Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-01-28

sion is accounted for IN the noFrlple sIaee
of trepidation into which that step on our
part threw it. Whatever opinion we might
have of bis endorsement of the act, if it,
was their deed, the board was the guilty
party and we intended to strike at the ions
Ell origo mali. We had seen no denial of its
statement from them, and presumed it was
true. We had given them an opportunity
to deny it, and they had failed to do SO.
And by way of episode, Messrs. Directors,
it will always be a question with the curl
Gus why it was not done.
However, as the editor proceeds to speak
of the "oath," he evidently grows easier.
That is "harp of thousand strings" on
which he has often made most delectable
music. Again in his native element he is
in ecstacy. He reiterates his usual trashy
tomfoolery about the binding force of OBJ
legations, and says the American mem
berS of the Senate were forced to make "a
merit of memorable necessity" in voting for
the present board. He admits that they
did vote for its confirmation, and in the
same breath says their oath SwearS them
not to vote democrats into office. Had
they assumed the obligations Of any such
oath they would have been gHilty of perrin.
nv, if under the pressure of any necessity
they had voted to confirm the democratic
board. 1t would have been their sworn
duty to have voted against democrats,
however little prospect there might have
been of defeating them. The fact that they
did not do so, and that they are sensible
men who understand their duty to their
party, and honorable men who would scorn
to violate a sworn obligation, is incontesti-
BILE proof that they have never taken such
an oath The Union and american knows
that any requirement which the American
party exacts of its members refers to mat
tiers purely political. Its persistence in
maintaining the contrary is only on par
with its other fragrant misrepresentation.
1t has been the admitted policy of both
parties ever since the Bank had an exis-
tence to commit it's control into the hands
of that party which were to be held re-
sponSible for its management, but courtesy
and common justice has always given the
other party portion of the Directorships,
and the Union and 1merican and the model
democracy of Maury are the first to strike
for new policy, as hurtful in its tendency
to the interests of the Bank, as it is narrow
souled and intolerant in those who advo-
cate it, The simplest fool that caught his
cue from the Union and american and
shouted himself hoarSe in denunciations Of
the American party last summer, never
dreamed of such an extremity of proscrip
ton 1t is the acme of the absurd, the III
timatsSimum of the ridiculous There is
one portion of that Incompatible fizZle out
of Friday which makes us laugh. 1t says
"the Patriot will not say-See If 1t Icat-
that had the Governor and the House been
Of its party, the present board would have
been retained" 1t must have been SOrely
pressed to seriously throw at our feet sucl
a gauntlet Did it suppose we were going
to say it would ? 1t reads as if the writer
really thought so. He talicizes and give;
it an air of triumph as if assured he haC
made "palpable hit" He cackleS ovel
it as exultingly as chubby child Of tel
months over a tin-rattle We will not in
suit his good sense by treating that banter
seriously, further than to say they certain
ly would not have been retained if tn,
American party in accordance with thu
immemorial usage of both the wing anC
democratic parties, could have placed {
board of its own in their stead
We advise the editor of the Union an,
) American to beware of trusting to rumor
to found his editorials on. They will Leaf
him into miry places. We hardly know
whether his efforts to extricate himsel
from his present ugly hobble are more IL
dicrous than pitiable. In his furious yea
to "out Herod Herod, he has impaired hi
reliability, not only with the public, bu
his own party. Like the ambitious billy
goat, who leaped so high that the faI
broke his neck, his sudden coming dow
has seriously injured him. We hope hi'
friends will bind up his wounds, and tr
and seothe some of the savageness out 0
him. And above all else should they ad
wise him TO avoid contest with Col John
son. 1t could not but result in his rui
and discontinue. For the conduct of tn
Directory can be sustained by every con
sideration Of right and reason and justic
and courtesy and fair-dealing, and an hon
!. orable sense of their duty to their eountr
paramount and above their fealty to party
: His course is that of the illiberal partiza
; who cannot see beyond the contracted eli
Gle of his party's prospects, whose only eye
} are the "scurvy politicians glass eyes, ant
. whose highest hone is a Marty frirmnh