Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-12-07

the Opposition. That any Tenncsseean should have
openly recorded his vote against such resolution,
we know win strike the public with surprise, and
viii serve to awaken them to the dangerous ex-
tent 70 which leading politicians in the South are
willing to go, to defeat the Democratic party, and
get themselves into power.
The fourth and fifth resolutions read as follows
Resolved, That we acknowledge cur appreciation
OF the promptness with which the National Admin
straton took steps TO check the recent conspiracy
before 1t obtained the huge dimensions Of revolu-
ton
Resolred, That our Senator's and Representatives
in Congress be furnished with copy Of these reso-
buttons.
Every member present voted in the affirmative,
withthe exception of the following Opposition mem
bers, who voted against them:
Messrs Caldwell Cheatham Davis, East, Ewing,
German Havron, Hurt Martin, Norphis, Norman,
Porter. Richardson, Trewhit Williams, of Knox,
| Williamson and Wisener.
We have given the vote and position of parties
correctly. The deduction to be drawn therefrom
we leave for the present. the dispassionate judg
ment Of each intelligent reader The moral of the
lesson we may hereafter have occasion to allude 20.
/ We invite the special attention of our readers to
very able argument in today's paper, delivered
by talented young friend, WV, H. BARKsDAIE, in
the Houseof Representatives, the bill introduced
/ by him into that body, for the expulsion OF free
negroes from this State. II is of the most cred
table speeches which has been delivered during the
present session. We have not examined the details
of this BILL and cannot therefore, speak of its mer
its The evils which it seeks to remedy are certain
" demanding the attention of the Legislature.
The Banner upon Enrper's Ferry ResOIu-
tions and Position of the Opposition i'm
Tennessee--WheedIers and Anti-Wheed-
Icrs.
The Banner in its issue on Monday morning, com
menting upon the Harper's Ferry resolutions, re-
Gently passed by the Legislature, has the following
remarkable paragraph:
4" 1t is time for the Opposition to take a bold and
independent position. They should not allow them
selves to be frightened out of their of propri
ETY. by the bullying process of the Democratic ma
jority. They have allowed themselves too long to
be wheeded into the support of Democratic tricks
In this manner they have lost strength and they will
never recover it until they learn to treat their
manGuvres with the contempt they deserve"
1T is time for the Opposition to take bold and
independent position What means our cotempo
rary? Has the Opposition been lacking in bodness
and independence? If so, will it indulge us by an
swering, upon what question? But this paragraph
is significant. According to our reading there is a
"palpable hit at Messrs. ZoIIIooFFER MAYNARI
and others. They (the Opposition have allowed
themselves too long be .heedled into the support
of Democratic tricks viii the Banner answer US
when we respectfully ask who has been '',oheedled,
and 4" into the support of" what democratic
tricks? ?"
But we earnestly protest against the charge made
by the Banner against Messrs. MARTIN, WIsENER
BRAzELTOS, BUTLER, SENTER and others, that they
were frightened out of their sense of propriety BY
the bullying process of the Democratic party"
If we correctly know the character of these gen
tlemen, they not easily frightened or bullied
They are opposed to us in politics. but give them
credit for what they have done believing that then
action was prompted, net by fear, but by reasons
satisfactory to themselves if not to us and to the
Banner. If we are mistaken, however, and the Ban
ner be right then the implied censure Of the arti
Gle justly administered.
We are at loss to name this new division in the
politics of the State Shall it be the Hards and
may not sufficiently express the factions that now
make war in their camps. We suppose, however
that the term used by the Banner Is the rnost sig
niicant and appropriate They the Opposition, says
the BqnneT) have allowed themselves too long to be
loheedled, &c 1t is therefore, WheedlerS and anti
Wheedlers." Hurrah for the anti Wheedlers who
would not be bold and independent"