Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-16


ported him; It was only signal for their
more vigorous organization and more sue
cesSful attack upon the doctrines and fame
Of those statesman who had up to the cleo
ton of Mr.. Polk, rebuked the spirit of sec
tionalism. Mr.. Pierce soon fell a victim
to this organization, having neither the Sa-
gacity to perceive nor the 6rmness to OPP
pose, the corrupt means by which his power
became subservient to the tools of Mr..
Buchanan With Forney and Nicholson to
write articles in the government organ, and
Davis the nulifer, and Cushing the aboli-
ZIONIST, to expound the laws, it was appar-
ent to all the world, except to Mr.. Pierce
himself, that his whole administration was
nothing but an intrigue to array one sec
ton against the other for the benefit Of
Mr.. Buchanan at the South or Mr. Seward
at the North.
From this review of the circumstances
attending Major Donelson's public career,
our readers can readily account for the
tone of the newspaper missiles which are
directed at him by the friends Of the great
type Of political corruption.
They first denounced him as a mere cy-
pher in the political arithmetic. Although
the files Of the State Department contained
repeated assurances from Mr.. Buchanan
himself, that he had displayed the highest
! qualities Of the diplomatist and statesman
he employs his friends, Nicholson and For
ney, to declare just the contrary Although
Gen. Jackson, after lifelong and conf
dental intercourse with him, recommends
him to the world in his last will and tesla
ment, the tools of Mr. Buchanan apply to
! his character the most offensive ana vul-
gar epithets. This is all natural, and can
not surprise those who know the character
of Mr.. Buchanan, and what must be his
feelings to one who has thwarted his ambi-
! tious schemes.
Gen. Jackson's latter days were embit-
tered by the reflection that he had been
imposed upon in the most important event
of his life, by the statements of this agent
I of the factions which have been gaining
strength since the election of Mr. Polk
But if we mistake mot the signs of the
times, the day of retribution is at hand,
and this old and corrupt minister at the
altar Of treachery and hypocrisy will get
the reward which is due him. If we are
not grossly mistaken, the Major Donelson,
now so grossly reviled, will prove that he
is able to defend the character Of his bene
factor and friend, the old hero of the Her
mitage, and give blow to his insidious
libeller, which it will require more than
Autean strength to recover from.
1t is in vain that Mr.. Buchanan calls to
his aid such men as Senator Jones, or those
who under the mask of "an old Clay Wing"
are betraying the high interests Of the
country. Such men can do no more than
sink with him in the same grave Of unwor-
thy ambition True Wings and true Dem
ocratS never have differed on the great
questions which have been placed in issue
by the men who are now trying to elect Mr..
Buchanan. There is not leader Of the
Buchanan Democracy who is not traitor
to the fame of Gen. jackson There is not
Wing leader, supporting this Democracy,
who is not equally traitor to Clay and his
principles. Mr. Buchanan is the natural
candidate of such compound, because its
element is treachery and intrigue, seeking
personal instead of public interests. If
Gen. Jackson and Mr.. Clay had both been
dead in 1925, Mr.. Buchanan was bound
by law of his nature to have played the
part he did with those who were in contact
with him.
Look at the men who are the most ac-
tive supporters of Mr.. Buchanan. In Ten
neSSee they are A. V Brown, Cave John
son, and those who are VIGOROUSLY "parti-
cops eriminis" in the plans of the nullifers of
the South. In Virginia it is Wise and the
tribe of seceders who have never forgiven
Gen. Jackson for his proclamation in 1882.
In all the other Southern States the same
order of men stand out as party leaders
and champions. If you examine those poll
ticians with Wing antecedents who have
joined the flag of this sham Democracy,
the same personal feelings will be found to
characterize them. 1t was not possible for
such men as Jones of Tennessee, or Pearce
of Maryland, or Choate of Massachusetts,
to keep out of the stream on which Buch-
ahan has embarked his fortunes. They 60
there by a necessity almost as great as that
which forces water to seek its level. They
may say that they do so because there is
no Wing party. But an enlightened peo-
pie will not thus be deceived. They go
there because they have really no true
Democratic or Wing principle. They go
there because both Gen. Jackson and Mr..
Clay had nothing in common with them.
They go there because Mr.. Fillmore in the
present sectional issues is the friend of both
Clay and Jackson. They go there because
Buchanan is the enemy by instinct, educa-
ton and habit, of the patriotism which
looks above parties, and because he attracts
to his support those who can prosper only
in the sunshine of that ephemeral power
which is acquired by personal intrigue, and