Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-07-18
n NASHVILLE:
SATURDAY, JULY IS, 1857.


we have, within the past fortnight, receiv-
ed Information from West Tennessee, East
Tennessee, and portion of our own section,
of very encouraging character, as to the pros
pect not only of the election of Hattor,
but of carrying the Legislature, and major
ity of the Congressman. This is the grand re
snlt which every opponent of sham Democra-
cy in the State should actively and zealousy
labor to bring about from this time until the
vote is polled. II is aresult, too, we most sin
cerely believe, within their reach. It requires
but an effort, such as was made by the Wings
in 1s47, during the fifteen days Immediately
preceding the election, when Neil S. Brown
was elected over Aaron. The candidates on
our side have been doing their duty, and it re-
mains now for the active industrious men of
the masses to do theirs When they are fully
alive to the Importance of exertion on their
part, there can be no such thing as failure.
We tell them then, if they desire to see the
sham Democracy OyerthrOwD in this contest
utterly routed-they have but to put their
! shoulders to the wheel, and the work is done.
! We appeal to them to do this They have
witnessed the proscriptive prosecuting spir
it with which Americans and AmericaDism
Wings and Whrggery-have been pursued
| by their opponents. They have borne patient
! ly denunciations of their principles, IN
| Just, untrue, and frequently of such charac-
ter, that, if applied to individuals, would have
resulted in bloodshed. They have heard their
party branded with insulting epithets-con-
tumelious reproaches heaped upon its members
as abody--and prophecies uttered that the time
would come when no one could be found so
vile and degraded as to own that be ever be-
| longed to or acted with it. They have seen
efforts made to brand Americans a class
unworthy of confidence, and not to be allowed
to hold any official position under the State or
! National Government. And here they have
also seen it announced that if defeated in the
canvass for members of the Legislature, their
| DruscriptiVe opponents will proceed to inaug-
urate a new policy in the history Of Ten
nessee politics, elect a Senator to Congress
more than twelve months before q vacancy
! occurs, with view to Ostracise John Bell,
and all others who do not bow down to them,
and also to re-dstrict the State, for the pur-
pose of crushing out forever, all opposition to
future triumphs of sham Democracy on our
SOIL Cugnizant of all these things, if they
have the feelings of men, if they have not lost
the spirit to resent oppression and insult, our
active men-aye, the whole rank and file OF
our party; every man who does not wish to
see sham Democracy enthroned for all time in
our State, will now put forth their most active
exertions to win such victory as shall give
them renown in every portion of the Union
We invoke them to enter upon the patriotic
work at once They never had a surer pros
pect of success before them in any election OF
State officers, which have, for near twenty
years past, been close and constantly vibrating
between the sham Democracy and their opp
Onents. Our strength was never more CONSOLE
dated, and all it wants to render it invncible,
is an Infusion Of fire and spirit-of zeal and de-
termination. Stir yourselves, good friends
Kindle the watch-fres on our hills, and in all
our valleys. GO out into the great highways
and by-ways, into the fields, and the work
shops, into the stores and counting rooms
wherever there is work to do; and you will
aid in the achievement of victory more glo-
rious than any in the annals of Tennessee.