Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-02-16
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morning, where will be learned something
touching the reception which the ignoring
project Of our contemporaries of the Ga
zette and Banner has met at the hands OF
Southern presses, American, Wing and
Democratic. We do not wish to be under.
stood os endorsing the criticisms which
their course has elected or, as crediting
for moment, imputatiOns cast upon their
motives as Southern men. We know enough
of them to convince us that their motives
are pure and above suspicion. Nor do We
wish our design, in republishing comments
upon their proposition, misunderstood We
are prompted by no improper feeling tc'
wards them. All of US are engaged in the
same cause, trying to subserve the best in,
terests of our common country. We give
them credit for honestly cOmSelling what
they believed would tend to promote the
success of the American Party, and to
strengthen the bonds of our union. Differ.
ing with them honestly, we have no such
high opinion Of ourselves, as to set up our
Judgment as infallible, but we have deemed
it proper to make known that difference of
opinion. We may ourselves be in error
time will determne-but we have never
had a doubt, in our reflections on the sub
ject, but that the positions we assumed, on
Tuesday morning, were right, both on
principle and on policy Our mind was ca
silly and irresistibly led to the opinions then
expressed, and we have read or heard no
argument, nor can we make any to our
selves, which can shake them so much as
the breadth Of hair The chief object we
have in lay ing before our readers the Sc
lections in our columns to-day, is to show
the dislayor with which the ignoring project
meets in the South to sustain our judg
ment of its policy and to afford us JUS
LITIGATION in the minds of our American
friends, who may differ with Us, for our
course in opposition to our respected breth-
rem of the American Press of this city
We say, in all candor, and yet in a spirit
of kindness, that we fear their prOpcSit on
has inflicted an injury on the party in Ten
neSsee-that their attempt to lead it into
a position which has proved so open to mis-
representation, and so uncovered to the
attack of the enemy, has imposed on those
whose duty it is to defend the party, most
onerous duty in the coming campaign. We
say it not to flatter when we tell them that
their ability and influence arc widely known,
and, as the articles we publish to-day show,
Inscriptions partisanS will not hesitate to
make plausible use of their opinions, to
cast reproach upon the integrity of the
whole party in the State.
We shall not extend our remarks this
morning on the merits of the ignoring
proposition, although we intend to make
our positions clear and defensible on that
question at another time, if necessary. 1t
is we'll known that the Convention on Tues
day agreed with us in the view we took of
the subject, and we deem it our duty as an
organ and representative, to defend that
action We know we shall find cur worthy
contemporaries fighting side by side with us
against the common enemy. They are
tried and true Knights in the ranks Of Con-
servatism, and we shall not wound them
with a doubt Of their loyalty ; and we shall
rival them in zeal, If we cannot in ability.