Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-25
For the Daily Patriot.


What should the American Party do
Isa question asked and answered By almost eve
~ member of it daily but with little prospect OF
all coming to the same conclusion The result OF
the recent elections in Tennessee and Kentucky,
however unlocked for by friends or enemies,
have within themselves determined the vitality Of
the American party. Disguise it as we may, as
party potent for good, no longer exist; nor IN
deed can hope to porpetuate principles, IN
the face OF sucT series Of disasters forced upon Us
by ignorance, misrepresentation, and OT5"dFce on
| the part of tn Democracy.
! We may and do amuse ourselves by indulsingin
heroies and b auiifnl images OF Tz11esS and ads-
renee to priRcilLe. "Truh crushed to Earth, &c,
&c, and notice among other Editors, in this con
nection, y0u advis and deceive yourself with the
same decisions. We beg to diff = with you. What,
you say. abandon your pripciplesi No, sr
! neVeri Go TO DemOor~cv Never AeUer!
! Never! What then Make them to us! How,
| you asks By simply di-banning, withdrawing aH
candidates for office, and solve ourselves into clt-
/ liens simply, and let Democracy TiDI
The result is NOT hard Of prophecy. We see IN
/ every speculation upon this subject, made by you
or others, of your main arguments, for exhort-
/ ing Americans, stand to their cOlors, Is the
threatened distractions Of our enemies, as appear
| in their vision upon Mr. Buchan MS WalkeT-Kan-
sas policy, and based upon that the d luslVe hope
that many of them will join US. The argument Is
not only fatLOciOaS but really mOrtfl19g. W hat,
sir, have we right, truth, no justice no pTn-
we rely for success solely upon the distraction OF
| thu Democracy? Take iCs crumbs as they happen
| to fall from over gormandzing the SpOaS OF chic"
| and pOwor? God forbid III Common decency for
! bid it. stli-respect forbid il Already have we
been fore d to submit to gnomny and defeat,
through the power Of numbers, made formidable by
pasSjOR prejudice and miSTt presentation and our
| flags now traIl inglOriousy in the dust, and our
great and patriotic leaders and solid, ~, now lie
pless at the feet of Democracy, OH cts of their
apD aU1 rid icuI Aud KIDD n
fl ght at such dsadvantag and costs, No, sir.
! Let US retire into winter quarters. Our country
needs our services, not IN mere party night and
to serve party purposes We shall have work to do.
Our now fallen leaders will be needed, and honor
ed even by enemies, whose excuses will Ger
tainly be productive of anarchy and confusion, out
of which in self-ds f. nee they will fee to tue Amer
lean standard and prime PIES for protection. Truth
! is omnipOtent and pubic justice certain The
great man who uttered this GOdlike sentiment,
amidst the agouies OF personal defeat, did not live,
it true, in his person to realize its truths but
| IRE have lived to and hear the Democracy show
erlng down bl, ssngs and ruOgy upon the name OF
and lame of him they hated and abused,
and are now enjoying his appropriated honors IN
coutradistinctiOn 10 the friends who ever follow
his cOorS in life and adhered to him, all the closer
for his mlstortunes with almost Eastern IdOlatry
What has been may be again, and we may live 10
see It, For years in our Revolutionary history our
brave army, headed by noble and brave officers
as the world ever saw lived almost in constant
state of retreat, and even the Fat Of his
Try" himself often, very often, retired before SUI
perlOr force, rather than the desr cion OF his
army. Ii history traches by experience let US
here learn lesson. Mr. iitor the very reason
you give for protracting this conflict determines us
to retreat from it, The probable distraction of the
Democracy will ultimate triumph, il We but
withdraw all opposition, for the present, at least
ana allow them good press Of steam TO carry
forward in their prOgFe sSiVe destruction. Give EN-
n are tpO f0Pt no l.
men OF Democracy, headed by the foreign iufu-
ence. The great mass OF the people South even of
the Democratic party, are Nth now, but party
discipline and gOads, aided by misr presentation of
our principles, by passion and prejudice, prevent
our cOuntTyTen from seeing us in our true colors
or of doing themsr Ives justice They bndly fol-
low the sound Of Democracy, which but lures them
to destruction: Let Us retire. and let them glut
their appetites upon the bloody memories OF their
patriotic victims, made so malice, and SANDER, and
defam alton, so vile that they cry to Heaven Let
them revel in their triumph with the feEdishness
of party malgnity. 1.-THE hours are silently en-
rendering of the day" when this SuouqYel horde
will be ashamed of their political bastardv and in
petty slriies and OPP dissatisfaction will produce
| such anarchy and division in their own ks that
all the honest but misled freemen will with one
acclaim call for the leaders of the American party
to hoist the conservative flag OF the constitution of
equal r9gAtS Of Safes, OF AmeTcanism against For
elgnism and lead them on to justice, truth, honor
and victory. When this is done and not until
then. shall we be blessed ia the faith of "America
Tor Americans Then may our leaders once more
feel as did Rob ROF on his native health, when he
proclaimed himself McGregor and the blast of their
bugIes once more call from every copse and every
} alpine bush clansman, WHO will swell the shOu
ct freemen in the proclamation hat lice an Uic-
tory! LIT us have no more candidates and pr, IS
no farther upon our brethren our sentiments uu.
appreciated and misunderstood by them and Our
word for IT, all 1oiH be lceH. If any one suppose
that counsel submission, unqualified su0mis.
sion to, or amalgamation With the present sham
Democracy, he knows US not. The leaders of sham
Democracy are corrupt, and they deserve
our contempt and ScOr1, but the bliudly
honest, though misled and we will hold ourselV q
in charity towards them for a of RETURN :
justice, when passion and pr, judce have suhsd'
These are some OF our views aud you take
them tor what tnty worth. You will find re
spouse approving aud endorsing views in tht
breast OF the Am ricau party throug hOut the Stat
Z leaders perhaps excepted) Very truly.
AN AMERICAN