Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-10-27

all, sir, because new ally has come upon the field
10 sir-I still Eight the old enemy, and if the
ally joins ne, ia the fight or join bin, it is all
well-we are fighting common enemy-and an
enemy to which both stand opposed
! never ioFsake my principles because others
] forsake them Do You forsake YOUR church,
/ my Democratic friends, because Others ioIstke
/ IT. or because there may happen to De som
| bad, or corrupt men in It? Ao-Out rather
would you endeaVor to purify il turn out
the corrupt members. correct the abuses.
. Wings quit the party What if some dld, was
that any reason why T. or the gentleman from Lin
colin should quiz it. and join party when We had al
ways opposed and who say that they have never
| changed their principles? II gentleman changes
his Views-his principles, and join his old enemies,
/ why, then, he can act manly and Independently
I for hold that may be consumed that he vas
/ wrong, and then, he ought to change may very
/ well account for the gentleman Jolnng the Demo
cracy under such circumstances as those, eut SIR,
cannot account for him, who was wing from prin-
! ciple, and who without CHANGING has iIined the
DemOccatic Party, fran principle OF al the
/ strange aud unaccountaoIe things 70 me, imagina-
| Die, this is the strangest. The gentleman asked
me, t'Whether l could. if had been in his eondi-
| tion maintained my self respect, personally, and
Joined the Know Nothing Party? know not,
Mr.. Speaker-Our opinions might be diferent-ouF
! views might be different, and while might not
have joined the American Party, am certain !
could not have joined the Democratic Party with
out first forsaking my Whig principles.
But sir-what the objections which are urs-
ed really, against election at this time hrst-
it is violation the always heretofore pur
sued by the Democracy. They have denounced
it ineXpedieD-unneces sary, and uneonstituslon-
! al Secondly, their candidates. for the Senatorship
have all refused important heterogeneous
| respectfully propouuded to them by the minority
| The gentleman, asks me g whether would vote
| for one of them even if he should answerp ?"
might, and would, provided, he answered, accord
ing to my views. have done thing OF that sort,
and assisted in defeating the nominee of tie Demo
cratic Party on a certain occasion, and might do
the same thing again. But why do they not ans
werg Are they afraid an issue with the
gentleman, Gov. JohnsOn) already elected? or
are they afraid of entsngling themselves? Are
you, Mr.. Speaker, g in favor of secession? ?" Are
you 10 favor Of opening the Afric slave trad p
Are you in favor of amending the Constitution, as
proposed by Gov. Johnson? Are you my Demo
cratic friends in this house,-are you 10 favor Of
these things1 Are they not important questions
And as some, all of them may come up, and
will probably come up, in the next Congress, dc
you not want TO know the views of him, whom you
may elect, on these questions? Come out, tn Il
gentlemen, like men, aud answer the questions
no lodging, no equvocation, but 1t US, aud the
people see, where you stand. Mr. r. coutluded
and alter answering certain gu, stions pr. uDdeC
to him, the debate postponed until II morn
Ing, ~henzaf;er a little firing, Mr. Rowles de
manded the previous urstion
| hr. RcnardSon asked him 10 Withdraw the call
10 Ord,r to enable him TO off an aulrndm Mt {,
the resolution, in form of d preanDe-dr RowI
sid h. would withdr4N the call Tor th previous
question, in OrdrT to herr The tmenims OF r ID
Mr.. III HARRISON sa he agreed L, the rOnsIitu
lOually OF the election, aud as d.. IL vac v. ~
unahi Gus AGREEMENT on this n CT, oftr
'he following IN u H. oraer mat ~ ~ > u
tleman mi hJ suO~ how be stood on this question
" hrrras Jhrrr IL constitutional prOuIul ion 4
he election of IA - sue. eed tie Hon. Jrh.
Bell after the All of March, 1859; and n. reas
a vacancy will occur before the gular session
OF another General Assembly. therefore,, resolv
ed,' &C.
hr. ROwles refused to withdraw the call, anC
said that Mr.. Richardson was an old head, and tha
he understood the object of the gentleman He
1 wanted to entrap Ar. Nicholson and Gov. johnson
and therefore, he would not permit vote on Cd,
amendment-moreoVer. the amendment prepared
hard bed for him, and he was not disposed to fal
on it
] hr. Richardson said-he was surprised that gen
/ tlemen OF the majority should oppose this amend
| ment. # 1t a trap, they had prepared
| themselves, and surely they could not complain a
him for making the triggers and setting the trap. Il,
did not care how they Voted-let them vote eithe
for or against the amendment, they were caugh
either way. He knew that he would catch them
| and even if they refuse to vote on the amendment
at all, still they entrapped and might explain
their inconsistency if they could. (Here the pre-
vious question was seconded and the resolution
passed.)