Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-05-21
"a constitutional Party..


The Baltimore Patriot quotes and indorses
an article from the New Orleans Bulletin, un-
der the above caption, concluding as fol-
lows:
1.-THE concluding portion of the Bulletins
Article is 80 just, so appropriate. so conserva-
tive, and the platform it suggests SO patriotic.
and from such high authority, that we cannot
refrain from giving it entries
An organization, says the Bulletin around
which the conservative men of the country
can rally, becomes, therefore, necessary. When
bad men combine, good men must unite to
thwart their Vaccinations. The times call
for the immediate formation of a constitu-
tional party, whose platform shall be the Con-
stitution. to shield the country from the dam
gers that threaten it, to restore the Govern
ment to its original purity and republicanism,
and thereby secure the perpetuity of our in
situations to all their pristine vigor and trans
NIT them unimpaired to posterity. The sturdy,
enlightened citizens of the country, who cling
with unyielding tenacity to the principles be-
queathed to them by Washington, and who
frown Indignantly upon "any attempt to
ALLEVIATE any portion of our country from the
rest. or to enfeeble the sacred ties that now
bind together the parts" unseduced and I'M
bamboozled by Political cliques and fanatical
demagogues, ought to make common cause,
have become obsolete, and rally to the stand
ard of the Constitutional party, which would
keep step" every where h" to the music of
the Union" the prosperity and true glory of
the whole country, and the promotion Of all
of its great interests Can it be doubted
that true men, wherever they may live would
rally with enthusiasm around the standard of
such a party? 1t seems to US they are sick of
mere hunkerism, sectionalism, and dema-
goguism, and would hail with delight
chance to show it in an unmistakable man
ner.
We say the platform of such party should
be the Constitution it is but perhaps it
might not be inappropriate to add to it the
following plank by way of calculation, which
has been prepared by workman who has
been deemed very skillful, and whose author
ity, it is supposed, has had and still possesses,
some weight with the people of this country.
At the risk of its being denounced as Pro-
Slavery or Black Republican plank, we
append it:
The unity of government which const-
tutes you one people, is also dear to you. 1t
is justly for it is man pillar in the struc
ture of your real indcpendence-the support
of your tranquility at home, and your power
abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of
that very liberty, which you so highly prize.
But as it is as easy to fOresee that from diff |
ferent causes and from different quarters, much |
pains will be taken, many articles employed, |
to ,ceahei in your minds the cOnCictOn of this
truth as this is the point in your political
fortress against which the batteries of Internal
and external enemies will be most constantly
and actively Though often coUertLy and u1sid
mously) directed-it Is of INFINITE moment
that you should properly estimate the i'm
mense value of your national union to your
collective and individual happiness that you
should cherish a cordial, habitual and immov-
able attachment to it, accustoming yourselves
to think and to speak of il as the palladium of
your political safety and prosperity; watch
ing for its preservation with jealous anxiety
misunderstanding tchateUer may suggest even a
suspicion that it can i'll any event be abandon
ed
1t may not be amiss, perhaps, to say that
the credit of preparing this plank is due to
one George Washington, skillful architect"
Now, we should like to PROFOUND to our re-
spected and patriotic contemporaries, whether
there is an idea or sentiment here advanced,
which has not been part and parcel of the
American platform, ever since that party has
had an existence? If these sentiments are
Il so just, 80 appropriate, so conservative, and
the platform it suggests SO patriotic in the
mouth of the Bulletin are they not equally so
in the mouths of the million of American cit
ILcub WHO FOttu LOT hF Il lLLMORE III 1000 ! |
The organization here foreshadowed is, as far ;
~ it goes, the American party over again.
We concur in all that is said above by our
of Baltimore and New Or
eans, and trust that their efforts in this di-
'ection, will contribute to the speedy triumph ,
Of the American, which is already the consti- :
.utional, party of the country. Names are
'eally of little worth. We had as soon judge
If the productive qualities of a Mississippi
plantation by the name which its owner has |
given it. or the solvency of a New York mer- a
;antile firm by the rythm of the firm style. as
Of parties by their names The Republican 4
md Democratic are living examples of the c
allacy of such test Though we should OPP |
pose the change of the name of the American
,arty, because we think it is proper, express ,
i've and characteristic yet that is not in the /
way. Adopt it's principles and extend its !
inc of policy, without embracing Black Re ;
aud we shall have only sec |
ndary care under what name its legions c
march to victory.
Methodist General Conference, South, !