Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-12-02

20 The boosted .harmony" of the sham dem
ocracy, has grown to be ma gnifcent burlesque.
Their divisions seem to be as hopeless as their
sion Of Congress they encountered breaker
which came near staving in that old craft,
which the stumpers are wont to call the ''good
old democratic ship'-and now mutiny and
dssension has taken undisputed possession of
p 1T. The arrangement of its gunnery has
been reversed, and broadsides are playing
all along its decks. Witness the two leading
organs at Washington, the Union and the States
The ferceness of the conflict between them
has almost reached the point of madness.
These but illustrate the State of feeling be-
tween the democracy of the North headed by
DoUGIAs, and the Southern wing of the party,
without any head at ALL unless it be allowed
that Mr.. BUCHANAN, occupies that position.
The latter has no party at the North save his
little army of placemen, who do his work as
mere stipendaries. and who would be equally
ready to cleave to any other leader on like
conditions. He has failed In the South, to
even consolidate his friends, and we see them
split into almost many factions as there
are States. The fact is, Mr.. BUCHANAN can
not command the respect, much less the con-
idence and admiration of his party.
In Virginia, we behold scene of confusion,
of elimination and recrimination, which
ought to secure the condemnation and des-
truction of both sides. In South Carolina we
have democratic United States Senator,
eFpousing position of conservation abso-
lctely astounding to the leading sham DEM
ocratic politicians of his State. In North
Carolina, the centrifugal forces are rapidly
gaining on the centripetal. Not year since
the regular democratic nominee of the demo-
cracy for Governor was opposed by an in
dependent democrat; and more recently con-
siderable bile has been stirred up in the mat
ter of the Senatorial elections. To the dis
guest of many of the tenacious democrats,
the editor of the Raleigh Standard, the sheet
iron thunder manufacturer for the party, for
ever-so-many years, has been overslaughed by
the renegade wing, CLrNGMAN, while Mr.. REID
has been supplauted by Gov. BRAGG. In Ar
kansas, we have the first strange notes of
d'scord.
The True Democrat of Little Rock, publishes
approvingly letter from b. F. BUTLER OF
Massachusetts,, avowing .squatter sovereign
ty" in its broadest and most odious form. To
this the Helena Democrat replies with indig-
milton, saying if this doctrine is to be foisted
upon the party, ..welI might the people of the
South exclaim: From both Northern and
Southern Democracy, good Lord deliver u.s."
Coming within the borders of Tennessee,
We have the bank and antI-bank, the DOUGLAS
and the anti-Douglas faction. And now we
have war commenced on S. A. SMITH and
GEO w. JONES, both members of Congress,
for their ''squatter sovereignty" opinions, as
will be seen from a portion of an article
which we republish from the Southern Repro
preseaatiUes of Chattanooga.
Upon the whole the great unwashed, har-
mOniOus sham democratic party present a
most miserable spectacle We think it would
be a short and judcious relief to disband and
join some new party say the .know nothings'
or the peoples party" 1t would certainly
be most fortunate course so far as the
country is concerned--and might prove
highly beneficial all around.