Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-02-22
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The Preposftfon To EEnOfe-H0W NJ IL
Received.
Correspondence Of the Nashville Pztriot)
CLAExsvILLE. Feb. is, 1855.
W. Hx SIXTH, Eso.-Dear Sir:- Permit me, as
friend Of the South and the American Party. to
thank you sincerely for the manly and fearless stand
you have taken sgainss the proposition to ignore
the slavery question in next Presidential con-
test You deserve and win, doubtless, receive the
thanks Of the whole party in Tennessee. care
not to conceal that read the proposition to strike
the 18th section of the Philadelphia Platform, from
our creed, with modification. What effect will the
advocacy OF such policy, by Southern men, have
upon the Party? So far as il has any influence at
ALL il cannot be otherwise than disastrous. The
Southern delegates to the National Convention will
be greatly embarrassed in their efforts to obtain
sound National Platform, in the face of such posi-
tons as have been taken by Southern men. And
should they succeed IN prevailing on the North to
concede US q sound platform, every democratic
speaker that can open his mouth will be harping
on the position Of the Banner" and "Gazette"-it
will be the 'harp Of thousand strings" on Which
they will play many disagreeable variation. l
regret exceedingly, and so does every member Of
the party that have conversed with, that such
position was taken by Southern man-that
John NJ. Bolts ever found an echo in Tennessee.
Any man who dreams that the Southern American
Party would accept victory even iii were insured
TO them on the terms proposed, dreams dream
that be ought to know better than to dream, even
in his sleep. The boosted nationality which the
Il
tonalty which the South would scorn to participate
in. Il would be just such a nationality as we had
before the institution of the third degree and the
building of the Philadelphia Platform, when Massa.
chusetts passed her personal liberty bill, and the
American party at the North became So abolition
lied that the friends of the Constitution and the
Union, North and South. felt unwilling longer to
affiliate with the abolition elements that had crept
into the party under its original organization Hence
the third degree and the 18th section of the Phila
dephia platform. We now advised to strike
out the 18th section. For what purpose? That
the party may again become abolitionized and Sc
cure US a victory in the Presidential contest. !
want no such victory any of the spoils likely to
flow from such triumph. 1t would be a victory
over every conservative antecedent that marks the
history of the American party. It would be a
victory over Southern rights Southern honor and
Southern interests. II the path Of victory be the
path of dishonor, l say welcome defeat / will
rally under any banner that my principles and the
constitutional rights of the South inscribed on
but no dark banner On which am denied the right
of inscribing my principles, shall faunt its pi
ratcal folds above my Inundated head And be
ieve me, sir if the National Convention ignore the
slavery question, the American party is at once
dissolved, ana those who advocate such policy
are but advocating under another name, the disco
luton Of the American party. do not charge the
Editors OF the Banner and "Gazette" with intend
ing to precipitate such a calamity upon the party.
But it is the deliberate opinion of of the best
and ablest friends -four party in the State, that the
position of the Banner" and Gazette" has injured
the prrty, even if the National Convention should
refuse to follow their advice, and should the North
take their course and the of other Southern
journals index of what Southern men are will
ling to submit to- and thus refuse to give a sound
platform-all the ignorers in the South, however
patriotic their motives, will have the dissgreeable
reflection to console them amid the wrecks and
ruins Of our party that they contributed to the dis
astrOus result. 1t is matter OF surprise to me how
any Southern man ever could have supposed it
possible for politicians in the present posture Of a
fairs, to persuade Southern to throw themselves
into the arms of abolitions for the sake Of victory
aud the spoils had as soon think of persuading
a virtuous female to throw herself into the arms OF
her seducer in order that she might thereby obtain
costly apparel and jewelry with which to sdorn her
person. And if the Philadelphia Convention heed
the counses of the ignorers of the South the Ame-
rican party South Ct Mason & Dixon's line is a
doomed institution.
"Infamy now-politcal death in reversion-
And tie sOuth's everlasting curse hereafter"