Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-05-02

"0hN VI Uldut Oh Tue
25th ult., calls upon u.s. by his article in
that journal of yesterday, to annihate
what little is left Of his credibility. He
courts political death and he shall be ac-
cOmmodated. When we dismiss him to-
day, his sponsors of the Democratic party,
must perform such rites of sepulture, as
such corpse will be deserving Of We
rather suspect that they will not bury him
with the "honorS of war" but will hide
him away in
The vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Now to the work: In endeavoring to
rub off the brand of garbling and misrep-
resentation, which we burned into his fore
head, there to remain, through all coming
time, a reproach and stigma upon his po-
litical integrity, this "OH Clay Wing"
alleges that the charge is "preposterous,'
that he gave to the language of Gov.
CALL, "the legitimate construction which
the words and the order in which they are
placed would not only justify but require"
To ascertain the correctness of this posi-
tion, let US see what construction he placed
upon the extract from Gov. Call. After
giving an account of the proceedings of
the American Council relative to the adop-
ton of the new platform, in his communi-
cation of the oath of April, "Old Clan
Wig" says
The humiliation of the South was COM
plete-there seemed no hope left. They had
been defeated upon every ISSUE and bad been
grossly lnsulted whenever they arose to de-
fend their rights. In this unhappy state OF
affairs what was done by the chivalrous rep
resentatives of the down trodden South Let
Gov. CALL tell the story himself. In the let
ter before referred TO he says:
ION the morning of the 23d of February,
I retired from the COnUe'atiOn, after a full and
frank declaration OF the causes and motives
by which | WAS actuated. When | retired
from the Convention the distinguished repre-
sentative from Alabama Mr. Walker, retired
also, AND ALL THE DELEGATES FROM
THE SOUTH /"
What further testimony can be required to
establish the correctness of my positions, and
the utter fallacy of those which have been as
sumed by the PATRIOT The abolition MAORI
ty would listen to no compromise, they would
accept Of no concessions which did not in
volve the humiliation of the South. Southern
members struggled mAnfully, but in vain,
against the overwhelming torrent Seeing
that it was hopeless to expect any justice at
the hands of q ruthless majority, THEY RE-
TIRED IN A BODY, amid the Kisses and
jeers of the triumphant adherents of aboh-
tionsm.
There can be no installing of the inten-
ton of "OH Clay Wing" in the above ex-
tract, or of Che forced construction he
puts upon Gov. CALL's words. He in
tended to impress upon his readers the
belief that the Southern members" of the
Council, Gohen the netO platform 1oas adopted,
RETIRED IN BODY" and that he is sus-
taineo in this unfounded assertion by Gov.
CALL To create this false impression, he
resorted TO the shameless Locofoco trick of
cutting sentence of Gov. Call in twain,
putting period where the General had a
comma, and then capitalizing the words
land ALL THE DELEGATES FROM
THE SOUTH" We again quote Gov.
CALL's language entire, to show the profit
gacy of this attempt at imposture. Here
it is. Compare the two extracts, reader,
if you can, without an inexpressible feel
ing Of scorn and contempt:
On the morning of the 23d of February,
retired from the Convention, after a full and
frank declaration of the causes and motives by
which was actuated. When retired from
the Convention, the distinguished Representa-
tive from Alabama, Mr. Walker, retired also,
and aH the delegates from the South, and in.
deed all conservative men from the North
WOULD RAVE RETI ED but for the hope they
entertained that the disposition OF the Con-
vention would assume more favorable aspect.
In this hope they were not disappointed.
We doubt whether there is an intell-
gent, candid gentleman, in the State, who,
after having read the two extracts, would
sustain "OLd Clay Wig" in his assertion
that bis construction of Gov. CNL's words
is mot only justified but required" "by
the order in which they are placed" Any
respectable pedagogue in town would fog
ten year old boy for such a construction
Of sentence so simple and so unequiyo-
cal
Smarting under the wholesome discipline
which we administered to him, "Old Clay
Wing" attempts IN bis brief essay in yes
terday's Union and american, to get him
self out Of the dilemma in which he be-
came involved, in his eager desire to show
himself fast witness in behalf of the old
enemies Of the glorious old Wing party,
but he manages in his blindness TO involve
himself still more inextricably in its intri-
cacieS. He furnishes striking Illustration
Of the truth of the couplet--
'0hl What tangled web We weave,
When 6rsi We labor TO deeslve,"
lie made bad beginning, grew worse
as he progressed, and has now reached the
climax Of folly. Hear him:
Assume 70 be true the Patri0fs version.
and what do We learn from hf
First, that tho convention repealed he
slapsTp section of their old platform 6y the
adoption Of BeV one. which Gov. CAlL 70,
0arled az 90 Gerry 0bnorioUs 70 The South that
H. iogk ske estrems method Of declaring his
disagreement By formally withdrawing from
the c0noenIiOn. lie farther informs Ne that
. .,i.iy the eHiirv southern delegation bot
oil Inc conservative mon o. the North would
also have retired with him, bat for the hope
my eals,4ni,.el thai by remaining they might