Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-01-29

communications WHICH We receive 70 decline the
publication of any of them We can make no dis
tnctiOns, and friends viii admit the impossible
ity of publishing all when we inform them that we
frequently receive dozen letters of this kind 10 one
day.
The Tory Press i'm England and America.
---Assaults on John Bright and Andrew
johnson.
Parties are just the same now that they were in
the days Of JEFFERSON and HAMILTON. As time
has rolled on men and circumstances have changed,
new issues have sprung up and disappeared bat the
great and leading principles in government that d
vided men then, divide them DOW This is manifest
ed by the sympathy OF the Tory party in this coun-
try for the Tory party of Eogaud in their recent
assault upon Mr. john Bright one of the best men
of the British Parlisment and a leader Of the Re-
form party in England. The great cry in England
against the Parliamentary Reform proposed by Mr..
Bright is that he wishes 10 Anlsrieaaizs England
Was ever man engaged in a nobler mission? Aud
yet the Federal press in this country in this
nothing more merritorous than the mere restless
ness Of demagogue, seeking to elevate himself aud
retsiners 20 positions for which they are qualified
neither by birth, talents, nor interest,"" and not
content with the aid and comfort which they are
thus giving to the enemies of free government in
Europe, they seek to strike down of the leading
friends of popular rights in this country by mis-
representing and assaiing Andrew johnson as a
prototype of the great English Reformer. Andrew
Johnson could ask no higher compliment than such
comparison; and John Bright needs no higher
praise than to be known to be in Europe what An
drew johnson is in this country, the advocate of
popular rights and the unainching friend of the
people.
At large meeting recently held at Manchester,
England, Mr.. Bright replied to the charges against
him, from which we extract the following:
But still know exactly how We shall be met
'You are going TO Amercanze US - Laughter.
Nothing is dreadful TO Englshman, who is
thinking Of emigratng across the Atlantic as that
we should be Americanized in England. Laughter
That is phrase coined by some cunning knsve-
Laughter INTENDED to catch good many very
simple dupes, and 10 doubt it will csteh some of
them; out 1 should like 10 ask these gentlemen
whether representation is not an English custom
and an English principle.-They were Englishmen
who first took it 10 the United States TCheers
lis said that wherever Engishman goes just
as he takes with him his white skin he takes with
him the foundation Of representative institutions
He has taken them already to the Cape; he is al
ready as busy as possible in building up four or i've
monarchIcal republics in Australia; he has car
ried the representative system TO Canada; he car
res l. Wherever ne goes. hhy, the Dill or 1857
was desperate measure in the direction of Ameri-
csDizing US. L. took some boroughs where twtlve
members Of a corporation returned the members to
Parliament, and il gave the suffrage to some five
thousand of the people. Was not that American
-izing such bor0ughs with vengeance? Laugh
ter. The more you extend your representation,
the more, Of course, you become like that SYSTEMATIC
and theoretically perfect representation which ex
lists in the United States. Hear, hear "
An humble individual like myself comes before
his constituents and he finds nation Of twenty or
thirty mll!lons, chiefly Englisbmen, the other
side Of The Ailautic-He finds there, with some
small exceptions in two three of the Transatan-
tic Cities which are more German and Irish than
American, 10 all the free States law and order and
security for properly equal TO that which is found
IN any other country IN the world lGheers. i
h says that 70 his constituents; he is Indicted for
II, they do not iUhict upon him SO many months
Imprisonment, but some scores of writers for the
Freshmen who some Of them, pretend to be ID
favor of liberty in EuglaHd, but mea who, if they
were dressed IN the earb which most becomes them,
would be desssed ia push bud laughter and con-
tlnue1 cheering these ns5n assaIl me, and pro-
baby, if / we're France and they were IN France
also, would do their best 10 iEd5t and prosecute
me- One word more upon this have said over
and over again that perhaps the very last man
IN England who would propose any institution here
because found II elsewhere II am not inseDsible |
te some things that appear to me to be errors in
prinClPle-sOme that are in principle-in the
o
but protest glust cur being shut up to take no.
thing from America, but cotton. and rice aud to- |
baCc0 Laughter and cheers. Anything but pol |
Iics-[ renewed laughter you may Ieiis bit your |
selves with their Charming poets, If you hke-With |
Bryant, Whittier and LOUgellOw; yOI nav int crest
yourself by their great historians, Bancroft Pres |
colt, aud MOtley-but if you ask how free popular /
institutions are working aneng your own Coun-
tTymen on the American continent, you are de
nounoed as unpatrigtic, aud at suy raj reasonable
IN he nOfI nrAa ovI1
The Stiffness Of these assaults upon the great
English Commoner are only equalled by the ig |
noranee displayed by the same Tory party in this .
country in their structures upon Andrew johnson, .
in his advocacy of popular rights The Lynchburg .
JTgiHiaT, from which We quoted a few days since,
says
Not content with universal suffrage-not content |
with conferring this boon upon even unnauraized
fOreigners-Mr. Andrew Johnson has, in his time
proposed even that Federal Constitution be so
amended as TO put the election of Senators Of the
United States, and Judges of the Supreme Court,
into the hands Of he people He would do away
with the intervention OF the Electoral College, thus
placing the South completely at the mercy q dom
inant northern majOrity
More bungling errors, uusustained by circum-
stance OF fact, could not be compressed within so
short a space-and yet with just enough of truth to
find ready believers, with those who are not aux-
ious to disbelieve, and with opposing partizans in
Andrew Johnsons State who do not hesitate 10 cir
culas such charges. Ist, Andrew Johnson never
favored comforting suffrage on unnaturalzed for
eiguers. "a Andrew johnson never proposed to
so amend the Federal Constitution put The cleo
tiou Of Judges Of the Supreme Court into the hands
Of the people Sd, He never proposed TO 50 do
away with the Electoral College as to place the
South at the mercy OF q dominant Jrthern ma
jOrity, in any manner interfere with our present
representation lessen strength in the election
Of President and Vice President. This being SO, !
sh, recklessness Of Federalism rccOils upon their
own heads. What Andrew johnson did propose we
will again publish, particularly for the en-
ghtenment of those in his own State who persist &
IN ignorance upon this subject lie proposed I,
lst That hereafter the President and Vice Presi>
lent shall be chosen directly by the people Of the
several States (insead Of by electors, in the man
Ter following: Each State shall be divided By the
legislature thereof iato Districts equal in number 10
he agkos number Of Senator'S and Representatives 10
rL,ch such Stat, may be enned m the Congress cfths
y7d States the said districts to be composed fcon
iguous territory, sud to contain as nearly as may
-, an eoual number OF persons entitled TO be repre-