Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-10-16

TO renewed zeal and actiFity-It should
arouse them to a more thorough apprecia-
ton OF pure and uneorrupted ballot box,
and the blessings of civil liberty; and cause
them to strike with increased boldness and
ylgor in defence of their rights and the
rights of their brethren who have been
overrun by the Hessan legions of Buchan-
an democracy. Up then, Americans of
Tennessee, and for the remainder of this
most momentous struggle, battle with
fiery spirit and zeal which shall burn up
as stubble every obstacle in the path to
success. Let the frauds which have been
practiced in the State of the "Great Bar
gamer" whose ''deep corruption" was un-
derstood by the old hero of the Hermitage,
but nerve you to greater, and nobler, and
more self-sacrifcing efforts to beat back the
corrupt squadrons whose demoraizing and
desOlating march threatens to destroy even
your free institutions, and render Ameri-
can RepnblicaniSm a by-word and re-
proach. If there be any right of a freeman
worth lighting for-worth dying fort is
the right to an interrupted ballotbox;
and the party which lends itself to the des-
ecration Of it, is foe to republican insti-
tutions and to human freedom. Arouse
yourselves then, Americans, and strike for
pure ballot-boX and for liberty. In all
your efforts, know ono such word as fail"
Reasons for being a Buchanan man.
When gentleman of prominence chang
es his politics, and assumes to travel
through the country, on a PROSECUTING tour
among those with whom he once held
common faith, it is legitimate to enquire
into the motives which actuate his course.
Curiosity is an instinct, and its gratifca-
ton in such instances is proper.
We dislike to impute improper motives
when the changeling is laboring to adduce
worthy and weIl-grounded ones, and if he
be person whose course otherwise has
been such as to challenge respect. But
if upon examination of his alleged reasons
they are found to be specous and unsub-
stantial and better though less creditable
ones suggest themselves, we think we do
no injustice to present them to the public,
who can impartially weigh them in the bal
ance with his conduct, and reject or receive
them This much to premise brief refer
ence to gentleman who has made himself
somewhat noted during this canvass.
In a series Of articles above the sigma
ture of IAN Old Clay Wing" Capt. Jas.
Williams of this city, who is now address
ing the people of East Tennessee, in be-
half of Mr. Buchanan, took ground against |
the election of Mr.. Fillmore, and labored |
to prove the consistency of such a course |
on the part of an old wing, and that it was
a solemn duty which was required of eve
ry Southern man. During their publica-
ton we discussed them, and endeavored to
show their positions untenable, and the
character Of their reasoning unsound and
Sophistical They have been issued in
pamphlet form, and sown thicker than
"leaveS in Vallambrosa'S shade" all over |
the State The body of voters for whom
they were intended have passed upon them,
and from the intelligence which reaches US,
we conclude that vast majority of them |
have endorsed our verdict, and pronounced |
them insufficient. We presume his speech
es are of the same tenor, and that, with
old line wings, his spoken reasons and his
written ones have met similar reception
In the worthy Captains failure to pre-
sent grounds sufficiently fOrcible to author
ize a change Of his politics, we graciously
come to his relief; and will wager that our
explanation of his course will be received
by nine old line wings, while the tenth
will accept his. Ours has the seal and |
stamp of authority upon it. 1t is part
of the government archives, and does not
admit of denial While his is the fallaciouS
reasoning of a mind perverted terribly To-
ours consists Of figures which
cannot deceive. His wits were surely dis
ordered, or he could never have lost his
reckoning and drove his bark among the
shoals and quicksands where she is fast
laundering. Some undue influence, which |
the government Blue Book tells us was me-
talic, interfered with his needle and COM
pass, aud miSled him from the true line. |
Aye, it was ducats and dollars, we fear,
that wrought this marvellous and hitherto
change.
We find on reference to the government
Blue Books pps 449 and $50, issused for
the years 1858 and 1855, among the mail
contracts for Alabama, that to Jas. Viii
liams and to Jas. d VIM. Williams there is
paid for government service the sum of
Seventy-two thousand, seven hundred
and thirty dollars, being yearly aver
age for the four years for which the con-
tracts extend of eighteen thousand one
hundred and eighty dollars and fifteen
cents. Who will deny that these are
lreighty reasons for supporting Buchanan?
We have but one thought more in this
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