Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-02-22
What Doe. IL Mean.

In q labored leader in the Washington
States OF yesterday, headed 1.-THE Democracy
and the Administration-discla of re-
sponsibility,' we find some very curious
things. 1t is well known that the editor of
the States is Southern fire eater of the
'.straitest secP'-an ostensible friend of Mr.
Buchanan, but declared advocate of Judge
Douglas. He is evidently dissatisfied with
somebody or something. Things do not
work smoothly at Washington. There is
friction that bodily screaks and frightensi the
timid terribly. The ghosts of "a mutilated
and murdered party are rising ND in the
path of the untsrrified. and a sudden terror
and trembling seiz-s them. Agony and
despair are on every face. and the look is
can't you help? Our sufferings is-is in
| tolerable! The States is infected by this
| contagion, for the disease is not only sporadic
but contagious-and is fatal in most cases
| What is to be done is the universal cry and
as no kind physician is at hand. the attacked
are trying all sorts of yarb drinks and quacb
nostrnms; bat the great trouble is, none Of
them are willing to take their own prescrip
| tons. and hence the disease is increasing and
strengthening, until in few short weeks il
| relief does not come, burnt brandy won't save
| them.
well, if ''sick" men will not take the
remedy, let them die. The country NIGH
| readily he relieved if the Administration
| would only regard the warning voice of hin
| who now sleeps quietly at Ashland, and
| though dead, yet speaks and proclaims -
would sooner b. right than President"
Mr.. Buchanan is no longer the Cincinnati
| platform, for nearly every plank has gone
| down to the Gulf and is Cuba bound. There
| never has been time since the inauguration
| of Washington, that the President of the
| United States bad so nearly lost all control
of the government and his party as the Sage
| of Wheatland. He is opposed to the Admin
| istratiOn and the Administration is opposed
| to him, and thus they go. We give the clos
| ing paragraphs from the article referred to in
! the States, which clearly shows that the South
- the last remnant of Democracy-is advised
to cut loose from Mr.. Buchanan, and do Their
| own voting and their own fighting on their
| own hook.
"No party can insure the infalibility of It's
| agents. Its claim to public confidence must
be determined by the wisdom of its princi.
| piles rather than 6y the accidental alteration
| of its representatives. II Mr. Buchanan
| prove false to his trust his infdelity is nc
argument in favor of Black Republican
| policy. Much less reason is there why the
true champions of Democracy should be
| COMPOUNDED in the punishment of apostates
| The people will appreciate the fragrant in
justice of cOndemning an honest Representa-
| tive for the sins Of an unworthy Administers
| ton.
We suggest, then, not only as matter Of
| personal advantage, but as an obligation Of
| political duty, that the State-rights Demo.
| cracy determine their course regardless OF
| Executive interests, aud with an exclusive
reference to principle and the public welfare
Let every Representative speak and vote
| according to the convictions of his unbiased
| Judgment. Let him repudiate all accounta
bility but for his individual action; and while
the people applaud his independence, they
will acquit him of any undue responsibility
This may be nothing more than a set-of
| against Benefits Herald, which is known tC
be about the only real Administration paper
left, and which few days ago, urged upoI
| Mr.. Buchanan to cut loose from the DemOc
racy, and go it simply against 'all the worlt
and the rest of mankind. '-Bah. Pat.