Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-04-21

the North at this time is composed solely
of the adherents of the Administration,
and the only ties that bind them are those
of interest. They comprise only small
circle under the influence of port-collectors,
post masters, mail agents and federal Office
holders generally. With this exception,
and that Of the knotty New York hards,
the rank and file are to be found under the
the Freesoil ensign Northern Democracy
is contemptibly weak as party, incom-
parably the weakest of the three organi-
cations in that section, taking the elections
of the past year as the standard.
| These are the undeniable facts of the
case. No other solution can be given to
the problem of the rapid decay Of its
strength since 1852 From the hour of
its elimination in that year, its star has
gradually declined. In less than four
years it has described the whole course
from the zenith to the nadir And yet we
are told that the Democracy is national,
when throughout half the republic, 1t is
scarcely able to carry district election. 1t
is as sectional as FreesOilism itself. Its
only strength is in the South, while the only
strength of the other is in the North. If
one were to hear only their eI parte version
of the case, he would suppose that no
Northern voter who did not answer to the
name of Democrat, was sound. He would
conclude that they enjoyed a monopoly OF
the conservatism of that section. We see
that what they can rightfully claim, is only
an nconsiderable portion OF that vote,
and that it is tinctured with a heresy as
revolving as FreeSoliSm itself This latter
fact finds verifcation in the recorded
opinions of those who fill the topmost
benches of the synagogue-LEwIs CAss
DOUGLAS, RICHARDSON, ToUCEY and others
in their avowal of the squatter sovereignty
doctrine
If these things be true, whence is the
Cincinnati candidate to draw that strength
which Democratic papers so confidently pre-
dict for him Every Southern electoral
vote would fail to elect him. 1t is absO-
lutely necessary for his success that he re-
ceive more or less Northern support. From
what source there can he derive it, other
than the freesoi faction? None other.
And from it he will get it. 1t is the bust
ness of the Cincinnati Convention to make
arrangements to insure this end. The Sc
lection of candidate will be a secondary
consideration. How best to agglOmerate
sufficient strength from all sources to secure
a triumph and the spOils-that is the ques
ton 1t is puzzling one, but to a greater
or less extent they will solve it, and sue
coed. BY the shameless jugglery to be
contrived and set in motion by that Con
ton, they will seduce a vast majority of the
freesoil vote into the support of the Demo
cratic candidate, and leave Black Republi
canism, now swelling with confidence in a
miserable minority To some this feat of
political legerdemain may seem impossible,
but it will not astOnish those who know the
resources of the master magician. 1t has
been accomplished before, and though more
serious difficulties now interpose, it will to
a certain extent be done again. The lead
ers of the national Democracy, and their
candidate, whether he be Northern or South
ern look no where else for their strength
in that section, than from their natural
allieS-their co 1oOrkcrS IN 0git0tiOn-the
FreesoilerS. While maturing this project,
the leaders are StrenuOuSIy labOring to pro-
duce in the south an exaggerated estimate of
the Black Republican or FreeSoi strength.
At the same time they are chiSeiing deep
into the Southern mind The impression that
they are the only national organization in
the country capable of successfully opposing
it, BY these means they hope to brighten
Southern men into their support as the only
recourse to save their rights, and to pre-
serve the nation And hence the repeated
boastings of nationality, and their persis-
tent efforts to establish that idea.
But we have hope that they will fail
that the good sense of the American peo-
pie will not permit them to be duped
again 1t is high time that the conserva-
tive sense of the nation should assert its
strength, and rebuke these reckless trifcrs
with the country's peace We think the
omens are propitious-that agitation has
for once overreached itself The distracted
condition of public affairs has directed at
tention to its eau eS. 1t is found in the
schemng of INSCRIPTIONS politicians of the
Democratic party-and the people are be-
ginning to appreciate the fact. They are
preparing to expel from their confidence
those who have abused it,