Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-06-13
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now stands,
So much for the nomination of the Republi-
can Convention. Beyond these, its time was
occupied in the framing of tariff resolution,
which is werded with such miraculous inge-
nuity that it suits equally we'll the most
Jealous free trade and the most ardent pro-
tectionist-certain philanthropic platitudes
and political phiianthroy, permit me to
say, Is OF very Indifferent and doubtful
cast-and lastly, in listening IN meek hu--
mility to the philippics of imported foreign
radicals. who draggooned them into the inso-
lence of arraigning the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts for protecting the purity OF
her ballot-boxes and the political rights OF
the children of her soil
And thus was completed the record of the
Republican Convention-excepting the sad
and boding fact, that, for the first time, one
section of the Union was there arrayed
against another. And a Convention holden
of American citizens, where seven millions
of Americans, children of the soil on which
Jefferson and Madison and Washington and
Pinckney and Marshall and Patrick Henry
were born, had no sympathy and no place.
At Baltimore with no outside press OF poll
teal trafickers, were met together men from
all parts of the country, brought there by
no private or partizan purpose, and almost
without party organization, but by pure,
patriotic and high purpose. "to see, in the
simple and noble phrase of the Republican
Rome. .sthat the States should not meet
with harm"-to avert if they could, the dan
gers and allay the discussions that threaten
their country.
Among them were many men whose lives
have made their names historical, men who
have long and honorably guided the coun-
sells and directed the destInies of their coun-
try.
Unmoved by selfish or partizan prefer
euces, and with the cordial unanimity OF
patriotic brotherhood, they pr scented to the
people the names of two gentlemen and
statesmen of the golden days of the Repub-
lic.-compeers OF Clay, Webster and Cal
houn. They presented for your suffrages the
names of men strong in their character and
of we'll known capacity, not in happy in
Significance Recommended by broad and
blameless reputation, not by safe OBJ
security.
Which. then, fellow citizens, would you
prefer to place in your highest ofices-Lin-
coin and Hamlin, Douglas, or heaven knows
who. with clap-trap platform-or Bell and
Everett, with the Constitution and laws OF
your country in their hands and hearts? But
political wits say these men are fossil men,
and the party that support them, are dead
and buried for years.
Ifto be men whose ambition it is not to
swim with every current, however DESTROYS
and dirty, and enslave their lives and ener-
gies to every petty exigeney of the passing
day, is to be fossil men, then so are they.
But they are such fossils rs the granite that
ribs the everlasting hills, When the ava
lanche and the hurricane have swept away
the light surface, they are still there In
their inherent and imperishable strength and
grandeur.
And a party nay be buried in accunu-
IL = L.,
survive is proof irresistible of the imm cr tai
truth and vital purity of its principles Bury
the ephemeral factions of to-day, for four
years. space. barred from the light of hope
and the excitement of action, ana the stim-
illus of success, and when would their resur-
rection be?
But we are live men, and live party;
aud we have good work before US to do.
And think, my, friends, that you will do 1t,
and that next fall or winter, we shall place
our fossils in the Nations Cabinet at Wash
ingtol.