Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-02-15


I that article IT gives us an extract from let
\ ter written by "a Country Merchant" A
Country Merchant says in that letter: IL
would suggest to the Merchant Princes OF
Nashville the establishment of a Print Manu-
| factory in that city" A Country Merchant
is an individual who has an eye to the main
chance. He wants to buy his goods cheap,
and puts in a lick for good bargains by grant
/ ing patents of nobility to the wholesale mer-
Il chants of Nashville through the newspapers.
n A Country Merchant is assured that we have
1 MT solitary dealer in prints who sets him
self ND as a prince. We are of the opinion
here that
"Hivh worth makes more than monarchs-honest
meG:
| Though no exchequer il command, ts wealth,
And though il wear rfbOn, tis TenOwn."
! The Union has an article in favor Of an Elk.
ecutive Mansion. which. in plain English.
means a house for the Governor This is a
kind Of house we have long needed. This
way we have of boarding the Governor, like
a country schoolmaster, "arOund among the
scholarsD is a system that Ought to be abOl-
ished. He should have house worthy of his
position where his country friends could call
when they come to the city and have COM
irritable time of it. But we protest against
the proposed scheme of putting him IN the
& Llnatic Asylum. We have watched him
narrowly for some time. and have detected
nothing in either bis public or private con-
duct indicating that he l. suffering from
mental derangemeht-not more at least, than
the common run OF leading Democrats, and
. we are opposed to a movement so suggestive
O. such state of mind. Don't, (and if yOn
:. were here now aud could bee how earnestly
: we utter the words. YOU would MI don't pui
the Governor in the Lunatic Asylum. The
very idea is absurd. We move TO quash the
4 writ de Lunatic0 iRgHiresdO (tor 1t amounts
to about that) before any further steps are
taken, and propose tnat the old building be
N torn down. and a modern structure, elegant
Il aud commodious. BE- erected in its place
!, How would you like to hear such a CONVEX
u sation as this between a Kentuckian and a
citizen of Nashviile2
T Renfuokian.-I see you've got new Luna |
! tic Asylum in your city-what have you |
z done with your old one?
: NashraiiaH.-As il was unfit for the purpose |
for which it was intended, we converted it |
! into a hospital; but finding it ito good for
that. we struck tbs, happy medium, aud put
the Go ernor in il.
The Governors Mansion" is also the sub
iect of the leading article in the Gazette.
Our contemporary says: 1t is proposed tp
convert the old State Hospital formerly the
Lunatic Asylum into Governors Mansion.
The location, size Of the building, and ex-
tent of the grounds, render it a most appro-
pirate place for that p:rpOse" II this gun
is MT spiked by what we have already said.
il must go unspiked. We have no inIeatiOu
whatever of becoming the Governor of Ten
ncsSee, and are not personally interested in
the matter, and having entered protest
against the thing, if the powers that be are
determined to ioist upon our present aud
prospective Chief Magistrates case OF cou-
siructive insanity, We shall simply appeal to
posterity, and will live out the remnant of
our days in the tranquil CONSCIOUSNESS that
History will do Us the justice TO acqut az
of all completely with those who perpetrated
the act. But seriously. We are sorry to hear
that there are some who object to converting
the Asylum building into residence for the
Governor, aud urge against it in dead. hard
earnest" the arguments" we have uddHced
in this article. They regard them "a argu-
ments; We as nonsense Nobody proposes to
obtain the Governors entrance into the b lid |
ing under false pretences and then bolt him
In for the rest of his term. Place little |
money in the hands of a skilIfuI architect, |
and put him to work out there, and the first |
thing you know he will mike a house of il
comfortable aud elegant euought for any
body to live in. The property belongs to
.he State; the GavenOr nlLst have hDuse;
considering all thing,-the beauty of the
te,sthe grounds, &c.-where will you fad
one better suited TO the purpcse! Nowhere. |
The Nsrs has second article under the 1
head of Political and Presidential" and /
third article on county meetings. From the /
latter We gather the following facts: For
which facts we beg leave to refer the reader
to the Nslcs aud accompanying documents.
The Nars speaks of the beautiful grounds"
around the Capitol. We had no idea that
our Contemporary had so exquisite taste for /
the beautiful. Those great masses Of hewn
granite and huge heaps of broken limestone, /
and that fading remnant OF last years crop |
of dog-fennel, unquestiOnably form the mos, |
beautiful scene the eye of man ever bebeld- |
THOMAS JEFFERSON, in his notes on the Capt.
tol, says. to see the grounds around it. Is
worth a trip across the Atlantic. Every |
Tennessean ought to be proud of them, aud
If he is MT. be ought 10 be hung.
The Bdtner seems to have abandoned the
pleasing society of females altogether, and /
taken to running of the mails entirely. IL
has another leader on The Nail Failures
which it concludes with these memorable
words: ''The Democratic party are in posses
sion of the Postofice and the country will
hold them responsible for its mismanage-
ment" That's all CANNON. You can't scare
the Democratic party by such boo as thai.
They'd just rs soon be held responsible for
the acknowledgement of the mails as not. I,'s |
all the same TO ih-m. ''Nediocraty In Oaicr"
is the subject of a sensible article in the Ban
ner. IL says:
"A precious young Congressman, with a
spFignuy ingellrcG, popular address. and
yoluble tongue. aud frequently faciie politi-
cal conscience, has hardly ventilated hls yo
cabuiary ia the House of Representatives be-
fore the Vice Presidency, at the next cleo |
ton, becomes the inevitable dream of biz |
ambition, and he immediately commences to
instigate a besy OF brainles admirers. or /
Felinue OF hungry expecianls, 20 push his Il
) claims for that high distinction"
II the Banner will make it the Presidency /
instead OF the Vice Presidency. we'll write our
endorsement across the farce OF Ii. Nobody