Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-07-04
State Rights Men RepudIatipg Buch-
anau.


anan.
The South Carolina Times, prominent
State rights journal in that State, will not
support the nomination of, to use its own
language and italics, "the high tariff and
freesOi Buchanan" In an article condemn
ing the course of the Charleston Mercury,
which after many qualifications, and much
reluctance, gave in its adhesion to the Gin
cinnati nominee, the Times man asks his
too phabe brother some searching ques-
tions. Says the Times, evil the Mercury
inform US in what way the man who voted
for the tariff of 1912, and declared in 1874
that he felt strong repugnance to extend
ing the Union ouer any more slarehOlding ter
ritory, can erer be a representative Of the Con-
stitutiOn" He also wants to know chow
he can be a representative Of the South,
gates at Cincinnati almost unanimously OPP
posed his nomination, and gave in only when
it was apprehended his Northern support
ers would secede from the Convention and
set up for themselves" These are plain in-
terrogatories, bluntly put between brother
and brother, and their only answer is the
one the questioner gives in string of in
dignant Noes.
The Tines further says chat Mr.. Buchan-
an is the representative Of the North, was
nominated By the North in opposition to
Pierce and Douglas, the first, second and
only choice of the South, and if the South
shall vote for him, it will be because party
ties are stronger than love of section"
Query. If according to this high demo
cratic authority it be right for democrats
to reject party ties, and refuse to vote for
Buchanan, because he is unSound and IN
safe for the South, how is it possible for
wings and weak kneed Americans to be
cajoled into his support, as the only candi-
date on whom a Southern voter can rely
for the protection of his rights? Here is
a distinguished democratic paper, the me-
tropolitan organ of the South Carolina de-
mocracy, people noted for their indepen-
dence of party domination, and the unde-
Waiting fidelity and firmness with which
they support the interests of slavery, open
ly rejecting Mr.. Buchanan as a freesOiIer,
nominated by anti Southern votes, chosen
as a leader because he 1oaS acceptable to North
ern FrsesOa democrats
The Times concludes its article thus
We tell the Mercury in all frankness and friend
ship that its course in reference to the nomination
has caused much surprise to the 'old line" State
rights men of the State. When they confidently
expected that it would stand fast by the faith of its
fathers they were deeply panied and chagrned to
see il "wheel into line" with the national democrats
1t is giving moral aid and comfort to tina: par.
ty which is seeking to natiOnalize South Carolina,
to make her Vassal of democracy, and to subvert
her whole domestic policy. When the news reach
ed the conveutiOnsts of this State that Buchanan
was nominated dismay and dssa tisfaction were de-
picted upon the cOuntenances Of every member of
the corporal guard, and bright hope cheered the
faces Of the remnant of the old State rights guard
But no sooner did the Nerury swallow Buchanan
with all has tdrifijsm and treeSoiiim, than the
gloomy, dissatisfied cOuntenances of the one party
were lighted up with hope and satisfaction, and de
spondency filled the hearts of the other party Let
the Mercury be assured of one fact that its old enc
mics, the federasts in this State, view its present
course with the utmost complacency and the warm.
est self ordinations Who would have believed
one month ago, that State rights repubcanism
would have received fatal stab in the house of its
friends?