Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-02-25
SATURDAY MORNING. :. FEB. rs, 1860.
The CRY Pnxss.-Tbe Nt.p, says the mem

| The CITY PREsS.-The Netcs says the mem-
bers of the Opposition State Convention
| "bave entire confidence that Mr.. BELL Will
carry the State, should he be the National
| Union candidate for President" The Aeacs
| Is inspired by the same confidence. We
! think there is very little danger that our
contemporary will, in this case, he made the
victim of misplaced confidence. The tide of
popular preference has set in strongly for Mr..
BELL, and as the candidate of the National
Union party-the tWELLINGTos OF the great
conservative army of the nation, he will
bring the NAPOLEON of Democracy down to
a second Waterloo in November next. and
scatter bis Iegions like autumn leaves before
the North winds breath. The local Ne,cs
has an article on "Mob Violence" What in
the world could have induced on. local CO.
temporary TO take up such subject? Has
any body threatened TO mob him for intima-
ting that our commercial editor was under
the influence of sherry or champagne when
| he quoted ginseng at 80 cents per bushel?
So far as we have been able to ascer tain the
public feeling on the subject, it is the general
| sentiment of the community that he deserves
| to be mobbed for such AL outrage; but We are
| not aware that be has been threatened with
any violence of that sort. The next time our
commercial editor catches him out by him
sell he Intends To mob him. but large posters
| will be stuck up all over town calling upon
the public in the most eloquent terms 10
stand OF and attend to their own business.
The local of the Nesrs says:
Our neIghbOr of the PATRIOT quotes Gin
seug a 30 cents per busAei II might have
BEEN nto this error by careless glanc
a. the Aears We quote it at '50a55 c'uIn;
iHnt We t.onght everybody knew We meant
so 55 cents per pound. If tue PATRIOT should
| receive heavy orders for ginseng at % ceuts
per Dushel, Ii must not be surprised"
We don't Intend to be surprised. We are
never surprised now at anything. We have
MT been surprised in ten years. But if We
are willing 10 throw upon the market the GIN
seng W. have taken in payment for sub>crip-
| tiOns to the PATRIOT, aud close cut the lot al
50 cents per bushel, whose business is it :?
| Have NJ WI a right to quote country pro-
duce of hat sort at such figures a. We are
willing to sell at? If We haven then a
shame upon your boosted land of libsrty !
| Let Democracy and AboiitiOnism do their
best to Suuder the COuiederacyI- shall
81 nd no longer a break-waieT 10 roll back
| he tide OF DisuniOul In short. If we are not
| permitted under the Constitution To regulate
| our own tran actions in ginseng, then let the
| Union slide! A virtuous people can never
| be enslaved.
The first column in the editorial depart
men of the Union is filled with news items.
Here is one Of them:
THE Democratic Senatorial Caucus have
agreed upon ty platform
In the present distracted state of the Dem
Ocratic party, it must be gratifying to Ito
friends 10 know thrt it has agreed upon a
platform. 1t is certainly agreed upon moth,
ing else-except the standing agreement to
maintain its hold upon the Treasury to get
all il can, and keep all it gets. Here is an
other:
Reports differ as to the relative strength
Of WI~E aud HUNTER in the late Virginia
Convention. the friends of the two candi-
dates each claim to have been ahead"
Indeed we will not dispute their claims, to be
ahead, though we fear, from the style of men
they favor for the Presidency, that their heads
aud their claims are both empty. The Union
says, without the proof, that the Wings obtain
ed possession of the Government ia IS4Ounder
false pretense. Our contemporary might have
added, without the necessity for proof, tn at
the Democracy have never obtained posses
sion of 1t in any other way, and never will.
"Our State Convention-iIs Significance"
is the subj"ct of the leading article in the
Banner. 1t is a well written article, and
shows in the clearest light the distinction be-
tween the Stale Convention of the Opposition
party and that OF the Democracy-the signif-
| icance of the one, and the insignifcanee OF
/ the Other.
| The Gazette has much editorial, but il has a
sketch in small type; which has reference to
the early times in Tennessee, when a large
majority of our feIlow-citizens were Indians
and other Wild beasts OF prey. CT copy OF
the Goze,fe, turn to the second column Of the
second page and read -.Notre Villa"