Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-06-02

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years, among this csitif crew, who are seeking TO
destroy, BY the false and fraudulent ofh name
this vel beloved nephew" this "high minded,
honest and honorable man." be would shake his
hoary locks at them, and with indignant scOrn and
detestation, denounce them pitiful set of toa-
dies, and lick spittles, and base and veual cal
smnators; and they would scamper like affrghted
jackals from his presence! Gentlemen, the jackal
belongs 10 the genus CAMS and is animal resem
bling the dog and for The figure will give you
my idea of the moral qualities OF these who
engaged in villifyiDg and traducing Andrew J.
Donelson.
When Andrew ]. Donelson was retiring from his
Diplomatic Mission 70 Texas on the occasion of the
annexation OF that vast and valuable country 70 our
, Union, letter was addressed to him by the Hon
John 7. Mason, by the direction of President Polk
in which Mr.. Mason expresses the confidence
his major Donelson'sl prudence discretion and
ability" had inspired in the President and concludes
/, by saying:-"lt gives me great pleasure to assure
you that the publication Of your official correspon
dence will give you an envable reputation for the
highest qualities of Statesman and Diplomatist."
And it because President Polk held him in
such high esteem that he conferred on him the
Diplomatic Mission TO Prussia and afterwards to the
German States.
When Andrew ]. Donelson returned 10 the Uni
ted States from the public service abroad, he be-
came the editor of the Washington Union, the lead
[ ing organ Of the Democratic party, at which time
Franklin Pierce, President OF the United States
wrote 10 him and said-"I joice that the leading
organ Of our party is now under your control, and
regard the change most suspicious at this juno
\ ture. The tone, vigor and states-
( man-like grasp which you have brought TO the
j columns Of the Union not merely important
they are absolutely indispensable in this crisis'-
Very high testimonials, all these, to the political
standing aud ststesmsnslike qualities OF Andrew ].
DOnelson. No public man snoW q iairer rec
1 ord. WE'LL gentlemen, / do not support AM
drew ]. Donelson because he is the nephew OF Gen
eral Jackson nor because he was bis private sec.
Rotary, nor because he has held high diplomatic
trusts under our Government, but support him
for Vice President of the United States because he
has ever been faithful and true in the discharge of
his public duties, and performed those duties hon.
| oraby and well, and with signal success and dis
tlnction In whatever branch of the public service
he has been employed; because he has never vi
olated an obligation; because he has been a man
of truth from his youth up; because be is faith.
| full 70 the Constitution and TO the Union because
he is "a high-minded, honest and honorable man."
because he is man Of prudence, discretion and
ability" aud because he has "a most enviable rep
utation for the highest qualities of a Statesman
| and Diplomatist." A civic reputation, won by his
own talents, and merited by his able and
faithful discharge of bis official duties in every
public capacity in which he has acted.
With such candidates in the field as Willard
II Fillmore and Andrew J. Doneson, the American
ticket can succeed and will succeed l have not
/ doubt of il. That ticket cannot fail to unite the
4 conservative men, the national men and COnsttu-
\ ton and Union loving men OF all parties.
Now while we are buckling on the harness to do
battle in the great political contest before US let
us look little at the present complexion of polit-
\ cal affairs in our country.
