Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-08-20
The Modern AIexander.

Odlum OF hanging the emgy OF non. Salncs Ducu~
anan upon the Americans Of Wartrace. In this
latter ebulition of malgnity he reiterates the
charge which be so boastingly made in MS "card,
and INDUCES in certain LOr flung insinuations to-
wards the gentlemen of the COMMITTEES whe report.
ed the facts Of the case; iDsinuations which he
had not the courage to present in tangible shape,
but as conveyed in those dark and insulting innur
endOes with which skulking cowardice always
seeks to essde the consequences of personal re
sponsibility.
Without waiting TO consult with the three gen.
tlemen who we're united with me in investigating
the circumstances connected with the hanging Of
the eiigy at Wartrace | hasten to reply to the
material part of the communication OF the "vera-
cous" Alexander. In the 'card" which this ''swiit
witness" first published in reference 20 this affair."
the following language is used
1.-THE Sunday morning following, (the know. moth.
ing ratification meeting,) the efigy Of Mr.. Buchan
an was discovered hanging from pole the know
kuothings had raised for their meeting, and a
written label across the breast, Buchanan dead"
When discovered, certain know nothings pretended
TO be very mad, but all was soon putt rest by OBJ
serving the clothes and identifying them. This
placed matters beyond all doubt that the thing
was intended as an indignity to Buchanan and his
friends"
Now is there a rational mind that can for mo-
ment doubt that the writer of this card intended to
the friends of Mr.. Buchanan by hanging this efigyf
II he did not intend the charge to operate against
the American party, what conceivable motive could
he have had for publishing his testimony upon so
insignificant an affair the hanging of an effigy?
Independent of its supposed party origin and bear
ing the transaction would not have received or
deserved the slightest notice from any quarter;
vet, notwithstanding the boldness with which said
Alexander volunteered to furnish tie proof of his
Oh hat q aeEU
was not hung as stated" in his last communication,
while stultifying himself by twice or three times
repeating the charge against the Americans at
Wartrace he comes out with the following sneak-
ing denial Of having intended to reflect upon the
k,aOO-Rothing party as implicated IN the transac-
ton. ain that card spoke only of certain know
nothings, and made no alluson to that party" In
deed! Then why so particular in specifying the
pole from which the ef6gy was suspended? Why
speak of the matter being placed at rest by identi
flying the clothesS Why say it was an ''indignity
offered to Mr.. Buchanan and his friends" if you
did not 20 charge his political opponents with
the preparation of the act? Now, hero of Muls
berry, in your reckless eagerness to make little
political capital for your chief and TO balster up
his waning fortunes, you resorted to the degrada-
ton OF eliminating your opponents, upon mere
SrmiSe of facts and when the truth OF the whole
matter has been published and when all honorable
and gratfed the result of the Investigation, you
have the ineffble meanness without the shadow of
proof, and in opposition to the testimony of all the
parties known to have been concerned IN the
transaction to repeat your disgusting cOnjectures;
and to reiterate your charge that the deed was
perpetrated by the Representatives of kuow-noth-
ings, and his twin Black Republican brother The
committee, it will be remembered stated that onlv
three persons were known to have been engaged in
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American party. And yet ''swift witness" declares
that it was party movement, intended ''in-
dignity to Mr. Buchanan and his friends" The
communication o! this loose conjecturer proceeds
in a very lawyerlke manner to state the points Of
the case as evolved by the testimony, and with a
vast amount Of self-cOmplacency, enuncate what
the committee confirmed or denied in his alega>
tions, aud seems highly elated at the result. To
men of sense it is obvious that there was but one
fact deserving of investigation in the whole ranss
action, and that fact whether the charge which
g. w. Alexander preferred against the American
party OF Wartrace f Lot openly, at least covertly
and by necessary implicatiOn,) of having been gull
ty of hanging the effigy as an insult to Mr.. James
Buchanan and his friends, was true or false. The
falsty of the charge was proved by the highest
evidence that the nature Of the case admitted to.
wit, the testimony Of the parties concerned, who
belonged to each Of the political denominations into
been established, every other circumstance was
merely explanatory and con6rmatory of the only
material point involved in the matter.
Alexander, of Mulberry, seems to- have been
considerably pqued at our allusiOn to his ustrious
namesake of Macedonia, and put himself at no lit
tie pains TO disclaim any consangunity with that
world.renowed warrior. Well, this is about the
richest thing that has been evolved in the "effgy"
discussion. Alexander of Mulberry, indignant at
l.
Macedonia But, my good fellow, you are quite
too fast again. quart or so of good old Lin
coin" has certainly perverted or doubled your
optics. The committee simply alluded to the cOin~
cidence of name, not to any supposed or possible
identity of blood with the worlds great conqueror.
Nothing could have been farther from their thoughts
than so preposterOus, so absurd, so ridiculous a
conjecture. The Hero OF Mulberry descendant
from the same stock with the Hero of Macedonia |
The juxtapositon of the two names is one of the
most striking Illustrations of the maxim how near
the sub lime may approximate the ridiculous. No,
no, your differences in this instance as wide of
the mark, as were your eOnjectures about the old
clothes, the OMNIBUS words upon the artless bosom,
buchanan dead I" and other attendant circumsian>
ces OF the hanging.
Mr.. Alexander, in his last, has failed to produce
or even TO attempt the production of any proof,
other than his uncOrroborated conjecres Of the
charge he so specifically made in his card. He
ioedkrns the force Of his testimony by de-
nouncing any and every one who should say that he
was present when the eiiigy put up, that
he concerned kinlself an discovering the authors o.
IL, By examining ats clothes othsrlcse." The whole
knowledge then Of this ''swft witness must of
course rest upon heGrsdy,-a species of evidence
not admissible in any court OF law or equity, and
his Wanted readiness to prove the
facts as alleged, be has not ouly sgnaly violated
bis pledge, but has even failed to name single
witness by whom the material and only important
ale CATION in bis card can established" there's
fore pronounce him not alphabetically, or by quail
iicston, but with cool deliberaton a riifai aud
malicious cdlunaidtor.
The playful remarks Of the committee in refer
to the locality of this gentleman, has furnished
him text for the outpourug OF the accumulated
and nausesting contents Of his gall bladder. Our
allusion to the belgerent professions and propen-
stiles OF the hero of Mulberry not inten ded in
the remotest degree as a reflection upon the good
citizens Of that village and Deighborhood. The de-
fence OF It's citizens, therefore, quiet an orderly
and as not infected with love OF "blood and car
mage" was entirely uncalled for. The introduction
however, of these fearful words, merely intend.
ed as a Justification Of an attack upon the "Ameri-
cans" OF Louisville and New Orleans, as the authors
of the riots that disgraced those cities last year.
The readiness ofths man TO denounce the native
sons OF gallant old Kentucky in order to screen the
guilt of his foreign allies, renders il unnecessary for
me to follow the example of G. w. Alexander, and
hunt through the musty pages Of history for
"napissdks who at heart tory" but just6es
every true American TO point the finger OF scorn
and contempt at ibis traducer and lbeller OF his
own countrymen, and TO say as Nathan did unto
David thou art the man" The course Of this
modern Alexander proves that be belongs to that
pusillanimous class Of miscalled democrats who
have sold themselves, soul, body and breeches 10
their task masters, the Irish aud Hessians. II the
Irish leaders OF sham democracy in Tennessee have
not already obtained aud registered a bill OF sale