Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-07-11
THE REAL ISSUE


this canvass is the Of the Bell dy-
nasty in Tennessee. No set Of politicians were
ever more severely rebuked or completely subju-
gated than have been zolicoferand Ready for their
rash effort 10 usurp the lead OF their party in this
State, by attempting to shape different policy from
Mr.. Bells on the Kansas-Nebraska question. The
natural impulses of the people, responding to their
evident interests gave them a momentary triumph,
and all parties for while were united against Mr.
Bell IT. did mot remain so long, however" by
what appliances it is needless to say, but in little
time the entire opposition party were again mar
shaled under the lead of Mr. Bell IN vigorous war
fare against the Kansas-Nebraska bill. The Know
Nothines of the last Legislature could scarcely
''abide by" it,! and pronounced it the conception
of iniquity When the Congress of last sum-
mer adjourned and members returned to their
homes, Messrs. Zollicoffer and Ready came unher-
aided and received as little notice from their party
as if they were passing strangers. Mr.. Bell in
few weeks followed them, and ere he had reached
the borders of the State, the programme Of a tri-
'umphal march had been prepared to do him honor
He was received at the depot by large procession
arranged according to the most approved style of
aristOcratic countries led by the pOmp of military
parade, directed by Marshals and Assistant Mar
shals of the day, with their Haunting ribbands and
their caparisoned steeds,5 The grand eavalcade of
horsemen, the long line of carriages with their
treasures of female beauty, the columns OF sin
tensifed Americans" on foot, formed a gorgeous
procession the sight of which, as it wound itself by
slow degrees from street t. street, might wen have
made the heart of Mr. Bell swell with pride. They
escorted him TO beautiful grove where q table
was spread and thousands had cOngregated, and
there he was received in get speech by chosen
spokesman, and endorsed and applauded for the
wisdom and sagacity he had displayed in co-opera-
ting with the Abolitionsts in opposition to the
Kansas Nebraska bill. In response, their oracle
came forward and talked wisdom for them by the
hour, and showed how he and the Abolitionists up
on many questions had been true to the South, while
the South had been untrue to herself
1t was not long after this, we believe, before Gen.
Zollicoffer collected a small squad in the Market
House, and from one of the beef stalls delivered
speech intended for publication, apologize, we
! construe it, for his support of the Kansas sbill
in opposition to Mr.. Bell. Mr.. Ready in a short
time appeared in letter in which he, too, chimed
in the general cry against this measure and its I'M
| finching defenders, the Democratic party.
Mr. Bells triumph was complete, and from that
day he has reigned supreme in his party. Messrs.
ZOllicoer and Ready implored their party that they
might be returned to Congress, One of them sub
mitted to Convention and was beaten. The other,
seeing the handwriting plainly upon the wall,
| refused to go into Convention, knowing that he
would be permitted to run rather than subject their
party to certain defeat The difficulties and the
| unceasing efforts under which Messrs. Zollicofer
and Ready obtained the track is well remembered by
our readers In every other district in the State
the wand of the magician has been still more sue
cessful Hatton, for whom Mr.. Ready refused to
give place. was taken up over his (Ready's) nephew,
Gen. Haskell, and made the candidate for Governor.
Etheridge, who, with Mr.. Bell, had been so highly
lauded by the Black Republican papers for his aid
to them in opposition to the South on the Kansas
BILL was permitted to run, and of his party
dared rival him. Rivers, for his support of the
Kansas bill, forced to retire, and Stevens, its
uncompromising opponent, was made the candidate
to succeed him. Taylor, an original enemy Of the
/ measure has been taken up in preference to all
Others and is on the track against Watkins. May
nard heretofore unpopular and defeated by Church
WE'LL for his violent hostility to the Kansas measure
has been made their candidate in the Knoxville
Congressional district. Such have been the changing
fortunes of men, ending in the complete ascendancy
of Mr.. Bell, that has characterised the opposition
| party in Tennessee within the last two years.
The struggle is now made up between that party,
thus organized, and the Democracy. Hence we
say the real issue in this canvass is the re-estab
| &c IL polIJ nd
question presented is, shall Bell Etheridge, Taylor,
| Maynard, Culium, Stephens, Hatton Co., be in
augurated into power and held up before the coun-
try as the embodiment of political sentiment in
| Tennessee? Shall their policy in Congress upon
the slavery question, and in the Legislature upon
internal improvements and State extravaganza be
recognised and endorsed the true position of the
majority of our people? Shall the New York Tn
6une be permitted to announce to its black cohorts
at the North that Tennessee has reelected to the
Senate the man whom it sometime since pronounced
ga statesman, eminent and pure, "as resolute and
ready to do service, as when, single handed, he
bravely encountered the whole South upon the Ne
braska bill and carried TERROR their ranks" Shall
Seward congratulate himself on finding by his side
in the Senate the only Southern member Of that
body in the last Congress whom he could endorse
before an abolition audience as an 'hones states
mani" Shall the Radical A6oAtorist be permitted
to herald through its columns the election of Ethe
ridge whose resolution on the African slave trade
it characterized as so blow at the institution of
slavery itselfi" Shall the entire Black Republican
forces of the North take courage and strength to
themselves from the triumph of party in Tennes-
see from whom they have nothing to fear but every
thing to hope-G party with whose leaders they
have succeed in efecting most cordial understand
ing, and with whom they expect thorough union
| in the Presidential canvass of 1907
Let the people ponder upon these questions, and
answer them as becomes PATRIOTS not partizans.
ban The price of calling man a corn thief in
| Texas is high. The Woodville Messenger says that
at the late term of the District Court in that
ty, the most important civil case tried was SLAM
| der suit, in which Frenchman sued for calling
another corn thief The jury assessed the DANA
ges at 5 5000
THE KANSAS ELECTION.
The vote in all the border counties Of Kansas at
the late election for members of the constitutional
| convention reached one thousand five hundred and