Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-05-03

SeFerdt OCCASIONS Ddu tucy lSJOCOOd Vnelo
from the Americans to elect one Of their
own men. They did not want the Ameri--
cans to be parties to an election Which
would be acceptable to the country. That
would dry up fecund source from which
they expected to draw political capital.
By Islander and abuse they repulsed their
advances They nominated candidates in
caucus, and so hedged them around that
to have approached them, an American
would have been compelled to sink his self
respect, and earned contempt. AIKEN, of
South Carolina, could have been elected,
and doubtless would have been, had they
not, against his aoiH, so hampered him with
odium, that six heightened aud independ-
ent gentlemen, who had, throughout the
struggle, given ample evidence of their de-
sire to elect a national man, refused to
vote for him. 1t was thus that the seven
ty-four Democrats, in spite of repeated re-
monstrance, rendered impossible the cleo
ton of every national man who was pro-
posed, and the adoption of the plurality
rule rendered inevitable, and finally COM
passed the election of the most odious man
who had been named They are directly
responsible, and so the world thinks. Not
all the arts of the schoolman or the dem
agogue can write or plead them clear ;
The attempt to cast reproach on nation
al Americans for voting for WILLIAM CUL-
LON, is too preposterous for notice. If we are
to credit Gen. ZoL' IcoFFER, who voted for
him, and who always votes knowingly, as
much may be said in regard to NATHAN
DARLING. In his letter to the CIarkSville
JefersOnian, replying to the charge that
Capt. DARLING is Freesoiler, he says:
Capt Nathan Darling disclams that he ev-
err has been Freesoiler or Black Republican
lie is National American He is the owner
of a plantation and negroes in Louisiana. He
has always been Democrat until he Joined
the American Party. He was delegate from
Louisiana to the Democratic National Con-
vention at Baltimore, in 184S, which nOni-
mated Gen. Cass for the Presidency. He has
been Captain 10 the U. S. Army for about
twenty years and received his commission, as
Lieutenant in the army, from Gen. Jackson.
These are the outlines of his history, as | IN
derstand them.
Mr.. Robert Morris, whom the Union and
american characterizes as the Black Repub-
lcan candidate for Postmaster, is an Amer
lean and sound on the sectional issues. He
is a grand son of Robert Morris, sgner
of the Declaration of Independence, and is
a heightened gentleman. His opponent,
johnson, was the old incumbent, an oppo-
nent of the Nebraska bill, though recogni-
zed as thorough Democrat Each of
these men, CULLoM, DARLING and NORRIS,
are sound national men, and two of them
Shareholders.
These are the mean and thread-bare
shifts to which the democracy are driven to
rid them of their guilty load. They groan
beneath it, and would throw it on other
shoulders. But it was selfasSumed in the
first instance, and the burden must be borne.
Freesoilism is the nurseling of Democra-
cy, and to its assiduous attention it is in
debted for its hourishing existence. 1t has
propitiated it with promises, and fed it on
Office, but the richest sop it ever admins
tered was the election of BANKS. 1t has
inspirted them with fresh hope. 1t has
led them to cherish higher expectations,
and aroused their energies to attain them.
GDDINGs felicitated himself that the meas
ure of his fame was full in that consumma.
ton. He gloried that he had lived to see
an abolitioniSt preside over the body, who
had once expelled him on account of
his abolitionism. GREELEY thinks if the
third Office in Importance is in the hands
of his friends, that there is no reason
why the first may not be, and with fanatic
and infammatory appeals he cheers them
on to contest for it.
These results of their partizan trickery
may well terrify GEO. w. JONES and his
ilk, and move them to indite long letters,
and labor to exculpate themselves. But
it will not do. Their guilty chattering Of
"Thou canst not say l did it" is of no
avail A just and terrible retribution is
in store for them.