Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-04-11

VAN buren,, the loved object of Democratic
adulation. twice their candidate for the
Presidency, and once successful, was placed
at the head of their ticket With him was
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, the son of another
distinguished ex-President, whose sun had |
but lately sunk below the horizon of the |
grave-his virtues the theme of every lip |
his services the history of his country. All |
that the association of great names could |
do, this ticket had to strengthen it. The
Democratic party came into the field with
Gen. CAss. TAYLOR and FILLMORE were
the candidates of the Wings. They were
triumphantly elected. The Freesoil ticket
failed in every State. Their influence was
was barely felt in but one, the great State
of New York. Old line Wings did not
deem it necessary to vote with the Democ-
racy to crush out FreeSoilism then. Their
party selected Mr.. FILLMORE to stay the
tempest of fanaticism then. NObly and
successfully did he do it. A Northern
citizen, in the very centre of the tight, he
CALAMITY stood by the colorS of his party,
till victory set her signet on his brow. The
American party has now chosen him for a
similar service. He is ADLER now than then.
He was "clear in his great Office" Every
subsequent act of his life has strengthened
the links of confidence which bind him to
the conservative masses of the country.
He is the man for the crisis, for he proved
himself superior to similar one. The
dark cohorts of Black RepublicaniSm are
gathering on the Northern frontier. A
great party has placed him in the breach,
where he won his first hOnors, and what do
we find? An old line Wing counselling
his companions to desert him and join
party which boastfully proclaims its power
to uuell a storm its recklesSneSS has raised.
1t is an artful trick to attempt to pro-
duce the impression that Democracy and
Black Republicanism are to be the princi-
pal combatantS in the great tourney of
this year. 1t is worthy of the most aStute
political juggler that Democracy ever pro-
duced 1t is Machiavellism refined But
the device is too sheer to win. The con-
test is between conservative Americanism
and radical Democracy Black Republi-
canism in itself is insignificant and harm
less. 1t would die from inanitiOn, were it
not for the paBuIum of agitation with which
its mother, Democracy, feeds it. 1t is the
veriest political quackery to drug the ma
ton with poison, and boast themselves the
sole poSsessorS of a remedy which can re-
store it. This reckless system of expert
menting has well nigh exhausted us. Every
shock from the galvanic battery of agita-
ton is reducing our recuperative energies.
A few more will undo us irremediably. Is
it WhigiSm to sustain party guilty Of such
rash trihing? This Old Clay Wing has not
the fainteSt conception Of the cardinal doe
trine of his old creed. He never learned
that from HENRY CLAY. The great con-
sentative Commoner could never cOunte-
nance such an association in one who claim
ed to be his disciple. We are willing that
this Old Clay Wing should go, but we want
him to place his going upon other grounds
/ than the conservatism of Democracy.
This sage reflector wholly fails to make
out his case. If, as he argues, this is to be
a sectional contest, (Which, by the by, we
deny;) if Black RepublicaniSm intends
placing candidate before the country,
and its strength is sufficient to make him
formidable, where is the patriotism or the
policy in the Democratic party to prejudice
the success of Mr.. FILLMORE, by nominating
a third candidate. None but the hardest
fasifers in the ranks will deny him the
merit of nationality, and especially are re-
creant old Wings estopped from this charge.
Then why will they persist in rendering I'M
minent the success of sectiOnalism, by d.
vding the strength of the national men?
We are national and they are national; we
give them q national candidate, who has
walked in the fire and emerged without a
smell on his garments. Why will they not
support him? Do they say that we are
too weak to effect the result? Where is
the evidence of their strength? They are
hopelessly PROSTATE in every Northern
State. New Hampshire even, the Granite
Gibraltar of Democracy, has been wreSted
from them. 1t is the very extreme OF
brazcn impudence to charge the American
party with aiding Sectionalism, when they
are about to take step which will, more
than all other things, conduce to that end.
But, says this philosophic observer Of
events, the sole issue in this election is OPP
position to Southern Rights on the one
part, and their advocacy on the other. He
maintains that it is a purely sectional con
test SO does the New York Tribune We
dcnyit The American party denies it. The
conservative men of all parties deny it
We are not yet that near the brink of the
precipice. That we are not, however, i:
no fault of the Democratic party. Another
three years like that just closed, might
place the country where every patriot would
tremble to see it. Old line Wings ART
casting reproach on their name when they
sustain a party which has proved itself 81