Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-07-07
THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1859.

he tCol. Ready is opposed 10 the "Oppo.
I position with more bitterness and rancour
than is any regular Democratic candidate in
the State.-Cnion and american.
We commend the above to the considera-
ton of those members Of the Opposition, who
have determined 10 support Col. READY.
From this declaration and the further one.
occurring in the same article, that he Unjust
in the future. in the defence of those princi-
pies and positions which he enunciates in
this canvass. be found cooperating with the
DEMOCRATIC party" we must consider Col.
READY as the representative and exponent of
democratic principles and positions''-all
those principles and positions" announced
by that party in this canvass. In other
words, Col. READY has abandoned all his for
mer political friends, forsaken his former DO
iiticai principles and positions and will be here
after found acting and cooperating with the
democratic party. Will the Wings and Am
orleans, and Others in that district, who op-
pose the principles, positions and practices of
the democratic party, as now constituted and
governed, yield their support and influence
to man who is more bitterly and rancor-
ously opposed to them ethan any regular
democratic candidate in the States" We
suppose the Union and american speaks .by
the card, and that Col. READY has at length
gone over, body and breeches, to the De-
mocracy. In this condition of things, the
duty OF the Opposition is plain There can
DC no longer any halfway ground They must
abandon their friends and go over to their en-
emles, or they must stand to their colors and
refuse to be dragooned into the camp and
service OF their foes. They will choose be-
tween the alternatives. For our part. there
would be no time necessary to that choice.
we would rally to the standard of Col.
HATToN with all ardor and devotion. While
we would yield to Col. READY every measure
of freedom to take whatever course MIGHT
seem 10 him best, either as politician or an
individual, we should not permit any per-
sonai predictions which We may have form
ed to Interfere with what we conceived to be
high political and patriotic duty. We
should part company without a moments
hesitation, however desirable, from personal
considerations that company might be. upon
the instant our conscience and our duty 10
ourselves and our country prompted it. If
We set out together with Christian bible
from which We are to draw our instruction
and by which to guide our course, we should
not feel under the slightest obligation of apy
sort, 10 discard it and take the Alcoran. on
the suggestion OF a companion on the journey
Ii Col. READY has thrown himself into the
arms OF the Democracy, let him look to his
ew friends for all the comfort. and consola-
tions necessary to reconcile him to his new
position Ii he has not, of which we have
scarcely the shadow of doubt, let him meet
the assertions of his advocate and defender,
the O,'iOn and American, and deny their truth
These assertions place Col. READY in a posi-
ton that justice aud candor and fairdealing.
both with the Democracy and che Opposition,
demand a frank avowal from him.