Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-28
Assaults of the Dfsunicnists On
Gov. RroEns

T, The Constitutional Union Convention
which nominated Mr.. BELL for the Presiden-
cv ExGov. n s. BRowS made speech.
There was, at the time. great excitement, and
much noise and confusion, in The Convention.
1t was not to have been expected that
speech, made under such circumstances, could
be reported fully and correctly. Several re-
ports were made, all of which were faulty,
more or less, and neither of them did justice
to the speaker. He had no opportunity to
revise either of them. Under the circum-
stances, it would be manifestly improper to
hold him responsible for what was reported
Nevertheless, some very ardent democrats,
gentlemen of microscopic vision, blind
guides who "strain at a gnat and swallow
camel" have taken sentence from the body
of the speech, and comment upon it, i'm
peacbing his loyalty to the South. The
Montgomery HAL, the Jealous recruit drawn
by the BRECKINRIDGEYANCEY from the
Whig-American ranks, not to be out-doDe,
follows the pernicious example. The lesson
inculcated in its selfimposed duty of doing
penance for its doubts of Mr.. BRECKINRIDGE's
soundness on the question of slavery, predi-
Gated upon the Tippeeanoe speech, in 1856,
ought TO have made the Nail more circum-
spect, if not more charitable. But, until the
NM has become ''master of situation"
amongst its new associates, We shall not ex-
pect it to lie either circumspect OF charitable
towards its late compatriots. Charity to any
OF them VOW, before the she'll has been en-
tirely removed from the newly Matched chick,
might cause its sincerity to be doubted and
that would be unpleasant, to say the least of
it. So, We will not ask it. But, the de-
tached sentence from Gov. BRowN's speech.
Here it is. Read it:
am one of the men who say here in the
presence of my brothers from the North. and
before the world, that | would not swap the
Union of these States for all the niggers, and
all the manufactures and all the railroads in
this country, and all the ships that swim the
ocean.
Candidly, what is there in this 10 object to :?
How does it affect Gov. Browns loyalty to
the South How does it show that he would
not be prompt to stand by the South in the
maintenance of her rights-that he would
yield one jot or title to the demand express
ing in strong and for able terms of northern
sectionalism? 1t is only his estimate of the
value of the Union. He might own all the
manufactures, all the ships. all the railroads,
and ali negroes in the country, and be will
ing to exchange them for a government
which has been the source of SO many
blessings to him, and to the nation /;
and yet not be willing to perpetuate that
government at the cost OF a single constitu-
tionaI right. And such is the case. The ed
itor of the .Hal may own hundred negroes,
as be once owned farm. Would he not,
if his life were in danger and could thereby
be saved, yield the last one of them, and that
farm too OF course he would. Yet, he
honor, he would sacrifice it rather than sub
nit to insult or degradation And this Illus
trates the position of Ex-Goy. Brown in re-
gard to the Union. There may be men in the
South would yield up their rights to hold
slaves, for the poor boon of preserving ID
ion in which they had become degraded.
We have never seen one and we trust we
may never see an American so lost to a sense
of honor. We are quite sure there are no
men OF this sort in Tennessee. Hers is not
a soil that produces such characters. Neither
is it soil in which disunionism thrives.
Come up to Tennessee Mr.. Mail, instead of
going North, the next time you need an air.
Ing, and mingle with our people. 1t will i'm
prove your health physically and politically;
and you will go home with keen apprecia-
tion of the high qualities of Tennesseeans like
Ex-Gov. BROWN; and like Tom MARSHALL,
when stricken with a conviction of the injus-
tice he had done HENRY CLAY, make atone
ment for the course you are now pursuing.
LINCOLN LOOKING TO THE BELL. PARTY,