Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-12-01
Hon. John Bell.

We have hitherto RETAINED from saving word
II regard to the pursued By our Democratic
Legislature towards the distine uished gentleman
who name appe at the head of this article;
do we do so now with the least hope of awakening
one ping of regret in the bosoms of those who
EFFECT his overthrow We too well acqnain-
ted with democratic tsc'ics to expect them to
or I GnVthgng they m9y have done, provided 1t was
successful in accomplishing the end for which it
designed. 'Spoils aud power" has ever heen
their motto, m4tt"F how they were attained,
whether t was bg announcing the patriOric FILL
MORE and the chiValric TAYLOR "a AbolitiOnist;
in the utter disregard of all consistency in el-cting
a successor TO Senator two years before the
p,ration of his term; s again in denOun ing
The gallant Scott for his sympathy for for gners and
then in four years after, denOuucing those who
opposed to the evil tendencies of foreign inn
migration; it all right and proper provided they
could by doing succeed in carrying their OBJ
jectS into effect. For these reasons, We say, we
not surprised at the course taken by them to-
wards Mr.. IL and may add, that woulI
not be surprised at anything done by the leaders
of that party. But, while regrrt that paTtiz m
spirit that led TO the overthrow of Mr. BELL it is
source OF peculiar pleasure to US to remember the
course pursued by the gallant members of the Am
erican party ia the Legislature They merit and
will doubtless receive the heartfelt grltnlAtions of
all good and conservative men. We wOuli not If
we could conceal our regret the loss Of Mr. BELLS
influence in the Senate, for we are confident that
his bosom will ECU lily regret that one distin-
tingushed, so able and eloquent, shouli be forced
by the power of pirtizanism to retire from the
councils of the Nation.
The talents and fame of JOHN BELL, are coeVal
with the birth of the old Wbig party Nor are
they confined to Tennessee alone. There is not
State in the confederacy where patriotism has
home, or wh,re a love of the Union is incucsted
in which the talents of JOHN BELL not acknowl-
edged aud his patriotism and devotion to the Union
Venerated. And since the death of the great
Senatorial three" those great intellectual umina-
ries, there is no man in this Union more entitled
to the esteem and confidence Of his cOuntrymen
than the Hon. JOHN BILL. His name has ever
been a SYNONYM Of Union, patriotism and conser
vatism. Inspired with the sublimity Of the great
truths and confident of the harmonious effect of
the issues of the old Wing party, expounded
by CLAY and WEBSTER, he has ever battled for
their supremacy. This has always been the cause
of the hatred manifested by the democratic party
towards him. Commencing IN the days of JACK
SON. that hatred has only grown more fierce, and
less scrupulOus by time, and just SO long Mr.
Bell continues to pursue his upright cousa, rrfus
ing pander to the PR JUDGES of a misguided party
and exposing the reckessness of their conduct, Just
so long may be expect volumes of abuse from the
so called democratic party. And as the dema-
gOsurs of Aristdisn days acted towards that in
coTruptibe patriot Just such treatment may he
pect from those of the present day, who know ana
fear him.
But all things work together, tits said for good,
and sure have a country, just so sure will
the great honest, but misguided masses OF the dem
ocratic party, in days come, hurl their indigna-
ton upon those who TOOK such unfair couTs to
rob the Senate and the country of bis inestimable
services at time when they were so much needed
to quell the storm that is now raging in po-
ltical horizon, and to aid ia avertiug calamity
that is threatening the welfare aud perpetuity
of our UniOn.-ShelbyUitie ErpOsitor.
eg- Mr.. Buchanan was waited on to-das
by number of Israelites. and he requested
captain Jonas P. Levy to furnish him with the
localities in Switzerland where American ci,i-
zens of the Jewish persuasion had been de-
prived of their religious privileges, as he had
the documents all ready for transmission to
remedy the evil New York Herald's Wash