Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-01-22

OF the FtgnC size Iof our forms. The Ohio
river has been frozen up, and Mr.. White
mans mill is not yet running. So we must
bide our time, hoping our subscribers will
bear with US, until we can do better.
The Importance of Harmony.
The American party has taken strong
hold upon the confidence and affection of
the people of Tennessee. No where in the
State has it been more successful than in
Davidson county. This may truly be call
ed the banner county. Our majority of fif-
teen hundred places us proudly in the van
OF the new party. This unexampled tri-
umph over our opponents can be prolonged
and preserved only by harmony in our own
ranks. Our phalanx can be assailed with
no hope of success by any opposition from
without. But its integrity may be greatly
endangered by internal dissensions. The
American party was formed out of both
the old parties for the preservation of the
country, and should not now allow itself to
be seduced from this high purpose, for the
sake of advancing the hopes and interests
of individuals. 1t belongs to the country,
and should forever preserve its high nation
al aim. We mistake its origin and dispo-
sition if it will now suffer itself to be swerv-
ed from this lofty pathway, to become the
instrument of personal ambition or aggran-
dizement. Selfish assaults have been and
may continue to be made upon its integrity
in various portions of the State, but it will
best maintain its purity by keeping steadi-
ly in view the service it has to perform for
the entire country, and by remembering
that the advancement of private interests,
however stoutly they may be pressed upon
its attention, is infinitely below its true OBJ
ject and destiny. We regret to record
that it is not utterly free from the corrupt
ing and disorganizing opportunities of per-
sonal ambition, and that its members are
not universally more regardful of the public
welfare than of private interest But in
this respect, it has but fallen into the occa-
sonal commission of a fault inseparable
from all political parties. If it has some
times felt the force of family jars, rivalries
and contentious, the regret is rather deep
ened by their rare occurrence, and because
they are so totally at variance with the
true spirit and unselfsh purpose of the
party.
When the discOntents, to which we al
Jude, have occurred, they have generally
sprung out of an undue rivalry for Office.
The party has committed an error, which
we have opposed from the beginning, when
ever it has undertaken to make nominations
for such county Offices, as cannot properly
be called political This is fault of tao
tics, and not of principle. We have uni
formly opposed in sentiment such nomina-
tons. We have felt their disorganizing
tendency in Davidson county. Whenever
such nominations have been fairly and hon.
estly made, however, it becomes the duty
Of every true American to submit to the
action and to support the nominee. We
say it is at once the duty and the only safe |
policy of the party to sustain its own ac-
ton. AS already remarked, we are new
party, and our strength is to be preserved
only by acting with unity and concert. !
Every diSsension but exposes our weakness.
The common enemy will foment and rejoice
at every exhibition of discomfort. There
fore, every true American will regard the
interests Of his party and Of his country as
infinitely superior to his own The Ameri-
can party must take no step backward"
Its course lies straight forward, and private
ambition must not be allowed to stand in
the way of its progress
We have uttered these sentiments in the
spirit of Cancellation, and to throw oil on
the waters, wherever they may be troubled.
We strike at no man. We love the princi-
ciples of the American party. We believe
that the Union Of these States rests upon
them, and their success is of incalculable
Importance to the country. The duty to
them is as much more imperative
than the claim of personal friendship, as
The love of country should be stronger than
Affection for friends.
Attempt 60 COnVIet upon the Testimony
OF "a Monomaniac.
We repnblsh, from the Huntsville Ala. |,
Democrat, an account Of singular trial re-