Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-09-27
SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 81, 1857.
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND THE opPo-


- SITI0N.
Under one name and another, the present oppos
ton, Black Republican or Know Nothing, has had
Q eoeval existence with the Democratic party. Yet
while the Democracy have uniformly professed
consistent creed, and have varied it to the ex
gencies Of any phase of fansticsm in quarter OF
the Union or in the other, but have sought to make
it more and more the shield of the Constitution
the party in opposition has shifted with every
change Of popular sentiment, and has been driven
about BY every wind of doctrine. To this fact the
almost unbroken series of Democratic triunphs. in
national elections, is mainly attributable. And
while this lifetime consistency is the glory of the
National Democracy, clothing it with an invincible
prestige, the steadiness with which this party has
been sustained authorizes of the brightest
in the crown of the American character Unlike
the people Of France, they prOVe all things and hold
fast to that Dkich is good The trinkets and fam
beaux Of the opposition have never yet been able
to hold the people against the party whose cause is
that Of the country.
After fifty years of defeats one would think. 4
he did not stop to study deeply into the subject that
opposition by this time would be entirely fritered
are snti-Democratie-others are born fanatics and
Missionaries. So long this order is maintained in
the prooreation Of the race, SO long there will be
IN this country political organization opposed ia
the National Democracy. And though at times such
opposition may work great mischief both to society
and the state-as it has during the past few years
STILL the genius Of institutions is SUCH so largely
have the Democracy the principle of recuperation
the opposition is sure to be kept in allegiance, nC
matter what forms it may assume. This is Law
springing from the confederation, and is its OWL
peculiar weapon for self-defence
If men, who in business are honest and in reli
giOn are conscientious, would view politics SIS sci
ence that is necessary to the le-f not itself thu
Iife-Of the Republic, and would choose their part,
As they do their religion, we know not where the,
could find warrant in history or observation, foi
joining any other than the Democratic party. Es
pecialy is it marvellous that any young man SHOULD
place his choice upon another. The young men o
the country ought to delight in the nations hstor,
and traditions; and if that is their characteristic
certainly the Democracy must have the benefit o
their sympathies and alliance. Unfortunately. too
the young men Of our country are educated il
politics. in religion by the force of prejudice, no
reason They grow up with the political bias tina
their fathers give them, and never have the mora
courage to throw it eff and follow the sim pie dictate
of judgmentin after years
Three-fOurths of the American people ere by ma
ture Democratic, yet many of that number are con
stantly opposing US from mere force of early habi
or association. Now is favorable time for men t
think dispsssiOnately upon this subject. The Oppo
sitiOn, as recently organized, has proved an ute
failure, and must be reconstructed before it cal
enter another political contest. While the work o
preparation is going on let honest and earnest men
of liberal impulses, examine themselves and see
they have not been warning in violation of thei
real sentiments Such on examination would max,
hundreds Democrats, who, from prejudice, hav
heretofore acted against us.