Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-01-25
. ASHVILLE:
! oNDAY, JANUARY IS. 1858.


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rems rkable, its harmony proverbial. Diff
ferel es of opinion exist and diversity of
action characterize all their movements.
Whste all the elements of discord are active
ly present, and the spirit of rebellion and
NUT ny pervade the entire ranks, the final
result is union and concord. When we
are the look out for an explosion, dis
solving view suddenly transforms the spec
tacl, into most kind and loving panto-
min They have as many eyes as Argus,
and like the tabled Cyclops, face for each
eye. They quarrel and bite and kick
amC hg themselves, but when the great
cha &c is beingimade for the spoils, they
bee me, on the instant, solid fraternal
pha ianx. There is an explanation. The
power of plumber is the key to the para
dox G re g.,
was proclaimed in advance that Mr..
BuG hanan would in no event, be candi-
dai for reelection. This left the field
cles to everybody, and the scramble has
bee N in earnest. Judge Douglas, having
not ing to hope for from Mr.. Buchanan's
inference, on account of the extreme acid
ity their personal relations, has led off
on is own hook. To conciliate the \ orth,
he axes the Black Republican side of the
Ka tsas question, and to conciliate the
South he takes the side of the fllibusters
on he Nicaraguan question. Gov. Wise,
to prevent his prospects from being over
sIa, yhed, rushes into the arena, with the
ant southern banner of Kansas, which he
flo is in the very face of Judge Douglas.
He relies upon his well-known ire-eat-
ing propensities of few years ago to sus-
tai himself in the South. Thus the strug-
gle begins. AS the fever rises, we shall
have others-innumerable Even that
miserable demagogue, who occupies the
iur )r seat in the U. S. Senate, from Ten
me- ee, does not feel entirely safe, seeing
his disposition to stir the under-current, by
ur ing his homestead project. He will
pr sent marvelously fair opening for
co-lpromse, in the nominating convention.
But so far as the developments have gone,
wi 1T have we? Douglas and Wise and
Seward, all shaking hands with the great
est apparent cordially, though each cher
ISL s the most bitter hostility towards the
ots err. But there are to be Cabinets and
for ign Ministers as we'll as a President.
TIL re are enough spoils for all, and this fact
cannot be overlooked. This is merely the
be thinning of the fighting epoch. 1t don't
amount to anything in the final account.
In $780, the scattering legions of the
81 m democracy will come to the charge
W; their accustomed unity and subservi-
envy. And whether it be Douglas, or
W Sc, or Hunter, or Pugh, or Davis, or
Cushing, or some one not yet known to the
&C lntry, that is selected to bear their ban
nc the great unterrifed and harmonious
WI again be knitted by the omnipotent
cement of public plumber.
We take it that if the opposition to sham
dc nocracy, either in the South or in the
N;r5, have builded any hopes on the pro-
81 ctSof split in their ranks, they have
b ilded in the clouds. Z hopeless division
sc ms always probable, but it is in reality
always impossible. 1t is unreasonable to
expect that party, that is held together,
net by any agreement on q great univer-
sal principle, but by the cohesive attrac-
TIN of selfinterest, can afford to throw
a ay the chances of distributing seventy
five or eighty millions annually, for any
nj re pride of opinion. 1t is an absurdity.
Such party may be broken into fragrant
t. day, and tomorrow show front that
az pears never to have received a single
shock.
1t is time the country had come to a
knowledge of these facts; and it is time
IT, g virtue, intelligence and patriotism of
IT. e great and sovereign masses of Repub-
Ii, had set the seal of their condemnation
upon them.