Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-01-15
FRIDAY, JANUARY Is. 1858.
The Sound Northern Democracy.

duced the subject of slavery into the polit-
ical controversies of the country, it has
been the boast of the Southern leaders
that their Northern allies were the only
true friends of the South in that section OF
the Union. So persistent have they been
in the repetition of this boast, and SO I'M
firing have been their denunciations OF
Abolitionism against all other parties
North, they have succeeded in deceiving
the greater portion of the Southern PEG,
pie In vain has the startling fact been
exhibited that BIRNEY, and HALE, and
VAN buren,, and FREMONT, and W1LMor,
and hosts of the rank and file of the abo-
litionists are professed democrats, whose
views as to slavery are in consonance with
those held by the masses Of the Northern
people, and especially of the sham democ.
racy. The trickery and management, the
hypocrisy and knavery of the leaders,
their ingenuity in the construction OF party
platforms, to be interpreted i'll each sec.
ton to suit the humor of the times,-have
won them success in defiance of the most
stubborn facts attesting their unsoundneSs
facts which would have overwhelmed
any other party. For some years past,
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS has been held up as
the true form and embodiment of a sound
national democrat, and his services, in pro-
ducing and engineering the Kansas Ne
braska bill through Congress, pointed to
as proof of the fact Notwithstanding that
he, and his Northern confederates, put
construction upon the bill which, if enforc-
ed, would drive the South from all our
territories 1t was useless for the oppo-
sition to the sham democracy in the South,
to point to the inevitable consequences of
this construction, and to denounce ii as
abolitionism in disguise, and Mr.. Douglas
as really an enemy to Southern progress.
The loud and prolonged shouts of praise of
the Little Giant" - the true national
democrat-drowned the voice of opposi-
ton. Now, however, the touch-stone of
truth has been applied to the Douglas and
his construction, and the sham democratic
leaders Of the South are, themselves, ad-
hitting that they are unsound, and are
denouncing him as an ally of the aboli-
tionists and black republicans. Thus
they confess at last that they charges of
the opposition against their great north
ern leader were true, and that for the pro-
motion of party success they encouraged
and gave strength and power to an enemy
of the South. But see, whilst making
these confessions, what they are doing A
Mr.. FITCH, who holds commission from
the Governor of Indiana, as Senator in
Congress, without the authority of law
full election, doubtless to recommend him
self to the administration Senators, has
made speech, in which he warns Douglas
of the fate of Burr and Van Buren,.
Straightway, this man Fitch becomes an
oracle of sham democracy, and is quoted
and lauded throughout the South. He be-
comes suddenly an embodiment of Nation
al Democracy, sound to the core. He. as
rotten an abolitioniSt as Hale or Sumner.
hid away under the robes of democracy.
is transformed into 'bright particular
star" in the sham democratic armament,
to light Southern men in the path of
Southern progress Let us see what are
the antecedents of Mr.. Fitch. In l849.
he was a candidate for Congress in India
ma. The following letter was addressed to
him on the part of abolitionists in his dis
trict:
PLYMOUTH, Ang. 4, 1s49.
SIR: As there few who think you have
not been quiet definite enough on some of the
questions involved IN the present canvass | wish
you to answer the following questions to wit:
l. VIII you, 1t elected, vote for the uneondition-
al repeal of slavery in the district OF Colulnbiaf
2. Will you vote for the abolition of the inter-
State slave trade?
8. win you vote for the Wilmot proyiso being
extended over the Territories OF California and
New Mexico, and against any law authorizing slaves
TO be taken there as property
Please answer the above questions, yes or no,
without comment.
GROVE PoMERoY.
To this winning epistle, Mr.. Fitch made
n reply, of which the following is the chief
point
ANSWER OF Mr.. FITCH.
With pleasure 4 ans,rer Eyes" to the above
nm astons
Entertaining the views indicated in my answer
above, shall not only vote Eyes" these mea
sures, but if no older or ADLER member, whose in
fuence would be greater than mine, introduce them
into Congress, IshaH do H myself, If have the
honor OF holding u seat there.
G. N. FITCH.
This is the man who is now to take the
seat of Douglas in the grand sham demo-
cratic Sanhedrim; what is the South, or the
country, to gain by the exchange? How
long will it be before Mr.. Fitch seizes an
opportunity, as Douglas has done, to carry
out his abolition sentiments, and strike
down the rights of the South? No trust
can be put in him,-little in any of the
leaders or lay men of the party North.
There are noue sound--"No, not one" Let
not the South, therefore, be- further de-
ce'ved by them, or by the sham democratic
Southern leaders.
hard Hit at the Administration.
Inc h'ehmond South alleges, upon sufficien,
g'ouha 'hat the dispersion Of the FlIibus,er forces
In Nicaragua. though