Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-03-22
the defence Of her rights on the positions oc-
cupied by the State Rights men,

the defence Of her rights on the positions oc-
cupied by the State Rights men"
The meaning of all this is perfectly clear.
The northern and the southern Democracy,
hitherto 'fccongruously joined for the sake Of
spoils," have become widely and permanently
diyotned by the slavery question, and the ex-
listing Democratic organization at the South is
to be converted into southern organization,
whose mission it will be to take into its "own
keeping" the rights and destinies of the
Soutb-or, in other words to effect dissolu-
ton of the Union Having, in their reckless
greed for "spoils. kept upa continual agita-
ton of the exciting question of slave
ry until they threw their party at the
North into a minority and built up
great northern party, which is made up
of men of all parties. and which looks as
if il would be strong enough to carry the
next Presidential election and obtain posses
sion of the General Government-haying
brought this state of things about by an I'M
necessary and wicked agitation of the slavery
question, these Democratic leaders of the
South would have the people of the South to
secede from the Union in the event of the
success in the next Presidential contest of
this Northern party, which their own selfish,
mischeyous. unpatriOtc, spoils-seeking policy
brought into being. and has ever been
strengthening-is even now strengthening
day by day! at is important" says one of
their organs the Montgomery, Alabama. Ad-
uertiser, speaking of the approaching Congress
sOnal elections in that State :" 1t is import
ant that we should send to represent us such
men as possess the ability 10 combat the
approaches of Republicanism, and the nerve
10 secede from Washington an case dbOldioni'm
should install one Of its Iders in the ErecatUe man
sion Of the nation. 1t is Important to the South
also, that her delegation should present II
united front of State Rights Democrats, for in
the principles and the doctrines of tie State
Rights Democracy rests the hope of the South
in the Union, or out Of IL. The heresies of
acknowledgment and Whiggery are no less
noxious and fatal to the true genius of South
ern progress than are the more open assaults
of Republicanism. To stand the
slightest chance of success, our nominee lin
that district must be Southern States Right
Democrat, and a veteran Democrat, moreover.
No conscientious believer in the fidelity of
our Northern allies 1.-THE Northern Democracy
can hope to hoodwink the State Rights people
of this district"
No Wing or Know-NOthing. says this organ
of the Alabama Democracy, should be sent
to Congress at this conjuncture. The same
thing will be said by the Democratic organs
and speakers of Tennessee. But the Alabama
organ goes step further, and maintains
that no Democrat even should be elected. if he
believes in the fidelity of the Northern De-
mocracy.
None will answer but your genuine State
rights Democrats, who will at once withdraw
from Washington in the event of the election
of the Republican candidate for the Presi-
dencyl These Democratic leaders and organs
of the South first draw a sectional line of
separation between the South and the North.
knowing that the South is much the weakest
in point of numbers, and then stand prepared
to go in for a secession from the Union if the
Northern party should elect the President!
1t is, moreover, demonstrably evident, not
only that the breach between the Southern
and the Northern Democracy is radical and
irreparable, but that in the Democratic party
of the South an open breach mnst ere long
take place between the moderate, conserVa-
tive Union men of the party, and that other,
and, we regret to believe, larger portion of
it, who are ripe for the formation of South
ern organization, with view to secession, I'M
less their demands are complied with by the
North, which the leaders of the movement
well know the North never will do.
In this division which must take place be-
tween the extreme and the conservative sec
tons of the Democratic party of the South,
with which section will the Tennessee DemOc-
racy be found acting? When the extreme
section. under the lead of the most distin-
guished Democratic leaders of the South,
shall form themselves into Southern or
ganization" what will the Tennessee Democ-
racy do? Where will they go? With what
party will they act, if, as we should hope,
they, or majority of them, value the Union
too highly to fall in with this Southern or
ganization, or as it may be truly designated,
this Southern confeaerdcy movement? These
are questions to which it behooves all the con-
sentative, Union-loving Democrats of Tennes-
see, and indeed of every Southern State, TO
give early and serious consideration.