Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-09-03

THURSDAY. sEPTEMBER 8, 1857.
sham Democracy, Gen. DOneIsOn, and
the SpOils of ONCE.

on its partisans. Deriving its success from
the most shameful duplicity and hypocrisy,
it is to be expected that its use of power
will be but the expansion of the same NOR
al characteristics. It is not the less our
duty, however, to the country, to note the
leading facts which stamp upon this party
the want of patriotism and nationality; and,
amongst these facts, not the least signifi-
cant is the attempt to give notoriety to
Gen. Donelson for what a correspondent of
the Union and American calls his frmness
in opposing his brother, and his vindication
of the measures of Gen. Jackson.
We assert, without the fear of contradic-
ton, from any respectable quarter, that
this ascription of praise to Gen. Donelson
is as farcical as would be an euIogy upon
James G. Jones for his ardent support of
Gen. Jackson and democracy.
Every one acquainted with the history
of Gen. Donelson, knows that it required
permit from the nullfers to bring him
back to the traces of the party before Gen
Jackson denounced it as a sham democra-
cy. Gen. Jackson dismissed his father-in-
law from the Cabinet, and it was not long
after this event that the General figured in
an indignation meeting designed to break
down Jacksonism. But the people of Sum-
ner county, who were expected to join in
this meeting, had too vivid a recollection of
| the services and virtues of their old leader,
and refused to follow Mr. Calhoun into the
| quagmire of notification Gen. Donelson,
Gov. Branch's son-in-law, was, therefore,
| obliged to retreat, and he has cherished
his disappointment until time and circum-
stance could enable him to come forward
under more fattering auspices He has
waited until he saw the flag of State rights
unfurled by the nullifers and abolitionists,
and under the guise of democracy he has
promptly rallied to the call, and has con-
tributed his mite to accomplish what he
Vainly attempted in 1882. He has given
power to the bitterest foes that Gen. Jack.
son encountered during his administration.
| He has voted for James Buchanan, the
man whom Gen. Jackson denounced on his
death-bed for corruption.
Gen. Donelson is now the ally of James
| G. Jones, the dirtiest Slanderer of General
Jackson in Tennessee. He works in the
harness with Wise, of Virginia; who pro-
claimed James K. Polk perjured villain.
He is in full fellowship with the nullifers
and free-soilers, against whose sectional doc
trines Gen jackson issued his proclamation
in 1882; and it is in this manner that he
has separated from his brother, who stands
where he did in the lifetime of his guardi-
an and friend, alike opposed to the excess,
es of such men as Davis, of Mississippi, and
Seward, of New York.
Gen. DoneIson is doubtless an apt pupil
of the Mt. Pisgah and Jacobs Ladder De
mocracy, and may reasonably expect to be
paid for conniving at examinations of his
brother, and for pretending to be the friend
OF Gen. Jackson's administration, a char
acter which he never sustained during the
lifetime of the old hero, who was not apt
to overlook the difference between a friend
and a foe in the great struggle which he
maintained with the followers of Mr.. Cal
houn.
The moment it was known that General
jackson looked upon Mr.. Buchanan as a
corrupt man, there was an immediate CO.
alition between the nullifer and the free
soiler. The sectional agitators throughout
the land felt that the time had arrived for
vengeance against the old hero who had so
effectually exposed their treachery to the
Constitution and the Union. 1t was
enough for them to know that Mr.. Buch-
anan was at heart Gen. Jackson's enemy,
and, if he was corrupt, so much the better
for their purposes. Their success depend
ed on the union of men protesting opposite
aud contradictory principles, and this could
not be effected without a corrupt leader
Let Gen. Donelson be rewarded by the
contracting parties who have the control of
Mr.. Buchanan, let him fellowship with the
Wises, Soules, and Jimmy Joneses of the
South, and the Forneys and Van Burens
of the North; but let it not be done in the
name of friendship to Gen. Jackson, or
what is equally untrue, of regret for the
position of his brother, Maj. Donelson.
Maj. Donelson would not receive power
from Mr. Buchanan when he offered it to
him under the administration of Mr.. Polk.
He distrusted the man whom Gen. Jack
son pronounced corrupt, and whose as
cendancy in the public councils he said
would prove fatal to the purity of the
Democratic party. And, if we mistake
not the signs of the times, this opinion of
Gen. Jackson's is fast becoming that of the
public; and this probably accounts for the
haste of the Tennessee wing of the sham
Democracy to pay off their partners in the
Presidential juggle.
Mr.. Cobb, who now disgraces the Office
of the Treasury Department, declared that
it was impossible to purify the Democratic
party as long as the nullifers claimed place
in its councils. His language was that hell
itself contained nothing so bad as the State
rights party of the South: yet we see this
man suddenly change his position, and be-