Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-10-27

enemies to secure her rights, in order to
present a united front for the candidate OF
the Van Burens and other fanatics OF the
North? Is the chivalrous South ready to
deliver up her friend again, to appease the
howlings of her enemies? We might appeal
to nobler sentiments, but we appeal to the
selfinterest of southern men. If the South
shall prove herself thus ungrateful-and
that when the eyes of her enemies are ca
gerly watching the result, and their lips are
sneeringly Kissing out the reproach that
'the gratitude of the South looks to the
future and not to the past"-if the South
thus challenged shall again prove migrate
full, what is she to expect in the future? If
the South will thus basely desert her no
blest benefactor and most reliable friend,
whose administration was applauded even
by the ablest of the enemies of his party in
the south, as wise, pure, patriotic, able,
Washington-like-to become again the dupe
and victim of the party which bowls in the
South for disunion and slave-Kansas, and
shouts for squatter and alien sovereignty
and free Kansas in the North-if the South
will thus debase herself, then what can she
expect from Northern men in future? The
South will soon cease to command the re-
spect of anybody. She will see the time
when she will want friend and will not
find one-aad she oOiN be SerUed right. Men
will not be willing to serve an Migrate
South-to immediate themselves on the altar
Of an ungrateful people. Greater love
hath no man than this, that be should lay
down his life for his friend" National men
will stand aside, with their hands folded.
and will not step between the combatants
only to receive in their bodies the arrows
of both parties
Men of the South you are called upon to
deSert-to betray to his enemies your true
friend, who has been tried, and whose
administration all good men commended
in whose integrity all have confdence-to
present a united front" in favor of man
condemned by both of those great leaders
who few years since stood at the head of
the two great parties of the country.
jackson and Clay were among the great
est of great men; they were both good
judges of men; and they both knew james
Buchanan well. The former, as he went
down to the tomb, pronounced James Blu
chanan wanting in moral courage, and
guilty of injustice and prevarication. Mr..
Clay believed Buchanan dishonest and in
sincere and placed the same upon record in
almost his last letter. Hearken to the warn
ing Of these great men, uttered like words
of inspiration, at the time when
1.-THE sunset Of life gave them mystical lore,
And coming events cast dark shadows before"
Disagreeing on many subjects in life and
in death, they still agreed in two things
in attachment to the Union of the States,
and in a bad opinion of James Buchanan
They believed him a dishonest, insincere
man, man wanting in moral courage, and
truth, and justice. They knew him we'll
And you, men of the South, ore called on
TO present d united front in favor of such a
man for the Presidency against WILLARD
FILLMORE. These are times that try the
souls of our Presidents, and we should
place in that position man who is brave,
firm, honest, sincere, just and true. The
South will not desert Fillmore.