Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-05-09

fnement, which shareholders must give up
to become their own servants" Wedoubt
not it 'sdrew down the house,"
But there are grave things in the above
extract, that merit attention. The Kansas
Nebraska act, Mr.. MoNrGoHERY assever-
ates, ''Is. AN ACT OF FREEDOM, and 1t clrtEaity
shuts ont the shareholder from the Telc terri
tories; under that law, sLarery can hare no
toot held" Growing enthusiastic as he
progresses, he tells how by the action of
"free representatives" and ''free laws"
enacted by the territorial Legislature, the
"door will be forever closed on slavery
and winds up by declaring that the "KAS-
sAs-NEBRAsKA BILL IS A DEATH BLOW
TO SLAVERY PROPAGANDISMt'
This from national Pennsylvania Demo
crat-one of the lights Of that Northern
Democracy in whom the South are taught
to con6de What say you, people of
Tennessee to such samples of nationality?
Are you willing to follow after such lights?
If you are, you will realize the fate of the
untutored boy who followed after the igmis
fatHHS, until he became inextricably in
volved in the quicksands into which it led
him.
Again, we ask is it not necessary, when
Northern Democrats hold and utter such
sentiments as the above, for the Cincinnati
Convention to place on record, in plain,
unvarnished, unequivocal language its con-
struction of the principles of the Kansas
Nebraska act To fail to do this, were to
give Northern Democrats charter as
large as the wind" to operate against
slavery and Gin favor of free institutions"
A good name will not help bad cause
Union and american.
This sententious aphoriSm glitters at the
head of an article in yesterdays Union and
american. The party of which it is an or
gan assumes the name of democrat, and
grows indignant when called by any other
more fitting appelation. This, too, while
the columns of their papers, and the mouths
of their speakers, are filled with such ele-
giant epithets as "dark-lanternites," "Hin-
docs, ""Know Nothings ,"and "bogus Amer
icans," not to speak of another batch too
foul for any tongues but those of ANDREW
JOHNSON and HENRY A. WISE.
But is this glittering caption true? The
Democratic party of the present day is liv-
ing evidence that it is not The charm of its
name has been a mantle for multitude Of
sins. 1t has constituted it's only recon-
mendation to public favor. It's euphony
has tickled the tympanumS Of newly-arrived
emigrants, while its Specification has afford
ed buncOmbe staple for demagogues The
poet has said, Whats in q name," and
told US that by any other name a "rose
would smell as sweet" but modern Democ-
racy has searched deeper into the recesses
of the human heart than he. It's phioSo-
ply is too sound and too profound to re
ceiye such doctrine as that. Democracy
by any other name would stink in mems
nostrils, and overpower with its offensive
ness the most "vilianous compound Of
smells" that ever existed. Its name is its
all, and without it, its ''cause" would speed
lily meet it's deserts at the ballot box.
We are proud to have been the oppO-
nentS of such cause" no matter what
name the opposition bore. WASHINGTON
opposed it under the name of federalist,
and so did HAMILTON, and the best men of
the olden regime. At later day, another
generation of patriots, under the lead OF
CLAY and-WEBsTER, opposed it. And at
this day, so bald is its hypocrisy, and so
prohigate its doctrines, it has undeceived
many whom its specious name had long de-
luded, and beneath the banner of FILLMORE
and DoNELsoN, they are united with its old
opponents, and in November next its days
will be numbered, leaving future genera
tons to wonder that so shallow an impos
ture could so long deceive nation of in.
teligent freemen.