Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-01-21

THE AUGUST ELECTIONs-THE HON. ANDREW
EWING

Tue p8iSal Tti93 OF the state for the
summer campaign with commendabs aacrity, and bar
nshng anew their weapons to determine the supremacy
aud are taking council together to find him who can as.
SINE the craftsmanship with the greatest prospect of sue
cess.
The care with which they are taking these niatory
steps and the anxiety felt in the selection of proper can
didates, in proportion the importance of the cans
Vass and the immensely of The results from the
next August election. If the Democratic party is sue
cessul in sichOice of candidates for Governor and
bers Of the Legislature Democratic Senator will sue
coed the present incumbent whoserm expires in March,
The State will be distcted anew so that the people may
be no longer misrepresensd in Congress- and the neo-
ing administration be supported by the Representatives of
million Of people who hold position of undgni
fed neutrality and whose voice powerless in the halls
of the nation.
The Democratic majority in November was more than
seven thousand but we by that it will
be large August unless proper care is taken to Sc
that vote which had never before been given to u.s.
welgrounded fear that Mr. Fremont weuld bg elected
unless the entire South would unite upon M Buchanan
induced many Of FmOres friends to vote the democratic
ticket who without that pressure would have voted with
the opposition. The reasons that they Wings
and Mr.. Fillmore was Wing, and although he had es
pOused new faith TO which they could not and did not
yield their asse Mt they still found it difficult 10 abandon
their old love for him. and their old associates most of
whom had gone with him. and because they believed him
with little it is true but they did believe HIM
sound on the slavery question the Southern meaning
of that term In the August ee con they will be moved
by such considerations and the opposition BY what
they may hereafter present themselves to the
people of Tennessee, nominate, from present indca
tons seems probable gentleman who opposed to
the Democratic party and yet does not labor under the
Of bpinU viOlonf Krouv Nokino, uyLoza
ments free from the disastrous dHsts Of Novem-
Der last they may be induced to throw themselves into
be ranks OF the opposition They not yet firmly uni
ted with u.s. They did not vote with us heartily. Thsr
sympathies not with the Know Nothing principles
but for Fillmore and his old Wing friends They detested
the platform of the party and acknowledged the cor
recness of our own but they loved with the love of COM
mon cause and common fate the men who had led them
to victory and with whom they had suffered defeat and
they hated with the hatred engendered in lifelong war
fare the who had met them every battlefield and
struggled with them for the supremacy No prejudices
stronger than political enmities more irecon.
cabe than the enmties of partzans. 1t is weakness
90 common to be almost universal to prefer men TO
measures and the result would have shown, in single
handed contest between Buchanan and Fillmore that the
disparity would have been BY means 30 great That
the vote which sweled the democratic majority was the
vote Of political enemies induced thereto by the powerful
fear Of Fremonts success is certain. Since 1882 the
Wings had uniformly carried the State in the Presden.
ta election and in ele ting majority of the Legislature;
and even since the advent Of the party the Demo
cratic Governor was elected by little two thousand
and the Legislature was carried against US From whom
did the five Fhousand difference between the vote for
Governor and the vote for President come and the
than five thousand difference between the vote for the Le-
gisatue in 1855 and that for President 1852 From
men who had been Wings ind in the disruption of their
party would not affiliate with the Know NOthlngs and set
kept a0of from the Democrats who being repeed by
venerable hostility om the one found attraction in the
other and stood between the two too few in numbers to
eeCtany thing themselves but powerful when allied with
eherOf the regular political organizations and ready
ally themselves with either Their fears personal pre-
fersnces prompted.
In this view Of parties and this condition Of politics It be-
comes Democrats to grid mp their lons and PIT their
whole armor excite resoIue to up
disphed-to call back the dsaected, and present the
prnc les of their party in their purity thatthat wandering
body Of voters, who seeking a'habaton and nams
may find reasons their exeeency remain in as strong
they found in the fear Of Mr. Fremonts unite
whit.
thorough political organization necessary. Candi-
dates for every Office necessary and equally
ay that there should be but candidate the offices,
and the gentleman who leads the for Governor should
be who command the entire and sup
port of his party and time objection
able to tho ancient enemies Of house, and least vune-
bic their attacks. The gentleman who is most fully pos
sessed Of these elements Of success, both In his personal
character and political history is the Hem ANDREW Ewing,
Of Davidson. Never asking Office the people gladly
gave to him, aad stands Invested prejudice
which naturally attaches to the habual Office seeker
Through this Congressional District, against oppo-
nen and in the Of formidable majority, he coveredEs
Parys banner with success and for the Represent
fT,
that grand old patriot who lived within limits, and
breathed his life sweetY thers -Four years be
ceved The nomination Of his party for Governor, and
nominee in convention only because be made
sacrifice Of self rival apirant, Of which few
able-sl politicians which all appreciate
and every applaud; every has for what
is high and honorable, though may never done
heroic action in his life. Firmly impressed with the excel
the principles Of his party and their importance
the successful admin ratOn of this complicated Govern
meut he has all maintained them in herpury
and exPouuded them with marvellous eanesness and pow
En- In ons private life and the stump, for these
many years, preached the genuine democratic faith
and has become polished shaft in the democratic temple
Every democratic has received strength from lie
support every initiating against his svOwed
principles has been weakened by his opposition Every
democratic candidate has received vote influence
the representative of his cherished political convictions
Whenever thedemOcrauC drum-beat has summoned men
to he has marched manuy to the call In what
ever shape danger menaced has confronted it. In
whatever insidous disguise has presented itself he has
detected and exposed When the discordsnt Of
a shattered party disappointed members Of his
fused arrayed themselves under the seductive banners
Of false AneHcansm and spurious Professionalism, he
the specous covering limbs Of the political
Idol and let shine upon its defomiy In the lists
Of the past Knight gallant set lance in
or carried his pennon the enemies ranks Con-
commands the entire support party and
evidences oft are abundant in his history.
Through he has secured the respect and esteem Of
those even by whom he violently opposed. His
calm intellect sufficiently excited by stake
never mastered by passion. His serespect permit
ted him TO pass limits which courteous and honorable
opponents themselves his shapest contests he
threw the charm winning kindness, and his defeated
tagont which most to admirehe strength which
mastered him or the graceful courtesy with which
done agacty detected errors, exposed fala
ces destroyed DOCTRINES defeated parties and yet he left
the authors and advocates untouched. party defeated he
never attacked the partzan wrong exposed and men
warned Of and consequences he insued those
by wrong had granted to them the
honesty purpose and sincerity Of convictions he claimed
for himself. Never aerng his aegance, waveE
ing in his faith never doubling the soundness Of his
political creed had respect for the Creeds Of others and
for them and the old wing party disbanded and
some of its members drawn the opposition seek
ing place ofrsuge and they will cheerluly support