Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-12-17
snirit of The OppositIon Prom.

The Baltimore Patriot the leading organ of Know
Nothingism in Maryland, is very much dspleased
with the meetings of conservative citizens in the
Northern cities discountenance the fanacal spirit
so rife of late Il says;
ave perceive that the locofocO dough faces in
Boston New York and Philadelphia, propose hold
ing meetings Tor the purpose of appeasing the wrath
Of lOcofOcO disunionsts in the South at the recent
exhibitions foolish sentmentasm for ohm Brown,
by handful. here and there, of abolition disunon-
lists in those cities If there be any character IN the
world that have any contempt for it is the dirt
eating dough-face of the free States. He has no
real regard whatever for the South and its insttu-
tions, and yet under the pretense of sympathy for
them he will proclaim himself our friend. keeping
his eyes steadily all the while upon the pJco'idry
benefit 10 be derived therefrom. he will do any
thing that Southern tre-eaters will require Of him,
even to licking tie very dust of their shoes; and
though these paYtisans are perfectly aware of his
hypocrisy yet strange 10 say they affect to be graf
fled at the exhibition. Why is this? Because they
hope thus 20 get his VOC. This is the sum and sub
of the whole operation and what is more, its
real oeiect The locofocos Of the South demand the
sacrifice. and the locofocos Of the North ready
10 make IT,
1--WE want nothing to do with douChface sentiment
The American party Of Maryland know what they
themselves think of slavery, and they willing
that the people of other States shall have their opn
ions about it They do not hold that difference
of opinion on this any other subject, is sufficient
10 keep the opponents of lOcOfoco!sm apart in the
great struggle of next fall Indeed they believe the
expulsion of the ocofoco party from power will be
sure to result IN excluding the question Of slavery
from politics entirely
The New York Tribune is filled with articles Of
the same character. The Cincinnati Comnereial
another Black Republican organ, in it's repRdiatiGS
Of these meetings. saws
The North has no need of resolutions and speech
IS TO testify her regard for she Union. She has
never yet exhibited any evidence of contrary tenn
per. She has left the eguvocsl glory Of denouncing
the Urion 10 her Southern brethren. We hear of no
Union meetings called in the South. No ppans OF
graduation Tor the blessings Of a united Republic,
go up from Southern conventions. No conservative
exrressious OF a determination TO stand by the
Union, come what may come. are heard from that
quarter. The UuiOn-sa vcrs DO not appear 10 live,
where alone they are needed, in the section where
the continued cNlsteuce of ,he confederation is
daily menaced. The Scriptures inform us that
They that are whole have no need of q physician,
but they that scy but it turns out in the nres
snt that the healthy and sane member takes all
the medicine, while the sick and insane patient con-
tinues TO rave as violently and incuraby as ever.
If these meetings At The North contemplate no
more than the Commercial gives them credit fora
simple declaration in favor Of the Union-then we
agree with 1t that there is but little use for such
rankest Abolitoniss to declare themselves the most
ultra of "Union men" determined to continue it nv
coercion. if necessary. But the Commercial, with
some plausibiity speaks OF disaecton at the South
it's svident dispeasure is any demonstrations IA
vorabe to national sentiment az the North looking
TO preservation Of he Union by the observance OF
the constitutional rights of the slave States