Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-09-12

IconespOndsnos Of The PatriOt.l
Souri, G,psox. Tenn. Sept. 4

advises our Party to retreat from the coafict With
the bideous monster now in power, and believes
. this advice finds approving response in the
breasts Of Americans throug bout the State" This
Is partly, but not wholly, true. When man has
alter many isappointments-as often renewed bis
Efforts to accomplish great object, again to be
bafhed none doubt that it is bat human to des
pond; aye, some may even despair. Thus it is
with the American Party. No rejecting mind Of
US all but has felt the of such stern, stir
ring, dying command as that which immortaized
with his latest breath the heroic LAWRENCE: and
no heart among as all will be found so dead to
honor from defeat, as not to throb anew to the
cred injunction; "a NEVER GIVE Up THE sHIPi
No, mol To the demoniac, Mephistophean de-
mand of Democracy, that, since the South elected
BUCHANAN it is 10 honor bound to sustain his Ad-
ministration-in devils phrase, siuce she sold her
body, she must surrender her soul, only
reply, The american guard can de, bat cannot
surrender I "
Weare ''perpexed, but moth dispair;" and what
is our perplexty compared to the agony of NORTH
cation and horror with which our Southern Geplo-
cratic neighbors stand gibbering frantic nonsense
staring with starting eyeballs at the damning deed
they have done, and cannot undo? No wonder
they still cry out with chaltering teeth, and trem-
bling tongues salvo like this.-"Oh, Buck is all
rightl-He1l do just what he promised-no dan
gerI" Like the wretched Macbeth, they see the
g air drawn dagger" still and there's blood upon
it tool The ghost of the wronged and murdered
South viii never "a down at their bidding. Their
consciences have become a worm undying, whose
stngs they fain would stihe by craven words Of
selfacquital, but in vainl BEVERLEY TUCKER
hear him, shades Of CLAY and JAcKsoN-tells them
they, the South, was traitor to herself And
truly, they betrayed her-not in Kansas as he
AYERS, but ne November Yes, hiss it through thy
cenehed teeth, thou prince Of slanderers into their
blanced and haggard facesl Let their conventions
proclaim with trumpet voice, while shifting the
fame upon BUCHANAN and WALKER, that Southern
democracy betrayed the Soulful Let all the fiends
and furies of dscord laugh them to scorn; and,
while bowling their necks to the wheels of their
fierce idol-their devouring Moloch-.scream deri-
sively into their dying ears" The treason
your ownI" And the leaders foresaw and fore
knew it. The people-the democratic mass-would
never have done it. FILLMORE, as among ali
Northern men, was the choice of the whole South.
Even DoUGLA< was chosen before BUCHANAN, solely
because of his Kansas bill which tn had accepted
as a boon, but which the friends of BUCHANAN
knew to be a secretly prepared Pandora's box
" a cheat, fraud, and a swindle"-yee, cheating
even the Southern leaders into DOUGLAS support
Yes, let them despair. Let them grOvel and
groan, and howl and curse, and gnash their teeth
in bOo;less, frenzied rage, until they - repent!
They cannot ''shake their CORY locks at US.
We warned them well beforehand. Let them
pent, and then to as, come they must, and
will at last. But talk not of retreat, mas
terly inactivity" to us. We enlisted during the
war; and we will fight oD, if need be,
Into the Jaws of DEATH
Into The m nth OF he'll, -
and make another Thermopy'e or conquer peace.
Never shall succeed by running away. Do
that, and the 'unterrifed democracy" that ''never
changes" will instantly don DOTTED armor; lift
high our abandoned banner, claiming it their
own and with our notices beaming under demo-
cratic bazonry they will raise the cry of Constan
tine: "Under this sign conquerl" Amoricanism
would 'still live," it is true but only a fixture,
a policy, plank in the democratic platform while
our party would become, not only extinct, but ut.
terly non-viable!
No, let US see that "our flag is still there's" beat
the reveile at dawn of every election; put in lit
tie more grape at every discharge; and come to us
they must and that quickly--at least all who feel
that only sound conservatism can save the Union.
Why, already they have stolen bolt Of our thun-
derl Are not the twelve Southern Senators ours ?
The whole South is with US on "Alien Suffrage :"
yet they are os coy as the lady Julia in Don JUAN
who,
| whispering willpe'er consent-eonsentedp
! But that was merely for the sake of appearances.
So with Clay Brown, and others in the Senate
they were so intensely American on the Minnesota
bill they found it necessary to their friends
repeatedly, they were not "KnOw NOthings." So
much for uame; and yet the ever harmonious
will denounce doctrine to-day, and tomorrow de
clare, most solemnIy, that the same is now, and
has always been, a fundamental tenet Of democrA
cyl They all things to ali men. They stick
to nothing but Office. Why, sirs, even half Ou
own party were humbugged by them into favorable
views of the Kansas bill, until Bell and Etherdg'
tore the silver veil from the bloody monsters face
and presented il in all its deiormity; streaming
with ratricidal gore, and black with political false
hood.
regret to say il, but it is true, that many Of ou
leading men feared to attack that odious-that "iu
lernal mschine"-With the boldness necessary L
dsarm it of its fraudulent force because il pretend
ed to embody the State rights principle, alike dea
to of both parties OF equality in the territories
aad democracy had, dOgmatieally and hyPocritical
", set up said bill as a test of sOundness to the
South, when We all knew 1t was, like a western
f4h-trap, made 20 catch both ways; that il was
held by ell Northern men-Buchanan himself-tc
contain, consttutionally, Squatter Sovereignty,
doctrine abhorrent to the South, and only laintl,
rtnounced in the "Inaugural," after consultation
with Judge fancy, whose decision-made up sii
months previousl Yeas not delivered latI Hsr
aay; as It would have been uneouFteOus not Il
permit Mr.. Buchanan EetrAet prior to the author
itative adpsrse doctrine of the courIl Aud this re
trAxit was the result of a eOmprOmse-BuehanaI
surrendering squatter Sovereignty in consideration
of Alien Suffrage legalized By fancy
By such detessable jugglery-detestabls as tha
which Won for Darius the throne Of Persia-did de
mocracy bind the South to her car. Nov letthei
press and their conventions howl They wouh
make the dabolieal contrset-thsy would sign
With their own blood-aud nov, when she free sol
fisad demands his victim they SILVER and loo
aghast, and weakly deny the validity of the bond
Were 1t not that Ike sampson, they have dragge
! down destruction apon iEs, as well as themselves