Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-06-05

FRIDAY, JUNE S. 1857.
. Distributlon ard AboIitIon. ,,


now strives to stir up the people on the
negro question. At one time its logic is
discursive and playful, at another rigid and
severe. Now it rails against the tariff,
now against anti-Nebraska men, then
against black republicanism and know-noth-
ingism. 1t draws a draft upon the argu-
ments of the red-mouthed southern disu-
nionists of few years past, and complains
bitterly of the iniquity of protection, by
which it says the South and West have
been plundered for the benefto of Northern
manufacturers" We have not the versa
tility to answer all these outcries at once.
We should be greatly gratifed to see that
paper relieved, but we have been uniform
" unfortunate in our remedies. True, we
drive in and scatter the disease, to-day, but
tomorrow it breaks out in another form OF
still more alarming symptoms. AT length,
the impure state of its political blood mas
covered it all over with sores. We should
recommend it to remain quiet, keep the
body, and especially the head, cool; out
above all keep the mind free from undue
excitement, let the Imagination rest Tor a
space. until all those unnatural ideas OF
ghosts and hobgoblins shall be dissipated'
Be careful in your dietetics, neighbor, be
careful.
Now let us point out some of your alb
surdities. You contend that if money or
land is appropriated to make the States
equal, in what has already been done Tor
some and not for others, it will afford a
precedent and warrant for the abolitionlstS,
to take money out of the treasury, to adj
vance their views and demolish the instltu-
tons of the South. But under what pre-
text, or in what manner this will be done,
every one is left to his own conjectureS.
Our coniectures are that no such conSe-
ouence or principle, turks in the PROPOSE
ton which we make, and that justice can
never be made to favor, excuse or war
rant injustice, that right is antagonistlc to
wrong in all its phases and bearings, and
that one can in no case be predicated upon
the other. But we suspect that this is one
of those "baseless fabrics of vision" with
which the Union and American, seeks to
divert the public attention from his own eX-
posed condition. Upon the same principle
that the malefactor joins in the hue andcry:
stop thief H." our neighborS are harping
on abolition" We have shown that the
inevitable effect of the policy pursued by
that party, is to build up the new States,
forming in the northwest, which are open
ly inimical to the 'peculiar institution, "
and to give them controlling power and
influence in the affairs of our government.
And that by this means, more than all
others, are the rights of the Southern
States endangered 1t is the democrtic
party, as at present constituted and led,
that is pandering to freesoilsm, and lend
ing a helping hand to abolitionism. 1t has
been even charged, and pretty we'll sus-
tanned by circumstantial and positive proof,
that this is the secret intention of the lead
ers of that party, both North and South;
and that this intention is every day being
realized, by the present mode of dispoSng
of the public lands. OF course the mo-
tives and plans of the leaders are not to be
exposed to the rank and file. That would
be ruinous. But it becomes us to warn
them of stratagem, more disastrous to
the safety of the South, than the Grecian
horse. And this we have honestly and
conscientiously done.
But our neighbor says that our PROPOSE
ton to do a simple act of Justice, will OPP
press the South by increasing the tariff to
pitch of high protection. He refers to
the supposed fact that the South has al
ways paid an undue proportion of the tax
for the support of the general government.
This comes with an exceedingly bad grace
from our neighbor. His party has had the
making of all our tariffs since that of 1882,
which threatened to convulse the country.
That of 1912, was a respectfully Democrat
ic tariff, passed and approved by demo-
cratic administration. The one Of 1916,
was a democratic tariff, devised and per
fected at time when the ableSt democrats
of the country were in power, when Mr..
Polk. one of the most consistent Of demo
Gratis of the strict construction and state
rights school, was the chief executive. This
lasted till 1856, unaltered by an entire wing
administration, which succeeded that of
Mr.. Polk, when the present democracy
we cannot call it the same party-had the
power to make it just such tariff as they
chose. Who is responsible to the South
for the burdens Of which our neighbor COM
plains? That democracy which has deceiv-
ed the people by false promises, are the re-
sponsible agents. The Union and Amer
can must believe that his party are band
of unrehecting dupes, if it expects to salts
fy the public sense of justice by such clap
trap as this.
nay We have been informed by an at
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