Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-02-14


ealary, u lose which Is 9. dead loss in clean
cash, and no insurance. In the great Quad
rennial Sweepstakes over the Presidential
Course, the honor is the mere purse Of the
jockey club. and is nothing in value to the
cup, the stakes and the side-bets. The hope
of the former would probably inspire your
GEORGE LAWS or your JOHN JACOB AsToRs to
throw in their heaviest ticks and get down to
their "Ksnsae work" on the home-stretch, but
not one who (not ez necessitate, of course, but
from mere habit) defrays bis current and ia
cidental expenses by taking deucediy good
care not TO have any, aud who is not
ssPassing rich with forty pounds year,"
for the simple reason that he has MT got the
pounds. No; the honor of the Presidency Is
not the stake we play for. or intend to play
for when it is narrowed down to that, we
shall throw up our hand and abandon the
game. The post of honor is the private sta
ton. and if the gentleman who is going to
oppose us in 1864 will solemnly pledge him
self to take the honor of the Office and give
us the pay, he may stop the train and we'll
get of.
But away with serious matters; let US
tarn to something more so. The Union has a
leading article headed $50 our Friends"
which is certainly serious enough for ANNA
DAB SLEEK himself Being one of the UaiOn's
friends, flor we are no less universal than
earnest and unalterable in our friendsbips,)
we read the article. We read it carefully.
We laid it down, meditated deeply, and then
took it up and read it carefully again. And
we came TO the conclusion that, although
we are one of the Union's friends, we do not
belong to that particular class of friends
to which the article is addressed, inasmuch
it lands its own party and lams ours. Here
are some of the beauties of the article, each
of which we honor with separate paragraph:
/. ours is eminently and emphatically
The PEOPLE's PAPER"
We don't dispute thai at all butwe would
like to know, and are willing to pay hand
somely for the information, why the concern
does MT occasionally declare dividend on
its profits in favor OF THE PEOPLE?'
III. I'VE owe our present greatness as
nation to Democratic pOlity."
We are not surprised to hear the Union say
this, for it is one of the popular decisions OF
its party. The fact of the business is, the
nation has risen to its present pinnacle OF
greatness, not from any help it has received
from the Democratic party, but in spite Of the
dead weight Of that party. We once knew
eat to be tossed into a mill-pOnd, with brick
bat tied to its neck, aud by super-ieline ex-
ertions it SWAN to the opposite shore, and
saved some six or eight of its nine lives but
the animal had too much good sense to at
tribute its salvation to the brickbat.
III-.there is no man in the nation who
does not fear that the success OF the Opposi-
ton would lead TO a disruption of the ties that
bind US" (the nation) together"
Then there are millions of men who are out
OF thes nation without ever having had the
slightest intimatiOa of tie fact until now.
Which cOnyinces US more and more that
truth is stranger than fiction. The UIaioH can
challenge our vote at the next election;
We are not in the nation, and never expect to
be.
Nv 1.-The UNION AND AMERICANS the cheap
est paper published in the State"
Considering the Cause il ID engaged in
it ought to- feel so, at any rate. But there is
no necessity for yindicating the price of the
paper; it's the quality that the public CON-
plain OF most
V IF our friends, each aud erTy one, will
go vigorously to work, our subscription list
eau and ought to be increased ten thousand
before the campaign is fairly opened"
1t takes good deal of vigorous work to
increase the subscription list of any paper
ten thousand. A large majority of the
UaiOn's friends will go vigorously to work
.'when the spring time comes, gentle Annie,"
but it will be in turning up sub-sOil Instead
OF subscribers.