Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-04-11
N A SHVILIE:
FRIDAY, APRIL II, 1858,
The Union and Americans 'OId Clay
Whig.n

ously to seduce his former party associates
to follow him into the Democratic camp.
He selects, as the medium Of his communi-
cation with them, journal, which for a
longer term of years than many of his read
ers can number, has been a consistent and
inveterate enemy to Wing men and Wing
principles. If he be sincere in his attempt to
reach their hearts, and convince their judg-
ments, he certainly addresses them under
disadvantage. They will be slow to listen
to suggestions and reflections" from
source which, till lately, was the vent-ho.e
of abuse and denunciation They will right
ly doubt the purity Of his motives, and in
cline to reject his counsel, however glozed
with sophiStry, or sustained by unfOunded
assertion. They have not been accustomed
to regard Democratic partizan journals as
oracles of truth, or infallible reviewers of
the present state of parties" His selec-
ton of an organ, however well it may COM
port with his al1inities, will, with true
Wings, iniure his cause, and weaken his
efforts in teaching them their duty.
He argues with perversity only to be
accounted for in the fact that he is wilfully
blind. His mind is forecloSed against the
entrance of truth. His conclusions are the
evident offspring of his wishes. The great
est labor he has undergone is in suppress
ing the truth, which, in spite of him, will
now and then peer out in his communica-
ton, covered and smothered though it is
with words and stuff. Without tracking
him in detail, we gather the giSt of his sug-
geStionS to be these:
Firstly. That Mr.. FILLMORE was nOmina-
ted by body of men of Heterogeneous ad-
mixture, who are unsound on the question
most vital and important to the South, and
consequently it was fraud
Secondly. That Mr.. FILLMORE cannot be
elected
ThirdIv. That all sound men who vote
for him, will, in that much, detract from
the strength of the only national party
which has the slightest show of success.
Fourthly That it is the duty of old line
Wings to vote against him, and for the
Democratic candidate.
Fifthly. That the contest will present
two great parties arrayed "upon direct
and single ISSUE" and that purely sectional
one.
None of these propositions can be Sus-
tanned by the facts, or any fair course of
argument.
In establishing his first point, that the
American Convention was, as a body, I'M
sound-that its proceedings partoOk Of a
sectional tint-we find him in the beaten
hghroad of the most ultra and unscrupu-
lous of Democratic journals. With affec-
ted candor he cOnfeSSes to a paradox, when
he is obliged to state the fact that this I'M
sound body of seCtionaliStS nominated the
SoundeSt Of all the men presented to it, for
the highest Office in the country. This squad
of furious fanatics offer to the nation, as
their candidate for President, the man who
had rendered himself most obnoxious to
fanaticism, by his broad, liberal, and ma
tional course These violent aggressors
upon Southern rights, endorse and support
yrhn laH in, ho
sanctioned by his official signature, laws
containing the non-intervention principle;
and manfully enforced, with the strong arm
of Government, the Fugitive Slave Law.
"Paradoxical" is soft term to character.
ize such a position. The American Con
yention was as pure a body of national
patriots as ever assembled in the country
! That it contained sectional men, is true But
in proof that neither a majority, nor any con
siderable portion, Sympathized with them, is
the fact, that these sectional diSorganizer'
boldly bolted and denounced the Conven
ton and its proceedings Why this con
duct on their part if, as the cold Clay
Wing" contends, they had power to rule
the body? What was the cause of theil
leaving? If the action of the assembly wa!
sectional and not national, why did they
in body of siXty-six, repudiate that action
| If Mr. Fillmore's nomination is a Blacl
! Republican fraud on Southern American
and honest old line Wings, why do thu
Black Republicans refuse to support him
If the Black Republicans constituted ma
! jority, how was it that resolution in favo
of a restoration of the Missouri COmpro
mise line was rejected by large majority
How was it, that platform containing tn
NebraskaiSm, was adopted-that coucheC
too in the very words of the act! Gu
cold Clay Wing" in his headlong hurry t.
get in company with his loving Locoioc,
cousins, strides over these facfs, and state
that BLACK RepublcaRiSm, in the guiSe o
AmericaniSm, held undisputed sway" in tn
Convention.
That Mr.. Fillmore will not be elected, i
the mere opinion of the "Old Clay Wing,
which is evidently based upon n strong de
sire that he shall not be. He alleges n
fact, nor points to any indication which vii
bear out such a belief Mr. Fillmore
the nominee of a great party, strong in tn
'ustness Of its cause, strong in its hold upo
/ the hearts of the masses, strong in tn