Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-04-25
LIE EvmENCE oF THE ooALIrpoN.


We gave on yesterday some Of the unmistakable
evidences Of the coalition which the leaders Of fac
ton are now endesvoring to form from the incOn-
gruOus elements Of Black Republication, renegade
Douglas Democrats, and the Crittenden and Bell
wing Of the Southern Americans. We desire the
reader to bear in mind that even the n. Y. Tribune
has been willing to abandon "abstractiOns," and
yield the lead Of the great Northern party, for the
sake Of its Southern allies and the ultimate success
Of all its practical ends. The Times, still more con
servative and oSnciiatOry, believes that the moral
effect Of placing its party under such lead win be
to nationalist it and give it the certain control Of
the government in 1860. The New York Express,
which has been heretofore cross between Black
Republicanism and Americanism calls for 8 union
of its American friends in Congress upon the Crit
tsnden substitute for the Kansas Bill It wants 10
see such union for the sake Of the Union" and
asks Americans in the South to "speak out in
favor Of their representatives, and says, elm this
respect we should like to see demonstration of the
right kind in Tennessee" To this we are glad to
adopt the language Of the Patriot Of this city in
reply: owe want to see the men who will do the
bidding Of the Egpress in this matter We want to
see who here will counsel Zollicofer, and Maynard
and Ready to join the Black Republicans Sc etioHaI
party, to prevent sectional issue from being forced
upon tts country" Aye, if there are any such we
want to know them.
From the New York Tribune We append another
extract, as indicating more fully the "gOod under
standing" between the factions which is being
counseled by their leaders. It says:
sseas to Us the plain duty Of the republicans 10
regard and treat as brothers all gh0 saRd lglth us a.
opposition 10 The LscOmPtoH JrGUd-tO tRUite them 10
councils and our confidence, while oheerfully as
senung 70 their prosecution Of their share in the
comnon enterprise under their own banners and in
their own ashOn-tO act freely and faithfully in &C
cordauce with our own convictions, and accord to
them The utmost liberty in doing likewise.
s.To us the path Of duty is plain. Henceforth,
TO the end OF this struggle kH0W al ghO resist the
imposition Of The Lec0Hpt0H fraud or Kansas bTsh
rea while we regard those who uphold that fraud
as deadly enemies not merely TO Kansas and 10 the
republican party but 70 the principles Of American
independence, the inalienable rights Of man. PO-
liucaly, the champions Of that fraud are our
enemies, its opponents, so far as they are willing
10 be, friends We shgH urge The reelection
Of Ueg Democratic american member Of Congress
tUhO reSiss ne Lec0HptOH fraud the bitter end and
then declares himself the determined and persistent
adversary Of It's authors and abettOrs as demanded
alike by fidelity 70 principle and to the interests OF
freedom"
Henceforth, Greely, and Seward and Hale, and
Sumner, are TO regard and treat as brother"
Messrs Crittenden, Bell, Co., and are to Invite
them to our councils aud our confidence" That
they will go and join their councils and share their
confidence no one questions. But who Of the South
will accompany them their mission, is a more
interesting question? Surely no respectable mum
Der Of the Southern people; yet doubt not there
are few adventurers and reckless partizans who
viii join in anything, or go to any extent in OPPO
siuon to the National Democracy, thatis likely in
any way to advance their private purposes anu
schemes.
In the lead Of Southern journalists who may be
inveig.ed into this coalition, will stand the editor
the Louisville Journal, who for twenty odd years
has been unceasng in his treacherous warfare upon
southern institutions and southern men, and who
many years ago declared and published to the
world, that slavery was " monster evil, deadly
vampire, draining away the life-blOod Of the repub
ic"-but that there had been set on foot in Ken
lucky revolution in public sentiment upon the
subject, ga revolution whose wheels must continue
to move EDWARDS till they reach the goal of univer-
sal freedom" Steadfastly and zealously has the
editor Of the Journal labored to work out his pro
phecy. But over the successes of the Democratic
party in the last two or three elections the Journal
seemed TO have disPaired, and it was rumOred for
time that he contemplated abandoning his present
field of operations Tor one more promising. Blu,
the recent troubles upon the admission Of Kansas
and the alliance which be succeeded in forming be-
tween portion Of his State delegation and the
Aboitionists, gave him new hopes, and he nerved
his arm for another struggle. He has commenced
his labors by announcing that
"The heat Of party rsncor, which once divided |
the Hms-ie1H and northern, Democratic and Re
publican parties Is greatly a5atsd, and may hope
that out Of this political chaos there will arise
grand, conservative, national Union party"
A few others may follow in his lead but not
enough, We trust to give resPectability power
their acUOa. Let the people of the South be kept
upon their guard aud they will despise such traitors
and render harmless their treason.