Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1856-10-18
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We have teeu sccus:oned % party triumphs
ard party defeats. We have had or fee
iugS on more occasi,ns tran one, go down to the
very lowest degree Of the political thermometer;
but the feeling we experienced on Thursday when
the news came IN favorable 10 bsck republican
| triumph, was something different from what We
had ever experienced before. We were surrounded
by men-onr own brethren our own hre-side
friends in the Sonth--ihst were rejoicing, yea,
REJoIcIoGl st the reported triumph OF the black
republicans OF the North! Men were shouting in
onr ears over the supposed snccesa OF ticket lor
which Horace Greedy, Thurlow Weed and Henry
Ward Beechsr had been writing, and Seward,
sunner, Hale and Fred Doug Lass, the negro, had
been speaking. They, claiming to be southern
men in fesling and in interest, were eTading that
more abolHionsis had been elected to Congress;
that more abolition legislatures had been secured
that would elect abolition Senators to Congress
These men were exubersnt with delight at the
same news that ehesred the heart and nervea the
arm OF the Northern fanatic who would not scrn-
pie to steal our property and burn our homes 10
midnight conspiracy as dernier resort to the sc-
comphshment ..of his hellish purposes. Had the
nows of the success of blsck republicanism in
Pennsylvania and Indiana been correct, whist the
sbotionists would have been kindling bondres and
shouting.o n BostonICommon, know-nothingism in
Nashville would have been congregated around
their longpole in front of our Office, firing cannon
and making hurrah speeches over the "glad tidings
of great JOY"
It was a strange sound and fell heavily on our
ear. There was recklessness and wildness in it
that betoksned passion and danger. We felt
alarmed that party prejudices could run to such
extremes We felt ashamed that our own South
men could be so lost to self respect, Is to be
found in such company as they had voluntarily se-
leoted. We felt mortified for the ungrateful spec
tscle it presented to those gallant northern men
who have struggled 80 hard and 30 msgnanimous-
ly to sustain as in our rights as States and our
equality IS Southern citizens.
Looking more practically to the matter at issue,
what would have been the result aoao if the ticket
hsd succeeded in Indiana and Pennsylvania, which
had SO much of the ''God speed of our know
nothing brethren the other day? The result would
have been the continuance in Congress of a black
republican majority. Nay, more; it would have
been an increase CT that majority. Nay, more, it
would have lesssned the present number of ma
tcnal men in the United States Senate and in
creased the number of Stewards and Summers in
| that body.
And this ia what know-nothings in Nashville
were growing overl This is the reckless extent
to which the corrupt bgotted and pro,criptive pol
icy of that party would Lead its members. Shsmel
shame upon that system of political vassaage that
would thus divest manhood of its dignity and en-
slave the nobler to the bAser passions of our ma
ture.
Thank the divinity that made US, there are thou
sands of our know nothing brethren who will not
submit to the disgraeeful vassalsgs, and who yet
have honor and independence enough remaining
to rend the letters that bind them, and in the face
Of God and their country assert their dignity and
independence