Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-06-18
HARD MISREPRESENTATION Extracts.

The Nashville Patriot is engaged IN Gull
ing rare beauties from the Nashville Union,
the organ of Tennessee Democracy. The
gems really glisten and glow. Our readers
shall not be deprived of the pleasure of in
speeding them. Here they are:
Whatever we may say, the question ofcurren-
cy will be the question of the next canvass.
No halfway ground will satisfy public opin-
ion. The bank party will not seek to shell
ter themselves under the broad wings of a
State Bank. nor will the "Adamantinesn ac-
cept any halfway measures. They will not
be content to know that time, which sooner or
later brings all things human to an end, will
soon carry to their last resting place few of
the lesser monsters, while the greatest of
them all, 1.-THE State Bank for evil or for
good still survives, to faint with its pestilen-
tial breath the pure atmosphere of an other
wise uncontaminated hard money currency.
There was time when banks were
regarded, if not Indispensable, at least as ne
cessary to the advancement of our great in
dustrial and commercial interests. That
day, thank Heaven, has passed. AL
ready, we f1atter ourselves, we begin to see
the dawning of that millenial morning, which
shall usher in new era of hope and promise,
bas,d not on the broken faith and violated
pledges of stock or State institutions, but
upon the energies of our kpeople, untram-
melled by legislative restrictions upon the
ges upon the drones of society. 1t will come.
1t is only question of time. We may stand
yet while longer in awe of the voraciOus
cOrmorants that have so long fed and fat
tened upon the life-bloOd Of labor and of in
dustry, but some young Hercules will yet
come to the help of an abused people, and
throttle the great necrOmancer, who, by the
simple touch of his magic wand, converts our
solid gold into ethereal paper promises to
mo- oil mo ba nI1h n nd Hirer To-
Dor of its reward.
If any gentleman, or party, think they can
build themselves up by becoming the cham
piOns of banks, let them come on. Now is
the proper time to try it-JniOn and amer
tcGn.
We do not, shall not undertake to speak
as 'ST Oracle but we shall speak as becomes
the editor of q free press. of one which, holc-
eUer ii may be repudiated BIZ some as an organ of
that portion Of the Democratic party 10 1ciich they
belong, WiU CONTINUE 10 echo tie UOice Of that tciich
DEMANDS THAT AN END SHALL BE MADE OF that
deLusiUe system Of banking by which the few are
made rich at the expense of many "-Ui
and american.
We sag NOW IS THE TINE To DECLARE OUR
INDEPENDENCE OF ALI. BANKs-this day begin
the great work. y Union and american.
Every paper dollar issued by State authori-
ty, is an Unconstitutional dollar and every
lates his oath to support the Constitution of
the United States Union and american.
There are but few of the INITIATED who
understand the art and mystery of faro
bank, or lottery. There are very few, how
ever, but what can understand that they are
instruments of fraud and swindling upon a
community. So with our present legalized
banks. They are eating cancers
upon the body polite, and the sooner remov
ed the better Union and Aneracdn.
The people-the Zeal people-those who
constitute the labor and substantial wealth
of the country, were never in more healthy
condition. They do not desire to be saved
bY the banks, but TO be protected from the
banks. Keep down these gambling corpora
tiOns-these licensed usurers-and let the
people alone, and they will take care OF them
selves.
The duty of the Democracy is obvious and
imperative. They must adhere to Truth and
Principle. They must stand by the honest
creed of the Patriarchs of their party, and
steer on in the direction of free trade and a
constitutional currency. With Jackson Polk,
Buchanan and every other eminent authority
among the Democracy, we maintain that
gold and silver is the only constitutional cur
rency that it is the only currency compati-
BILE with popular interests and republican
virtue; that it is the only currency which
can save the country from the revulsions
that periodically desolate it under the pres
eDt system. With them we denounce bank
mOnOpolics and paper money as the evils
that ahllct the nation; with them we urge an
abatement of the nuisance and demand an
honest administration of the democratic
principles OF equal privileges and specie pay
ments.