Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-17
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wide throughout the land; together with the
open avowal of dissolution by many. have
conspired to make even sanguine citizens
despair of the Republic. 1t is, however, to
be hoped that there are those who not only
have not forgotten, but who, when once con-
convinced of the necessity of action. would
cheerfully emulate the fOrtitude of the pill
grim fathers fleeing from the tyranny of the
Old World. and the patriotism and enterprise
of their children declaring and trumphantly
achieving the inherent rights of man in the
mindful of common origin and common
sutferings, of the long and bloody struggle of
the United Colonies against the pretended
prerogatives of Kings and the ''Divinities that
hedgcd fhcm in; there are thousands proud
OF the brilliant deeds and the triumph at last,
who, when aroused To know what is demand
ed, will resolve upon and will secure the per-
petuity and the future splendor of this Fede-
rate system of the Fathers; their wisdom, our
happiness, and the hope of postcrity. That
| there are enough. Messrs Editors, to wrest
the government from the hands of those, who
! in the name of time-honored Democracy are
| fast converting it into a vast engine of intol-
erance and tyranny, and to consign the wick
ed workers to the normal strata whence they
have been thrown by the connections their
diabolical and reasonable doctrines have
wrought, admits not of doubt; could they
or rather would they but unite for so desra-
| bic an end,-an end in which not only our
| own people are interested, but in which the
| fortunes of the world are involved. If our
| government fall when and by whom would
! the attempt be made to hold up again that
| Declaration of Rights, that Magma Charta of
regulated Liberty that our Fathers lifted up
in this, then wilderness of America, for the
| healing of nations. Who imagines that the
standard, once lost, could be recovered here
! and planted here anew upon the ramparts of
Freedom, with mot stripe erased or pol
! luted, nor a single star obscured, who i'm
AGNES that the emblem bird Of our Liberty
once brought down Ivy the arrows of civil
discussions and fcttered 10y the military despot
| that rises on anarchy, will ever again, under
the mystic IF PL.u1Jus Ei,a1a' bear the SYM
bols of peace and power and justice to the
glad eyes of protected people, is dreamer
indeed. No, let us be assured that if we for
felt our birthright of freedom, we will seek it
with tears like Esau, "but there shall be no
place found for repentance" If we fail to
stand by each other. North and South East
and West, in guarding the temple of civil and
religious liberty, erected here according to
the prOvidences, if not the prophecies of God,
and upheld by the pillars of the Union, we
shall as certainly he COMPOUNDED and scattered
as was another people, whose name has be-
come by-word among the nations. That
there is the danger of dissolution now threat
cning our government, no man can deny, and
yet comparatively few favor or desire that
dissolution. Still majority of the people
present themselves to the world in an atti-
tude exhibiting the singular phenomenon of
declaring their undying attachment to the
Union and the Constitution, while at the same
time they persist most obstinately in support
ing the party whose acts and measures have
done and are doing all the alienation that
subtle leaders know to be essential to the dis
solution that many of them do not disguise
is this to be accounted for? Shall we say the
people desire a disruption of their Union and
therefore sustain the party that initiates mea-
sure after measure that works but sectional
luminosity, and party that embraces all the
men that habitually Threaten and predict dis
union for the mere purposes of success in the
elections, and all that other class who openly
profess secession and boldly work to that end?
No, it is not to he thought for Il moment that
the Democratic masses intend, by thus voting
in such party and for such leaders, to favor
projects of disuninn. Their conduct is plain
iy the result of party discipline, party ambi-
ton, and above all party pride. These, we
know, affect all individuals of all parties,
and that in proportion to the age, strength
and success of organization.-the older, the
stronger. the more successful the party, the
more adhesive its own members and the more
attractive is it to mercenary out siders. The
Democracy, so-called, has more age than any
other political party now existing general
success has attended it, and with popular and
captivating name il has SO won on the Amer
lean people that for them to renOunce it I'M
der belief of its corruption, is a matter of
more than ordinary difficulty. They hold it
the salvation of the country, and, therefore,
with pride and exultation that they belong to
such Il party they gladly continue to support
it. But since the dissolution of the old Wing
party and the demolition of the Americans
as rivals of the Democracy, more scope and
opportunity have been afforded 10 reach and
convince the masses of this party that It
should be repudiated or reformed. So much
light has been shed on the dongs and misdo-
ings of those in power that it is now patent
to many that the foul and unfair tricks re-
sorted to by the Democracy to be rid of its
old and young rival, though successful, have
resulted or are resulting, in u division of the
country into mere sectional parties upon the
enc question of Legro slavery. To avoid this
obvious tendency to geographical division
of parties is the highest duty of every true
patriot. Can it be done. Can a common
ground be found upon which good men of all
parties eau rally To defeat these ruinous for
nations? believe it can be done. and that
an organization, recruited from Democracy
itself can be built up that will defeat that
party and wrest the government from its I'M
worthy hands. propose TO point out the
common ground, aud trust when seen that
il will be occupied not temporarily for a mere
single triumph with view TO spoils, but per-
manently by an honest party for the good of
the whole country. In doing this, | shall al
vert briefly 10 the formation. existence and
practice OF parties in the early days of the
Republic in those days when politicians hou-
estly differed upon principle aud worked for
the good not alone OF themselves, but of pos
terity. Amer the achievement Of our Indie
mend nee came the work of Cor,,i,,, Con