Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-10-14
TUESDAY, OCT. IA, 1856.
To our friends in Tennessee.

AShi AAchbhoi WIZ DS hNOihNh III hlCh VI
its approach we desire to address a few
words to our people, melting them to IN
resting vigilance and activity during the
remainder Of the campaign. We have
fought so far, good fight, and deserve
success if we do not win it. Every appli-
ance and means known to honorable poiti-
cal warfare have been put in requistiou
The press, the pamphlet and the hastings
have been used, we believe, never with more
vigor and earneStneSs. Our State and dis
trict electors have secured every section of
the State, and volunteers of distinguished
ability and eloqncnce have been active in
the field. We have never seen our friends
more ready to contribute by every means
in their power, publicly and privately, to
advance the cause. We are confident that
our efforts have succeeded in arousing a
deep-seated feeling in the public mind that
the success Of our principles and candidate
is essential to the salvation of the nation,
and have inspired an enthusiasm, which
gives US assurances Of triumph.
We will candidly state our belief that if
the contest can be pursued to its close with
the ability, the address, and invincible de-
termination which has characterized it up
to this date, that we will carry Tennessee
for Mr.. Fillmore 10y a handsome majority.
But the effort must not be relaxed We
cannot spare a man or means. Success
requires for the ensuing three weeks every
exertion of which we are capable. We
must not repose securely in the expectation
of victory and relapse into an apathy,
which will prove fatal nor should any re-
verse in other quarters cast down our spir-
its, and permit despair to enervate and
destroy us. Previous elections should teach
us that the political cast of Tennessee is too
changeful and capricious to allow Of the
former; while the magnitude of the stake,
and the deep responsibility which rests up
on Us, should impress US too strongly to suf-
fer ourselves TO be made the victims Of de-
Spondency. In every aspect in which we
view the question we are called upon to
stand fast, and never remit a struggle till
the goal is attained, and the guerdon of
victory is in our possession.
Tennessee has character among her sis
ter States for conservatism. Central in
her position she may be called the heart of
the Union. Her interest in its prosperity
and perpetuity may not be greater, for
when rightly viewed, We esteem that the
remotest corner Of the confederacy should
feel as deeply for the welfare of the whole
as of a part; but from her location and the
pursuits and hopes of her citizens, we some
times think that her all is in the Union
that when she proves unfaithful TO princi-
piles which underlie its existence, she would
commit the rashest suicide which can be con-
ceived. For twenty years, in national
elections, she has never faltered from the
true line. Whether in victory or defeat her
vote has been against the party, whose poll
cy we regard as baneful TO the peace and
integrity of the country. This occasion
more than any which has preceded it, de-
mands the exercise of all the conservatism
which she can boast. Under unwise coun-
sells the ark of our security as a govern
ment has been precipitated upon q stormy
and Withdrawing sea of agitation and dis
cord. Section stands arrayed against sec
ton. In the North and in the South, men
hitherto nrudent and conservative have for
gotten their discretion, and eXtremisn has
made greater advances, and laid stronger
hold on public sentiment than ever before.
Tennessee more perhaps than any other
State has cause to depreeate this state of
things, and we solemnly call upon those
who, on other occasions, have controlled
her vote in the right direction, and made
her shining exemplar of political virtue
and conservatism 20 do nothing in this mo-
mentous crisis to derogate from her high
character.
Everywhere throughout the country the
eyes Of those who regret, aud who have
had nor part nor lot in producing the
alarming events which are around us, look
10 Tennessee, as one of the States which
will in November frown down the bad men
Of both sections, and lead tbs van among
those who are striving TO entrust the
government TO safe hands, and engraft
on the public policy wholesome and con-
ssrvative measures. Much is expected Of
her by tae moderate, rght-thinking men of
the nation, aud we feeI confident she viii
not disappoint them.
We ask you, Americans, and Wings OF
Tennessee, will you prove recreant TO your
enyiable character, your vital interests,
aad TO the hopes Of good men everywhere,
by permitting the success Of the buchanan
Democracy in this State or viii You re-
solve that the renoFn which you have ac-
CURED in other days, shall in this dire hour
suffer ne elimination, and that Tennessee
shan register her vote for Fillmore, con-
seryatisnl, and the Union To accomplish
the latter, wefeiterate il viii require every