Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-02-07

The following call was published 10 the
Philadelphia EUe'amg journal of the 3Ist of
January
CONSTITUTIONAL UNION MOVEMENT.
Believing that crisis has occurred in the
affairs of our country. reqpiriHg all good
citizens without regard to their former po-
liiical associations to unite in forming a
Great National Party. the Object of which
shall be the preservation of the deral
Cnion, the protection of the CIustiiuI iunal
rights OF all the States, the suppression of
seciionaliSm from whatever quarter it ulav
come, and the securing OF tie election 10
office of truly National and Conservative
men. who, by their position, antec. dents
and we'll known character, able to rally
around them all patriotic citizens, we be, eby
invite ali who sympathze with the above
views 10 me III Gen raj Town Meeting, on
Saturday evening next, at Union, late Ma
tioHal Hall, at O'clock, to organize a party
to be called the Constitutional Union Patty of
Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia Journal in publishing
this call says:
We publish 20 day call. signed by many
well known and worthy citiZ-ns. for grand
mass me- ting, TO be- held on next Saturday
for the purpose of organizing in this cit,
what is to be styled the constitutional
Union Party of Philld lph a." The move
ment. we need hardly say, il that which hum
dreds OF thousands OF patriotic people, in
every part OF the country. feel o be- demand
ed by the eXigency OF The timer-by the
demGraliZ d condition of existing political
parties, The distraclng tendency of their
controversies. and the disastrous state oil
discold, confusion and virtual impotence tn
which they kave reduced the government
In all quarters of the Confederacy. the best
and trnest men are ass cabling to effect an
organz ton through which they may make
their opinions ielt hereafter in the politics OF
the nation, and Restore, if possible the ad-
minsiraiion of its affairs 10 faithful, capable
and truly loyal hands.
Without concerted effort to such as end
the dissipatcd strength of a vast majority
must constantly be Jyerborne and nulliied BY
organic minCrities, and there can lie no
doubt that the nation has been shamefulIy
misgoVerncd for years past. simply because
no existing party has representa- the great
body IF the Am rican people.
The time requires new party-a national
party--a party of the peOple-a party which
shall take the constitution. as expounded by
the Supreme Court, as its platform--and first
organizing itself on this broad and general
ground. it can hereafter shape its cours.. and
define its position with reference to specific
questions ut National policy. We should add
hat the movement 10 be inaueurated here on
Saturday will he in sympathy with that which
has taken place at Washington, of which
5 natOr Crittcnden is Chairman and that, for
the present al least, it is not intended to in
terfere In municipal OF State elections ia any
part of the Union 1t contemplates only Ma
tional politicS-aims simply to unite the
people of all the States in an effort TO re-es-
tAblish the harmonious political relations
which should subsist among them--and To-
place. il possible, the Federal Government in
The bands 0i men who shall admins er il ia
the spirit of its found IL aud TOR the good
and ia the interest of The whole county.