Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-07-17


The opposition is impatient. The programme for
1860 is ready, bat instead Of waiting for the time to
roll round, an experimental trip must first be inside
in order TO prove the machinery. The vessel is
afsas, Crittenden is placed in the captains Office
and Black Republicans and Americans are invitedto
walk up and settle all their troubles The sails arc
filed with the "bOs breath" Of sboliliOnism and the
vessel leaves the shores Of "POrkOpOlis" for the
Kentucky side How like the past is all this ''fuss
and feathers. 4" You may perhaps remember that
remarkably fast young man, who rejoiced IN the
name Of sAMUEI, who, merely able to crawl, 'roH'a
walk, and thus ruined his legs foreveri
So nov, in this year of our Lord the Presidential
ball is opened Critteuden, leading out on the
floor, with the grandest of aourishes lady Of most
anqussiOHaBle COLOR lie ready to face the music! Inc
Black Republicans hurrs and below him along his
devious way. The freedom shriekers are around
him The Kansas mOurners are bowling out MS
praise! At Cincinnati, the "blOody hands and
hOsptable grave" Tom COrwin, the abOlitionist Tom
Corwin, honest Tom Of the Treasury, besPeeehites
the Kentucky Senator, and Crittenden besPeeehihes
his " old friend" Tom. Wherest, stryohnine Pork
opolis squeals n ecstaey and the Louisville Jo1rna!
rOsrs in triumph The Journal calls upon slave
holding Kentucky TO rejoice, because his beloved
s'Porkopolis has shouted with Tom CsrWin for
John ]. Crittenden and refused to shout for Pugh,
tho democratic Senator of Ohio. What An old
fashioned democratic Senator, bespattered with the
praise Of Tom CorWin and his sable brethren?
Woolley headed stentors vexihg the air with nasal
elangor and llingi vithau Everlasting perfume"
not of Frsngipanni, " in honor Of a democrat! If
vssL Dur in he fach he
would have sent them bowling to their underground
railroad oulverts. Heaven save him from such
demonstration however gratifying to the Louisville
journal.
AtCoyington another ovation awaits the Kentucky
| Senator. But instead Of enjoying his riumphs be
chooses TO regard himself when touching the soil of
Kentucky, as put upon his trial He steps into the
/ witness box and makes the most solemn ssgevera-
tions He veaemeny asserts his political innocence
| He had performed his duties as a KentuokiAn. lie
| would have had his hand chopped off before he
would be a recrcant to his obligations. He had
acted from patriotic mOtives-he had, so help him
| God!
| Why swear about it so aWfully? The Senator's
word is not called in question, and he cannot make
himself statesman by hard swearing But here
| IN
| Senator a voice that must have reached TO the
inner chamber Of his heart, and awakened its most
remorseful memories. That voice cried Out-''rs-
member Henry Czay!'' The Senator did remember
| Henry Clay He said he did. And Henry Clay's
friends remember Mr.. Crittenden! They never
wilI-they never can forget him If Crittenden
forgot Clay in the 'Philadephis slaughter~house,"
and permitted the grand old Thunderer to sink in
the shambes forever; nay, stabbed him first of ALL
thus inviting others stab, until his hOnered leader
expired in 'the house of his friends" if Critten-
den did this (Oh BrutusO shall the Lethean waters
hide it from sight, that Kentucky may forget the
CHASTITY spectacle? Never. ''Much water will TOW"
ere Kentucky fOrgets Crittenden.
Yet Judge Robertson, in welcoming the Senator,
tells him-''You have done as the great Commoner'
would have done" Not that Clay would have de-
serted Crittenden, as Crittenden deserted Clay.
O. no; the Judge was referring to the Senator's &C.
ton on Kansas. Now, who is it that believes that
Clay would have acted as Crittenden on the Kansas
| imbroglio, save Judge Robertson? The course Of
the two men in similar political crises is as oPpo,
site as the poles Clay in the political tempests
that shook the ark of the Union, always met the
administration upon compromise, and thus gained
the hOnOred title of the "Gre1t PacifeaOr." Crit
tenden places himself in direct opposition to
| all administration overtures conferences for
| peace. His coaeiliatory measure meets with IN
qualified praise from all the enemies Of the South,
and is condemned just rOundly on the other side.
Strange peace measure! Instead of closing it up,
he makes the gulf still wider. He will never earn
the title of even the little pacifcator.
On the Kansas question, Mr.. Crittenden Tenounc-
ed party and turned patriot in 1856. In contrast.
ing his party with his patriotic action, the South
would much prefer the politician to the patriot
She is at loss to understand how it is, that all the
Senators should be party men, and Messrs Crit
tenden and Bell her only patriots.
This paper began by stating that the Presidential
campaign had opened, with Crittenden on the
course and Black Republicanism cheering him
onward Before it closes, it is proper to state that
this campaign has ended. Never went through
q canvass so rapidly. The Crittenden Juror ragged
for several days, just long enough to show the
Americans that their man was fOundered, and
that the only hope of the opposition was in Seward
or another of that ilk. And this was the whole
object Of the Cincinnati demonstration, will be
seen hereafter. ERREs.