Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-12-21

An ANGRY PASS'N.-Our benevolent but
excitable old friend of the Murfreesboro
Noos has got mad at us-very mad indeed.
We are very sorry for it, and write this ar
ticle as an apology, and trust that when he
has read it over carefully three or four times,
he will get in good humor, and come down
to Nashville and go on bust with us.
Not long ago he pretended to think. but
all in fun you know, that the Nashville pa
pers had not told straight tale about an
occurrence which happened here, and as that
story was not suited to his purpose, be in
vented one that was, which be Immediately
patented and published. We referred, in
the words of soberness and truth, to his Pc
culiar way of fixing things up, without any
desire or intention whatever to upset his
tichlish soul and
'sPour its sweet milk Of concord into hip d.
but we did it, nevertheless. The head and
front of our offending have this extent-no
more. And yet, the Pass'n has got mad
He's mad now. A Bengal tiger, fresh caught
and Gagged, and stirred up with pitch-fork,
is as mild. compared to him, as very young
lamb. He calls us millions of hard names |;
in fact, he calls us everything but gentle
man, aud it is wonder be did MT call us
that, as he evidently has no conception of
what the term means. 10 contemplating the
enOrmity of our offense. he finds it utterly
impossible to stick in his boots. and goes so
far in the path of profanity as to say we are
''infernally Mistaken" clearly giving as to
understand that be would say .'d-n it, if he
church. For our part, We can't see how the
church could get along without him, and for
tunately for its public and private interests,
he has had the presence of mind in this case
Of bitter temptation not to swear "'out loud"
at least not to swear TO say swear. We
hope he never will forget himself in that way
and be forced to appear openly in the midst
of the beggarly elements of the world.
Speaking of such things-every church
ought to support a stumblng.block or two,
! to keep the great mass of repentent rascals
| beyond its pale, or locofocOism and other
| species of vice and immortality would be
wiped out entirely, and the calling of the
| pulpit, like the occupation of OTHELLo, would
soon be gone. We say this in no spirit of ip-
reverent levity, for we cherish the highest
reverence for the pulpit, and for all who en-
ter it with pure hearts and clean hands aud
we never speak disrespectfully of the cloth
Of the minister when the man who wears it
is himself worthy of respect.
The editor of the Noos says he presumes
/ the article in the PATRIOT about which he
| kicks up such dust, was written by kind
Of SUD in this office. In this the Pass'n is
correct. We are "a kind of sub. In fact, we
| are several kinds of sub. And there the
Pass'n has the advantage of us. But we are
not one of the subs of the devil. And here
we have the advantage of the Pass'n.
! OF course the editor of the Noos expects Us
to fly Into passion over the hard things lie
/ says at our expense, but there are not ten
men in Rutherford county strong enough to
| fling US into anything OF that sort. Whom
the gods would destroy they first make mad. -