Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-02-11


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TIE crrY PREss-In speech which he
.recentIv delivered in the Senate Of the United
States, Mr. NICHOLSON complimented the Re-
tpubiicans with quantity Of what is down
here considered very wholesome advice. A
y sample of that advice we find woven into the
leading article of the Banner, like a dark stripe
I'm strip ofs;air-carpet- A,dato nonai1e, saysthe
Banner to Mr. NICHOLSON. in so many words.
though not in any of the dead languages, de
.fe fobula naavrafur. and proceeds to show by
|Islight change in the wording of the advice,
that il is exactly suited to the Democratic
iIparty. But what good does it do (and the
i Banner will greatly Oblige us by answering
Ply return of mail) to give that party advice
There stands the question in all its naked
deformity." Let it be answered. Advise the
Democratic party to turn from its evil ways
like another House of Israel !-As well may
you advise the whirlwind or the hurricane to
deal gently with the unofending flower the
'scloud-compelling Jove" 10 shut his mouth
and he speaks in thunder from the bosom of
the battling clouds the State House TO come
down from Capitol Hill and dance the High
land Fling on the Public Square. or the in
q mmable heart of a sophomore to cease its
sugary paipitation at sight Of
''The gal with the blue dress on
One of the easiest things in the world is to
- Ii - IL =
is to make fellow take it when he does Mt
want TO. Another NIoBE, in all the weakness
of irrepr, ssible tears, were strong enough to
tellthe Democracy what they ought to do; but
another HERCULES, powerful as was the son OF
ALcxESA when he went forth with golden
cuirass and brazen club to Stay the lion of
Nemea, were too weak to make them do it.
The G0zefte saws "a man named BATES
: TAYLOR, man of wealth. ended his life in
Troy, Ind, on Saturday night, by blowing
out his brains.'' Which We don't believe.
We can't believe that the man who fires
pistol at his own head has any brains to blow
out. The Gdzette says also that "a printer
named WELDON was stabbed by stranger
! in Philadelphia, the other night, so badly
that his life is despaired Of" Whatever may
have been the object of the stranger in stab
, bing the printer, it was unquestionabiy
WEL(DDoS(e).
{ The subject of the leader in the Meas is
"COmmercial Reforms in France" If there is
a solitary subject in the entire field now cul-
tivated by the Society for the General Diffu-
sion of Useful knowledge about which we
know absolutely nothing (and it is likely
There are two or tbreel il is this subject OF
Commercial Reforms in France We never
NEEDLE with reforms that tar from home.
| We toll day and night for the moral aud
| political reform of our own beloved country,
but our success has never been sufficiently
encouraging to induce us to attempt the
thing for the own beloved country of any
body else Besides, the subject of CONNER
/ ciaI reforms is too deep for Us. We can't
get the hang of it. We were anxious TO learn
something about it from the Nebrs, but were
brought up standing before we got half
through its article. Here for Instance: The
policy of the United States is to levy no
diffrrential duties on goods imported in the
bottoms of any nation that will do the like by
them We know what goods are, for we
have a friend who is clerk in a store, and
he has furnished us catalogue of all the
articles that come under that head declining
/ however, TO furnish any of the goods them
selves without the money!; but what the
thunder are these -differential duties" which
1T is MT the policy OF the United States to
/ levy on themt They are not laid down in
,.'Tbe whsIe Duty of Man." and the whole
duty of man ought to be the duty of The
! United States. And then, there's ..ihe bot
toms of any nation;" why, that's wors; than
,the motto on Japanese fan. or the inscrip
tion on Chinese tea-chest. Every nation.
J Ike every tub. stands upon its own bottom;
lbut we can't see how you could import goods
iin the bottom of a nation, any m''re than you
scould in the bottom of a tub. Perhaps these
,wri;ers on commerce and commercial re-
forms mean ships when they write bottoms. IL
they do, they ought to say 50. The medical pro
fession are jastifable in involving their eel
.ence In an inexplicable mixture of dead and
living languages, for by that means they
crowd out. Tor intend. though too often una
fvailingly, to crowd out,) ignorance from the
,faculty: but there is no necessity for crowd
ing anybody out of commerce, by that or any
other sort of means In commerce COMPETE
tion is the life of trade, while in medicine il
IL more frequently the death OF the patient.
We yesterday advised the Southern Press
TO let HEIPEa and his book go to the devil
And now. here comes the Uaios with an arti-
Gle nearly column and quarter long on
.'HEIPER's Impending Crisis" This confirms
what we have said above about giving advice
to the Democracy. However, the Union bad
not seen what we said to the Gas1as when IL
wrote this article; il would have been the
same thing. though. If il had. "a more vile.
slandsrous, seditiOus, unprincipled work."
says the Unioa, 'nes er was published Then,
what in the name of common sense is our CO.
temporary advertising il so extensively fort
II such notice as the U,ioa ri yes the mise
rable book were to appear in the PATRIOT. it
would sell nine hundred and forty-lwo dol
lars and sixty cents worth OF IL, and sup
posing the Union to be half as good an lad
vertisiBg medium" as the PArnor, (which
We grant for the sake of argument.) ID will be
seen that its article has put the sum Of four
hundred and seventy-one dollars and thirty
cents into the pockets of HELPER II all
other papers had done as we have-treated
the rogue and his book with the silent con-
tempt they deserve-half the trunks the
piessure-seekers boy next summer when they
start to the fashionable brandy -and-waiering-
places would have been lined with The In
pending Crisis"