Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-10-10
AMERICAN ELECTORAL TICKET.
FRIDAY, OCT. 10, 1855.
c. C. Burr, of New York.

Amongst the speakers from abroad, who
are in the city for the purpose of address
ing the American Mass Meeting which as
sembleS to-day, we are gratifed to number
c. CHAUNcEY BURR, Esq, Of New York.
Mr.. B. has recently made several speeches
In Kentucky. He made speech at Frank
fort on the night Of the 29th September
The Commonwealth comments on that
speech as follows
Kentucky is called the land of orators, but
il must be confessed that Kentucky has few
men capable of making as powerful and elo-
quent political speech as the one which G..
Ohauncey Burr, Esq, of New York, delivered
at our Court House on Monday night, and
very few indeed who could make au ADLER or
more eloquen, one. The audience was as large
as the house could contain, and we have never
seen a crowd more completely under the con-
troll of an orator. The listeners hung upon
the speakers words, and their hearts beat re-
sponsive to his own. He convulsed them in
laughter by his wit and hurnor; he swelled
their souls by thrilling appeals to the noblest
considerations of patriotism; he moved them
to ineffable disgust by his illusions to the re-
voting aud cold-blooded sel6shness with which
President Pierce and his coadjutors had sacri-
feed the patriotic men of his own party, the
settled peace of the country, the harmony and
even the Elood of his countrymen, to an
unhallowed longing after continuance in pow
Grand each change and phase of feeling
seemed less an effect of the eloquence than a
part of the eloquence itself, so perfectly in uni
son did the feelings aud emotions of the audi
ence rise and fall and sway to and fro with
the feelings aud emotions of the speakers own
soul.
"Mr. Burr" continues the Common
1Dsalth, lis Democrat and an American.
He is one of the leaders of the Hard Shell
Democrats of New York, and has been
until recently the editor of their organ,
the National Democrat, of New York 1t
will be remembered how Pierce'S admins
tration prescribed these National Demo
Gratis, and took to its favor the Van Buren,
Free-soil wing Of the party in that State ;
how after one National Democrat, Judge
Bronson, had obtained post Of honor and
profit under the administration, as Collector
of the Port, he was turned out of Office be-
cause he would not give the subordinate
positions of the Custom House to Free-soil
Democrats, instead of National men. When
it became apparent that the policy of the
administration was to sacrifice the conser-
vative national men at each end of the
Union for the purpose of petting abolition
lists at the North and secessionists at the
South when it also became apparent that
the Democratic party Of the country would
sustain the administration in such a course;
and when it became further apparent that
the party, so far as its leaders could con-
troll it, was to be arrayed in favor of for
eignism and against the true American
principle which demands for American born
men the right to rule their own land-then
Mr.. Burr, with thousands Of other national
conservative Democrats, abandoned party
so misled and debauched, and joined him
self to the only true conservative national
party of the country-the party (WHICH
now supports Willard Fillmore and Andrew
jackson Donelson for the first and second
Offices in the confederacy."