Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-10-02

Der what Gen jackson said and wrote to.his numer-
GUS friends in Tennessee-he viii find that there
gauizaton Of the Cabinet placed on the ground
of political necessity he viii 6nd that this deei-
siVe step was justified solely means of extri- !
eating the General from the Vaccinations Of the
uIlrsists, now known as nullfers seceders, and all
olitionists
II will not do, therefore, to say that there was
nothing political IN the causes which led to the re-
moval of Gen Done!s1n's fat her ,in-aw nor does
the General better his case bg saying that he pre-
rred Barbour to Van Buren,, and that the indi.ne-
ton meetings which be got up in Sumner orly
Intended to express this preference. The fact is,
that Gen. Donelson at that period went further
tnan Calhoun did in his denunciations OF Gen jack
son. Calhoun eontended that notification was
constitutional and peaceful remedy. Gen. Donel
son declared that revolution better than SUBJ
mission to the doctrints Of Gen. Jackson. CIlhoun
was ioT settling the difficulty By discussion and ar
gumeni; but Gen. DoneIsOn. who had been elected
| a Brgadier General of the Sumner county miIti.
by the retirement of Gen. Desha, for var, i'm
mediate the old veteran of the Hermitage,
who had led that militia to imprrishable honor and
! glory the plains OF New Orleans, aud 10 the nu-
merOus victories which they obtained over the In
| diam of the South.
| The Barbour movement a failure just as the
Mclean had been Both movements origins
ted in the deepest hostility Gen. Jackson. Van
| Buren, wi o had been sent Minister to England and
was rejected by the Senate because he had carried
out Gen. J4ckson's instruc ions in regard to orr
trade with the West India Islands, Was placed by
aeciamatiou Oh Gen. Jackson's ticket, aud it was
fOund imDOSsi-Ia ~
nation. Wien Gen DoneIson therefore says he
was for Barbour, be means that b. against Gen.
.cksOn, ami cooperating with the nuilifers an
auolitiousts. Nor - it any reiief to him say,
he does, that he supported jackson al Vlu
Buren,. The nulders gen, rally did the thing
| " hen they found that Gen. jackson could not be
put down, they changed their t.crics, ami aoqli-
esced il the elevation OF Van Bur,n, declaring
that the State Rights party could accomplish
more nnder his Lead than III. could under that of
| Ill Clay il he were elected. This the ground
taken by Duff Green, who was the mou h-pe Co Of
| the nuliers, and in accordance With his sug.e.-
! tions afterwards Mr.. Cal! Gun supporting
| the leading measures OF MIR. Val Buren, Bus th.rr
was still another tor this cha G.. of tic
| on the part OF the nulIifeTs and uboltlon-ts A.
though Mr. Van Buren, had declared that BE- sought
no higher glory than tread in the fOoisf' ps Of
his illustrOus predecessor, it was Apowu to his
Confidential friends that he willing to throw off
all responsibility for the PROCLAMATION and force bill
He sagacious enough that the North
had the right nulfy if the South bad Accord
ingIy Mr.. Van Buren, felt it to be no volpuon OF
Stlte Rights to set up the Buffalo platform the
test of D ,mOcratic orthodoxy; and he has very
ssteuLly voted for Mr.. Buchanan, just the multi
6ers did throughout the South.
Mr.. Van Buren, voted for Buchanan in order, as
he says, to give practical effect the Wimot pre-
Viso and the Buffalo platform. Gen. DOnelsOn and
the nullifers voted tor him because he was the
enemy of Gen. jackson, and would keep up the
slavery agitation another four years, by saying
thing to the North and another to thu South and
by pratng about the quality of the States. But
it is not intention to enter into an extended
enum,raton OF the points suggested by thf card
of Gen. Donelson, whose chief merit in the eyes of
the Democracy, seems to be that of opposition to
his brother 10 this free country, it is tue Gene
RAILS privilege profess what he pleases in politi s,
but object to his attempt to pass himself off
Jackson Democrat Let him reap the rewards
which are due to the
Patient search and vigil long
Ot m who treasures up wrong"
but let i'm not imagine that he can wipe out the
record which proves him to be al enemy of Gen.
Jackson, and tie subs; rvient ally in Tennessee OF
she nuders aud their abolition partners 10 the
North.
We do not make thcsa ertions at random. We
tell the General that what We say, We are prepared
to prove by documents aud letters that cannot b.
controvertcd He Denounced Jackson's admins
tration with bitter s., that even Duff Green or
Jimmy Jones could equal Il declared thst
revolution was a less evil than submss on TO the
doctrines Of the procl nation.
But this IL not tie worst feature Of he position
which the General assumes when he accepts a nom
inaton on the ground Of opposition to nis brother,
aud Of support of Gen. Jackson. He knows better
than all other men, that j. DouelsOn brought
upon hIr self the wrath OF the pu l fers and abO-
itionists, becaus- h. would not cor 10 becom-
heir tool tie knows that since tn. treaehsrOus
Convention which assembled at Nashville, Nsj
Dpnelsou has been the target which the ST
poisonous shafts of c,lumny and detraction have
been hurled because he would rot subscribe TO the
h.r,sies Of notification and abolition.
In our humble judgment the honest low which
Guild have felIed to the earth the aut of these
cAlumnes, ought TO have come from Gen. Douel-
son but inst ad Of obcying the instincts of fat r
nal aft elton, and the call of justice truth, he
has preferred to worship at the shrine of 'am De-
mocracy. Instead Of maniiesting desire to defend
his broth,r from ungenerous attack, he has pan
! dered to the m4eVOlenc- which has traGueed him,
| and now wants to be paid tor his fratrcidal
vices.
The noblest and the rsrest act of an exalted ns-
ture is to suffer, and die 10 manIiness and
! simplicity for truth alone hut the virtue which
| forms such a character, seems to be wholly IN
known to G, n. Donelson. His adds but
other to the catalogue Of vulgar pr udices, which
lead men to sacrifice Truth IN order TO promote
| their selfish interests. He defended Pierce and
his administration, disgraced il vas by the pat
ronags it bestowed tue abolitionist and the
| nulifers The newspaper, edited by a renegade
! whig, Who declared that he had turned editor in
order TO form & Southern coniederacy, aud by s
quaker aboiilionist who bad introduced a bill in
tns Indiana Legisla legaliEe the marriage Of
the whites and blacks, waj the special favorite Of
Mr.. Pierce. This paper and lie filthy abuse Of
Maj Donelson aud of Gen. Jackson, vas worthy OF
the patronage OF the sham Democracy, and was