Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-05-14

Line NaIlOnal DeDIOCTUC vi GHe 1UIH luSJs,
the organ of the Dickinson Democracy of
New York, addresses the following article
to the South. The Delegates from Ten
nessee to the Cincinnati Convention will
not see it in the Union and american. We
republish it for their benefit:
One Word More TO the South.
We have been frequently asked by Southern
Democrats-many of them Delegates to the
Cincinnati COnvention-what course the Ma
tional Democracy of this State will pursue, 'in
the event of their delegation being rejected at
Cincinnati, Or both delegations admitted 2"
Neither event suggested is probable.
The Convention dare not reject the Nation.
al Democratic delegates of New York. and
both delegations cannot be admitted, because
ifthe Convention chooses to sit and commune
Nth Free Sellers the National Democracy Of
Neu York does not and Mill not Seventy men
from New York are entitled to represent the
State at Cincinnati, and the Convention must
decide which are the legitimate seventy. The
question has to be met, and the delegates who
are to decide might as well prepare themselves
for it. 1t must be decided whether the men
who, within the last six months, supported
ticket upon Free Soil platform are entitled to
seats in Convention of National Democrats.
Our delegates, composed of the States Rights
and Nebraska Democrats of this great State,
the men who have preserved it from complete
Aboltionisn, will go to claim their seats as a
matter of right. If they meet with opposi-
ton 1t will be from intrUders and trespassers.
If obstacles are presented to their taking the
seats assigned TO the delegation from New
York, as matter of courtesy and usage, the
subject viii be referred to the Committee on
Credentials. There, with a statement of I'M
deniable facts, they will support their claims;
there they Will rest unless they are requested
TO argue the question in open Convention.
Those gentlemen who expect to be importuned
TO favor the the admission of the National
Democratic delegation will find themselves
mistaken. Our claim is too Just TO admit of
paltry exoedients TO enforce right What
course will be pursued in the event that party
madness should induce the Convention to pre-
fer Free Sellers to Democrats, we are not pre-
pared, upon the part of the delegation, to de-
clare. For ourselves, we freely assert that in
such an event it will be subject of serious
consideration whether the nominee of Con-
vention which admitted Anti-Ne5raska men
to its councils, be worthy of the support Of
Democrats. We make no threats and require
no promises. They will be for revolt and one
war. Accustomed to turn to a Distinguishing
leader, one who has become such by his faith.
fulness to Democratic principles, they might
wait moment to take council from hlm-but
it would be an occasion when he too might be
disregarded. II that gentleman's adherence
to routine" should pass beyond the period
when revolution ought to commence, he would
be as powerless with his friends as be is now
strong. The fact that he had been openly in
suited and his friends spurned, would make
more bitter the impending strife.
We have contended thus far, in the hope that
at some time the consistency of our course in
the adherence to sound Democratic principles
would be acknowledged The time for that
acknowledgment is fast approaching. If re-
| pulsed by the men whose cause the National
Democrats of New York have so fearlessly
sustained, and that too at powerful odds-if
| ingratitude is 10 be the only return-then the
| period for a rest, on the part of many who
have heretofore labored so energetically, will
! probably have arrived No action of the Gin
cinnati Convention, or any oSer assembly Of
men, can make the National Democrats of
New York change their principles-no action
| can make them Free Sellers or Know Moth
| ings-can lessen their regard for civil and re-
! liglous liberty, and the rights of all under the
! Constitution Of our country. Such action
might be taken, however, as would indicate to
them that the Democracy of the South was
! prepared TO look hereafter to newer friends at
the North for advocacy and succor; and should
such action result at Cincinnati the Van Bu-
rem Buffalo Platform men would, strangely
enough, have been recognized as the best
| friends of Southern institutions in New York;
The National Democrats would then probably
require u little repose.