Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-05-12

remainder of the canvass of 1852. are lost for
want of chronicler. We can trace them no fur
Their than Maury county. In 1858 be appears to
have rested on his arms. We hear Of him no more
until in 1854, he
WELCOMES Mr.. FILLMORE TO BEDFORD
COUNTY, 81
Making the occasion the following speech, short
and to the point. We copy it from the Shelby
vile ErpositOr, May 9, 1854:
Gentlemen, in the name of D portion of your fair
country women from the County of Bedford, and by
their request, greet you as you speed on your
homeward way. i greet you not with courtly adu-
lstion; hail YOU with splendid procession with
imposing ceremonies-with the "pomp and circum-
stance of formidable array. Ours be the humble,
but not less heart felt duty, present unosten-
tstous tribute to those whom we delight to honor.
hail you, Sir addressing Mr.. Filmore) not as a
hero returning in triumph from scenes OF carnage
and of death; with the spols OF victory In your
train, with the dust of the battlefield upon your
garments and honorable scars upon your person.
Yielding to none in our admiration OF those who
have earned true military distinction, and dspos-
ed, on all appropriate occasion, to render to them
due need of praise, We tender an Offering to-day 10
excellence, of kind still more exalted hail thee
glorious peace-a victor en- a field unstained by
blood where a clear consciousness OF duty, and a
nerve to execute it, the great agencies OF sue
cess, hail thee as the man who threw himself into
a breach between the sections of the contederacy
that Was fast widening into severance-as the man
that risked all for the preservation of glorious
structure raised by the suffering and self-denia OF
our fathers. hail thee as the calmer of troubled
elements-as the quieter of tempestuous sea whose
ID, IN dturp1 nd
dations of our national temple; and we thank thee
that in thine own appropriate place, and at good
and suspicious time those didst say to the warning
elements-"Peace be STILL"
And l also greet you, Sir, addressing Mr.. Ken
needy as a counsellor of our hODored Chiei Magis-
trste for the ability and ailhfulness with which you
supported him in the administration of the govern
ment-for your efficient management of the navy
the right arm of the national defence thank thee
for thy faithfulness when guardian of our flag for
the unsued purity with which it passed through
thy hands and that thy best efforts were directed
to make il respected amongst the nations.
Gentlemen, you are about to leave US for less
genial cline. You quit the Sunny South" for re-
gons of which it has been wrouguly said that their
hearts are as cold as their winters-their feelings
chilly as the SHOWS that mantle their everlasting
hills.-Dlsputng this, of the South do claim for
our own people an ardor OF attachment, second to
no other portion Of our race and amongst all af-
fections none are stronger than those which en-
terrain for distinguished patriotism aud ncorrupti-
BILE integrity. You leave US, but will net let you
depart without blessing. May "He who rides upon
the whrlwind and directs the storm, protect those,
who labored to quiet the storms within govern
ment that knows no other superior! MAY He guide
those in health and safety to their loved homes,
who knew no local home, when dealing out even.
handed justice to the great family under their pros
lection.
We will remember you often, when separated by
distance and by time; your images will occupy some
choice spot within the garden of the heart; and tho
we may not kneel before them, as before sanity
efHgies, they will at least serve to remind us OF
1.-THE noble acts that have been" Adieu! Ia the
name of the ladies of Bedford, but wanting that
poetry of manner with which they could themselves
yes express it, | bid you both an sffectonate fare
well
Mr.. Davidson is now a Democratic elector, and
as he does not scrupe to make use of the name ol
the immortal CLAY to strengthen the cause of the
enemies of that great spirit, we doubt not he will
follow the line of argument laid down by the Dem.
ocratc leaders, and attempt to prove that the un
soHnd Democratic party of 1852, without departing
one step from the ground they then occupied on
tue stA'etJ queetloh, nave ny eome singular ahO
inscrutable operation in political alchemy, suddenly
become unsound. And, furthermore, that FILL
MORE, whom he welcomed so cordially and SO hon,
estly, is now in the category of Mr.. Pierce il
1852, and mot to be trusted by the South, al.
though he stands to-day where he stood in 1854
upon the glorious record of his administration and
means to stand there faithfully firmly to the bitter
end, defying abolition on the one hand, and South
ern Disunion and Ingratitude on the other. Fol
these reasons, we have taken the trouble to collats
the above facts of Mr.. Davidson's brief potica
history, for the benefit Of Americans in his dis
trct, leaving it to them to make such comments al
they may think fit. The theme is tempting bu
we have no room to indulge our inclinations.