Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-03
The Hon. Howell Cobb of Georgia.

the old landmarks Of patriotism.
The Hon. Howell Cobb of Georgia.
This gentleman seems determined to ac-
quire notoriety as politician. In the
contest which resulted in the nomination of
Mr.. Pierce, there was no expression too
extravagant to convey the deep adherence
he felt at the idea of belonging to party
which contained in its ranks the names of
such men as Van Buren,. He said that the
Democratic national party could never feL-
tOaOsh1p with the free-soilers of the North,
or the disunionists of the South. He did
not scruple to say that Hell itself contained
nothing so bad as the Southern rights
party, and that the first thing the real old
fashioned Democracy had to do, was to
purge itself Of such foul elements. Major
DOnelsOn who then conducted the Wash
ington Union, gave Mr.. Cobb credit for
his professions at that period, and came to
his relief when he was a candidate for the
Gubernatorial chair of Georgia.
What is now the position of Mr.. Cobb?
he is in fellowship, close and intimate, with
all the men he denounced in such terms of
bitterness. His friends were not allowed
to go into the convention which nominated
Mr.. Pierce. He saw cabinet organized
upon a principle in direct antagoniSm to all
his doctrines. Notification was put in
command of one fraction of the party, and
abolition of the other. Davis who express
ed his opposition to CasS squater sovereign
ty was put into the Cabinet, in order to
provide for the ultra leaders of the South
ern rights party. Gushing was put into
the Cabinet to do the same thing for the
Northern portion Of the Union. Under
the influence of these honored agents of
modern Democracy, Mr. Cobb saw Gads-
den sent Minister to Mexico, Soule to Spain,
Buchanan to England He saw Dickinson
of New York oStracised, Bronson removed,
Dix recognized as orthodox, and he saw all
the patronage of the government employed
to provide an army of Office holders to
strike down the men who stood by the
Compromise Of 1850, and dared to refer to
the doctrines of Jefferson, Madison and
Jackson, in defence of the Constitution and
the Union.
Even now Mr.. Cobb sees the man who
villifed him as traitor and renegade, sent
Minister to Mexico; and yet he has the
hardihood to inform us that the Pierce adj
miniStration is orthodox, and that Mr.
Buchanan selected to carry on its leading
measures, ought to receive the support of
the people.
Mr.. Van Buren, who was an object of
such aversion to Mr. Cobb that he declared
he could remain in fellowship with no party
admitting him a member-thiS Mr.. Van
Buren,, we say, is now fighting for Buchan-
an, in order as he says to give effect to the
doctrines of the Buffalo platform.
Mr. Choate of Massachusetts, supports
Mr.. Buchanan because he will avenge the
wrong done to the country by Mr.. Pierce,
who, as he declares, did not perform his
duty in protecting tie free-soiIers, and for
this cause was not renominated. This
language Of Mr.. Choate was published to
the people of Maine at the very time that
Mr. Cobb was addressing large assem-
blage at Portland, early in the last month.
Choate stated the policy of the Kansas bill
in the sense of Mr.. Van Buren, and the
free sellers, to get votes for Mr.. Buchanan,
and Mr.. Cobb assents to this treachery to
the South.
Soule, JEFF Davis, and the disunionists of
the South, take ground also for Buchanan
as statesman of the Multiplying school,
under whom fillibusterism and all other
sorts Of adventure, to extend the domain
of slavery may be expected; whilst Mr..
Cobb represents him as a great Stickler for
the Constitution and the Union.
We put out these simple statements of
Mr.. Cobb'S inconsistency, hearing that after
he fuIflS his mission as a friend of Mr..
Buchanan to the Northern abolitionists, he
is to come to the South and talk just the
other way to the disunionists. We trust
that he will come to Tennessee, and attempt
an explanation of his conduct.
In 1852, we assert without the fear of
contradiction, that Mr.. Cobb stated his
determination not to fellowship with par
ty that recognized Mr.. Van Buren, as a
member. We assert also that he declared
to his friends his utter adherence Of the
Southern rights party, and his determine