Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-09-24
The Senatorial EIecIion-Sham Demo-
cratic AspIrants.

The Senatorial EIecion-Sham Demo-
cratic AsPIrants.
According to promise we revert to the
coming Legislature, and the Senatorial
controversy; and proceed to pass in review
before the readers of the PATRIOT the more
prominent of the sham democratic aspirants
for the honor of seat in the United States
Senate. If our article be long, the reader
must remember that the subject is one of
interest, and the objects to be presented in
the highest degree curious and bizarre.
The announcement of large sham dem
ocratic majority in the Legislature, like the
''blast from the bugle" of Rhoderic Dhu;
has brought up from the East, the West.
and the Middle, score of warriors, all
pressing forward, not like the clansmen of
the valiant Scot, to fight; but to grasp the
prize of victory already won They do not
come armed for battle; they have thrown
aside the accoutrements ofwar, and, in their
stead, each one has his labored long list of
services to the party, and merits as clans
man, and boldly claims, each for himself,
the first honors. Their modesty is equal to
that of the Greek Captains after the battle
Of Salams, when each claimed for himself
the Just need of Yalor Some with half
consciousness of doing a sneaking thing,
have, as we are informed, addressed 'tse-
eret circular" to the members; some more
bold, if not more indepe ndent, have appeal
ed to the electors at large through the
public journals; and all, in private, have
urged, with amusing earnestness, like the
vain Greek Captains, their right to the first
reward of success. We shall now proceed
to present them singly, or in squads, to the
gaze of the public, curious to see such he
roes, and to express what we, as a journal
ist of the American Party, think is the
wish of that party as to whom the sham
Democracy should elevate to the Senate.
We begin with the East. From that
| quarter, ever glorious in the tales of the
nursery, we have LANGDoN @. HAYNES and
ANDREW JOHNSON. OF the first we know
but little and that little induces us to re-
| gard him as a fit exponent of his party in
the high position to which he aspires. A
long time ago, we remember to have heard
coming over the peaks of the Cumberland
Mountains, the noise of a desperate and
savage political fight. Haynes was one of
the combatants in that fierce struggle, and
he and his opponent exhausted our noble
and elegant language of its power to ex-
press the vileness of the opinions which each
had of the other. Some of our readers
may remember the horrible epithets hurled
at, and the diSreputable stories they told
OF, each other: Langdon was beaten, and
since then, having served a session in the
State Legislature, he has sunk into com
parative oblivion. But little has been
heard of him. This much we know, that
ne has but small natural ability, and the ell
egant schooling he obtained in the contest
just alluded to, from his opponent and mas
ter, Andrew johnson, will not make him a
formidable foe to the American Party in
the Senate of the United States. Let his
party send him there, by all means.
Of JOHNSON we have both seen and |
heard more. The first the country heard
OF him was when he made the grand dis
coVery that convention of the Legisla-
ture had no power to elect a Senator. The
next time he was heard from was in the
contest with Haynes. He is a rude and
uncourteous man, and we'll calculated to |
make himself despised by all who have any
regard for the sweet small courtesies of
life" When he delivered his Inaugural
address in 1853, as Governor, he did not
have the good manners to return the com
plment of the retiring Governor, Camp
bell, who complimented him on his election
to that high Office in few elegant words. |
The name of VIM. B. Campbell, the very |
soul of chivalry and courtesy, was not heard
in the Inaugural of Andrew johnson, nor /
was there any allusion to him. If there is
any want in the proprieties of life in his
manners, not more conspicuous is the want |
of elegance of learning and profundity of
intellect. The elegance of his learning /
consists in having acquired in truth and in
fiction some Of the strangest incidents to
be found in either, and the profundity of
his intellect enables him to make the most
curious and grotesque application of them.
Every one remembers the smile of Jacobs
Ladder" used by the Governor in that
same courteous Inaugural. The sublime
vision OF the father of Israel was of ga lad
der set upon the earth, and the top reached
up to Heaven" which "the Angels of Godp
assembled and descended. We have no
envy of the mind which in pure party or
ganization can see anything which resem-
bies this sublime and typical inspired ale
CORY, nor any great respect for the modes
ty that, in solemn State paper, gives ut
terance to so misplaced comparison. But
the Governor is ambitious to show his
learning and his sagacity, and he lets no
slip to exhibit both. Many of
our readers remember the discourse he pro-
nounced before the State Fair in the au-
tamn Of 1855. Upon that purely rural
and peaceful occasion, for some purpose.
nobody knows what, he undertook to prove