Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-02-15
.s First ana Feurth Pages.
The Old Song.

whatever may be said of the instability and tickle
ness Of the Federal-Wbig- KuOw>Nothing-Op pOsi>
ton party, there are two things in which it may be
relied on with entire cOnfdence-that is its change
Of name with every national defeat, and lie stere-
oypsI predictions, pending every Presidential cleo
ton, Of he democrat zatiOn. disorganizaion and TO
tai breaking up Of the Democratic party. As far
back as The files of our papers run We discover
perfect harmony in the notes which their organs
have sounded preparatory to a national election, in
this respeSt. According to their journals the DEM
ocratic party has died and gone through state Of
decompof tion at least in every four years, if
not oftensr for the last half century. AndtLe reg
slarity with which they held their wake over lis
remains has been SC periodical in its recurrence and
so msns.rous in its forms that instead of exciting
the usual solemnity Of such occasions it has got
be laughed al az 8 mock show, sham, a ridiculous
preenee, intended to deceive the vary for selfish
and dishonest purposes The O1Iy persons deceived
now are some of cir own verdsnt followers. who,
slsted with the idea of coming in possession of
long coveted expectancy, make investments in the
course Of the canvass which they never get back
again. but which sink deep into Democratic pock-
cts
The time is at hand whom the subject of another
Presidential election is beginning to be discussed,
and federalism, with its accustomed regularity, is
throwing off the old clothes Of Know NOthingism
and RspubIicanism, which it used in the last cans
vEss, under the lead Of Fillmore and Fremont and
is putting on the newly adopted uniform of ''the
Opposition" GREELEY and Co., are preparing to def
the broad brimmed and longtailed coat of Puritan
ical fanalicism; and Messrs. BELL & Co., TO aban-
don the sooty cowl of KaOW-Nothingsm, fer the
Few dress with its stripes of all colOrs. Hence
forth SEWARD, HALE & GDOINGs and CGITrBEDBE
Bell and BORIS will wesrthe,same uniform and be
captains in command OF the same national forces.
Henceforth the followers of these leaders. North
and South are expected to rally under the same
banner; snd the slave holder of Tennessee and the
negro stesler Of Massachusetts, to eat from the
trcncbsr and rest under the tent. The ''grest
army of Opposition" such an one as Fallstsf led,
Is to be led on to the common piping Of GREELEY
aud Prentice and their subordinates'in the land.
Abolition editors at the North and Know Nothing
editors at the South practising to play the
same tune
In regular order and in the usual way they are
beginning to noise their dOlOrous cry again about
''the death of the Democratic party" We can
scarcely find one of their papers from the New York
Tribune and Louisville Journal, down to the OBJ
scurest country sheet in Tennessee, that is not tell
ing the story Of the cOrruptOns, the disOrganizs-
ticn rapid decline, and certain and speedy doom of
The old Democratic party. Their story runs thus:
Some trusted leader in the Democratic party has
betrayed it; therefore the Democratic party will
be broken down. That some high official in its
ranks has preached heresyi therefore the Demo
cratic party viii cease to be trusted That few
unworthy Democrats, bribsd by national interests,
abandoned the bulk of their party representatives
In Congress and voted with the Know NOthings and
Abolitionists to fix q heavy expense upon the gov
eminent; therefore the Democratic party must be
destroyed. That some placehuuters in it's ranks
have failed to receive the benefit they demanded
and are ready to disrupt H. therefore the party j.
demOralised and dying. The righteousness of Oh
old csuplet only equals their logic:
There q stone,
- he hsW aWay-and there nons!
There a that a race,
When e an fast-he space
There a that esFan apple
Wien he sat two--he eat eouplel
There ape tree,
When he fell d0wn-thsn down fell he
There ship that TO Spain,
r. When 1t returnsd-it come again I"
By the saQe system 81 reasoning they sdePt, the