With a bare.faced impotence and a brow Of
J brass, peculiar alone to themselves, the present
\ leaders of the SO called Democratic party or Pro-
! gressive Democracy par trcetience estimating at
nothing the shameful and glaring inconsistent
ces committed by themselves, rating e1trayagantly
high those Of their opponents, claim all the nation
atty, all the patriotism, all the integrity all the
| political wisdom and decency of th great Amer
can peOplei Thus their bump OF self conceir SWELL
0g out 10 hdeOus disprOporton, and their passions
! vehemently excited by inordinate ambition, aud
! their coVetous desires intensely animated and in
! famed by the supreme five loaves aud two fishes
principles Of their party, reproach with bitterness
/ and fierce yitupeTaton every independent Amer-
Can freeman who dares to advocate the right Of
/ Americans to govern their own country, and who
! oppose and denounce the nefaTOus attempt which
| this new tangled Democratic party are making, to
! establish by political arrangement religious test
tor Office in favor Of Roman Catholics and thus
I give them political pre- enhance and political
| ascendency IN our Government by a coalition with
them, aud by comforting offices on them as Cath
! olics 10 compensation for their vensl votes. That
is the question--that is the issue. An issue which
is destined to try the strength Of this govern
! ment, and the virtue, and patriotism, and iutel-
! gence, and might, and energy, and heroism OF this
! great Protestant American people, than all other
questions or issues put together which have arisen
since we we're a nstionl Protestant liberty or RoS
| man Catholic domination in American ! say that,
= sk, To- Il syan
am not going to discuss it now but | call it up
! that we may know and remember that We have got
! 10 meet il. This question embraces the question
| Of naturalization. Remember that too. The slave
~ question will be met and forever put rest by
the election OF Willard Fillmore and Andrew J. Don
elson, and We will hear no more Of political slave
~ agitation. The good sense Of the American
people will do that. The time has fully come
, to do it. Their love for the Constitution and the
Union will constrain them to do it, / am not the
least afraid of the slavery question. Inever have
been. 1t has often heretofore greatly disturbed the
nation, but il has always been quoted. And
say il will be met and put rest forever pot-
ical question by the election Of the American tick
e greatly 10 the disappointment Of political agita
tors North aud South But il cannot be done with.
out an energetic Struggle for the Constitution and
the Union. Americans have begun that struggle
and they will triumph; and it may be necessary to
hang few leading abolitionsts North, and 4
few leading nuihers South, before the nation can
have peace. And let them take warming for the
hanging will be done it is necessary that il should
be done!
But, Mr.. Chairman, who have this newanged
Democratic party, this Progressive Democracy, IS
they style themselves, got in their lead! Are they
men that old line Democrsts-old jackson and Polk
Democrals-can follow? Let us see: have time
to speak OF but two Of their prominent leaders
at present out South here. Who have they in
the lead in Virginia. The notable and notorious
| Henry A. Wise, who for years vilhed aud re.
! vied General jackson and the old jackson Dem
ocratic party, and applied to them every oppro-
brious aud abusive epithet which his fertile brain
| could invent, aud who shook his finger 10 the face
Of James X. Polk, and told him be was the petty
tool of . tyrant, and TO pocket the insult And
who have they in Tennessee as their chefi An
| drew johnson, who hates everything conservative,
or that has been respectable for several genera
tons; aud Who 10 the ncendiary spirit Of the sans
culotte and disorganiEer, is continually hammerng
away at the Constitution of the United States end
trying TO break It in pieces; and who eschews
old line Democracy, and svoWs himself "a Pro-
grsssive Democrat" aud who, in q set speech de.
livered In Congress, denounced the administration
OF James K Polk as an Augean Stable, needing
some mighty stream turned through it TO cleanse
il OF its ilthl LIMOS that by way OF adding false
hood TO the ribald abuse of that filthy TRADE il has
been denied that Andrew johnson ever delivered
such a speech, but any man can see it IN the Ap
pendix to the Congressional Globe, 29th Congress,
% session. page 1853, and delivered on the end day
OF February, ls47, yet this new tangled Democrat
c party profess 10 be the great friends and adj
mirors Of Andrew Jackson and Jams X. Polk, aud
with great simplicity call upon the old aud deyo-
ted political friends of Jackson and Polk TO aban-
don their long cherished principles, and 10 support
these men, Henry A. Wise aud Andrew johnson,
their ealumniators and viIli6srs, and follow these
addle- patsd, treachereus poltieasters as inialbe
1 guides. This Is very singular-the very essence
ofthe shabby genteen ls il nols Now. large
portion OF this ne~iangled, bogus Democratic par
" protestant hollow profession il s-to be de-
voted to the Constitution Of the United States 80