Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-09-08
n ASHVILIE:
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1857.


question
a correspondent of the GAINESVILLE JET.
Jers0"aam recommends Gen. Pillow as the
successor of Hon. John Bell in the U. S.
senate The Jefsrsorlian is mot prepared
70 say nay to such a propositions" still
II does not muster up courage enough to
say geG. 1t does, however, manage to ex-
press the opinion 'that the election of Gen.
Pllow would give universal satisfaction to
ehe democracy throughout the State" In
regard to the propriety of electing sue
cessor to Mr.. Bell, the Jsfersonian says
But in reference TO the election of a second Sen
ator' 70 MI the place occupied by John Bell
whose term will expire on the 4tb of March 1859
seven months before the assembling of another
GENERAL Assembly, the case is not so clear. The
propflety OF selecting Mr.. Bells successor so long
~ so'ance, IS seriously questioned, and
y "ts aehH0erGt5c members, pledged against It;
out We Imagine that the feaing in favor Of visiting
Judgment upon one, who has pursued party
aHo us policy with such uDreeDting bitterness and
20 nttie scruple viii be general among the demo-
oiatic members, and we think the election will be
MADE. We have 10 hesitation in saying, that it
ought TO be made. We have our great enemy in
OHf Dahos, and It would be madness, worse than
madness, to let him escape
80, then, the election of successor
to Mr.. Bell is not measure deman-
ded by the public good, but by party
revenge. And to wreak vengeance upon
this distinguished statesman, democratic
members, pledged against" going into
the election of but one Senator at the
next session of the Legislature, are to
be whipped in" and made to violate their
pledges. If the public good were the object,
there would be no attempt to make the
election; for the reason that "the party"
profess to believe Americanism is Crushed
out" in Tennessee, and the State firmly
fixed in the democratic family;" and, fur
thermore, there are doubts as to the strict
constitutionality of anticipating a vacancy,
entertained by members of the sham demo
cratic party. If the States "frmly fixed
in the democratic family" the Legislature
OF I859-60-the proper authority to name
Mr.. Bells successor-wiIl be of the same
political complexion as that to meet next
month. A Senator elected in October or
November, 1857, could not take his seat
any earlier than one elected in October or
November, 1859 1t is clear then, that the
public good is not sought to be subserYed
AS we have already, on former occasion,
shown, in the Legislature of 1887, the
sham democracy denied both the consti-
nationality and eXpediency of a proposition
of this character Mr.. Nicholson one of
those for whose benefit the proposition is
now made, violently opposed it. Col
Guild, another of those recommended in
place of Mr.. Bell, declared it was "against
The spirit Of tie republican institutions of the
country" if not unconstitutional. His col |
league, Mr.. BledSoe, said it was not in &C
cordance with the "strict democratic doc |
trines of the federal constitution" and was
directly at variance with the usage of the
State" He also said the Jackson democra-
~ of 1913, and 1888, chad so much regard
or the constitution" they voted down SINH
ar propositions. Has the constitution been
changed since those days? Or has the
sham democracy of the present day aposta-
5iZed from the former faith of the party?
In regard to the existing vacancy the
'sfsrsOnian says
That Gov. johnson will be elected to fill the va
aDcy occasioned by the expiration of the term of
Ion. James G. Jones, is a foregone conclusion.
Why is it "foregone conclusion?" Has
fov. Jones signifed his intention to retire
rom the contest Has a seat i'll the Uni
ed States Senate no further charms for
i'm? We have understood that he desir-
d a reelection? And if this be true, why
; Andrew johnson to be put in his place?
las not Gov. Jones yet sunk himself low
nough? Is further AMUSEMENT necessary
o entitle him to the full confidence of his
ew allies? Is there anything in the fact
hat Gov. Jones in 1912 was in oppOsi-
ion to the Immortal Thirteen" and has.
therefore,, unlike Andrew johnson, no par
isan trick, by which the State was forced
0 go unrepresented in the United States
senate, to commend him to favor? Alas.
Or "Richmondp He ventured his all upon
single stake-as many a gambler before
i'm had done-and he has lost ALL Self
aspect, the love of friends, the esteem of
is cOuntrymen, official, ALL are gonel
'et him go down, the country will lose
othing; his fate will be warning to 9TH
rs to shun the course which wrecked his
,rtunes. The examples of his confeder-
ties, Toombs and Stephens-who, with
ore mind, more will, more courage, have
reed the sham democracy to make them
aders-have had evil influence upon the S
inds of aspiring wings. Itwere well that '
le of the trio were bound hand and foot t
ID east from the Tarpeian Rock, vic
II of cOnceited treachery and inane am S
ton. o
The SOrghO SueTe syrup.
We have just been shown a specimen of the Il
rup OF the sorgho sucre, produced on the