Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-08-26
Fusion win Elack Republicans.

In the north they have sold themselves TO the Black
Republicans, and fighting their battles for pit
lance Of the public plumber. At the south also
similar movement is advocated BY the organs Of the
party The Louisville Journal always ready to unite
with any party which s inimcal to the interests Of
The south, now proposes s coalition with the Black
Republicans, for the purpose Of breaking down the
aseendaney Of the south and transferring the con.
troll Of the government to the north. That paper
openly avoWs this object 1t does not disguise the
feet that 'the north is to have prepondeTaiing
voice" in directing the policy Of the new party.
Overtures are distinctly made by that infamous sheet
inviting Black Republicans to unite with the oppo
sition forces Of the south in new organization in
which the Joayna7 declares the north must have the
controlling influence The Journals proposition
requires Of the Know Notbings at the south entire
absolute and unqualified submission to theirnOrthern
allies They must abandon every principle they
veprOfessed every dOcteine which they have sdvO
Gated. They must not presume to bear their old
banners with them in going to the camp Of the
enemy. They must make an uncOndiiOnal surrender
and bind themselves like hsrelings and slaves to do
any work which may be assigned them.
While these bumiIiating conditions are imposed
upon the Americans Of the SOUTH the Black Repub-
licans are not required to make any concession or
compromise. They retain every important article
Of their political creed They are not even expected
to soften or modify their offensive antislavery SEN
timents The only condition imposed upon them is
that they shall give up their name, and organize
under the name of the Wing party It is difficult to
realize the fact that any journal should be guilty
of the impudsnoe and arrogant assumption of
authority which this proposition displays The
Journal sells out the American party Of the South,
IS oooly as he would drive cattle to the mar
ket. The members Of that party are commanded by
this great sutOorat to give up their Independent or
sanizatOn abandon the interests Of their section,
and become the plant tools of its enemies They
are allowed no voice in the contract which binds
them in eternal bondage to their northern masters
The editor of the Journal has made the bargain and
they must submit TO it. It was at his suggestion
that they abandoned the old vhig party, by his in
Huence that they we're induced TO Join the Know
Nothing order, and now he has them bound up by
osths and pledges he thinks they dare not disobey
his commands when be orders them to place the
yoke of abolitionism on their necks. We do not exN
aggerate the insolenee and arrogance of the Jour.
nat proposition. We quote its own language: The
first paragraph asserts the necessity Of driving the
Democratic party from power, because the South
exercises prepOnderating influence in that party
OPPosITIoE UEIoz.-The corrupt Democracy sits
like a mighty incubus upon the national body poll
tic. Corruption and sectionalism have 90 sWelled
its huge hulk, that casting il of seems almost an
mpossibility. BUTT is such apparent impossibiliiy
only on account Of the extreme difficulty of organ
iziBg all the opposing strength. Such organization
is great national necessity Every patriot should
disinteresedly and earnestly address himself to the
faek Held foup mi y nv he ohpeiv
of public plumber" and submitted Il Is to the quad
ancs Of Southern DisuRiOis The party seems 10 hare
no distinctive policy but that Of seetiOnGhzng The
0reat diUi,iOHS through tie agitation Of the slavery
question: gCith he ultimate ain Of disUHoa The SlaVs
line National preservation, to say nothing of the
necessity for stopping corruption, imperiously re
quires that it be stripped of power To do that
quires great national effort but done, once
stripped of its patronage, the great element Of its
strength it thereafter be easily kept in proper
subsection.
The passage which we have italioised, plainly
means, if it means anything, that the Democratic
party is composed chiefly of southern men, and is
consequently disposed to yield too much TO southern
sentiment Here is an organ in a slaEeholding State,
calling on its followers to make upon party in
power because it is controlled by southern uence
and is too friendly to southern interests Now what
is to be the policy of the new party? The south
controls the democratic party, says the Journal and
that must not be submitted to. Who will control
the new organization? The journal tells US
"Why cannot the North trust that party? Tile
North giH hare az Il must al5rays hare from It's sPe
or numbers prepoaderatBg UOice in the councils Of
ana truth national party IL need JeqT obstruction
IN iBfcRg vengeance It's Perdious representatives..
None CH more heartily rejoice IN The political death Of
Northern Lecomptoa doUghfac than Southern Wings
None aiH Eaas more chetyfUliy than they bringing
Kansas INFO The UnoH and fks uHdoiEg the lrroHqfut
dishonorinq and insulting discrimination 6etl0sea free
and Stare State made By the corrupt Democracy under
the imPerious dietaton Of Southern disuHionists"
Here the Journal openly declares that the north
must control the policy of the party 1t cannot brook
southern ascendaney, but is willing to submit to
northern dctation. It also assumes to pledge the
Wings Of the south to the slavish and dishOn-
orable sentiments. 1t promises that southern Wings
will unite with the Black Republicans to bring Kan
sas into the Union as free State, that southern
Wings will rejoice in the defeat of northern Lee
compton doughtaces" and will interpose no obstacle
to the vengeance which the abolitonsls are going to
inAiet on them;-fOr what? For upholdng the equal
iy Of the south, for protecting rights for guard
ing our institutions from being rampled under foot
by the abolition fanatice of the north. The Louis
vile Journal deDouaees those northern men, those
patriotic representatives, who came forward to sus
tain and defend the south in the last Congress- who
voted as the whole body of southern representatives
voted, who opposed the Black Republicans, and sig
nihed their willingness to admit slave State into
the Union. The Journal calls these men douehfaess
and says that southern Wings will rejoice to see
them made the victims of Black Republican ven
geance. We believe the Abolition editor of the
Journal has spoken without authority in this mat
ter. We do not believe the Wings of the south will
rejoice to see the Abotcnists strike down the only
friends the south has in the north, the men who
stood with ZoLLTcOFFRR and READY and Johnson
and ATKINS and JONES and WRIGHT and SAVAGE
and AVERY and WATKINS and SMITH and all other
bold and true champions of the South, to guard
our sacred rights from infracton. We cannot be-
heve that Southern men of any party will exult
in the triumph Of their enemies and the defeat Of
their friends Nor do we believe that they can be
led into coalition with the AbOIitionists. though
PRENTICE has issued his potential commands. and
ordered them TO follow him thiher. The soeptre
which the editor Of the Journal once welded has
passed away from him forever and he who once spoke
edcts and uttered laws to his party has lost his
power to harm. he may still put on the robes Of
sovereignty and assume the arrogant demeanOr of a
king but no will recognize his authority. There