Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-02-22
WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB %, 1860.


be the object of the voyage. we wish him the
quickest trip on record. and safe and happy
return to the bosom of the community. The
Gazette announces the immeasurably impo
tant fact that
..MnEs TAYLOR DorGLAs"
This of course decides the contest between
the houses of York and Lancaster. The rose
of the one withers and crumbles into dust,
while that of the other blooms afresh and
claims a Mace beside the immOrteile in 1.-THE
garland of eternityn The world OF Demo-
cracy has been waiting in an agony OF sus-
pense for six months TO know how MILES
would go-an agony more terrible than that
which kindled young hell in the bosom of
the loye-bound ANTONY at the conflict of
Actium, when
ssThe world was staked 70 woman's eyes"
and the last leaf of his green laurels and the
glory of his house hung trembling upon the
hurting of lance or the shifting of sail;
suspense with more of agony than that Ma
POLEOS felt upon the heights of Wagram while
watching the progress of MACDONALD's band
across the plain, when the wavering of a
single man before the yullied thunder of the
Allies would have overthrow an empire and
changed the destiny of Europe; or that the
Iron Duke endured at Waterloo, when for a
moment the Genius of Victory lowered mid
way between the Lion Of st. George and the
golden feuT de les. and the supremacy of the
one and the invincibility of the other was to be
confirmed or forfeited by the stroke of a sim
orIo arp, TChnHid our carriars y
thing extra for copies of the PATRIOT this
morning on account of these fine passages,
the victims will please notify of the fact,
and their money will be refunded, and the
carriers taken out and talked tO.1 And now
that MILES has gone his go, and has come out
1at-foOted for the DOUGLAS, one part of the
world feel a. if bale of cotton or hogshead
of tobacco had been rolled from their breasts
while the other part feel as If that heavy mass
On produce bad been piled upon theirs. Some
people whose sympaihies with the Ad-
ministratiOR party may ask who the deuce is
MILES TAYLOR, and where the dickens does he
come from but they can't disguise the fact
that this step of his has done more to blight
their prospects at Charleston than anything
The Union has a brief article on the sub
ject of The Free Negro Bill" in which it
says, ave regret to learn that there is a strong
probability of its REJECTION" by the Senate.
and adds:
There has been no more important policy
urgrd upon the pres nj Legislature and moth
ing that 5 met with such general approval
of the pe"plr. We have abundant reason for
saying thai the people Of Tennessee epoot
some such legislation at the hands of their
representative. 1t is idle 10 attempt to con
trOVert the wisdom of such policy. If
there was not an abolitiOnist in existence,
there would be abundant argument for lis
adoption. Slavery and free negroism are
incOmpatiblc-Ihe one has always been an
evil to the other. We believe that the per-
manenf good IF every class, the master, the
slave aud the free negro, would be promoted
by the adoption of such a law"
Having thus recOmmitted itself in favor of
the Bill, the Union lays down the broad and
startling proposition that "sickly sentiment
.alism is part of craftsmanship" This we
are prepared TO refute in the most signal man
ner-Or will be in a few days aud we earu-
estly call upon the public to refrain from
forming an opinion on the subject until we
shall have been heard. The Union publish
es the names of the democratic Congress
siOnal Campaign Committee" and among
them we find that of Miles Taylor!
THE Union and dBlerIoI1 and Gov. DENIM
, SON." Such is the subject of the leading
! ticle in the Banner, the Object of which is 10
!. show that the evidence adduccd by the UJICn
to prove that Gov. DENNIsON, during the late
/ canvass in Ohio. uttered certain sentiments
hostile to The interests of the South, is, in
| point Of fact no evidence at all. We leave
the matter in the hands of our cOteml OraTies
fully satisfied, from the start they have made.
/ that they won't put it down until they have
done it full justice.
What IT, the world does this mean? Just
/ listen at the Aerrs, will you:
.'Hon. Miles Tvylor, one Of the Dcmocratic
Representatives in Congress from Louisiana
has written letter To the voters of his dis
trict, in which he expresses il his .drlibe-
rate conviction that Douglas would be The
weakest candidate (for tine Presidency that
could he selected from among all the men
, who have yet been prominently spoken o.
As evidence of his utter iHayaiiability.' Mr.
,Tayl'r states that of the thirty->cvrn Drm,,-
cratic Senator's, besides Mr. Douglas NJ
tPugh. OF Ohio. l. the Only one who has aVuW-
Ell preference for lin or desires his nOmi-
nation In the House Of Representative. Mr..
Taylor docsn't know half a dozen Southern
Democrats who prefer Mr. Douglas nOmina-
tion. or who regard him the choic. of th..ir
'cOn>tiiusn $. Mr. Taylor ask: Can il b,.
pOss BILE that one who il aniAgOnised in the
Senate by all his Democratic peers save one
and by al the Southern representatives, in
COner s., save two or three. is an available
candidate for the Pre>idcncyT"
The Gazette tells Us that MILES is for DOUG-
las, while the Netrs Is good a. tells us ne
MT; aud the most remarkable feature OF
he thing is. they both get their information
rom the sam letter. Here is a part of the
.xtract quoted by the Gaze1.-
II have given the most careful attention
% the present position of parties, and have
effected deeply aud anxiOusly upon what
he rapidly approaching future j. To bring
:. and / tell YOU now, with all frankness
hat see no we'll founded nope for the pre-
tervation of the existing Union with honor
20 ourselves, but in .he candidacy OF Stephes
II Douglas tor the Presidency"
There must be a mistake somewhere. In
eel, that there s a mistake, there can BE- no
aistake. But perhaps there are two OF these
'ArLoRs perhaps they are Miles apart, and
-erhaps they have each written q ietter-one
II DoUGLAs and the other against him. The
nti-DouGLAs Democracy must do the best
hey can with their emotions of doubt and
ncertainty until the GazaIe aud the Meas
ONE to an understanding aud get the mat