Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-04
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The Union and AnleTican-The Banner s article
| on the inconsistency of certain brecklnridSe
Democrats in Tennessee draws out the Union
md american to the length of baif column
Read one sentence and behold how brilliantly
The champion Of the Let-her-Tip Democracy
K rocks the heels from ind r our uniortunate
urighbor of the Banner. '.If the charge
were true" says the Union and American.
that certain prominent supporters OF Mr..
BRECEE RIDGE once favored Squatter Soyer-
irgnty and now aijuTes that heresy 1t ought
it seems to us 10 be matter of Il JOiclng. not
of reviIing, TO the Banner; that paper bav-
ing within the last few weeks DECLARED that
the odious doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty
is ftly pronounced by Southern Dem"ciats
q short cut to all the ends OF Black Republic
cani,m'" We do not remember that We
ever saw, in the whole course of orr news
paper career. finer display of logic and
punctuation than is 10 be found in the ab1yc
sentence. inexperienced reasoners would
probably say that it amounts merely to a
begging of the question; but such Is net t1e
Case When men favor an Odious doctrine
from motives of expediency one day. and re-
pudiate it from motives of expectancy the
! next-when politicians sin for partizan pur-
poses to-day, and cOntiitely cry peccaUi for
partizan purposes tO-morrOw-all wise and
just men should forget the doctrine and the
sin, and rejoice with an exceeding great joy
that the sinners have turned from the evil Of
their way. So should our neighbOr of the
| Banner rejoice at the death-bed repentance of
| those prominent Democrats in Tennessee who
| favored the short cut to all the ends of Black
| Republicanism when they thought it u royal
| road to power, and now turn to another
route when they have found that it leads but
to defeat and ruin. When the poet, leading
PSYCHE, his soul, by the hand, wandered,
in the lonesome October"
BY the dank tarn of Aubor,
In the ghnuithaunted woodland Of Weir,''s
and saw by the light of Astarte that the
pathway led to legended tomb" the
ethereal PSYCHE trembled with fear,
''-Letting 81 her
| Wings till they traied in the dust
Till they sorrowfull! iraied in the DUST"
| aud the two turned and fed from this
| 'sMsty mid-region If Weir.'
And when Mss s. EWING, and HAYNES, and
ATKINS, and BATE entered the realm "f
s uatter Sovereignty and found that they
were nearing "Iegendrd tomb" in which
they must lie down with their party or fly
they turned and hastily retracrd their steps.
Certainly the BanRsT, instead of revilimg
them for their fight, ought to rejoice that
they fed. However, they are not ''out OF the
wilderness yet. and until they go further
and rrpudiate Mr.. YANCET aud his doctrine S.
some of which are even more 'odiuus" than
that of SquaIter Sovereignty, all r'Joicing
on the part of the Banner and other conser-
valve journals had better be postponed.
The Banner Having demonstrated that
MessTs. EWING. HAYNEs- ATKINS. and BATE
were formerly opposed to the dOcrrine OF
Congressional Protection. the B4nneT gets
up an article. with the help of the MdrHy
Press, an ably conducted paper at Columbia,
to show that Col. W. c. WHrrTHoRNE,
reekinridge Democratic ElectOr for the
State at large. is opposed tot now, or was
during the iateTTegnun1 from the adjournment
of the Democratic Convention at Charleston
10 its reassembIing at Baltimore If the
Banner should rejoice at the abandonment OF
that doctrine by the Grst-named gentlemen,
we are inclined TO think it ought to weep
copiously' at the Spalding's-Prepared-
Glue-Iike tenacity with which Col. WHIT
THoRNE clings to it.
The Gozeit.-Abandoning medicine, sur
gerry, and geography, the Gazste oyerwhelms
u with more than column on the subjsct
Of Mental Mysteries" We fatter ourselves
that We followed our neighbor through the
labyrinths of the materia medica; that we
kept pace with him through all the details of
surgery, and that we were not far behind
him when he came out of geography: but
when he sets out to journey though the
Mysteries of the Mind" we throw off our
sandal-shoon aud give up the chase. To ms
''The human mind. that lofty thing,y
is a terra incoSnttd, and we shall not attemnt
now TO explore it.
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