Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-09-04

a6- In almost every political canvass
there are means resorted to by democrats
to destroy their opponents, of which, in
after days, when reflection comes and con-
science asserts its sway, honorable, high
minded men are ashamed. OF such, were
the gross charges of drunkenness and Sc
duction which were made upon WV. HENRY
HARRIsoN;-the Internal charges of inn
morality and crime upon HENRY CLAY;-
and the grovelling attempts to degrade the
character and to pluck the laurel chaplet
from the brow of ZACHARY TAYLOR. No
fair-minded man can turn back to the files
of newspapers and refresh his memory con-
corning these things, without sense of
humiliation without a shudder for the
debasing nature of heated political strug-
gles We had hoped that nothing would
occur in this canvass to make the future
inquirer into its pecnliarities, blush over
evidences of partisan malignity and black
hearted injustice. But our hopes are not
to be realized. 1t appears that there is
to be no improvement in the character of
democratic partisanism. Enemies of the
South, are running a candidate in the
North, upon a sectional issue, which, if
successful, will deprive the South of con-
stitutional rights, and revolutionize the
federal government. He (Fremont) coin
cides in the views of the Sectionalists who
are running him, and pledges himself to aid
them in effecting their purposes. He may,
therefore, be justly regarded by Southern
people as their enemy, and traitor to the
republican institutions provided for US by
the heroes and sages of the revolution.
And yet, in view of the past history of Mr..
! FILLMORE, whose services in 1850, in the
cause of the Union, are fresh in the CRATE
full hearts of the people, and OF his pres
ent declarations of determination to stand
by the Constitution and the Union, the
Governor of this State has inaugurated the
charge that he, WILLARD FILLMORE, is a
worse enemy of the South than Fremont,
and servie followers speakers and presses,
have taken up the calumnious charge, and,
parrot-like, are daily repeating it. There
is nothing in the whole catalogue of politi-
cal iniquity, more deserving of deep, burn
ing indignant reprobation than this reck-
less attempt to blacken the reputation of a
good man, and to deceive the people. To
Mr.. FILLMORE, one of the few Northern
men, who stood by the country in 1850,
and aided in the preservation Of the Con-
stitution and the Union, the Southern peo
ple-all except those miserable traitors
who were plotting disunion-owe debt of
gratitude which should not be repudiated,
they owe it to themselves to be just to his
fair fame, and to frOwn upon all attempts
to impeach his integrity. If WILLARD FILL
MORE, is worse, or no better than Fremont,
then there is no truth in Northern men,
the whole race is a libel upon the creator
and no good end can be attained by any
further perpetuation Of it; there is no hope
for the salvation of the country. But those
who make the charge, know that it has no
real foundation to rest npon; they throw it
out, as part of that system of party tao
tics, commenced with the cry that Fill
more is a sound man, but has no chance"
and intended to cheat and deceive honest
men from love of country into the support
of those whose principles they cannot ap-
prove. Is it not enough to disgust right
thinking men, that such shameful expedi-
entS as these are resorted to for the purpose
of building up party.