Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-07-12

Where she Anfi-slaverT Vote GENES Ezo1as |
The Banner had better give ovor she attempt TO
explain where the Abolition vsss comes from. .
it came from the opposition to Democracy 50 clear
thai the BGnaer will fnd the least ssid the better
We have heretofore 50 thoroughly exposed, By
the official figures, the groundlessness OF the Ban
Hers declaration that the great mass Of this vote
came from the Democratic party, that We did not
suppose it would longer be insisted upon. But
the Banner is uaconvInced even be the figures
which demonstrate the contrary Of its assertion 1t
reasons thus
Fremont received according to the UNION AND
AMERICAN figures 1,340,615.
He had Hsle's auti-slavery vote of 1852 to start
on, which was l57, GS5.
By deducting Filmores vote in 1856 from SCOTS
vote in 1852 the UNION AND AMERICAN accounts
for 629, l67. These two sources give a showing as
to the source Of 786, 852 votes
Subtracting 852 from $40, 6l5, Fremonts
VOTE and we have $50 563 votes vet to be accounted
fer. Where did these votes come from? Where
could they have been obtained except from the
ranks of the only other party in the NOrthhs Dem
oeratie pa1tys
The absurdity of this reasoning is very easily
shown.
The total vote of the non-slavshOlding States in
1852 was 1886, 1856. The total vote in the same
States in 1856 was 1855. s5s. Increases e22, OOs.
This accounts for the increase in FREMoxT's vote,
referred to by the Banner. No doubt some who
voted for PIERCE in 1852 voted for FREMONT in
1856 But we have shown the flliacy Of the Ban
ner's statement that The great mass Of the sup
/ porters of Fremont came from the Democratic
ranks. It is positive absurcity, in our judgment,
/ to maintain such proposition.
The Baana says;
eve have seen that in an aggregate vote of about
eighteen hundred thousand in the whole North, it
polls upwards Of half million Democratic snt-sla-
very votes
Now, we maintain that the Banner has not seen,
and osunot see, any such thing. It argues, most
irrationally and absurdly, that the Wings, who
voted for scoTT, to the number Of upwards of half
million, voted for BUcHcEAs, while an equal
number Of Democrats, who voted for PIERCE, voted
for FREMONT! II has no evidence Of this It is
simply convenient suppOsition, without shad-
ow of evidence to sustain it. That the masses who
supported PIERCE supported BUCHANAN is a fact SO
clearly within the knowledge of every man of any
political iuformstion that it is mere folly to argue
| it.
We notice but one more Of the Banners absur-
dities:
"If this position is not true upon what theory
does he explain the prediction Of the anti-sla-
very party for Democrats its candidate for Pres
iden, for tie Speaker Of the House of Representa-
tives and for the GovernOrships Of the different
States? The law Of affinity is our explanation"
1t is true that some men who were once Demo-
crate, after having left their party, have been the
| - h. I . T. a..
ring the changes on the names of HALE, VAN Blu.
rem, and others, once Democrats, and to forget
| SEWARD GIDDIEos, and others, once Wings. But
We assert that the great majority of all the lead
ing Republicans in the Northern States we're oppo-
neuts of the Democratic party; and we think there
is fact in the history of the parties of this coun
try more clear than this. Did it need proof, we
would quote the Louisville Journal which paper,
authority with our Opponentss, lately said:
"We cannot be mist aken in the opinion we ex-
pressed, that FUEL FoUR-FIFrHs OF THE REPUBII-
CAN AND AMERICAN PARTIES ARE COMPOSED OF IJR-
| NIB WHO'S"
We explain the fact that some Democrats have
been candidates of the Republicans upon the same
theory that we explain the fact that some Demo-
Gratis have been Know Nothing candidates. And the
Banner can assert that the great ass of the Know
Nothings of Tennessee were Democrats, and prove
it by showing that DOnslsoa, QRGrles, and Anent
were Democrats, with just as much reason as it
makes the assertion in regard to the Democrats
North having sustained Black Republicans The
illustration is exactly in point And, now that the
Know Nothings have become such warm friends of
the foreigners, we expect that the B1nnsr, carry
ing out the argument which it applies to parties
North, will hold responsible for the KnoW-noth-
ingism of 1855, aud especially for the conduct of
the gentlemen we have mentioned