Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-08-12
The American Party.

Our opponents affect to believe that the members
of the American party in Kentucky are so utterly
disprted and cast down by their recent defeat, that
they will never rally again, but We confidently as
sert that such isnot the fact Here in the Ashland
District the gallant Americans who struggled so
manfully against the influences that were brought
to bear against them, as firm and united now
az thew were before they entered the conflict
They are ready to fight the battle over again, and
are defiant and resolute They still cherish
the glorious principles laid down in the American
pIatform. and are resolved to uphold and defend
them. They know and feel that they have heen
beaten by corruption and bribery, and their faith
is not shaken in the truth and justice of their Cause
The election of JAMES B. CLAY has not Induced
them to disbelieve the ponderOus truths which he
enunciated two years ago in his "Huon" letters
Although he has been elected by foreign votes,
and the potent influence of money, they are still
as deeply convinced that the foreign power 10 the
land will OVerturn our Institutions and wreck our
liberties unless it is checked, as he when he
wrote them. Although he has ceased to deplOre
the fact that our country Is regarded as Botany
Bay to which the Daupers and felons OF the vol !
may be SENT they have not Two years ago, be
franically inquired if the Americans were mad, -
and urged them to resist the wave that was rolling
over them from the countries that faced both the
Atlantic and Pacific border, and the Americans OF
the Ashland District willing to take his advice
They are still confident Of eventual success, and
our opponents will find that this confidence is well
near at hand. They have triumphed in the South,
il is true but the work of disutegTaton and decay
is steadily going on. The cohesion of the party
will be lost although it has the control Of the
national sword and purse. LOcOtoco leaders have
bought and sold the South often, that she has at
last grown sick and weary of their perhdy, and
threats of retribution are heard throughout the
length and breadth of her borders And right
here we would ask LocOfOcO readers to note
the Ominous fact, that these threats are loudest
and fercest where the Democratic party is above
and beyond all opposition from other sources. The
is raging in the very vitals of the party IN the
South, and it will not end until it is destroyed. -
The treachery of the Administration cannot be
concealed and it will surely learn the terrible i'm
port of that old adage, that teaches US to beware
Of the fury of the patient sufferer OF wrong, before
the next national struggle. The South has borne
all that she can bear consistently with her own
safety, and although her dignity and honor have
been sacrificed, she will not allow corrupt and
Venal band of politicians to buy her with promises
and then sell her to her enemies any longer. The
new power which the Democratic party has achiev-
ed in Kentucky, and probably in Tennessee, VIII
increase the discord that now prevails among ITS
followers of the South instead OF alternating 1t, and
the American party will reap the benefit that must
inevitably result from it. Let its members then
stand to their coors and ultimate victory Is Ger
tain.-LeS. OBS. g. Rep.