Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1856-11-14
TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF TIE UNITED
STATES
NATIONAL DKxooRArIo COMMITTEE RooMs,
November 6, 1856.

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STATES.
NATIONAL DKMooRATIo COMMITTEE Rooms,
November 6, 1856.
The trust of conducting the national canvass
con6dsd to the democratic National Resident Com
mittee has been discharged with the fidelity which
the honor and the exgency of that trust alike de-
manded, and the committee has to unite its con-
graduation with your own in announcing the sue
cess of the democratic ticket by q decided and
gratifying majority.
The struggle is over, and the Union is SAFE
Ours is, indeed, s new and signal triumph. Here
tofore our victories have been achieved over those
who like ourselves, were friends of the Union.
This has been conquest over its enemies Here
tofore our antagonists have ccrtended with frater-
nal esgerness for the honor of promoting the pro-
gress or of insuring the duration of the republic
Those whom we have just vanquished sought, uu-
der treacherous adherence to the forms of the
constitution, to rob it of all its essences and vital
ity The principles of the democratic party hav-
ing become the established policy of the federal
government, it became necessary for its enemies
to organize some new and desperate combination
to overthrow it An unnatural alliance bet Teen
fsnaticsm and vensity hos engsndered a monster
which the democratic party has with great peril
sought out and destroyed.
That monster was sectionslism
The circumstances under which the evil origina.
ted were peculiar. The land has been clouded by
missma of error. The belief that one part of
the Union had been invaded by the institutions Of
another, and that the federal government had lent
| its power to promote this injustice, had spread
with epidemiesl rspidity. 1t had been infected
| into the circulation Of popular thought with all
the force of an INSCRIPTIONS press and was spread
| broadcast over the land by the whole power of
| representative influence. 1t seemed at one time
almost in vain to pursue with the antdote of truth
and reason this veromous error as it sped through
| the channels of public opinion.
| Our enemies had chosen their ground with skill
they had recruited their ranks with all the infnen
1 ces which could combine an army. They pro.
claimed the ultimate abolition of slavery as the in.
centive to the fanaticthe division of the spoils as
the reward OF the mercensry The pretended in
vason of sacred right constituted their appeal 20
| those with patriotic impulses, whilst feigned re.
| gard for the Union was to secure the support OF
the neutrality of al whose material interests were
involved in its duration. These devices had or
ganized formidable array. Masses of honest and
earnest men were deludsd by the teachers whom
they had trusted into the belief that their govern.
ment had betrayed and their felIow-citizens haG
oppressed them. Dvines, girded with the swort
and clothed with the authority of the Gospel
| preached bloody resistance to the laws as the mos
acceptable service to God. Woman quilted bel
peaceful station to animate with her apprehension
those to whom her wishes are ever command
and the youth, indoctrinated by willy managers
responded with enthusiasm to false appeals address
cd to their innate and generous hatred of oppres
sion. Politicians speculated phiosophically upor
the capacity of the constitution, caring only tt
know whether its native strength of structur.
would bear the agitation necessary to secure III,
success OF their nefarious schemes and still leave
enough of stability to insure their enjoyment.
| It was the purpose of these conspiratots 10 SO
cure possession of the government if it pershed-
as it must have perished-in their grasp. 1t wa
their purpose to inaugurate the north as the domi
nant section. The rule of eligibility was to bt
obedience to the sway and conformity to the opin
ions Of the dominant section. The subjugation o
Ireland by force, division, and bribery was to be
reproduced upon this continent, and the southern
States were to be reduced to q mere provincial sp
pendage of the federal government. Such wa
| the plan, and disunion must have followed its &C
complishment Southern men would have only
differed as to the hour and mode of separation
The cement which binds the fabric of the Unior
would have lost its cohesion IN the fires of the con
aict, and the majestic fabric would have crumblet
and fallen in ruins, never again to be reconstructed
| Never was the republic in such peril. Neve
were the friends of the Union, from any suficien
existing grievance, less prepared to have appre
hended conspiracy 30 atrocious. But those tC
| whom you had committed the safety of the repub
lie were faithful to their trust The democratic
| party was by common consent, acknowledged t
be the sole party Of the Union, and was charged
with it's defence. Sound and truthful document
adequate to the emergency were prepared, and cir
culsted to al extent scarcely inferior to that OF TIT
errors which they were intended to countersct
Able and eloquent orators were impressed into the
service of the Union They responded with al
alacrity worthy that with which their ancestry hat
| repaired to the battle Fl I'D in the same holy cause
| Never WAS there more harmony in the democratic
cause Never did the patriots of every party earn
more true glory than when they enrolled them
| selves in the recent canvass under the banner o
democracy, and marched to fight for the salvation
| of the Union
NV fellow -ot zeus the contest is, for the present
OVER. The democratic party is sgain in control o
the government. 1t will have ample opportunity
to convince those who have been msled that in
| only object is the establishment of equal rights,
not the propagation of a sectional policy. 1t vii
show the world that it desires only to promote the
political and commercial progress of this great re
publc-to advance the cause Of human civilization
aud liberty, not to acquire the property OF otheI
nations by force fraud. IL will demonstrate thai
| democratic principles are alone adequate to the
| effectual administration of the government, and
that they ara, as they have been, fully competent
| to insure the success OF that republican empire
| which our fathers have founded and committed to
| our care.
In closing the performance of the arduous and
responsible duties con6ded to our hands by the
confidence of tie democratic party, we have tc
return our thanks to Providence for having per
mitted US in any sense, howsoever humble, to have
been instrumental in preserving cur beloved coun
| try from conspiracy so dangerous to its pesca
and tranquility, and in having contributed to a
suit so conclusive of the established ascendency Of
democratic principles, and SO suspicious to ths per-
menency of the Union.
Gas. JAS. FAULKNER, Chairman.