Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-09-18


9. ma, the armed men Of Mexico may quail before
them, BUT THE WEAKEST HAND IN MEXICO
aUPLIFTED IN PRAYER TO THE GOD OF JUS
WTICE MAY CALL DOWN AGAINST 1OO a
"POWER. IN THE PRESENCE OF WHICH IHF
"IRON HEARTS OF YOUR WARRIORS SHALL
BE TURNED INTO ASHES
"Inordinate ambition, wantoDing in power ana
"spurning the humble msxims Of lnsnee' ever mas
q ana ever shall end in ruin. Strength cannot
tsslvyave traTpple upon Feakness-the humble snaIl
che exalted-tbe bowed down will at length 3e ilil>
"ed up"
s.But yOu still say yen want room for youe Pee
pie. This has been the plea Of every roDDef'ohiei
from Nimrod to the present hour"
of we're Mexican: l would tell you, have
you not room in your own country 10 9uTy yI oIr
dead If you into mine, will q bEd Ell 10 ~
WITH BLOODY HANDS AND WBLCoNlE lVO ~
HOSPITABLE GRAVES"
''Call your army home-I viii feed and el0tne "
no longer"
That is the language Of the man whom the Ban
nsr oommends and eulogizes. Does the BaHHeT en-
dorse these sentiments? The Banner asks II We
''intend to do Gov CoRwN justice!" Yes the iui-
lest and the ampest justice, at least to the extent
Of our ability. Perhaps justice would require some
thing more than an exposure Of his Odious ana Sc
OlLAOus anu iEbabDudDi6 StAhAH-NNN@-
menu must come from power superior to ours
But We might better ask does the Banner ihieno
to do Gov CoRwGH justice? 1t commended his views
as conservative and national 1t spoke OF him as
man that would ooncede to the South her eoEstltu-
tional rights. We quoted his language at Columbus
where he took ground against The bred Scott de-
oision, and acknowledged that bis instincts would
prompt him to 20 overto Kentucko and steal negro.
We called upon the Banner TO endorse these senti-
ments as sound and conservative, or to retracl its
commentator. More than week has passed by
and the Banner has not undeeeved its readers with
regard to Gov GOWNS views DOES THE BAN
NER INTEND TO DO GOV C0RWIN JUSTICES?
Another % Characteristic BIunder.~
We argued as IN evidence that the bond was not
given that it could be found in the Office of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court and stated that the law
required it to be registered there We should have
said deposited the law reads, which again amounts
to the same thing far argument concerned,
the cbect of which was show that if the Governor
as our neghbor claims had to it that the bond
was executed as he was bound to do he had neglect
ed an equally important duty, viz: to to it that
the law recurring it to be deposited in a place Of
safety was carried Out.-Bdnaer.
The Banner in it's Impression of Sunday, epdeavor-
ed to show that the bond of the commissioner Of
Internal improvements, had not been executed, and
as evidence of the fact it stated that the bond
not registered. Since the law does not require the
bond of the Internal Improvement Commissioner to
be registered the Banner erred in arguing that the
bond never existed, because there was no regstra>
ton of it. This is blunder No. l.
When we exposed the fallaey of the Banners ar
eument it attempted TO explain its first bunder by
stating that although the law does not require the
commissioners bond to be registered it does require
the official bond of the Secretary of State to be reg
istered We exposed this also and set it down
as blunder No. 2.
The extract at the head of this article is the
Banner last effort to extricate itself from the
of absurdlties in which it has become involved 1t
is now hopeessy lost. It has not only ostsght of its
own argument (which is not astonishing perhaps
for it was very meagre little argument, but it has
absolutely forgotten what bond it is talking about
The Banner says: % We argued, an evidence that
the bond was not given thac it could not be found
in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, and
stated that the law required it 10 be registered there
We should have said, deposited as the lac reads"
sc. Now ifthe Banner refers to the Commissioners
bond which we should infer from the fact that this
is the only bond executed by BURTON which cannot
be found it does not help the matterany to say dpo
sits9 instead of registered. The statute does not
qure the CommissionsTs bond to be deposited in the
Clerks Office. The law don't "read that way,
and We may set this down as blunder No. 8.
The law requires the official bond of the Seoreta-
ry Of State to be deposited with the Circuit Clerk,
but if the Banntr alludes to that, it in saying
the bond cannot be found. But the Banner thinks
it makes no difference whether it says deposited or
registered SO far as its argument is concerned That
poor little argument! Well, really, it doesn't make
any difference, so far as that argument is concern
ed. what word the Banner uses. 1t is in such g
weakly and hopeless condition, that all the eoquence
of Cicero couldn't save it. But if the argument
was worth anything in the beginning, it was abso
lutely necessary in order TO sustain it, to show
that the law requires the Commandments bond to be
registered; for the Banners argument was that the
nen-registration of the bond was evidence that it
never existed If the law does not require it to be
registered, as it does not, then it is nonsense to
argue that the bond was never executed, because
there has been no registration of ii. We do not
wish by these remarks to disparage our neighbors
legal learning but we fear his readers, if they TO-
low him through all his twistings and turnings on
this subject, will suspect his sanity. Perhaps too
much learning has made him mad, and although he
may not be permitted to exoaim, like Paul, 9" am
not mad most noble Festus," he doubtless desires,
like Paul, to get rid of ''tbese bonds"
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