Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-11-16
For the Union and American.
The Men for the Times.

In the present disordered state of the political ell
ements of our country it is the natural inclination
of any patriotic heart to look around for some man
endowed with genius, political foresight, and indy
ing devotion to the great principles of free govern
ment to lead US again into peace and tranquility
We are a sincere believer that occasions make men.
When the children of Israel were to commence
long and weary pilgrimage through barren DESERTS
and over dark Judean hills to the promised land,
MOSES, reared amid the dangers of the camp,
chosen their leader. When the Roman common
wealth was being poisoned by the treacherous
tongue of CADOLNE, CICERO, clad in eloquence and
power came to the rescue, and poured forth enc OF
those fervid bursts of orstOry which rendered him
immortal and saved the republic. When Chris
anity was about to break loose from the letters Of
ignorance and pOpish superstition in the sixteenth
century, LUTHER stepped on tie rushing tide and
staked his life its When British intoler-
ance and British misrule in the American colonies
aroused the slumbering Genius of Liberty in the
American heart the beloved WASHINGTON was our
leader And while the political sea is dashed into
fury by the storms of fanatcism, and Instruction
is the passion of the hour" who will step on
maddened pillows and say Peace, be still?' There
is man for this emergency. Reared as he has
been. in that school Of politics whose textbook is
the Constitution, and whose great object is devotion
to the Union. he stands to-day before the world as
the staunch advocate of all those constitutional
rights which are the common heritage Of a free
people That man is DANIEL s. Dickinson, of New
York His career as Statesman has never been
stained with faint of sectiOnalism, His acute and
subtle intellect his varied attainments his sound
ness on every question which threatens to ALLEVIATE
the two sections of our country, eminently qualify
him 10 expose the heresies of DOUGLAS, and rebuke
the fanatical teachings of AbOtionism. Let him be
called by the voice of grateful people, like CNCIN-
NATUs, from the calm retracy of his home, and our
country will still continue in her course OF prosper
itv, dispensing the blessings of liberty and religion
to millions of freemen. But the Charleston Con
vention will also have to select some man for Vice
President We have in the exercise of the right of
every freeman, given expression of our opinion
AZ to who should be the first on the ticket and
now. with due Difference and respect to the opin-
ions of others, we will suggest our preference,
the Hon. IsHAM G. HARRIS our efficient Executive,
for theli Vice Presidency. His profound knows
edge of the great questions which are agitatng the
public mind, his Incorporating devotion to De-
mocracy, as the legitimate teachings Of the Consti-
tuition, his gallant defence Of every constitutional
guarantee to the South all loudly proclaim him The
man for the times.
Endeared as he is to the people of Tennessee, by
his able administration of its government his name
would awaken an enthusiasm throughout the South,
and inspire the hearts of her chivalrous with
the memories which cluster around the brilliant
| campaigns of JACKSON and Polk. Such are the
men for the times. The names of Dickinson and
| HARRIS would strike terror to the hearts of our
foes and victory again ud flash along the ranks
of the united Democracy. SHIRLY.