fatal shaft of fanatic venom in his own
bosom, did The South stand by him? or did
she fly and leave her wounded champion in
the hands of the enemies of her rights?
What was his fortune, and what shall be
ais fortune? At FIRST the South, led of
by the intrigue Of james c. Jones, desert
ed Fillmore, in order to please Seward and
his faction, pandering, like the democracy,
TO the passions Of the bitter enemies of the
South SO much for the immediate result
of Fillmore's devotion 10 the rights Of the
South The South honored him with her
lips, but gave her more substantial tokens
of confidence TO others.
And now after four years have passed
since the South sacrificed her friend to the
resentment of those who were his enemies
because be was her friend, Southern men
have anothes opportunity of evincing their
gratitude. Mr.. Fillmore is candidate for
the Presidency His friends ask for him
Southern votes. He was put forward by
his party at the demand Of Southern men
and national men, aud not Of freesOilers
What will the South dog Offered an OPP
portunity 20 retrieve her repstation, will
she nov show her gratitude by rewarding
Fillmore With an expression Of her con6-
dencel That party which, in violation Of
its most solemn and formal pledges 10 the
people, has re-Opened the slavery agitation,
aad lsd thseolntTy into civil war aud 10
t4e yersssof destruction, calls upoR the
soa,h 70 DEAR her Jest friehd-he who !
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IN tnat psation 10 please ne ensmies Of fhs |
SOUTH Shat the Soath desert her friend