Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-05-09
From the Opposition.
OUR JOURNAL.


Opposition
Opposition to the enormous and unneces-
sary increase of the public expenditures, and
to the extravagances and corruptions prae-
tised under the existing Democratic rule.
Opposition to the policy of entrusting to the
Executive the purse and the sword, as illustra-
sed by the $50 ,OO0, 900 bill and the recommen-
aation by the President to Congress to trans
fer to him the war-making power in respect
to Mexico and the Central American States.
Opposition to the monstrous project OF
| bank bankrupt law, which, together with
other measures of Federal ACKNOWLEDGMENT
recommended and sanctioned by the present
Administration, lays the axe to the root OF
State Rights, and in comparison with the
kigb-toned federalism of which the alien and
! sedidition laws dwindle into utter insignif-
| eance.
| Opposition to Presidential interference with
the freedom of elections and the right OF SUI
Eage, as exemplifed in the removal by Mr..
Buchanan of his own appointees to Office in
Illinois, because they would not war upon a
Senator of the United States of his own party
sor pursuing a course, as Senator, contrary to
the wishes of the President
Opposition to the national indulgence of a
] morbid and unhealthy appetite for territorial
acquisition, which, losing sight of every prin-
ciple ofhonor, justice and sound policy, and
at the imminent risk of war, would. by cum
| ming and dishonest contrivances or open force
| If necessary, extend indefinitely the limits OF
| the Republic, and absorb into our system
mongrel populations, which, after years Of
trial, have conclusively shown their utter in
ability durably 10 establish and peaceably &c
| live under free representative government
| Opposition to the further agitation of the
slavery question, as leading to no practical
| good 10 any portion of our country, but
fraught with peril to the peace and perpetu
| ity of the Union.
| Opposition to the division of the country
into two sectional parties-which will be the
inevitable result of the continued ascendency
of the Democratic party in the Southern
| States.
| Opposition to the fomenting of jealousies
dissensions and beart-burnings between diff
ferent sections of our common country, by
misrepresenting the aims and opinions of the
people Of the different sections in regard to
one another.
| Observation-Disclosures untiring opposi
| tion-to a dissolution of the Union, and tC
all parties, as such, which cherish and uphold a
leaders men who are known to entertain the
spirit OF disunion in their hearts, or whose
| professions, doctrines and acts manifestly tend
J to that result.
Opposition to an indiscrimnate warfare
upon the BANKS of our State and pandering
to the popular prejudice against the banking
system, which has become $50 deeply engraft
ed" into our .'pecuniary relations" and oul
modes of business, that its abolition would
be in the highest degree destructive to the
best interests of the State, and bring wide
spread and lasting blight upon its prosperity
OPPOSITION to the wild policy of an exclu
sively metallic currency, which, if carried into
effect, would, in the language of JAMES BUCH
ANIN, sat once diminish the nominal value o
all property more than so per cent?
would, in effect, double the amount of every
mans debts"-"woulde enrich creditors at thu
expense of their debtors''-and "make thu
rich richer and the poor poorer"
Opposition to direct taxation, which is openly
advocated by "a portion Of the Democratic
party, and which would be the necessary ant
inevitable result Of the carrying out of thu
Democratic doctrine of free trdde-direct tax
alton and free trade being, in effect, one ant
the same thing.
Opposition to a continuance of the Demo
cratic policy of giving away millions of acre
of the public lands to the Re,1 States, an(
persistently refusing to grant an acre to tn
old States.
Opposition to the borrowing Of money AM
the creation of public debt by the nationa
government, in time of peace, to aid in carry
ing on its ordinary operations, without at tn
same time making due and adequate provis
ion for its prompt redemption.
Opposition to the admission into this coun
try of foreign paupers and crimnals-to th'
voting at the polls by foreigners NOT natural
ized-and to all evasOns and violations of tn
naturalization laws.
Opposition to any further increase of tn
State debt, unless for some object Of indispa
sabLe public necessity.
Opposition, in fine, to Modern Democracy
which is false in its name, insincere in its pro
fessions, destructive in its tendencies, unpa
triotic in its purposes, and in its practice
highly detrimental to the public good.
Opposition! 1t is, at this important con
juncture in our national aud state affairs,
good name, peculiarly appropriate name,
highly patriotic name for party that woul
save the country from the blighting effect
and the fatal consequences of a longer contir
ance of Democratic misrule.
OppositionI Under that name we shaI
conquer
To your posts then, o, Wings and Amer
cans, and patriotic men OF all parties who ar
opposed to sectionalism, to disunionism, an
to the extravagances, and corruptions, an
Federalism, which characterize the existin
Democratic rule. at is your country de-
mands your aid"