Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-04-28

Maj. DoneIson and the maysviiIe Ex-
MONDAY, APRIL %, 1856.


press.
The slanderous statement that is going
the rounds of the newspapers in the pay of
the Democracy, respecting the retirement
of Major Donelson from the Washing
ton Union, is worthy of the source from
which it emanates, RICHARD H. STANTON.
the former member of Congress from the
Maysyille District, in Kentucky. The ALE
cation is that
$50 odous was DoneIson to the Democratic par
ty, early as the summer Of $50, before
the election Of Gen. Pierce that the Democrats in
Congress would not elect him Printer of the House
alth ough he editor of the Metropolitan paper
and the party bad large majority of the members
They refused to permit his name to be associated
with his lamented partner, Gen. Armstrong, and
gave the Office to the latter The editor Of this
paper nominated Gen. Armstrong 10 the House
aud happens TO know well what were the relations
of Donelson at that time to the party. Gen Arm
strong elected Printer on the 9th of August
1852, ONE time before the election Of Gen. Pierce.
short time after this very uneguivOcal indication
of the feeling Of the party towards Maj Donelson,
he odd his interest in the Washington Union 10
Gen Armstrong and retired TO private life, soured
ana disappointed man.
There is not truth in the above state
ment Maj Donelson left the Union in the
spring Of 1852, and not in the summer
When he did so, Mr. Pierce had not been
nominated, and not even been suggested,
that we know of, as a candidate for the
Presidency. AS this slanderer states it,
Mai Donelson retired after Gen Arm
strong had been elected Printer, when in
fact his retirement occurred on the 18th of
May, 1852
Mr.. German, the chairman of the Com
mittee on Printing for the House, replying
to the objections to the Washington Union,
remarked:
THAT it Is the determination Of the gentlemen
composed of what is called the Disuuion and Sc
cession, States Rights party, to break down the
organ Of the Democratic party, edited by DOnelson
aud Armstrong, because they oppose the doctrines
Of the Nashville Convention, and if they fall, will
fall with them"
After noticing in some detail the doc
trne of State Rights, Mr.. German pro-
ceeds:
"And say that the very doctrine l have laid
down here, is laid down in the Washington Union,
verbatim ct HIerGtin., and my Southern friends
come up here and denounce it, They refuse to read
what the editors have said upon the subject. Ny
honorable friend from Va, Mr. Meade, present
WIN expressed my sentiments in this manner once
before in the presence of the distinguished gentle.
man from Ca, Mr.. Cobb) and in that doctrine he
conceded fully. Another gentleman from Virginia,
Mr.. Bocock, says that he acquesces in this posi-
ton Il is sustained by the Washington Union.
IL is the doctrine of Jackson, Jefferson, and Madi
son. Yet, sir they have undertaken TO break
down DOnelson and Armstrong, and they have
done il under the superstition pretence that their
paper is not advocating the sound State Rights
doctrine. say that paper has advocated States
Rights in their true sense, and to the full satisac-
tion of nearly all, when properly understood, ex
crpting those who affirm the right of secession as
an absolute, unconditional right at will"
The only error in the above extract of
Mr. German, is in characterizing Gen Arm
strong as an associate editor of the Wash
jngton Union Maj. DonelSon alone was
the editor, and it was against him of course
that the utraiSts, North and South, di-
TtCIbu JllGlE tUFeUOUltu SINUS.
Now, no one knows all this better than
the slanderouS editor Of the Maysville En-
press, who was as well known then as he
Is now, as the suppliant tool of this psuedo
Democracy, of Nullifers and Abolition
ISIS He knows that Maj. Donelson was
proof against all the bargains that was pro-
posed to him by this Democracy. He
knows that propositions were made to him
from the North and from the South, and
that he denounced them as unbluShing man.
ifestations Of corruption and prohigacy.
He knows that Messrs Fisher and De Loen
were unceasing in their efforts to effect a
compromise with theWashington Union. but
that he may not deceive any body by bis
ISLANDERS, we give quotation from those
editors in their journal dated 9th of April,
1852:
Aud we insisted that since no party was strong
enough alone TO control the public printing any
oth-r question, il was both necessary and proper
tnat the two which had the greatest dffHities both
rom previous ana pTONable party he.oClilloh anu
principle should unite and give the printing to
their respective papers
Again, these editors say in their Journal
of April IL, in regard to their claim to
the printing:
"As for the policy of sacrificing us to the super
transccndenta idea of total political self denial,
shall not acquiesce. II any of our friends in Con-
gress are EXALTED in their conceptions, they may
try the experiment on themselves of having no
connection with government, and resign their seats,
or at least their per den, and mileage"
But it is useless TO multiply the proofs
which exist, of the efforts of the Nullifers
aud Abolitionists to make terms with Maj.
Donelson. He rejected them on all occa-
sons, and left the Union because he saw
that so far as Congress represented the
Democratic party, it could have no organ
which did not acknowledge notification
and abolition as portion of its creed.
The editor of the Maysville Express, who
says he nominated Gen Armstrong as pub
lac printer, has certainly forgotten what he
said in the House on the subject of the
coalition here spoken Of He stands re-
corded as making the following statement
TO the House, when the subject of the pub
lie printing was before that body:
"He (Fi.hrr,) had requested the committee to
divide some of the printing between his paper and
the Union, Tor the reason that such course would
produce union between the southern and COM
promise Democrats Mr stanton told him that il
was utterly impossible that such proposition, un-
der any circumstances, could obtain two votes the
other gentlemen on the committee being Northern