Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-02-18

as good men as would be brought forward BY ma
tional convention congressional caucus. At
this point, and | know / do il in spirit of kind
ness, Iassure The senatOrI willing TO widen the
field 50 THAI if he has any aspirations in that way,
he may have chance; ! have none.
Mr.. Davis nave disolaimed ia your favor al
ready.
MIR. Johnson. Of Tennessee I increase your
chance, particularly as live in the South. But ihs
idea seems to be, that you. cannot come forward
aud discuss any great meceuie that has ten
deney TO popGlarize feoe insilu ions, but you
must be associated Hi'h the Presidency Tnst seems
TO have been the saDlmum 5oipRm OF everything in
this country Il is the climax Of comparison aud
of aspiration AMI whenever you make move that
has tendency TO popusrize our free institutions,
to carry the Government nearer TO the people, it
is said, ''Ohl you are a candidate for the Presi-
dency."
| Mr.. Davis. ask the Senator now. he is
plying to me- whether he did not bring 10 that him
s:f. and whether my remarks Eere not in reply to
him on that pOint7
Mr.. Johnson, Of Tennessee Bring in Vha,f
| Mr.. Davis. The whole subject Of the mode of
no mating caDdidare for President.
! Johnson Of Tennessee. Most assuredy did;
bu ma ls particular aIusioa 10 any Get of iudi-
viluals being candidates; the Senator did. That is
the difference between introduced the subject
and he alluded 10 the cha of particular indvd~
q Is That is all the difference He brings cases
up; have right to comment on these cases. in
n king re. ly and rs | before told the Senator
| am not in his way We have got 10 making Pfesi-
dents in modern times 20 hat nobody knows who is
! safe. do assure the Senator that prefer 10 dis,
charge my duty faithfully SIS honest Representa-
tive of the Stlies or the people, Occupying that po
ii ion-tke Senae will rdon me fer the expression
AID | do moi use u in profane seuse-when: CON
t. sed with berg Pr, sidrnt Of the United States
say damn the Presidency; it IS not worthy Of the
aspirations e a man who belieFes in doing good,
and is in posi- ion 20 serve has country by popular
izing her free institutions
The Pr sidehey ! would rather be an honest
man an h nest representative than be President of
the United States forty times. The Presidency is
the absorbing i5ea, great Aarons rod that swal-
logs up every other thing; aud hence we see the
best Regulation for the country impaired ruined and
| and biased The idea ef President making ought to
be scou ed out Of the Halls Of Congress Our leeis
lation should be for the country and lei President
making algne Let the people attend to that. Cons
fer the great privilege, the con ttu onal right upon
the people to make their own Presidents and not
have them made by national conventions or by Con-
gress let the people make them themselves; and we
shall have better Presidents, better Administration,
more economy, more honesty, more Of every thing
thzt tends to constitute upright and GoV-
/ erLment.
But The Senator from California Mr. Broderick
not to be satisfied with something that said,
and he wants TO know what would become of the
United Sta if it had been for the six hundred
millions of gold We had got from Californi, Now
| this was country good while before we got Cal.
ifornis, subjected 10 great many trials, ard went
through the struggle OF the Revolution which was
consummsttd in 1915. He wants TO knOR what we
Mr. Frederick If The Senator will permit me one
moment TO prevent him making long speech on what
said, will state it again. stated this that if the
gold of California was withheld for fifty days, your
! banking institutions would 60 TO pieces, as well
your manufacturing and commercial interests.
Mr. Iohnso1 nj oil hoJ II
deal of manufacturing good deal Of very success
| ful banking aad commerce, before California ever
came into the Union
1 Mr.. Seward. VIII the hen Jrable Senator allow me
TO ask him to give way for a motion to adjourn?
Mr.. Johnson, o Tennessee. l shall be done in
two minutes. Where does the gold from California
go to? While they dig in their gold fields in Cali
fornia, we dig in our corn fields, cotton fields
and in rice fields this side of the Rocky Mcuu-
| taius. South Carolina Tennessee, Alabams Mis-
sssippi, and other States, might ask what would
you do but for CO tor: Coyon is just as n,css-
sary in commerce as gold. All that gold, when it
to New Ork or sny other point goes abroad and
/ we have run through our minis in seven years SIX
| or sewn hundred millions Of gold.
Where did it 60 Turn to your tables Of exports,
and there you fad il went eff with your bags OF cot
ton your hOgsheads of tobacco, and lierces of rice
What would your country have done, but for rice
cotton, and tobacco? What would the country have
done but for your manufacturing articles? Gold is
tue peculiar pTOuuCL OF IHilOfua; cotton Is the
culiAr product Of the South; hogs and horses are the
| p, culsr r.ducs Of the western States. You find
that there is a reciprocity in trade Csifvrnis
brings her gold 10 the Uniisd States because she
can do better with it here than anywhere else If
she could send it from San Francisco 10 England di
rect it would go there Withhold geld from that point
where it will mmaEd the greatest price Withhold
gold from going where it Will command the greatest
! price! Tbe Senator might well attempt to lock
up the winds or chain the waves of the ocean as TO
place gold beyond the Influence Of those laws which
control the commercial world. Cod ike every oth>
article of trade, will go where It is in the or at
es, demand. Gid will 50 where il gets the great
est price; so will cation, tobacco, ami every other
article of com Lerce.
! Let US reverse the argument, AID AK what wou'd
! Cafoi mia have doEe for -four what VOL ID Califor-
MA have done fer manufactured articles, if it hsd
! not BEEN fer The 5 ates On this sd. What would
! she have done fer iron? What would she have
! done for all III, Sc things that constitute her
a great people! With the exception Of gold,
she would not have been much. While you are dig
ging gold, you must have soH.t thing TO cat and 10
wear and you must nj your gold of because you
must use il to buy those ar:ieles somewhere else.
That is all.
did not intcni to dslain the Senate one third of
the time l have. l merely wanted to answer the
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