Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-10
Oct. Sth, 1860.
TO THE LEADERS AND MANAGERS OF
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN TEN

S. w, A..

| To THE LEADERS AND MANAGERS OF
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN TEN
! NESSEE.
GENTLEMEN Il think 1 am Jackson
conservative Democrat, and friend to
! good Banks; and did aid and support you
| by words and acts, until the winter of 81
and IS, thinking and hoping you would
give US good and cheap government, with
good money and laws oprotect US. Think
ing you have not done it. L will again make
a few more remarks for you to think about,
and try to give you and others some reason
why l think 1 should not SUPP ort you this
| year.
have been working and trading in diff
ferent states, and lost so much by corrupt
broken Bankers and bying exchange and
change for my toll gate, and seeing how
things were, going on, Itook the liberty. in
November '55, of leaning the General As
sembly all of my books on banking and
political economy, and told them L was
fearful that some one would write on the
walls of our fine and costly State House,
house and tall steeple, was the work of
vain and short sighted people, and that L
would hate to see or hear of such thing,
or cause for it. Gov. Johnson was pro-
noted to high Office alter paying very
little regard to the laws and verdicts of ju-
rors, for, from reports, he had pardoned
81 convicts. And there has been great
increase of crime and risk of life and pro-
perty, which is another important fact for
the Governor to explain, for dollars control
some men and things more than Providence.
Mr. Nicholson was elected long before
MI Bells time was out, and from the way
they were spending time and money, pub
lished another bill ON the 18th of March '58,
and told them, L thought by the end of
SO they would learn that the Know Moth
ings had minds that could think, and would
stir up such a stink, that it would make
you take a hint, and wish for Nicholson,
Ewing, Pillow and others to help you, l
thought-for they had conferred favors on
the Northwestern Railroad Democratic
travagant set had seen.
And as the constitution provides for its
amendment, cannot understand what they
wanted with State Constitution, unless it
was to give King Stevenson a crown and un-
limited power to tax US. And l suppose that
Buchanan, Judge Humphreys, editor East
man, and some others, look on big debts as
blessing, for they make me think of the Fed
eralists, the gag bill, and State bonds as be-
ing bills of credit. And l suppose General
JACKSON. HoUsToN, BELL, aud others thought
it best ard safest, to let the Missouri compro-
mise stand. and that you and others, thought
yourselves wiser and stronger, and broke it
down. and when 1 count the loss and gains. it
makes me ashamed, for you profess to be pro-
crossing, and walking in the light and tracks
of WASHINGTON, FRANKLIN, JEFFERSON, JACK
SON and WHITE, which gave us cause to
think you would increase their light, and
keep all things right, though l have been
thinking. and tried to give you hints that
you were getting in the fog. and out of their
tracks ana had better turn back, aud look for
their tracks, aud let Governor JOHNSON hunt
for Burrows bond and his security, and ex-
plain some other things. let Mr.. NICHOLSON
explain how it was, with the immortal thir
teen, and how the change took place for him