Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-04-25
TAKING THE ALARM.

A Dixon county correspondent Of the Patriot in
sists that Cen ZoLLIcoFFEE shall be taken up the
Know Nothing candidate for Congress from tins
district. In our judgment he advances the most
effective argument that has yet been made ana
one which the nti-Kansas-Nebraska leaders o.
that party will vince under. The public have not
failed to observe that while their organs at Nashville
and elsewhere have taken special pains to declare
that the Kansas question nc longer subject
for future difference and could not be egitimately
made an issue in any future canvass, insduous IN
huences have been systematically at work through
cut the State to prescribe those faciOus spirits Of
their party who refused to follow the behests of Mr..
BELL and Join in the Northern crusade against the
constitutional rights and interests of the South
Wherever there was one Of their party aspiring to
position who made issue with Mr.. BELL on the Kan
sas-Nebraska question, he has been either crushed
down or had to maintain his identity by positive
refusal to submit to the ordeal they had prepared
Notwithstanding Messrs. ZoLLICOFFER, READY, and
RIVERS went to the political confessional instituted
in this State by Mr.. BELL, bowed the knee, and
made every explanation and acknowledgment that
could be required of them by the great high priest
Of the opposition in Tennessee, it failed as atone
ment sufficient to entitle them to continued position
in high places, where more willing and ready men,
like ETHERIDGE, TAYLOR and CULLoH required
to carry out the plots and counterplOts devised by
Mr. BELL and others for thorough and cordial ANAL
gamation Of the Black Republican and Know Moth
ing forces in view and for the defeat Of the National
Democracy in 1860.
We believe there are hundreds of honest men in
Tennessee, who have no interest at heart but the
oh 41,o
Nothing party, who are beginning to see, even
through the thick veil of prejudice, the selfish and
anti-repubIcan purposes of their leaders, and who
Will yet rise up in Judgment against them. We
find additional encouragement in this belief in the
following plain talk Of the Patriots Dixon county
correspondent, previously alluded TO- Admitting
the truth Of the very facts to which we have been
adverting, he says:
90 Are we to assume that there viii be no response
In the hearts of the kansas-NebTaska Americans to
the charge that he is made exception, and Is to
be slaughtered, because, and only because, he ap-
proved the repeal Of the Missouri RestrictOn-an
unconstitutional measure, and a violation Of the
spirit of equality and justice in which our lnstltu-
tions had birth? Have they not human feelings =
Are they like step-children, to be made to stand
aside and wait till more favored children are served
The pressure upon the gallant Rivers caused him to
decline The same thing attempted upon Ready;
whilst ZoIlicoer, with the masses for him, was con-
strained to yield. This is the experience Of our
Kansas Nebraska men, sustained though they be by
the last great arhiter. the Supreme Court. On the
other hand, Taylor blows his bugle and enters the
lists without voice in opposition in our ranks and
Etheridge flies his flag defantly, under the same
circumstances. The difference Is giving the UNION
AND AMERICAN and the democratic party weapon
of offence under the blows Of which, it is greatly to
be feared, small fall if we are not prudent, wise
and cuuciliaory'
What viii be the effect of this emphatic warning
to Mr.. BELL and his followers a few weeks will
show. Our confidence in mis- shrewdness induced
us to believe that c0HciJcation viii be the policy
adopted; and that public attention now being di
Iected to their movements they viii begin to cover
up their tracks by taking up Gen. ZOLLcoFFER
after all that has been said and done. There is &
lesson in this for the people to learn. Look to it.