Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-06-20


and ksattOn.
When the frst intelligence of the difficulty at
Fsye'teVIlle between these gentlemen reached Gu
once, we were absent from the CITY, Had we been at
norne the plain impartial and truthful statement OF
our correspondent would have been prefaced with
words more in keeping with the dignity of our po-
sinon than the language employed. The only
o'JScuonaole- term used, however, was but in
keeping with the general manner ia which this
SUBJECT mas been treated of through the Banner.-
OHioa and American.
IL gives us pleasure to know that our
contemporary of the Union and American,
Is disposed, as he avows in the above ex
tract, to treat the unfortunate alteration
which occurred at Fayetteville, in proper
and becoming spirit. We might have re-
torted in the spirit which its first and Sec
ond articles disclosed, but we preferred to
keep down undue excitement in the public
mind, and to let the plain facts be submit
ted to an intelligent and rejecting public,
uncolored by the personal and political
feelings we may have entertained. All
parties are substantially agreed upon the
facts attending the matter, particularly as
to The words used by Col. HATToN. From
| the statement made by the mutual friends,
and which has already gone to the public,
it will be seen that there was no misun-
derstanding the words, but of the inten-
ton. We now leave the public to Judge
what intention was fairly deducible from
the language used, and, if there was error
committed, by whom.
In the statement which appeared in the
PATRIOT, of Tuesday, we attempted to give
Substantially the true facts Of the case. In
describing the assault we said Col. HATToN
was pushed" from the stand. We used
the word 'push" on the authority of gen
| tleman who was on the stand at the time.
As we stated, we were, at the moment, on
the outskirts of the crowd, and could not
determine matter of that kind for our
selves. But this does not alter the sub
stance of the statement. The fact was
that Gen. HARRIS made an assault, and
that that assault "precipitated Col. HAT
TON off the platform in 'front.'"
The Union and American thinks that the
PATRIOT and Banner were not entitled to"
information of the agreement" ''at the
hour of writing" We have only referred
to that agreement, in our article of Thurs
day. Our Winchester correspondent had
reported to us, that the same thing had
been referred to by both the speakers on
Monday That Gen. HARRIS had stated,
he thought the matter settled, and in re-
ply Col. HATToN had also said he thought
it settled, and that "the denunciatiOn of a
doctrine was not the denunciation of its
advocate" 1t was upon this authority,
that we referred to it; and being in doubt
then, whether public statement" would
ever come from the committee.
As to the rumors which were floating
about, which the Un1oR and American calls
absurd" we submit, whether it took the
proper way to correct them; whether it
was Gin keeping with the dignity of" the
position" of fair and candid public jour
nalist. But we do not wish to protract a
discussion which is or ought to be now at
an end. We have only referred thus to
the matter to place ourselves right, and to
be properly understood, in view of the arti-
Gle of our contemporaries Fridays issue.