Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-03-15
THURSDAY, mAn0E IS, 1850.


4" AT this hour (midnigh0 we are enabled to an
nounce that the Republican City ticket is elected,
after the most desperate hattie ever fought in Chi
cage, by fourteen hundred majority! The Pro
Slavery Democracy have met a perfect Waterloo
defeat
The result is the most striking instance Of party
discipline Coupled with an overpowering feeling in
behalf Of the approaching Presidential electionO
ever presented by municipal election IN this coun-
try. Personal issues the most deep-seated, anlmos
ties tie NEST viruent feuds Of the longest standing
ali were forgotten in the impending danger Of
PrO-SlaYery triumph, and the Republican party Of
Chicago was 3teUa so united as on yesterday morn
ing, when the voting commenced.
We find the above extracts from the Chicago Press
BLACK Republican, under a sensation heading in
the Cincinnati Gazette. All Black Republican-dOm
is iubilant at the defeat Of the Democratic candi
date for Mayor in Chicago. We are told that the
Republicans held perfect carnival; ten bon-ires
were blazing at once; crowds in one part Of the
street were shouting, in others singing" Never
In our municipal history continues the Press,
has there been such 4 demonstration Of delight
after political contest Never was it so glorousy
warranted by the result" There is it seems to US
much food for reflection in these clippings to all
Southern men who struggle for party only that they
over whom these shouts Of triumph have been rails
ed? Who is it, that after the most desperate bat
tie ever fought in Chicago" has met a perfect
Waterloo defeat? It is THE PBo-SLAvERY De-
NocRAcr!' A party fighting not for the protection
Of their own peculiar institutions, for their own
homes and fresides, not for an institution in
which they have any individual or collective inter-
est, fighting, not for slavery in Chicago, but
fighting for principle in the maintenance Of which
is involved the life, the fortunes and the sacred
honor Of their SOUTHERN BRETHREN. The battle was
not fought by rs but by Northern volunteers for as.
While these s1rmishesare coming off in advance Of
the great battle in November, how are we of the
South regarding the two contending parties in the
North for be it remembered that there were but
two parties in Chicago in any Of the free States
where the spring elections have or are about to
come OFF, One the "pro-slavery Democracy" as
they termed by their Northern opponents. The
other, the Black Republican party, party which
the Black Republican Mayor of Chicago defines to
be "a mere fusion of men agreeing on one question
and differing upon almost al others How are we
of the South regarding these two contending par
ues? We regret to say that there is large and re-
spectacle minority, respectable in numbers and
in ability, who unhestatngly avow their unwilling
ness to unite with those northern uohmtees who are
in the midst Of The enemy fighting our battles They
vehemeEty refuse to join those pro-slavery demo-
crats in thor efforts to throttle Black Republican
ism. On the contrary, they daily endeavoring
to drepreciate the Democracy Of the Nation in pub
lie estimation by the continual assertion regardless
Of the eandor Of history that Black RepubIcanism
is the child Of Democracy. Every blow ofthe Demo-
cratic party aimed at Black RepUblcanism is, we
grieve to say, attempted to be parried by thrust
at those high-mettled natives Of the South, whose
Sensitive regard Ior their constitutional rights has
been touched to the quick by the oftrepeated and
continually recurring attacks of the Black Repubi-
can party upon the vital interests of the Southern
people. ~ ny cannot we OF the South learn les
son from the example set US by the Black RepuBli-
cans Of Chicago? Why cannot we Of the South,
whose rights and interests are identical, forget
in the impending danger Of a Black Republican
triumph" personal issues, the most deep seated
animosites the most virulent feuds Of the longest
standing" There is in the result Of the struggle
principle vital to at stake. The battle is to be
lost or won in the Northern States There are there
but two great parties arrayed for the fight. Can
not the entire South with one heart and one voice
throw the weight Of their influence in favor of that
party whose victory will be our triumph whose
defeat viii be cur ruin! Let not Black Republican
Senator's longer say 1--WE shall have glorious allies
in the South" Let not the Northern Democracy
again tell .the Southern people to t1,s cue Of h:ir
enemies at their oJcn doors and the Democracy OF the
EI,riI lrU do he rest