Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-08-15
wHTTHER WILL THEY oof

There seems to be some diversity Of opinion
amongst the members of the late Know Nothing or
CARNATIONS to what step the party shall take mex in
opposition TO the National Democracy The over
whelming defeat which they have met every
where in the recent State elections, seems to have
in ensiHed their bitterness to such degree thas
some Of them are ready to unite with any party in
any section on common platform of opposition to
the Democratic party, provided only that the union
promises success. A writer In the Memphis Eagts
Enquirer proposes that union be at once eementeo
between the Know Nothing and what he designated
as the Calhoun States Rights Party. The Richmond
Fkig on the other hand, assuming that the adnis-
sion of Kansas into the Union as State viii soon
remove all sectional questions from politics and
leave the field clear for the formation Of part
les. urges q union of the Know Nothings and Black
Republicans into great Opposition Party" and
pledges itself to its support The WAig says:
"But, as we have said when the admission Of
Kansas shall practically conclude the whole contro
versy on the vexed subject Of slavery, neither We
nor any Southern man could then have the slightest
hesitation in cooperating with any man or set of
men at the North, upon platform made up Of 9TH
er issues and new measures. For example, in the
matter Of q distribution of the public lands among
all the States would we not be justified in standing
shoulder to shoulder with any y-even with those
who may have been known heretofore as the rank
est and most Incorporating Of Black Republi'
cans? We surely would; and so in regard to any
other measure or principle which has no necessary
orlegtimste connection with any projects or designs
against the constitutional rights of the South.
The question of slavery in the Territories being
out of view in the of $780, and, consequent
y all merely sectional parties disbanded and dis
soyel, we hold ourselves in readiness to support
III mart WI CHI l r
gained, in compact and solid array, against the
Democracy. And with thorough and complete or
ganization Of all the elements opposed to the De-
moeracy, that molly and miscellaneous, that hypo-
critical and dangerous spoilsloving concern, called
| the national Democracy, will encounter defeat
compared with which the signal overthrow of lo4O
was scarcely circumstance"
To this complexion, then, it has come at last =
What will those honest men in the South who ha' e
been cheated with the delusion that the soidisant
American party was national, union party, say to
this-Here, within less than four years of the for
lton of the organization, we find two propositions
boldly set fOrth-One to unite with the Southern or
Calhoun States Rights party, which in the recent
Presidential they denounced secessonists
| a1d disunonists-the other to make common cause
with the Black Republicans, the sworn enemies Of
Southern institutions, against the only party in
ience which has the ability to give safety and pro-
faction to the rights of every section and perpetuity
t. our glorious institutions. Will they follow the
m d counseIs of their leaders, who in their frantic
first after the spoils of Office, would lead them TO
~ extremity of folly and mischief, and even jeOp-
9 lie the integrity of beloved Union itselff-
Or will they not rather come out from among a
p rty, potent now only for mischief, and join the
great national Democratic ranks, before whose VIC
tOriOus march all opposition must finally yield p
| We leave the decision with themselves.