Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-03-19

THURSDAY, MARCH ID }, 1857.


make decided, firm and united stand for
the vindication and triumph Of their prin-
ciples. Every succeeding day, with its
portentous events, but serves the more thor
ougbly to convince the rejecting and dis.
passionate citizen of the correctness of
those principles, and the necessity of their.
maintenance, TO the prosperity and vel
fare of our government. These truths adj
dress themselves, perhaps, more foreibly and
directly to the South, at this particular
time, than ever before. Since the decision
of the Supreme Court in the bred Scott
case, granting that it shall be hereafter ad-
hered to and faithfully abided, the ultra
and fanatical portion of the North (which,
it is much to be regretted, is a great part
of that section) see very clearly that the
quickest, safest and surest policy for the at
tainment of their objects, is to increase the
bulk and body of foreign immigration, and
thus strengthen the free-soil and abolition
power of the country both in the States
and territories. This being accomplished,
that other tenet, both of Northern and
Southern democrats, Alien Suffrage, will
come in OPPORTUNITY and do the work
of the Abolitionists far more effectually
than any Missouri Compromise or Wilmot
Proviso could possibly do. In SO far as
the President is authorized to speak for the
Democracy of the present, that party is a
faithful ally of that dangerous and mischiev-
GUS free-soil sentiment of the North, which,
though less feared, is infinitely more extend
ed and more to be deprecated than aboli-
tionism ITSELF The one is concealed and
disguised in its powers of evil; the other is
open and will always merit and receive the
condemnation of the majority of the people
of every section of the Union. We do not
mean now to charge the Democracy of the
South, with willfully aiding in the progress
and extension of Freesoilism; but we do
say that its present line of policy, it may
be, ignorantIy pursued, does inevitably
have that tendency, and will, if persisted
in, have that end and result.
In this view of the subject, which is emil
nently just and truthful, we regard opposi-
ton to the desperate and ruinous policy of
the leaders of the democratic party, at the
present time, more imperative upon all ma
tional men, and especially by the South,
than it has ever been before. And the in
dicationS are from all quarters, that this
view is obtaining with the masses, and that
the opposition will be as firm and united
as it ever was But, in order to make this
opposition formidable and effective, there
must be umiOn, concord and harmony. Let
our friends, for once, learn lesson from
the democracy-tO be firm, actire, UNITED.
Let personal jealousies, if any such unfor-
tuRately exist, and local strifes be thrust
aside and forgotten; and let leaders and
people, aSpirants and voters, come up like
true men, true Americans, and true patri-
OTIS from hilltop and valley, from village
and hamlet rallying in solid phalanx un-
der the bright banner of their homes and
country, and all aoiH be 1OeA. WA
But, before we shall be prepared to pass
victcrionsly over the fields of next August,
there is some labor to be performed, some
discipline to be undergone. Conventions
and meetings are to be held throughout the
i State; the sentiment of the party obtained,
and the canvass thoroughly made, in all
the county, district and State elections
We, therefore, take this occasion to urge
our friends throughout the State to speedy,
but careful and vigorous action. 1t has
been suggested, and we would recommend
the suggestion as a good one, that prima
ry meetings of the people be held in each
of the counties, where such meetings have
not already been held, on the first Monday
in April, for the purpose of making Their
selections for candidates for the Legisla
ture; calling district conventions, and o.
expressing their choice for candidate
for Governor. 1t will he remembered thai
the State Convention is called on the first
of May; it is all-important that this Con
vention should be composed of representa-
tives from every county, and full expires
sion and free interchange of opinions
upon the subjects which will come befor,
that body. We hope there will be no fur
Their delay, but that there be a genera
turn out on the first Monday in April