Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-03
The War on Douglas.

The President and his organ at Washing
ton keep up the war on Dot6LAs briskly
They are determined that he shall be crushed
il the exercise of what influence and power
they possess, in alliance with the negro-wOr.
shippers of Illinois, can compass that end OF
their revenge. But, what is the tendency OF
this state of things? Who is to be benefited
by it? 'What effect will it have upon the in
'tarests OF the South? How will it operate
upon the grand quadrennial contest for the
Presidency in 1860? The Washington cores
ipondent Of the Richmond South, in his letter
of the 26th ult., gives us. without intending
it, answers to these interrogatories. He
says
THE indications are multiplying that the
voice Of the Southern States will scarcely be
heard in the next Presidential election. The
fight for the succession will be confined 10 the
Northern ones. 1t will be singl,-handod-
betsceea the ATaa-Lecompton6es and he Black Re
y,lbl,cans. The former will probably be victo-
rious: carrying sufficient number of those
States to secure a majority of the Electoral
College. | think so from the manner in which
Senator DOUGLAS is looming up in Illinois,
In 1850. the electoral votes will amount to
BOG. OF these the slaveholding States will
be entitled to but 120-not one of which, by
the-by. am willing to believe, will be be-
slowed on either wing of the Freesoilcrs-on
either DOUGLAS or SEWARD. should they be
the Northern candidates One hundred and
ffty-four votes will elect. Hence the init
LecomptoRites may Lose "a Uotes az the non Stare
hOoHg Suites. and toin nth lie remainder 1cLttOla
The aid Of Southern cote.
Thus you have the issue of 1860 distinctly
before your eyes, concerns the South and
North. 1t will admit of no favorable inter
probation for the former. 1t is but too appa-
rent to my vision that we are to be over
whelmed by superior numbers.
According, therefore, to this sham demo
cratic authority. the war upon DOUGLAS tends
TO give additional Importance and strength to
anti-LecomptOnites and black republicans by
precipitating a contest for the Presidency be-
tween them, thus drowning the voice of the
South, and injuring the interests of our sec
ton, by placing it in the power of Northern
sectionalism to elect President without the
aid of Southern vote" Now, what excuse
have the President and his organs for forcing
such a state of things upon the country?
What can be their object? A State Conven-
met at Columbus, on the 29th ult, adopted
the following resolution
t'"That we regard the Lecompton contrc-
versy. so-called, at an end. and as being a
settled issue. Therefore. IRE refuse 10 recognize
as test TO be prescribed By either side Of those
,cho differed IN opinion upon IL, believing that all
who uphold the cardinal principles of the
party and sustain its organization by voting
the Democratic ticket rs good enough Demo
Gratis for all purposes"
Why do not the President and the Union,
his organ, conform to this policy of the demo
cracy of Ohio, and let the Little Giant
alone, if they are actuated by proper motives,
and do not seek to bring about the sectional
contest spoken of by the correspondent of the
South, Are there to be several standards of
sham democratic faith-one to keep together
the sham democratic minority in Ohio
another to dispense the sham democratic ma
jority in Illinois, and give the State over to
the negro-worshipprrs and others, for Penn
sylvania, Indiana, &c, &c?