Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-09-15
attbe Confessional.

At the Confessional.
The Richmond Esquartr, in answer to the
s,lf-interrogatory: ''sball the anti-democrat-
ic States override the democI attic States at
CharIeston?" makes disclosure Of the tricks
and intrigues which have. for many years
back. been resorted TO by democratic leaders
30 control and transfir the rank and ile- OF
the party from one man to another. Coming
down to the present the article concludes as
follows:
Present indications are uBmistakabe
The same Congressional caucus which gave
the cold shoulder 10 James K. Polk, the same
Congressional caucus which insured Demo
cratic defeat in 1856. the same Congression-
al caucus which defeated the nomination of
Mr.. Buchanan in 1852. the same COngression-
al caucus which warred on the Adnnlstra-
tion of Franklin Pierce for three years. and
then joined his friends only in order to defeat
Mr. Buchanan's nomination in 1886. the same
Congressional caucus which organized an
unprincipled opposition to the present Adj
ministratiou, which menaced the President
into the vacillating and uncertain policy
which has already resulted in such disasters
TO the Democracy this very same Congres-
sional caucus now affords a nucleus for ef-
forts open and secret, incidental and direct,
10 defeat the will of the majority at Charles
ton, by the adoption of a platform, which.
one OF our Virginia contemporaries assures
us, would drive Off from the support of the
candidate of the Convention nine-tenths Of
the Southern Democracy. Democratic nainori-
t,es at the North are beng picked 6ribed and ca
joLed for the sanae purpose. All the elements
which have hitherto combined To defeat the
will of the majority Of the party, are now
carefully marshalled and consolidated. Aud,
as we have shown, neither The naGjoruy rule for
Ge construction Of a platform, nor tie t,OO-Lhrds
rule for the selection Of candidate, affords suf-
fc.enf barrier agdrnst the tacdSaon 81 the pJa1ci-
pies Of the parry aud The soM of majority Of ats
meabgs.
=. Is there, then, no barrier which can be
erected? Is there no guaranty which can be
afforded to secure the rights OF the majority !?
Is there no means by which to administer
lasting rebuke to members OF Congress who
neglect The business of their constituents and ignore
The M erests of their party ia daSsipdted deCot,on
the than Questionable pastin'e o. PTes'deht-
Hsakiag? IL there no uieans 10 cneck the de-
bauchery which operates to denoralIze and
perpetuate democratic muoritles i'll the north
ern States? Is there no remedy whatsoever
for all these crying evils? Nous porous.
1t is scarcely necessary to offer word OF
comment on such exposures as the above.
The honest democratic masses, who have en-
deavorcd to support the true interests and
glory of their country, have been so long led,
cajOied and deceived 10y fair promises that
are made for the occasion, and never to be
redeemed, that they must be purbiind indeed.
ii they can longer close their eyes, to the
fact that they are mere sticks in the hauds OF
otn.rs TO aid in the elevation of place hunters
and spoile-gatherers. II il here openly ad-
mitted that conventional delegations
"packed " and :. bribed," to achieve such
ends, and no barrier. not the two thirds
rule, has been found sufficient to prevent in
vasiUns OF the principles of the party and to
defeat the will OF "a majority of It's members.
Nor does the Enqnirer, while asking for a
rc.nedy, iind it in It's power to suggest one
Tue managers of caucuses aud conventions,
the Engineers OF schemes and intrigues, the
pipe-ayers and powder-plotters, have exer-
c.sed their vocal on SO long and SO successful
ly chat they appear tofeel as il they had IA bill
of sale, signed, sealed and delivered of the
mass OF the party material, aud letters patent
granting them the exclusive right 10 mould
it into such shapes, work it into such forms,
AID apply il 10 such uses as they may see
prop,r. 1t is through such agencies as these
that all the depaI tments of the public ad
ministration have been infected with corrup-
tion and caused the assertion by men in
high places, democrats who have an insight
into the interior workings of the box-ma-
chinery of the democratic party, that the
model American Republic is 1.-The most cor
rupt government on the face of the earth"
The remedy is in the hands the people. 1t is
plain and simple one and it should have
given the Enquirer or any one else who sin
cereIy seeks, no trouble TO find it, All that
is required is that the people shall take the
power OF appointing their political agents
into their own hands, and thus crush out and
destroy The generation of schemers and
trickslers. Let the caucus do its work If it
will. and then let the free and intelligent
people do theirs, by voting for men only
distinguished for capabiliy and integrity.
Then we shall have reform aud restoration
of the better days" and the early purity OF
the Republic.