Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-10-12
From the National Intelligencer.
Appeals TO OId-I.fne wings.


Our conservative and intelligent cotempo-
rary, the New Orleans Bee. in remarking ON
the disorganized condition of parties in Lou
itiana, candidly acknOw lodges that for once
it is puzzled and hardly knows how to define
the principles and positions of the various
candidates for Office in that State. Such is
the confusion that even the Democrats are
anxiousy inqniring where they shall go'
in the curious medley of parties that has
arisen on the decline of the ancient and CON-
pact organizations which once divided the
people of Louisiana in common with the
whole Union. In this state of affairs We need
not say that "Oid-LiRe Whgs' receive re-
spectful attention from all the several claim
ants upon the popular suffrages, and the most
earnest appeals are addressed To Their .com-
prehensive patriotism especially by the So
called regular Democracy"
Nor is This Importantly peculiar to the
Democracy of Louisiana. Appeals to the
Old-Line Wings have become a standing
topic with many of our Democratic cotem-
poraries. ard it was under this head that the
Government journal few weeks remarked
with satisfaction upon "the disposition mani
tested in macy quarters by worthy and en-
lightened citizens. heretofore known as Old
Line wings, TO cooperate with the National
Democracy" and deprecated any effort Ito
re construct & orga ization of their partv.'s
declares that, in the recent elections held in
tie States of Kentucky, Virginia. and Ten
nessee. majority of the people, ''including
a large portion of those heretofore acting
with the Wings, have d clared their prefer
encp for the Democratic party" According
lv that journal Expresses the benevolent
and unselish hope that 'all honest Wings"
will not be drawn into "such an egregious
act OF folly" as to support any other than
Al. I.sta
idcncy.
For ourselves we take leave to say. in be-
half of what seems to us most primary prin-
ciples OF political consistency ard prOprieiy.
that we regard all such appeals "a in the
highest degree inopporiune, it not imperti-
nent The Old-Lne Wings, in conjunction
with conservative citizens Of every name and
denomination, in all parts of the Union, will
be able to interpret for themselves. at the
| proper time, the indications which shall mark
ont the path of duty in the civil conjuncture
| brought about by the disturbing elements of
Democratic misrule. Whether the authors
aud abettors of that misrule have prior
claim upon the adhesion of Wings would
sem to be a question that admits of easy
! determination. Whatever may be justly or
unjustly said against the Republican organ
| ization OF the North. the Wings OF the Union
| cannot forget that it owes its very existence
agitaiions provoked and fostered by the De-
mocratic party. If, therefore, the Rcpubl-
| can party were as odious, and dangerous as
| the Democratic press, particularly of the
| South. is in the habit of representing, il
| would only be so much the more o cogent
and convincing argument against any afiiia-
| ton with party which has been the primal
cause Of the movement in question. The Re-
| puhlicans very possibly have been and may
| II l,a In Aan nf heir t,.eli
| of resentment to q needless extreme in point
| of defensive tactics, and ia this line Of con-
| duct they can expect, as they ask, no coop
| GRAFTON from the National Wings, but We are
| at a loss 10 understand how such u want of
/ moderation on the part of the former can be
| costrued into a valid claim to the character
| of conservatism urged la behalf OF the Demo-
| crazy, since they must none the less be held
mainly responsible for the political chaos
which has heeu precipitated on the country
| In the present aspect OF affairs We would,
| the fore, advise against any coalition such a.
| that into which Old-Line Wings are SO unc-
| tuously invited to enter. Ii does not be-
come the Democracy TO address any such APP
! peals to their. ancient epponents, for the
Wings cannot avoid the conviction that these
approximations are the offspring OF a simulated
patriotism. They remember that in otherdays
| The Democracy had no such abhorrence OF
| coalitions with Frersoilers, and they there
| fore doubt the g.nuineness. or at least the
| disinterestedness. of The advice which is now
40 gra,uiiously profferyd. / Where slept the
Democratic ihunders of denunciation when a
! Freesoil Senator Of the United States was
elected from the State . Massachusetts by =
| combination of Democrats and Fseesotiers
| against the National Wings! Why did the
! sentineis OF Democracy neglect To cry aloud
| and spare not when a similar fusion" Wa
| effected in Vermont. ia Connecticut and
pls. .where al the North As iats ~ the ysar
1854 it Is known that Federal ofdce-halders
Ia the State of Massachusetts were amoag
| the most prominent supporters OF The ''coala-
| ,iea", which bad defeated the Wings, and
rome among Us perhaps have not quite Tor
| t,oslen the circumstances under which dis
Ilnguished faBetioaary la the city Of New
| fork lost his head FOR stubburnly refusing 10
/ seognise .tbe FreselI wing OF the Demo
raey Ia bis appointments 20 nties. while
ne memory Of the-s traasAetions survives
| re iucliee 10 believe that Whigs will not
| { greatly moved by the feFsent "appeals"
| our Democratic friends. Who suddenly
sanii,.st 30 much mors al Tor The political
srsae OF their ancleni aasersaries than thry
! FmrFly showed ior their own.