Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-08-09

Now, "your attention if you please: The
Know NothiDgs are not fighting in this State
for Mr. Fillmore; full we'll they know he has DO
chance of election. But should Tennessee
vote for Buchanan, it is no longer a doubtful
State; it is fixed in the Democratic family as
firmly as Mississippi Union and american.
We invite wings to read and re-read this
sentence: "but should Tennessee vote for
Buchanan, it is no longer doubtful State;
it is fixed in the democratic family as firm
ly as Mississippi" We ask them, if with
this open declaration of the central organ
of Tennessee democracy, it is possible that
a wing can go forward and deliberately
aid in producing such a result? Are you
going to assist in making Tennessee as
firmly democratic as Mississippi? When
tainted by your old political associates
with supporting Buchanan, you still per-
sist in calling yourselves whigs-yOu still
repudiate demOcracy-you yet protest that
your love for your old party is paramount
and boundlesS. With this feeling, we again
ask you can you be deluded into the sup
port of your old enemy? Can you forget
the many sharp conflicts with it?-the ex-
ultant joy you have experienced when you
have conquered it2-the bitter regret and
modification of defeat? And yet you hear
the leaders of this party, which you have
loved to fight, openly claim that the an
Gent battle-ground will be, after Novem-
Der, finally and irretrievably theirs, and
boast that the victory is to be won by your
aid. Can you sit still and hear them avow
their purposes and hopes, and not feel the
spirit of $50, of 40, of IA, of '48, and of
80? If you can, you are not the wings
that truer wings supposed you were.
But we are not deceived in the old wings
of Tennessee. The rank ana file will never
60 over to the enemy, though there may
be found aspiring captains who, despairing
of promotion where they are, are ready to
strike their colors. A few such have
already done so, and there are Others who
will. but not so with the honest masses who
have been and are yet opposed to democ-
racy from principle. The WilliamseS and
Croziers, and Swans, and Nelson's, and
Yergers. and Aliens, and 'Irish Orators"
and their like, tired of being door keepers"
in the house of whiggery, and ambitious to
dwell in the tents of democracy, have
gone, and may joy attend them; but there
are other and trustier chiefs of the old
Guard, beside whom the gallant and still
powerful wing army of Tennessee will pre-
fer to rally. There is yet LETT the gifted and
glorious Haskell who led the wing lcgions
to victory four years ago, the earnest and
indefatigable Williams Of West Tennessee,
"Old Kit;" Milton Brown, and Robertson
TOpp of the same section; the able and un-
dinching Edwin II. Ewing of this city;
Richardson IF Rutherford; and Netherland
of East Tennessee, and others who might
be named The wing masses of Tennessee
will not long debate which band of captains
to follow. They will use discrimination be-
tween honest devotion to principle and an
ignominious betrayal of it, under the spuri-
Gus pretext with which the deserters seek
to palliate their conduct
Honest wings will cling to their princi-
pies under every viciSsitude. The appeal
that the organization is disbanded has no
weight with them. Organizations are
ephemeral, they have not the elements of
permanency, like morning mists they rise
and pass away. But principles like truth,
are eternal, they never die, and when hon
estly entertained will never be set aside on
grounds of expediency. He who justifes
bis desertion of them by such plea, shows
himself us weak as unprincipled-a COM
pound of knavery and nonsense