Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-07-30
National Patriotism and Conserva-
tism in KOstOn.

ton that we read the proceedings OF the
recent celebration of our national anniver-
sary in Boston, in the ancient Commonwealth
of Massachusetts,. The spirit of her better
DAYS seemed 10 have come upon her; her res
piration, choked and stified and diseased OF
late by the malaria of radicalism and fanati-
cism. seemed to have caught pure, fresh,
wholesome atmosphere, and her great com
mercIal heart leaped with the firm and noble
beat of true nationality and unseliish pat
r.otism. CHoATE and EVERETT were present.
rebuking the wild spirit of sectionalism, de-
clarine the glories of the Union, indicating
the constitution and the laws, and recalling
and stringing as an amulet of pearls, the
bright memories that cluster on the brow OF
Massachusetts, 1t was highsouled feast Of
the national and patriotic men of Boston.
and the State. There was a copious out
pouring Of that devotion to the Union, which,
under the Confederation. made her the twin
sister Of Carolina, and baptised her in the
first blood of the Revolution. 1t was an
occasion worthy of the best days of WEBSTER,
and the patriots and statesmen earlier born
to honor and bless the cherished land Of the
pilgrims The small bad men of the day,
the little politicians, who build their theories
of constitutions and interpret laws on the
basis of such passions as may be aroused by
Uncle Tom romances, 'paled their Intellectual
fres' as the rush light in presence of the
day-god. 1t was the sound sense and sober
second thought. bursting through the clouds
that have temporarily Obscured them, and
asserting their power and supremacy.
And it Is with feelings Of no less gratfca-
ton that we now read the reply of the Boston
Co,nier-one of the ablest and best papers
printed in the Union, which has always been
an answering defender of the constitution
and laws. and an unflinching enemy to fanati-
cism, even when il was manifested i'll its fierc-
est and most violent forms-to attack
made upon Mr.. CHoATE and the Boston cele-
bration, through the atlantic Monthly"
professed literary magazine. In this reply
we have a powerful defence of the sentiments
of nationality uttered by Mr. CHoATE, and
terrible excOriation of the infldel fanaticism
and the sickly negrophilism which find their
political embodiment in the black republican
party. 1t is gratifying we repeat to hail
such champions of the Union and the Consti-
tuition az EVERETT and CHoATE. who, rising
above the narrowness of the majority of their
immediate fellow-citizens, denounce infidelity
to the constitution and disobedicnce OF the
laws as treason to the country, and who are
backed and sustained by such journals as the
Courier in the very tents of the traitors. I'm
der such warnings as contained in the sub
joined brief extract, they will surely cover
and quail, and we trust it may prove the
handwriting on the wall, tracing their speedy
and inevitable doom:
"For. denying to that prom;scuous multi
tude which calls itself the Il publican party.
nothing to which it is fairly entitled-the
countenance of many well-meaning persons,
who look on slavery with more or less dislike,
and of others frightened by the bug-bear of
si"Ve-po',ar. which must soon stand only upon
the lust torbeai ."ce of those who respect the
lshts oi others und'l ~" Constitution and
laws OF the iand,-it cannot Do ,anied that il
includes in its Is-nks the entire mas N.
widest radicals ana firrcest fanatics q -
day; men who acknowledge no prlrciPiT 'u'
that Of dissOlute liberty. anu owr u" o"nJco-
ton To laws, except so far as oo'elu' i"''"'is
of personal safety counsel 'l'Hh " present
obedipnce TIL. snief iournal which advO-
catas their con-,,. is conducted by notorious
;,aJoIs ,,.I,,se per1rts are constantly devoted
IN the subv.-siOn Of the principles of the
Christian religion and OF organized society
IT, -cneral convention, held by this party
,,eceding the last Presid initial election, in
vited and secured the cooperation of that
hair-splitting cobwe b. Drained waXen-heartcd
tumble of modern philanthropsts and reform
ers, inefficient for any practical good self
sufficient for all practical evil-whose opin-
ions and purposes, often presented to the
.t.lI. a
only convert the world into a wilderness OF
desolation and ruin. 1t would be safe 90 AS
sert. that every loose speculatist in matt, rs of
morals and religion, every advocate of com
munity of property and the promiscuous in-
tercouTse of the sexes, every man who looks
with IA jaundiccd eye upon the ordinary course
ard progress of human society, and who finds
il in his heart fooishly TO rebel against the
providence of his Maker.--whoever may be
his political associates IIie MINISTER'S, i,ule edl-
tors, lille poLiscidns, protesting various shades
and degrees of enlightened benevolence-is
fellow-laborer in the cause of the Republican
party. And how this party stands, upon i'm
putations Of corrupt conduct, pecuniarly aud
otherwise, only too credibly alleged against
its members in the State and National Legis-
latures. we find it very difficult to reconcile
with that definition of its platform with
which We are now favored by the ALL.Gntic
Monthly.
1t is in vain to say that these men are not |
of the party. They are its life, infusing into |
il the tone of their sentiment by which its |
action is moulded, and without whom it /
would not be in that condition of apparent |
yet only partial prosperity, of which the
writer in the Atlantic Monthly altogether too
confidently boasts. The gentleman of Bea-
con street and the Fifth Avenue, who gives
To it his name and his money, does not con-
troll l. in the least. Those VINO do so, give it
neither name nor money, but the energy of
their zeal and that sort OF work, which, what
ever may be the upper prctences of Rcpubli-
cansm, make its practical action and conse-
quences the grouud-swell of a desperate aud
most unprinciplcd radicalism. Imagine them
for moment successful, and negrOphlism
triumphant, if you please, even to the phi
ianthropic' extent of the utter extinction of
slavery and what is there then in the party,
of principle or of men. upon which the coun-
try can rely the name Of craftsmanship,
In the name of patriotism, in the name OF any
thing To which n true-minded aud true
hearted, rational citizen can cling, who de-
sires nothing but the welfare OF his country
and the present and future good of all lis
people?
1.-The people of this country-of the North
have not yet lost their reason-a too chari-
table concession has hitherto been made To
the radical and demorallzing projects Of Re-
publicanism--the sober, sense ut the psoplr,
which seemed Tor time almost paralyzed 10y
the staggering assumptions OF that sW elliug
faction, Is steadily T. turning to it's functions
the true and sound aud able mea OF the
country are TO play more Conspicuous aud
salutary part than latt,rly. upon the stage OF
action-and to quote once more from the
atlantic Monthly Language, which. in this APP
plication Will be- saved at least from the rid.-
cule and contempt of utter misrepresentation.
we have entire confidence in the speedy com
inR of an irresistible combination IL ,l,i -.