Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-17
N NASHVILLE:
MONDAY, AUGUST II, 1857.
ne late COntest-The American candI.
date for GOVernOr-TAe Future.

The Democrats did their duty-the Americans
dsd not Let the majority against Us he what 1t
| may-Iet The rout be ever disastrous-it cannot
De attributed in the least noble young lad
eF, Bob Hattou. He ent.red the field with 800
| maj Fty agsi sthm. he N desa vigorous, deteru :
! ined fight, and although defeated by an increased
m-jority he comes out of the contest covered all
over With gIory.-Lebanoa Herald.
The Herald is correct The disastrous
result of the contest cannot be attributed
to onr candidate for Governor. He did his
whole duty, and did it nobly. Concerned
though he may be relative to the over
throw of the American party, he can enjoy
/ the pleasing consciousness that he has come
out of the heat and dust of battle without
a stain upon his fair escutcheon. We can
not say as much for the American legions
who faltered and abandoned the field to
the enemy without striking blow. There
never was contest fraught with more mo-
| mentous consequences to a party; never
one in which the party having most to lose,
! failed so utterly to comprehend the impor-
lance of success, and to put forth the exer-
ton necessary to attain it. We felt that
the American masses had it within their
power to retrieve the fortunes of the party,
and we relied upon their indOmitabe forti-
| tude, constancy and courage, for that de-
sirable consummation. We feel now, that
if they had not given way to discourage
ments, but had stood up to their cause
manfully, we should not, with them, be la
menting an unexampled rout in Tennessee.
Let those who failed to discharge the OBJ
legations they owed to their principles and
their country feel the full force of their re-
creancy, and, in sackcloth and ashes, do
penance for the evils they have permitted
to be inflicted upon the State.
In the midst of misfortuneS, let US not
be unmindful of the future Our unsleep-
ing enemy seeks to create the impression
that the American Party of Tennessee
cannot survive the disaster of the 9Th of
August. Let US, whilst in the midst of
the disaster, and the prophecy is fresh, re
solve that the war shall be continued.
We cannot remain spectators of the incep-
ton and growth of mere sectional parties,
which would array the North and the South
into contest for the supremacy. At this
time, the existence Of the American party
as a nucleus around which the conServa-
tive elements of the country may gather,
presents the only solution of the danger
Gus sectional questions still to be settled.
Let US, therefore, stand to our posts, with
the American standard unfurled in the
breeze. We can have nothing to do with
the corrupt and corrupting organization
known as modern Democracy, but to fight
it "to the knife, and the knife to the hilt."
We can have no compromises either with
it, or its twin-brother of the North, Black
Republicanism. We have faith in the des-
tiny of our country, and we cannot believe
that, because Americanism has now been
beaten down, foreignism will be permitted
to lead the republic on to destruction. Let
us then, Americans, all, stand under the
stars and stripes, our glorious ensign, hope
| full Of the future.