Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-04-09
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1859.
Democratic Tactics.

The democracy are determined not to give
up power,without the most desperate struggle.
Their last hope and their last resort will be a
complete standardization of the country, and
probable disruption of the government.
They will run any hazard, even the most
reckless and desperate, to retain possession
of power. They evidently regard their own
retention of place as superior to a continu-
ance of the Union, and prefer to give the Re-
public up to anarchy and civil war sooner
than relax their grasp upon the offices. There
is now scarcely glimmer of hope for De
mocratic triumph in 1860. But there is a
prospect that the conservative and patriotic
people of the Union will rally to a man and
a standard, on that OCCASION that will over
whelm and crush the fanaticism OF abolition
ists in the North and extinguish the traitor
GUS fomenters of secession and disunion in
the South; a man, a standard and a party
which will be national, patriotic, and trust
worthy, which will wrench the constitution
and laws from the grasp of their revilers and
uphold and protect them against assaults
from whatever quarter. The germ of this
the declarations and resolutions of the Oppo-
sition in Virginia Kentucky and Tennessee;
and will be still further developed and
strengthened by the coming action of North
Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana. On the
success of the Opposition in these States
mainly depends whether there can be great,
overwhelming, national rally for the momen-
tous struggle of 1850.
1t is to beat down this movement that the
Democratic leaders and organs are bending
their utmost energies. Throughout this spring
and summers campaign, especially in Vir-
gina Kentucky and Tennessee, they will
bring to bear their fercest denunciations and
most violent assaults. They have already, in
subdued tones, sounded the cry that the con-
test of 1860 is to be fought between the North
and the South such--that the great battle
of the sections cannot be longer postponed,
what ever may be the result And the argu-
ment to bolster up the bald assumption is,
that whoever is not Democrat, whether he
halls from the North or the South, is an enc
my to slavery--that the Opposition at the
South are enemies to her institutions, only
seeking an opportunity to sell out to the abo-
litionists of the North for the sake of sharing
ia the plumber incident to a victory. This,
with all its changes and variations of FEEDER
alism, Bank and Tariff monOpolies, will be
the staple and substance of Democratic
thought and speech during the tendency of
all our Southern State elections. And while
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gross and prepOsterous charges, they will con-
tinue to make them, with all the ineffable
GOODNESS and pertinacity for which many of
their organs and speakers are distinguished.
We point them in vain to the declaration
of principles, as laid down by the State Con-
vention, and challenge them to point to line
which suggests union with any but the con-
sentative, patriotic, union-lOving citizens of
the country; line or word that, in any
event, proposes to yield or barter scintilla
of the constitutional rights of any section, or
any man of any section. The Opposition at
the South present to the people of the South,
as we'll as those Of the North, catalogue of
aims and principles, unsectional in every line
and sentcnce-they ask sacrifices from no
quarter-they hold up the Constitution and
the laws-and they invite all who concur
with them to vote with them. They are in
tent alike on throttling abolition fanaticism
North, and secession, disanion fanaticism
South; and on restoring the government to its
original fraternity and purity. If u majority
OF the people of the country are moved by
by like feelings, We will succeed; if not,
then hnaticism will have to do its unholy
work of overthrowing the Union.
We now, in advance. guard the people
against trusting in the reckless assertions and
charges of the Democracy, as above foreshad-
owed. If that party is resolved to follow the
example of Sampson, who, in the hour of his
humiliation and shame, overturned the walls
of the temple let the people take waraiug,
and 'stand from under" There Is q chance
for safety; and who does not avail himself Of
1t, let ruin be upon his head.