Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-01-21
A New phase of Pro,crip,ion,

support him.
A New Phase of Prescription.
The Uaion and american is "happy" in
announcing that the parent Board of the
! Bank Of Tennessee have determined to
manifest an ineffably mean and malignant
/ spirit of prescription in the selection Of
Boards for the Branches of that institution.
1t gloatS with unmistakeable and heartfelt
gusto over this moroccan so well suited to
its palate. A grin of almost savage salts
faction is stamped upon its countenance as
it unblushingly records this incomparably
the smallest of all the acts of the party of
which it is proud to be the organ. Yet
while thanking the parent Board for having
adopted this resolution, it takes them to
task for having in one instance relaxed the
rule and appointed one of these villainous
Know-Nothings a director in the Branch
at Columbia. 1t tells them they have ut
terly disregarded the wishes of the people
Of Maury by SO doing. 1t tells them that
Democrats will not and should not approve
conduct so outrageOuSly un-democratic.
We are surprised that the democratic ma
jority in the parent Board are so ignorant
of the commonest precepts of their party.
Appoint a political opponent to Office !!
Why what were they thinking about
What penance can they do to re-instate
themselves in confidence after so fragrant a
breach of party discipline. We advise
them as they value their own standing and
the good opinion of their party never again
to permit sin so heinous to be laid at
their door Another such misstep and
they may have to answer the walked up
wrath of that rigid disciplinarian and ran
corous partisan who gaze them the power
thus to throw away Office upon TRAITORS"
and midnight s,theves" Let them not
think that he is so ignorant of what demo-
Gratis require of their servants as they have
shown themselves to be- The Gliding
which the organ gives them is most oppor-
tune. Let them profit by it.
But what will the common sense and COM
mon decency of the world think of a party
who can be guilty Of such acts of ruthless
prescription, and without a blush blazon
them to the world as commendable, and
yet ill its newspapers with unstinted abuse
and denunciatiOn of the opposite party,
charging prescription as their gravest sin
Can any man with a spark of political hon
esty in his composition entertain respect for
party who proclaim certain conduct base
in their opponents, and yet in the face of
this, excuse aye even endorse heartily the
same conduct in members of their own
party F.? That man is indeed low who can
consent TO glorify his own baseness, who
can boast Of an act for which he denounces
another. All kinds of meanneSs is con-
temptible, and political meanness can as
well inspire disgust as any other kind 1t
has been a long time since We have met
with an article which contains more of this
spirit than that in which our neighbor re
cords his endorsement Of this most tyrann /.
cal abuse Of appointing power. We UNI
hesitatingly pronounce it the grossest out
rage which an intolerant and domineering
majority has ever perpetrated in this State
The American party have no right to ex-
pect in the distribution Of political Offices a
shadow Of favor at the hands Of their oppo-
nents. But until this monstrous move on
the part Of the majority Of the parent
Board Of the State Bank it was never
dreamed that the management Of great
money institution erected by the whole PEG.
pile Of Tennessee for the benefit of the
whole should be committed to the sole and
exclusive charge Of the political party who
happened to be in power. 1t remained for
this immaculate Democratic party, whose
loud and bitter denanciations Of proserip.
ton during the last canvass are yet echo
ing through the hills and valleys OF Ten
nessee, 70 inaagurate the practice Of pro-
scribing their fellow-citizens in purely bust
ness transactions on account Of their poiiti
cal opinions. 1--we recollect Alright i was
this same party weo were 50 horrifed at
what they called the social feature" ia the
obligations Of the American order. They