Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-10-19

An article in the Government paper OF
Yesterday, intended to be responsive to our
recent protest against any absorption of the
Wings ia the body of the Democratic party,
contains the following statement, which we
quote in the emphatic typography Of our
neighbor:
Is.The great battle of 1860. il must be obvi-
Gus. will be between the NATIONAL DEMO
CRAcY and the SECTIONAL REPUBLICANS. What
ever differences may exist in the ranks OF Inc
former will be settled, the country may be as
sured. without fail, and decIsively, WITHIN
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY; II. Indeed, tney are
not already adjusted"
In the same editorial column, under the
head of whats the Difference" the Cdastitu-
fion comics The following observation from a
Democratic journal in the State of Missouri:
"Seward says there is an .irreprcssible con-
fict' between slaveholdiDg and the nom
slaveholding States. Douglas in his recent
manifesto. labors to prove that there is an
.irrepressibie conflict and il always has been
so: that IL, one makes the assertion. and the
other labors hard 10 prove that it is SO. and
always has been so. What's the difference?
we ask .'--Cdnfon (Iho.) Northeast Reporter.
II thus Sc ms, according to the repre senta-
tions OF the official journal. that "the differ
ences which exist in the ranks of the Demo
cracy,, and which ,oW assuredly be 'ssettled
,cftllin the party" Qf"not already adjusted"
are differences as radical as those which sepa-
rate Mr.. Seward from the communion of the
faithful. Yet the Constitution confidently pre-
diets that the Democracy will arrange thee'
family discussions ir1thu, their party organic
alton, and therefore not by the excision o.
any unsound member of the body.
In another column of the same issue the
official paper quotes the fluctuations of thu
Albany atlas on the number of the Old-Lint
Wings in New York who have 'flocked to the
| standard of the Democracy" and who are
| welcomed to the said standard, '"Jtcduse," a
| that journal adds, ''we are assured they COM
to US not for spoiis. but from principle" We are
not appriZed of any recent accessions to thu
! Democracy of New York from the ranks o
| the small but steadfast band of Wings in thai
potential State, but if there are any. il mus
be admitted that they are welcomed into The
bosom of the party grounds not ittls
significant of what the Democracy propose
TO themselves as the highest good. and o
what the Wigs are expected to surrender for
the unselfish promotion Of that highest good
in the hands of their ancient opponents. Now
il is natural that the Democracy should make
a reservation in their own favor with respect
to the spo:ls," and to this the Wings car
have no obj. ction, but we respectfully submit
to the Constitution that ii makes an exorbitani
demand when it asks them TO come to the De
mocracy "a from principle" especially at a
time when the party, according to its own
showing, is expected to close up its ranks By
composing differences as radical and wide as
those which exist between National Democ-
racy" and sectional Republicanism."
1t may be very proper for democrats, y
however heterogeneous, to combine by set
Ting their own sectional differences within
the party" but surely our neighbor would
not have Old-Line Wings to enter into any
utilization with such unsound elements Al
any rate we must protest against the .coali-
ton We would have the Wings to stand
by their colors and to bide their time for
action. If the Democracy, recanting it,
errors shall come to them, a new aspect will
be put upon the face of all propositions for
| a union, and the terms on which Wings can
unite with Democrats are terms on which
they can unite with conservative members OF
any other existing political organization.
Indeed, If the Democracy shall think fit, in q
spirit of patriotism. to come over to tine
Wing party and support Whig measures, so
far from denying them any share of 1.-THE
spOils," (Which they so ungraci0usly refuse
| to deserters from the Republican ranks,)
they may, so far as our consent can go. have
all 1.-THE spols" The Democracy of Massa-
chusetts, in discarding one of their ancient
heieries' anu III duoPtinR the "niS P"icy VI
protective tariff. have given an earnest OF
the method by which the way may be opened
for such coadjntors as Wings will "welccme. /"
Let the Democracy of the Union initiate this
example OF their brethren in the old Bay
State, and if they shall so far conquer their
prejudices as to discard their heresies on
other points of doctrine and practices. th y
will no longer have any occasion to depre.
cate "fusion between Old-Linr Wings and
Sectional Rcpubicans;" for the Wfigs, with
| ont stipulating for even share in 1.-The
spoils," will readily unite with any party
which shall accept their principles.-Ndt. Int