Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-03-17

For the Patriot.
Fifth Cnnareaafonnl district.

Mr. EDITOR FL think Mr.. Hatton's friends, in
their zeal TO nominate him for Congress instead of
Mr.. Ready, are doing both these gentlemen inus
tice. Mr.. Ready has served US bat short time
All know that il requires time and experience, in
Congress, to understand the current of business.
The hrst term but few members are able to DO much
The second taey may take full part, and if you
refuse third term you deny to them the advan-
tage OF securing the reputation to which fidelity and
ability entitle them you also deny the country the
advantage Of the experience which they are now
able to bring to its service. You also fail to give
that endorsements, for fidelity, which is so grateful
to public man. Quick changes in Office are
curse to any country by this course you would keep
the Offices perpetusly filed with novces, and pre-
duce interminsbs confusion 10 public business. You
also east aside that great lever of the public heart
1.-The appreciation of the country, by indiscrimns-
tely refusing to return to Office the faithful well
az the unfaithfu the good as well as the bad. You
give no encouragement to fidelity in Office. 1t lie
true, the Office belongs to the country, and it is
equally true that the country s bound to lit with
out favor Of affection. / am not in favor Of the
doctrine that because you have elected man to
Office once, courtesy requires that he should remain
there until it is his will and pleasure to leave. No,
sir, after he has retained the Office sufficient
length Of time, to do himself and his country JUS
tce be ought then modesty to retire and give place
to Others should he then be unwilling We are jus.
tiiable in eIecting others him. Refuse to re-
turn Mr.. Ready to Congress this term, and you say
TO him. 10 unmistsksble language, you are not salts
fed with him public servant. His acknowledg-
liability, and known integrity, you count nothing.
By this course any State does herself great injustice
She fails wholly to show her appreciation of those
elements which constitute good and great men,
which are so essential in these times OF human de-
pravity. / know some are dissatisfied: think
they are but few. have never heard whisper
uhy they are dissatisfied. They know well that
every competent and smart man in Wilson and
Rutherford cannot be sent to Congress. No, sir !;
we have enough smart men in Wilson and Rather
ford to furnish Mr.. Buchanan with one for almost
every Office he has within his gift, and then have
a few of the same sort left. We have men 10 Ten
nessee who would be dissatisfied If they were sent
to heaven.
have said that the zeal of Mr.. Hatton's friends
would do him harm, and I am honest in my con-
victons that he ought to some efforts to re-
strain Ihem. He ought not, and | think he will
not prevent the honest zeal OF his friends to array
deep-rooted prejudice against him, which may tell
with fatal force upon his political destiny in future
years.
Mr.. Ready's friends believe that justice to him
and the county require that he should be returned
at least more to Congress, and they will not be
satisfied with efforts to supercede him. l am per-
sonally and politically friend to Mr.. Hstton, per-
hsps more SO than l am to Mr.. Ready, yet hon.
estly believe Mr. Hatton ought not to run for Con-
gress this time. He is young, and will lose moth
ing by waiting, but on the contrary make host Of
friends whom he may need in days to come.
Why is it that the 9Th and 9th Congressional Dis
trcts have became FESTIVE! Il is the interest
OF the American party to cultivate harmony in all
its ranks its existence depends upon it. 1t is to
be regretted that those districts, the oldest and
most populous in the State. and which ought to be
an example to others, are the first to show impa-
thence under American usage. 1t is one of our.
cardinal virtues never to permit self to be triumph.
ant over principle. RUTHERFORD