Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-04
AMERICAN ELECTORAL TICKET.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 1856.
The Duty of conservatives in This cris


The Fremont party, North, and the
Buchanan party, South, are straining every
nerve TO render the present contest for the
Presidency purely sectional. The former
are led by fanatics who, to achieve success,
are willing to destroy the peaceful relations
of the two principal sections Of the Union,
y and to jeopardize the National Govern
ment. The latter, controlled chiefly by
the secession and disunion leaders, who got
' up the Nashville Convention in 1850,
although more patriotic, are governed by
impulses, if not principles, which lead TO
similar ends The honest inquirer after
truth has but to lock around him, and he
Il. will note that every person whom he has
known to hold opinions, either in 1882 or
1850, inimical to the perpetuation Of the
Union, is arrayed under the standard of
Mr. Buchanan. So insidous have been
the approaches of these men, and so seduc-
tive their appeals, we find individuals who
have in the dangerous crises through which
we have passed, adhered infexibly to the
sentiment of Gen. jackson, "7Ke Federal
UniOn-it must be preserved" now openly
counSelling diSunion, and preparing the
minds and hearts of the great masses for
that direst of calamities. In sober earnest
the sectionalistS are running the good ship
of State upon the breakers. The success
of either the Fremont or the Buchanan
sectionalists would endanger the Union
1t would be well for the people of the whole
country to look this fact in the face; and
to contemplate the awful consequences of
their own acts, should they contribute to
the election of either. If they are not
prepar d for breaking up of the Union,
and do not wish to do anything calculated
to bring about that unhappy end, they
should steadily exert their influence to
check the growth Of sectionalism, and to
advance true conservatism and love Of the
Union We believe that there is but one
way left to ward off the dangers which
have gathered over the nation, and that
is by the election of the American candi-
dates for the Presidency and Vice Presi-
dency. Both of them have been tried and
found true. In the perilous crisis of 1850,
Mr. Fillmore who had been, as he is now
by the minions of sectionaSm, denounced
as an abolitionist and an enemy to the
South, sn conducted himself as President
as to give repose to the country to break
down the agitatorS and to drive them into
obscurty, aud to win the plauditS of all
Union-Ioving people Major Doneson sus-
tanned the Compromise aud compromise
men Of that era with all his zeal and ability
and his rebuke to the traitors who met in
this city, is still ringing in their guilty ears.
Around these candidates are now gathered
hosts of conservatives who oppose section
alism, and desire to see the Union preserV-
ed and perpetuated, that the blessings of
peace and good government may forever
distinguish the land of Washington, and
jefferson, and Madison, and jackson, AMI
Clay. These gallant hosts are daily in
3, creasing in numbers, and we believe are
destined to become the saviOrs Of their
country. Thus believing, we call upon the
patriotic masses of Tennessee, to be true
TO their past history-to remember with
what zeal and devotion they stood by Jack
son and Clay in 1882, and by the compro-
mise men of ls50-and to cast aside party
prejudices, and aid in the achievement of
another glorious triumph over the spirit of
sect,onasm and disunonism. 1t would be
dark spot in the bright annals of Ten
nessee were she TO fail to do her duty
under the standard Of the Union in such a
trying epoch as the present. We want her
to show her faith again in the true princi-
Piles of liberty, not by meagre majority
but by. one so large that it will never be
forgotten. Shall we have it? We hear
in the swiftly coming future, the inspiring
response-AYEl