Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-11-13

The Nashville UNION AND AMERICAN asserts that the
people OF Tennessee. when they elected Gov. Harris
BY Goa majority. BY so doing declared it their
wish that the Legislature should pass such laws
would practically abolish all honest banking COM
panies in the StaJc.-Nte5yC6e ErpRStor.
Now the UNION AND AMERICAN has lot asserted any
thing Of the kind. The fabrication Of such state
meuts as the above Is the only resource Of those who
hope by pandering to bank influence and advocating
rotten system. 10 get help inpolidcal contests from
the controllers Of the circulating medium. Wecon
tend that the people Of the State by eight thousand
majority in the late election expressed their deter
limitations for reform in the banks. by which secTi-
TITO the people should be exacted: that legislation
should no longerlook principally to the profits OF the
bank but to the security Of the people.
The same paper says:
..Now. we happened 10 be in Nashville on the day
of the election and distinctly remember TO have
heard certain prominent Democratic politician to
publicly challenge any man to SLOW hirl difference
between Gov. Harris and John -'etheTland on the
subject Of banking
The challenge was safe one: because NEITHER
LAND proposed. SO far as We recolect, nothing. He
assailed the Democracy being hostile to the banks;
but he advocated no measure for himself, between
which and those proposed by Gov. HARREs any dis
tincton could be drawn. be was opposition to
Gov HARRIS; but in what particular respect this
Ioppostion consisted, his best friend could not tell
A favorite banner Of the opposition, carried in all
their professions had inscribed on 1t, ''NETHERLAND
and the BANKS" Al over the state the issue was
made .NErHEuIAEr and Banks; while our watch
words. "IsERiS and tbc People, showed our will
ingness to meet the issue fairly as the result show
ed our reliance on the People to have been
securer one than the reliance Of the opposition on
Banks.
What we saw thon. and what we claim having
been the decision Of the People, IS not that all
Banks shall be cradicated we have never proposed
tbis-but that the People shall be made secure, and
the Banks made subject at ali times. to such gener
al laws as the Legislature may pass.
Referring 70 statement in the Memphis Appeal
that FerprRIcz F. SrAxroN has recently delivered
snoech in which he formally takes leave of the
D.r,ocrstic marty and cSp0uses the cause OF the
Black Republicans the Bdu'e, says:
Hero is another prominent Democrat added to
she No-r,rrn side of the 'irrepressible conflict,
OF such is gha Black Republican party M the main.
Now. when this same FREDERICK p STANTON took
ground with Nr Bell and the Black Republicans
against the admission of slave State into the Union
the BapEsr cuiogzed him an independent free |
spoken man. and cel,urtd the severity with which
he was treated by Democratic Journals Now that |
he has formally united with party. with which the
:. leader and representative man OF the Banners |
party has So long cooperatod. that journal excaims
with seeming horror " here is another prominent |
"Democrat added to ihe Northern side of the ire
"pressibe conflict" The Bo5o,or was hut lately
hand aud glove with STANTON, defending him from
the assaults OF the Democratic party, and quoting
his authority against he admission OF hansans with
the Lecompton Constitution. Truly may our cob
temporary excaim q" Oh such is the Black Republi-
can party in the MAN,