Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-07-16
FUNERAL SERMON OF PLUG UGLYIsM.

FUNERAL SERMON OF PLUG UGLYIsM.
/ The Sonth Side Democrat, which in common with
many of its political friends ventured during the
Juror of Sans earliest successes to predict that the
day would come when men would deny their con-
nection with the order who were then its frmest
supporters, and those denounce it who were its
sturdiest advocates, says that meeting the common
late Of Cassandras, it was "laughcd at for its palms.
and answered by prophecies of a day of Jubilee,
when church burning would be an article of the con-
stltution, when foreign ancestry would be a peni-
tentlsry offence, when aboriginal Choctaw should be
the only language of refined society and full thous-
and years of native progenitors the indispensable
requisite to an inspecorship Ofguano. Three short
years have rolled away since Plug Uglyism was
born, and where is it Where are its friends, it's
followers, its fortune? Where its promises, where
its Victories Written in the changing sand
washed out by the unchanging sea. The following
is the story told by the Richmond Wig, one of the
earliest and ablest of its friends:
The secrecy, of its organization its professions of
untalnted purity, and intention 10 purge both the
old parties of the evils which rendered them danger
Gus and corrupt, its protestant advocacy, in its
ostracism of Catholics, its appeals to The patriotism
Of Americans to rule America; all combined for a
time TO assist 1t in an onward course which gave as
surance OF present if not permanent success. But
alas in good old State of Virginia it received a
check like that OF the prairie horse when the lGsSo
Is round his neck, which brought it 10 its knees
where it has remained ever since. Its tactics nave
been changed. lis injunction of secrecy, which
offended the pride Of the free tlers Of the soil who
could not understand the necessity beauty of it
under present institutions, has been repudiated
TO remove this objection. Its Catholic plank has
frTEl~aV fp,rr y.lnFf,
certain enniies and uncertain friends and the only
leg upon which IL stands, the Standardization
principle, has been repudiated by majority so
overwhelming, defeat so crushing that its revival
is as impracticable the recovery Of the Spanish
Armada. 1t has national existence, no State
prestige except perhaps in Maryland, and even there
the professed bulies and rfans the party in the
leading city have become national disgrace. We
have said this much, with no view of unkind or
illiberal depreciation of the American party with
whom we have struggled and fought our way along
for some time past III opposition, with the hope of
assisting the new organization in its efforts against
the Democracy Up to this time, however, so lar as
success in battling with Democracy goes the Ameri-
can party has been dead failure, and its friends
cannot, and do not pretend to deny it. And as TO
any prospect or hope of future success under its
banner, must be permitted to regard any vaticina-
ton tending that way as altogether chimerical and
entirely outside OF the reach of human probability
as to render and effort towards it misspent time and
labor.
a Fuss IN THE FAMILY.-The proposition to revive
the old Wing party seems to have caused consider
able fermentation in the opposition camp. The
Know Nothing papers charge that the movement is
prompted by secret hostility to the American par
ty, and advise all malcontens to leave forthwith and
go over to the Democracy. Beneath the fattering
guse of friendship, they concealed the most traitor
Gus designs, is the indignant cry of the forlorn
Know Nothings who were wont in times past to
speak so rapturousy of their "noble allies" We
beseech our Know Nothing friends to have patience
This is not the first rarest instance in the an
nails of mankind in which adversely has proved the
Worthlessness of affected friendship. Really though
we can't find it in our hearts to blame the Wings for
wishing to forsake the dismantled and eaky craft of
Know Nothingism. They but obey the impulse of
selfpreservatiOn. Another surge of the political
waves, and your " old rotten carcass of a boat" is
forever swamped. The Wings see the danger, and
like GOnzalo in the Tempest, would fain die dry
DEATH