Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-08-09


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Tss prelinInarg procsedings Of 5us State alec
.ios olosed viii sn elaborate address from The Hon.
JOsN BRIL-, the ooFyrhans ~ the Opposition parsy.
dsiisered Inmediatslysin front Of our cfHce. This
occasion Of this effort vas, We believe. an invitation
from the Netherlsnd Club; the purpose arowed that
Of commenting With come severity upon the use
made Of the orators name daring the progress
Of the canvass
We may here observe that there wss no need Of
any special occasion for the delivery Of speech BY
AFR BEEL. The citizens Of Nashville. We nav ada
Tennessee, whether siding with him or opposed to
hin IN politics are always more than wiling to lis
Ten % any thing 80 distinguished politician may
have to sdvsnee upon the topics Of the day Accor-
dingly large assembags gathered on overtcn's
square, which vas, however, considerably diminish-
ed before the close Of the address, not in conse-
quenee Of any defect Of interest in Mr. BELLS adj
dress, 80 much from the unfortunate arrangement
By which he vas preceded By gentleman who pro-
logged bis eoqnenee on the now kaekneyed subjects
Of the canvass, till considerably beyond 10 o'clock,
NY, EslI being unable to get the floor TIL be had
concluded ~
At laAt the q dsoana Senator Of Tennessee was be-
fore The audience. teing received sith tumuItuOus
shouts Of applause from the crowd there assembled
BE commenced withthat inexhsustihls material for
the OrztOry Of sequesterel poIiicisns an abundant
stock Of lacerstsd feelings; his name had been
dragged from the secluson OF private life and talked
about, harangusd about, paraded through the
streets in connection with those of Black Republic
during the present canvass throughout the State
Of Tennessee, though he himself was no candidate
for any Of the offices to be filed and was living
in IinvOluntaryl seclusion from public life.
In looking back upon the history Of the present
canvass We are constrained to admit that there is
some truth in thiz complaint It's cerain that the
mans Of JoHx BELL has been great deal in the
mouths Of not only Democratic candidates bu, OPP
position speakers throughout the recent political
contest, indeed has this enforced publicity been
limited to the confines Of Tennessee but this State
election has attracted remark far and Wide and full
! ~ as much in certain quarters North as in the
South, and wherever il is spoken Of there the name
Of JoHS BILL is also heard. There must be reason
for this Mr.. Bell must console himself with he re-
lection that it is the unavoidable consequence Of
celsbriiyi stirring events could not very we'll be
| going on in Tennessee without 50 eminent man
being heard Of But We are mainly conserved with
iuqriring why it is that the name of BErL is in
mems mouths more than that Of sill other political
characters ia Tennessee, including even the candi-
dates themselves. The universal impression seems
to have existed ever since the germ of united OPP
position party was fecundsted by certain political
nupials in jane, 1858, that the Safe elections Of
Tennessee and Kentucky were likely to count heavi-
~ among the preminsries of the Presidential con-
test OF 1850; for, among the possibilities Of party
expediency it believed that the hospitable am
! phitryons Of certain projected dinner party in
| New York, among whose names shone those of TRU-
Man SMITH, HORACE GREELEY, &C., had their at
tentlOn directed to the aDailabaiy Of two distin-
| gaishsd Southern Senator'S as instruments suited
to their Interior purposes and more likely to com
mand the requisite quantum of Southern support,
than any of the fraternity North Of the great pOti
cal line. The names of these two gentlemen are
BELL aud GRITFENDEN aud it is certain that Wherev-
er the tactics of the future Presidential contest is
discussed among the eoteries of the sbOvemention-
ed dinner giving fraternity the relative availability
Of these two names is made the subject of earnest
| inyestig alton and what could be SO germane to
this question the scrItnzing test that svailabi
ity undergoing in the general elections of the
two States from which the two Senators hailed :
IT, therefore, both at home and abroad, both North
| aud South, the Tennessee elections are discussed
with more frequent referesee to the name of Mr.
BELL than that Of any of the actual candidates,
he must attribute it to the singular position he
cupes in reference to the electiOneering schemes of
his Northern friends. position in which We had no
hand in placing him, and for which we surely can
not be held responsible In short, if the available
| ity of Mr.. BELL, as the Republican candidate for
the Presidency. has been considered Of the
real questions at issue in the late election and il
the publicity attached to this conception is SO gra-
ting to the feelings of that gentleman, We know Of
no remedy except one which he has in his own
hands, that of distinctly signfyng to that cOtsrie
in the North that they must not take such liberties
with his name, that he will accept no nomination
from them, and does not recognize them among his
political associates This would stop the evil but
long as the availability of Mr.. BELL and Mr. CRIT
TENDEE are seriously discussed by the Republican
party NORTH it is useless to hope that will be s.
lent about it in Tennessee and Kentucky. Having,
therefore derived from these structures the fund Of
wounded sensibiity, which appeared with such ad-
nirable effects in his exordium he has the power to
put an end to them whenever he chooses to do go,
by very simple process. Ge shall, in our next is
sue, proceed to his second tOpic-tbe divisions Of
Democracy.
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