Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-04-30
STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
SATURDAY, APRIL 80, 1859.
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The editorial department of the Union and
American of yesterday, exhibits an unusual
amount of industry. The care and labor be-
slowed in preparing that particular issue was
undoubtedly great. While peering about in
that labyrinth of political lOre-that museum
of American craftsmanship that charnel
house of d. ceased names and men, measures
and principles--that laboratory of laboring
and -weafing and experimenting politicians,
the Congressional Globe and Appendir, in search
ofvotes on appropriation bills, the editors of
the Union and american stumbled upon a relic
of wonderful interest. 1t was deposited du-
ring the 34lh Congress, by gentleman, bear
ing the s;ngnlarly rare name of SMITH, who
had picked il up in his explorations, and car
ried it to Washington. Mr.. SMITH doubtless
thought that it would be of incalculable ben
eft to the future political antiquarian, who.
being out of a job, could make his fortune by
exhibiting it to the country, and getting them
to believe that the household and political
happiness Of every family in the land depen-
ded, in some mysterious way. upon getting
view of il So the considerable SMITH put il
in the Globe. Upon its discovery by the as
siduous editors aforesaid, they rolled their
lustrous eyes in amazement; they took it
daintily in their hands; looked at it and then
at each other; then one nodded a significant
nod, and the other responded in the same style
of nod; they put their heads together and
inspected it with the closest scrutiny; they
found il to contain a small bit of the burnt
wick OF a dark lantern"-this extraordinary
discovery gave to it an unutterable interest;
their eyes were still further dilated; their
nostrils were even distended, and they thought
they caught the scent of rancid oil. At least
we fancy the editors did as described.
Now. if there is anything in this world that
will throw democratic editor into rage, it
isthe sight Of the wick of dark lantern"
and the smell of oil under such circumstances
as to justify the opinion that that oil had once
been used in a dark lantern" We have our
suspicious that the aforesaid editors found
themselves greatly shocked and enraged at
the above-named terrible discovery. The
whilcm gaze Of wonder, was displaced by
flashes OF fiery Indignation; the countenances
that were lighted 10y lively glow of curiosity
aroused. were flushed with passion. The ge-
MUS OF hate now waved his wand in that sane
tIm, and the terrible visions OF u disastrous
past filed the prospect from horizon to zenith.
But this was not the worst. Bad as the
wick o. the lantern is, and nauseous as is the
smell Of the oil, there is another ingredient
which aJd.d IN ho mi tura nnoLaS "a conn
pound, which will throw a southern democrat
ic editor into instant spasms and commissions
that ingredient is the scent of the niger"
Unfortunately for our friends, the said editors.
they discovered the prevalence of this mig
ger" odor this fatal, foul, rank perfume of
Congo, TO exist about this antique relic, which
that most thoughtful of men, SMITH, had
placed in the Globe A fit was inevitable, and
they straightway had fit. So soon as prac-
ticable under the circumstances, a fitting case
was prepared in which the relic was placed
and daily set forth in the Union and american
for the public view.
To- those of our RAIDERS who do not peruse
the Union & AHlaiean, we may explain that
the curiosity which so much agitated and
outraged the sensibilities of our neighbors.was
an attract from a speech made by Hon. SAM.
A. SMITH. Representative in Congress from
Tennessee. on the 4th of April 1856. charging
that majority of the House at that time
were Know Nothings, and that majority of
that party were abolitionists. Singular
enough, the CnIon and American forgets that
the seventy-ive members whom Mr.. SMITH
enumerated as voting for BANKS for speaker
on the finai ballot, and whom he classified rs
Know Nothings, perhaps, without exception.
voted for FREMONT in 1856 and against Mr..
FILLMORE the American candidate for the
Presidency; that they have been the constant
opponents of the American party ever since;
and that the true conservative American
memh, re of the House at the time mentioned,
were voting against BANKS for speaker, AID
for national conservative member of their
own p riy. We. however, account for this
obliviousness on the ground that the horrible
compound of lantern wick. oil, and that in
comparable odor of the niger had tempo
rarily dcpriv, our nelghbors OF the power TO
look on more than one side Of the subject
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