Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-06-26
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We very frequently receive communications from
one to TWO columns in length. Each friend, no
doubt thinks that his is the only communication we
have on our table Of such length, and that there
fore, we should find space for it. Our friends are
mistaken we receive Many of this sort, hence the
necessity of pruning them down, or excluding them
entirely. If they had our experience We would
have no fear of giving offence for 50 doing We go
ot intelligence as to the progress Of the canvass from
our friends in all portions of the State, but their
letters, if intended for publication should be brief
ANOTHER KNOW NOTHIOG CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR.
The so-caIled " American 4" order have but two
candidates We know of in the UniOn-one is in
Massachusetts, the other in Tennessee-one is Robt
Haton, the other n. P Banks, jr, the recent Black
Republican Speaker of Congress. From our Moth
ern exchanges we copy the following Geographic
despatch:
BOsTON, Tuesday, June 10.
The American State Convention, held here to-day,
re-afhrmed the Springfield platform but refused to
adopt the platform of the National American Con-
vention at Louisville On the first ballot n P
Banks jr., was nominated as a candidate for Gov
ernOr receiving all but ten votes. His nomination
was declared unanimous amid great cheering
From the New York Tribune the paper that has
spoken so highly Of Mr.. Bell, We extract the fol-
lowing Boston correspondence:
BcsToN, Friday, June 10, 1857.
The Hon. n P Baudks in a letetr to George W.
Messenger, President Of the American Convention,
accepts of the nomination for Governor and says:
4 have opposed with earnestness the policy of
| the Slavery prOpagandsts, and have endeavored as
far as lay IN my power to defeat their perniciOUs
measures, which were calculated in my Judgment,
to substitute for the liberation Of negro bondage in
the States whore 1t exists Its universal and alb
solute dominion, thus Obstructng the success ofeve
~ industrial interest, and bending the Government
itself To- course Of measures which could not fail
to cripple the prosperity and impair the dignity Of
/ free labor
Upon the subject of foreign influence, he says his
record is open and convictions unchanged, and that
he is ready, as heretofore, TO concur with the
people Of Massachusetts, in every just measure that
shall tend 10 diminish this unnatural influence and
to restore TO the Americep people the full share Of
power and direction which was designed for them
! by the trainers Of this Government
After abiding TO retrenchment and reform in
State AFFAIRS and urging a unity Of action on the
part Of those who do not Rominaly differ in politi-
cal sentiments, he closes as follows:
IT. in the coming canvass, It shall appear that
ny name fails 10 draw together those who sepa-
rated by no great principle it shall be promptly
Withdrawn and l will cheerfuy fall into the ranks
OF the supporters Of any man who can rally to anO-
Their triumph the column Of that sus aimed the
gallant Fremont in the great canvass Of last year.
1t viii be remembered that Mr.. Banks, when
elected to Congress was elected as q Know Nothing,
and that when he was made Speaker Of the House,
/ it was By votes Of men, majority of whom, were
elected as Know Nothings. He is now the Know
Nothing candidate for Governor and, as that is but
another name for AbolitioDism in Massachusetts, is
likely to succeed. He, too, we suppose, will raise
mighty dust about what his order call alien suf-
frage," and will re-echoe the olap-traP phrases Of
his ooaborer in Tennessee that 1t is infamous and
| smells to heaven"
| Mr.. Banks says that if his name " fails to draw
/ together THOSE WHO ARE SEPARATED BY no GREAT
! PRINCIPLE Know NOthings and Black Republicans
it shall be promptly Withdrawn" This is an i'm
/ pOrtant admission the truth Of which Gen. Harris
has been charging upon his competitor all over the
! State that Know Nothingism ami Black Republican
ism are separated by no great principle" 1t can
no longer be disputed, with Mr. Banks a Know
| Nothing candidate for Governor himself as Wit
ness.
Eli5- The Know Nothing papers all over the State