Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-04-08
The War on Mai. DOncIsOn.

The Union and american is bringing for
ward the stale charge of Nicholson and
Forney that Maj. DoNELsoN was turned out
of the Washington Union, and opposed
Mr.. Pierce, because his losses were not
compensated by an office. This reckless
statement has been circulated by all the
papers in the pay Of modern Democracy,
and there is not one of them that has ever
been able to present the sembance of an
authority for it. Maj DOnelsOn never
sought for an Office from Mr.. Pierce or from
any other administration. He voted for
Mr.. Pierce in consequence of his having
received from him pledge which we have
published over and over again, that he
stood where Andrew Jackson did on the
great sectional issues of the day. But, as
soon as he falsifed this pledge, Maj. Don
elson abandoned him, and has ever since
constantly opposed him. Before the for
nation of his Cabinet, Maj. Donelson re-
commended to him two Union men, one of
whom is now Postmaster at Nashville. The
other could not have accepted the Office if
it had been rendered to him, because he
never sanctioned the principle on which the
Cabinet was formed. But both of these
gentlemen will say, that Maj, DonelsOn
gave his recommendation with reluctance,
expressly stating that he feared President
Pierce would betray the power he had re-
ceived from the conservative portion of the
country.
The other allegation, that Maj. Doneson
was turned 0m of the Union, is equally un,
true. He left that paper after having
Cchipped the party with which he acted into
a support of the platform upon which il
now stands nominaHv, but which every in
telligent citizen conversant with politics
knows that it accepted with no intention Of
CARRYING out its principles. Preston King
the late Black Republican candidate in New
York declared that Union men, like Maj
/ Doneson might take the platform, bot he
would take Mr. Pierce and the Offices This
also, was the language of the leading Fire
! cutters of the South.
/ Mai. DoneSOn, while editor of the Union
! scorned to accept the offer made to him bl
/ the DiSunioniStS, North and South, VIII,
then held the balance Of power in Congress
Mr.. Soule brought on from the South
flaming, Gre-eating editor, to make propo
sition for the public printing. A Simlla
proposition came from the North, bot
holding out large profits to the Washington
L-lli0n, if Mai. DonelSon would consent L
abandon the position which he maintaine'
as the exponent of Democratic doctrines.
The reply of Maj. Donelson to all sue
propositions was, that they could not be az
cepted without admitting that Democrat
was a compound of abolitionisman and nnliiicG
ton; and that this was an admission whic
he never would make 1t was upon thi
issue that he met the Printing Committe
of both Houses Of Congress, and mad
battle with such men as Venable, of Mort
Carolina, Chase, of Ohio, and Brown, c
Mississippi. 1t is upon this issue that h
is still receiving the abuse of the SOuther
Conyentionists, aud the whole tribe of M
li6ers North and South; aud in reality, thi
is .the issue which the people are now try
ug-the old Washingtonian and Jaekso
Democrats and Clay Wings, making battl
under the flag Of the Constitution and III
Union-the higher law, Mount Pisgah, an
Jacobs Ladder men taking their stand Tit
the Van Burcns OF the North, and the Sou
les and JEFF. Dayis's Of the South, hoistin
in one section the Black Republican, All
in the other, the Secession flag.
But the sensibilities Of oHr neighbors
the UniOA and Amsrioan are aroused at Il
fact that Parson Brownlow is now supper
ing Maj Donelson, and is Union maj
This seems 10 Us not only natural, but yer
proper and the attempt of our neighbo