Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-07-08

If Democracy, as it is termed, had been left TO
itself it would have ruined and destroyed the coun-
try long ago, and it has only been prevented from
going straight to the devil and dragging the govern
ment along with it, by the strong conservative ele-
ment which is its necessary oPPoste:-A the's-post
This necessary opposite" is made up Of two
parfs-Black Republication at the North and Know
Nothingsul at the South, the northern wing being
decidedly the strongest Where we beg leave TO
ask would the country have gone to if this ..neces
sary opposite had controlled it? There would have
been need of going to the devil for the oevil
would have had possession of the country Let the
mind conceive if it can what would be the condition
of affairs to-day if controlled at the North by the
Black Republicans and at the South by the Know
Nothings; with Seward and Bell, Burlingsme and
Etheridge, Greedy and Prentice, Banks and Hatton,
heading the grand array of the opposition; with
Black Republican Know -Nothingism in the free
States endeavoring degrade the foreign born white
man to a condition of savish dependence, and els-
vate the negro to condition of social and political
equality; with Know NOthingsm in the South, war
ring upon the foreign born and Catholic, and, to
tain its temporary power yielding to the fanatieal
demands of its Black Republican ally. They had
the ascendancy for session in the House of Rep
resentatives, and sought to revolutionise the
try by stopping the wheels of government. Had
the same elements which held sway there controlled
the Senate and other departments of government,
who can question for moment that we, as people,
would have been to-day in state of anarchy and
revolution? Who calculate the evils that would
have resulted from it? Who can count the centuries
through which the baneful influence would have
been felt? Who can tell when and where the genius
of liberty would again have kinded her vestal
fires
Democracy ruin the country, indeed. Why has
she not ruined it during the long period of time
that she has had almost uninterrupted control of its
political affairs? Who rocked it in its cradle-de-
| Tended it in its weakness-nurtured and gave it
strength-and educated it to high sense of liber-
| ty and justice but the Democracy? Who declared
and maintained the justice of the war of 1872, and
| the war with Mexico, against this very opposition
to democracy? Who has shaped the foreign and do
nestle policy of the government which has secured
for peculiar privileges abroad and the respect of
all the world, and which has given prosperity as
apeople and power and grandeur a nation? Who
extended the of freedom from thirteen to thir-
tyone sovereign States, with vast amount of ter
rlCory SUN unoccupleu, furnishing MONIES 10 all VINO
may choose to go and settle upon them? The De-
mOcracy truly point to these illusrious chapters
in history and proudly exclaim, ''these my jew
| els-the fruits of my labOr-fOrming monument to
my WISDOM from whose summit shines beacon
| light that gladdens the whole earth, and inspires
oppressed humanity every where with fortitude and
hope" When the Democratic party is overthrow
and that light tOppled from its elevation, liberty
will cease to exist and lf-government have proved
wild experiment. Every mother and father in the
country whose earnest hope is with the future and
for their posterityt after them, should pray
that the day may never dawn when Democracy shall
cease to control our now great and happy country.
HsA. A correspondent of the Know Nothing jour
nal at Athens giving an account of the speaking at
Newport says that Mr.. Hattons triumph over Har-
ris was equal to Jones Polk. Wonder if it was
equal to that portion of Jones' recent letter in which
he characteristics the argument that Mr.. Hatton
makes to divide the public lands, as ''beneath the
dignity of the merest school boy sOphisry;' an eff
fort 'to soothe the conscience by making muir
derOus assault on the brain