Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-08-30
Wis, of Maryland, rose and said

Mr.. DAVIS, Of Maryland, rose and said:
"Is Philip dead? No, by Jove--but he's sick"
Such was the chatter OF the factious democrats of
Athens, chilled by the shadow of the coming Che
Tonea.
"WHl Fillmore decline? No, but he's too weak
to get single State"-say Democrat and Republi-
can, shive ing before the blast of the coming No
vember.
Mr. Chairman, they consult prophets who pro-
phecy pleasant things. Their hopes are the oracle
speaking by the inspiration Of their interests And
yet while they trust the prophecy to produce its
accomplishment, they coufdentialy sigh, Would
il were bed time, Hal-and all well" That bed
time viii surely come. But whether the couch Of
victory or the bed of death will be spread-ah! |!
that's the question.
Sir party at brag and bluff a suspicious wit
ness 70 the goodness Of his own hand and the by
ISLANDERS believe do not usually regard him a
better witness to the badness OF his adyersary's
If Democrat ard Republican have conspired to-
gether mutually 70 play by-bidder at each Others
mock Ruction---to put off on the country plated
brass for gold-the people will have the sagacity
20 see that though Liberty be on one side, the
image and supeTscription OF the Union is not the
other aud the lacking weight will reveal the coun-
terieit.
| desire 70 make this discrimination. ] wish TO
Inquire into the weight of this style of brag, which
has 70 nv poor understanding, exhausted the re-
sources Of my opponents.
Say the Democrats, "Do not vote for Mr. Fill
more, because he cannot get single State at the
North. Say the Republicans, ''Do not vote for Mr..
Fillmore because he cannot get single State at the
South" And both are so simple as 10 suppose by
thus excluding him from the regions of their oppO-
nents, that they have finally deat with Iis pretef-
sions!
Why is It that two parties as vide apart as the
southern aud northern poles have conspired to-
gether in this significant and novel way for the pur-
pose Of denying TO their most dangerous opponent
strength in the regions where the adversary OF each
is strong? There are two organized parties in this
country which claim TO represent adverse local in
terests. The Democratic party rests itself on its
boosted and self arrogated privilege Of supporting
and sustaining the peculiar institution OF the South
Its strength and It's whole strength consists in its
assertion that il alone is the defender of Southern
rights 1t is therefore dangerous to them, for any.
thing arise within the limits ofthe South and claim
a hearing Of the Southern people, which touches
more nearly the rights the people and appeals to
the more elevated and noble sentiments of devotion
TO the Union and the Constitution. The gentlemen
OF the Republican party Of the North aspire to rep
resent that sentiment which is likewise local and
peculiarly confined to the boundary Of the North,
and having 10 power beyond il. They likewise are
jealous OF tue INTRUSION on Lilt uoualn OF
of such stirring interest as viii call the minds Of the
North away from the contemplation Of the perpetual
CRY: Freedom is national, and slavery is section
al :" "the rights Of man :" 'the oppression of the
South :" "the equality Of the negro race"
All these minister to the excitement in the North.
They subjects in themselves neither interesting
nor attractive-not interesting attractive but
that appeal TO the great interests OF the country
the fundamental principles OF Constitution,
10 the great danger of the agitation Of these topics
may possibly reach the ear OF the Eost besotted,
and startle the Of those who still rational
that they whose talk is of negroes and who think
that the servants the altar should live Of the altar
may find themselves preaching to empty benches.
One, therefore, and the other, each within his own
region, seeks TO drive ont aud destroy everything
that may SOW wheat among his tares. They may
touch anything else but these rights Of sovereignty,
but put forth your hand and touch them in the very
body Of their power and they arise and curse you TO
your face.
The Democrat is jealous Of anything which i'm.
peaches the high duty Of extending the institution,
and is impatient Of men who accept an existing
institution, TO be protected as any other great ma
tional industrial interest is to be protected
The Republican toerAtes no man who questions
the practical honesty Of the higher law, aud sug-
gests the conscientious duty of conformity 20 the
practical enforcement Of the Constitution.
Both cry out, no compromise; both execrate all
adherence 20 the existing condition of affairs as
wisest and best Each boasts couuuests in the fl-
ture over his antagonist Each lives and moves and
has its being in an atmosphere confined to its own
region; it cannot breathe moment the air on which
the other thrives. Neither has any representative
in the region Of its adversary 10 soften their an
tagonism. They are both strictly sectional parties
tending to bring into collision hostile ophons, feel
ings, aud interests, concentrated without mixture
at the opposite poles Of the country each intensi-
fed Ike opposite elecictes 10y the intensity of the
other, and threatening # brought into contact an
explosion which NAV shake the foundations of the
Republic. Each knows that unless it can keep ex-
elusive control Of the whole region there il no hope
OF triumph, nor even Of collision
In this lies at once their strength and their weak
ness
Unless Mr.. Buchanan can carry the whole South
and trust-nOt to party discipline for that has died
away-but 10 the chance of the bnbe of high office
TO persons in the North to make up the deficiency
OF the Southern vote, nay Democratic friends know
full well that they have not the most remote pros
pect Of succeeding in carrying him the Presiden
tial chair. Aud our Republican friends on the
other side, with equal reason, based on equally no.
torious facts, know, if the State of New York is
stricken from them, that they are powerless minor
ity out OF doors, and that no nominee Of theirs can
darken the doors Of the White House Il is there
fore not because Of their strength bat because Of
their Uedkness that the one and the other seek to
produce the impression which it is possible, and in
charity ought 10 be conceded, each believes; but
which il is difficult for men who hold moderate
and middle position like myself not 10 regard in a
very different light 1t for this reason that each
party, deuded into the idea that it is enthroncd in
the exclusive control of its own sectional interest
and It's own sectional power, attempts the vain task
OF peFsuading the country that man like Mr. Fill
more, resplendent with the glories of great ad-
mini,tration which appeals TO those pervading and
and national considerations which wake responses
IN the hearts Of the people must be left in an insg
nihcant minority OF few rational men Of the North
and South.
Mr.. Chairman long lists Of names have been pa.
raded of new converts to Mr. Buchanan. Letters
have been spread before the public, urging argu-
mens with all the authority Of names entitled 20 the
profound respect OF the House and the country
know in these lists, whether they relate 10 Mary.
land or else where, OF no man who at the fall cleo
ton earnestly supported the American cause.
see among the names on that list none who we're re-
garded as the friends OF the American cause see
IN most OF them neophytes of Democracy, then
hardened sinners against its benign rule who we're
baptized las, TALL whose tender faith has been duly
instructed by the sponsors at their baptism, and
whose public and formal declaration now il nothing
but the ceremony OF eondrnaiion TO the world of
their earlier conversion. There is nothing in that
list which need shake the confidence Of any friend
OF the American party. There Is rothine which
makes the scale of Mr Fillmore yacillae fOra single
instant in lis inclination ia the State Of Maryland
There is nothing that in tue slightest degree in
creases the difficulty OF repeating, with larger ma
iortiies and grraier eciaf, the triumph Of the past
year.
n, = -. a.. -, a. . - -
supported = great names aud widespread au-
thofiy.
We are not TO vote for Fillmore, because a sjor-
~ at the North opposed % his patriotic and wise
admni-tFationso runs the reason; because the iaa.
jorfg Of the North sre uOl fsyotablc % compromise
aud conciiadon-so runs the reason. beeAuse the
selori'g ufthe North regard the time as come when