Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-08-10


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11s. STEVENS. Fellow-citizens Of the city Of
" washington, TINS IS most important occasion an
important crisis in the history of our country 81
s,ils Inhe nave most agreeable duty to perform
On tne 18th Of July we heard the sound of the
trumpet rom the city Of New York; that sound
reacneo the remotest limits of this broad Confed-
lecy-a sound so pure, so clear reaching 10 the
SKIES extending in every direction thar il aroused
t1e heart OF every citizen of our Land I{uf his
voice, which came to you through the nress ON the
sss.ssrAph, yea nave here tonight That voice has
heaTo IN TINS city before, in your congress-
lonai halls. IL has been voice ALWAYS Standing on
tne lmmutable and lnyincible right. II has been
: .oiee "ncn IN every political crisis in onr eoun-
ny history has stood by the eonai righss Of the
sossfelgn States OF this UnioaI Without OBTAINING
y1 a1y longer from the great treat that is before
you, (. now introduce to you that veteran that
Gear hearted Democrat that iron-souled that warm
York = Aii9on' u NC"
Three cheers were given for Gov Stevens and
t,lree more for Mr.. Dickinson when the latter gen
tieman spoke as follows:
MI DICKINSON. 1t is always gratifying and pleas
ant my ielow-citizens, to be thus greeted and thus
rsinenlOered personay-thus TO be remembered
LOT to the country thus to be remember
e lor the service to the great Democratic party of
= - NC mus gfeeIeQ with soul STIRRING
nusic-to De thus introduced in the language of
complimentary eloquenee By so distinguished
gentleman as him who addressed YOU. TO such A
numerous and respectable auditory "a the present
Inc onIy return can make you, my fellow-citzpns
the only return can make to the committee and
to its organ, is the tribute of grateful heart and
that is freely rendered.
Inc lines OF the American people, my friends. in
many respects, have been cast in nleasant nlsces
heayens warm and golden sunshine bathes all Gods
ri
The tree of liberty, planted by TIE fathers of the
revolution, though but a slender shoot watered by
the tears of its daughters and aurured by the blood
of its has now under the fostering care of the
Democratic party of the nation grown to be great
and mighty Its roots have sunk deep into tbs,
fertile earth Its vast trunk stretches away to the
very heavens, and its mighty 5raches reach to the
polar regions upon the North. down to where they
famed by the topical breezes of the SOuth-rum
the ST. Johns to the Pacific. 1t invites only the
children of America, but the children of liberty
everywhere, the downtrodden and oppressed of all
the nations of the earth, to come and sit down
der the shadow of its protecting branches and sub
sist upon its fruits. And this vast country with such
institutions as the sun shone upon beforeits
fertile SOIL its grand mountains its pleasant tvales,
its heaying oceans its winding rivers and its muir
muriDg streamets every interest protected, every
branch of industry rewarded, and the great and
sacred principle of equality browning the moral
beauty of the whole. [Cheers.l
benefits, amidst these mighty blessings that are
vOuchsafed to US, eanker gnaws at the root Of
our domestic peace. One subject alone, like wild
and fevered dream, sweeps over our land, and
CONSERVATION care anxiety, and deep solicit
tude for political safety II is not my fellow
citizens, merely that one of those great periodical
struggles approach for the election of a Chief Mag
istrate for amidst all the blessing that enjoy,
and amidst all the stirring cOliictiOns of the times,
(and they are manyO we have an Administration
that guides the ship of State in manner that gives
confidence to the American people that it will be
brought over prosperous ocean to a harbor Of
safety and peace. [Applause
1t is not, my felowcizens, that political parties
in the field for they have been in the field be-
fore IL is that political weapons are FURNISHED
for this contest and the knights entering the
LETS for they have been there before. The great
Democratic party of the country, with its principles
of progress, is in the ield and il has been in the
field before. The rich fruits of which our country
has boosted the results of its rule and of its
benign policy. Its opponent zoo, has been in the
field before. The old Wing party has nOught left of
it but its memories. l will not discuss the party
ordinarily called the American party, because
do not regard it q considerable element in the
great and stirring controversy of the times. The
Republican party, the present antagonist of the De-
mOcracy, stands before the country cOnfessedly 4
sectional party while the Democratic party is a
party catholic in It's character constitutional IL Its
principles and stretching not only throughout this
land, but wherever Chr stanlty, freedom, civil
cation have Travelled. The Republican party upon
its record is a sectional party foT it comes
into the field ignoring fifteen States in this Union
and their institutions, and manfully-m anfully
say becase itdOes it openly and boldly-places its
candidates both within the Northern or free States
so called and enters into the conflict with section
alism upon its banner. [Cheersl Ard here it
stands with all its errors with all It's wrong dongs
with all its mighty element of mischief and thrown
of its concealment and stands before the American
people to-day in its sin, as our first parents stood
in their innocence, naked but not ashamed Re-
newed appause 1t is juned to its idols let It alone
The Democratic party to-day, armed with the pan
op.y of the Constitution, with the sympathy of the
masses of the American people could literally drive
it from the face Of the EARTH 1t has in all great
struggles conquered it before. and in the struggle
that is now approaching, and is even at UGr
doors, conquer it again. [Cheers.l The Re-
publican party has not an element of success Ii
has not the confluence of the American people. 1t
has appealed to sectionalism and passion and pre-
judice and although it Is traught we have seen,
with elements OF evil, there are other elements of
evil at our doors to-day that threaten far more
than the Republican party. lCheers. The dis
guises of the Republican party are all stripped off
1t stands to-day before the American people undis
guised In its purpose, and therefore, it is robbed of
nnetenths of its power to HARM But what is 1t that
threatens the integrity of the Union the integrity of
the Constitution, TIE integrity of the equal rights OF
the masses? 1t is the division of the great Demo-
cratic party is the aDsOFDluH question OF
the day and of the times, and to which we must
practically address ourselves. The Democratic
party is in the field with Breckenridge and Lane
[great applause names that are strangers to
the country, that are no strangers TO the Demo-
cratic party, strangers in the public cOun-
ellis, no strangers upon the field Of battle, no
strangers to services in the ranks of the
Democracy. They are that writ
ten high upon country's history in every de-
partment of life, whether intrepid soldiers when
our country is imperiled and battling upon foreign
SOIL in the records of Congress- and of thee respec
tive States, and in the of the Democratic
cause wherever the great doctrines of iberty and
equality preached. They well known they |
are inscribed on the Democratic banner, and the !
Democracy going to fight this battle of the |
Constitution under the name of these great and |
worthy and honOred leaders. But the chief impe-
1iment to Democratic progress is division under |
the pretence of another nomination called the DEM
Ocratic Nomination. nomination based upon the /
dea of Sherwood Forest:
INV beeauSa the good old ruIe