Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-23
TUESDAY, SEPT. %, 1856.
Old Line wings.


vote of the old line wing party for Buchan-
an and Breckenridge in the approaching
election. There is no evidence of an in
tention on the part Of the old Supporters
of Henry Clay to vote for the democratic
candidates, that we have been able to find,
but on the contrary there is abundant tes-
-timony that nearly all Of them will support,
and are supporting, with all their might
and main, Fillmore and Donelson. Such
is the declaration Of the wing party in
Maryland, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maine
Georgia, and indeed every State where
their conventions have yet met for consul
tation upon the question of the Presidency.
And while we write the wires are trans
hitting the intelligence that the national
Wing Convention have unanimously NOM
mated these glorious patriots. Against
the authoritative declarations of those con
ventionS, expressing the will Of the constit-
uency Of the party, the democratic party
ore only able to aaunt to the world the isO-
lated support Of individuals of that party,
here and there, in different States, of their
nominees.
But outside the evidence of the declara-
tions of old wing conventions that that
party are supporting Fillmore and Donel-
son, we have no hesitation in declaring it is
our solemn opinion, that no old line wing
maintaining his ancient political principles
can consistently vote for any other candi-
dates. He could do so only upon the ground
either that the democratic party are advo-
eating different measures from those they
held in the days when they and the whig
party were the only ones known to the
country, or that the present American
party are advocating measures entirely OPP
posed to those formerly put forth by the
wing party. Let US first see if the demo
cratic party are the same they were in the
days when combatted by Henry Clay. And
upon this point we have no hesitation in
saying, without fear of contradiction, that
they are. Take the Cincinnati platform
upon which Buchanan and Breckenridge
are standing. 1t is word for word the
Baltimore platform of 1852 as far as the
latter went There is in it the same oppo-
sitiOn TO all that was ever dear to a wing
in the policy Of the government; there is
in it the same demagogueism that former
ly excited their contempt, and there is in it
yet the same slurS aud inuendos upon the
honesty and integrity of the wing party,
that ever excited the loathing and disgust
of honorable men, There is not one word
changed not one erased, not a comma
moved: the same stereotyped declaration
that has been over and over again pro-
mulged by that party in opposition to the
wing party: in fact they are the same par
ty in everything except that demagoguei-
cal radicalism founded upon a love of the
spols of Office which Of late years have
driven so many of the honest men of their
party out of their ranks and into that Of the
American.
We ask James c. Jones, Pierce and
Pratt and all those who combatted Frank
lin Pierce and the democratic party in 1852
with so much vehemence, if Buchanan is
not standing upon the Baltimore platform
of that year; nay more, We ask those same
gentlemen if they do not remember the
heavy blows they dealt Gen. Cass in lS4S
because Of his advocacy of that "odious
squatter sovereignty doctrine" and if Mr..
Buchanan is not now the open and avowed
squatter sovereignty candidate of the dem
ocratic party for the Presidency. We ask
all the wings everywhere If they are not the
same party who pursued Henry Clay to
the day of his death with the basely false
charge Of bargain and corruption for the
sole purpose Of party triumph, and who
now, when all the world knows the infa-
nous SANDER had its origin in the conduct
of James Buchanan, and is, and was, with
out any foundation in truth as regards Mr.
Clay, refuse, for the same purpose of party
success, TO do the great statesman, who is
sleeping in the city of the dead, the simple
Justice to acknowledge their error aud re-
tract the charge? Is not that same party
standing, as we said, upon the Baltimore
platform of IS52-odious and disgusting to
every wing, in IFS slurs upon the honesty
and patriotism Of that party, and wholly
Objectionable in its denunciatiGn of all
their cherished political principles-now
unfolding James Buchanan the advocate
of squatter sovereignty-James Buchanan
the Federalist Of 1914 aud 'l5-James
Buchanan the intriguer of 1925, upoH
whose dsreputable conduct Gen Jackson
based his charge ofbargain and corruption
against Mr.. Clay; the same who has not
only kept his own mouth shut, but religi-
ously sealed that of Robert +. Letcher, Of
Ky, for fear Mr.. Clay would be triumph
antly and glorionsly acquitted of the infa-
nous inputation Of bargaining his honor
for Officer
We have no hesitation in saying in view
Of what We have said above, with the ex-
ception made. that the democratic party
are not different fIOm what they were when