Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-02-15
- The Hon. Jso. d. A.HxoaE, of S. c,


~ The Hon. Jso. d. AsHNoRE, of S. c..
voted for McCLERNASD for Speaker. He did
more-be made speech appealing 20 all the
democratic members to vote az he did. This
was considerable letting down-for one who
had opposed the election Of Black Repnb-
lican as fraught with danger to the constitu-
tiouai rights of the South-as will be admit
ted when we consider the TACT that democrats
of his school profess to believe the DOUGLAS
beresies supported by McCLERNAND arorse than
Black Repubiiconism. But Mr.. AsHMoRE was
not aloue in his vote-he had the company
Of a number of other Southern democratic
members who had been making the House
hideous with their howlings about the ini-
quities of Black Republicanism. He was,
however, the only member from South Caro-
lima who voted for McCLERNAND. For thus
separating himself from his colleagues, the
Charleston Mercury pronounces the death
penalty against him In one article it de-
clares, the act ''9iu Get him apart forever in
South Garolina." Another day the Mercury re
turns TO the charge as follows
From the Charleston Is. CO. Mercury.
Mr.. AsHAoRE AND THE "DEsocRATIC BANNER -
When the vote was about to be taken on
the election of Speaker in the House of Rep
resentatives. Mr.. McClernand being the Dem
ocraiic candidate, the account of the pro-
ceedings, published yesterday in our col
umns, states as follows:
..Mr. Akbmore, of South Carolina, made
an earnest appeal to the Democrats from all
sections TO rally to The Democratic flag. If
49, fao cfrIet n hof Aa1r
them"
The Democratic banner on this occasion
was borne by fTee-soitsquafter -sorregnfy-ister-
nal Improvement Democrat, Off such q man can
he called Democrat at ALL. Those toye TIE
PRINCIPLES eabiazOned on its folds.
The honor of the South, and of South Car
olina, we would suppose, might appear to be
somewhat involved In elevaiing a man to
the Speakership. fiagrantly representing prin-
ciples hostile to her constitutional rights aud
interests, and to his own principles. Yet,
for some reason or other. he seems to glory
in banner which has inscribed upon il !:
Exclusion of the South from our Territories
by Squatter- SOvereignty-No More Slave
States-and the Plumber of the Federal
Treasury for Internal improvements" He
says that If .stTicken down" it will cover
him. II rds stricken do,rn, and ,re think ii s0iH
coOJ HfM Pottaeutty; Us eUectudHy as sfI yea "
earth. Can't SIR. AshmOre be persuaded TO
come into the Charleston Convention, and
bring bis Democratic banner with him? 1t
may cover more people than himself.
The Mercury does not mnce its language
in characterizirg the banner of MCCLERNAND
under which AsHMORE and his confederates
fell. 1t was, according to that j'urnal the
banner of Exclusion Of The South from our Ter
ritor;es by SqaS0tter Soreragnfy-no more SldUe
!Staes-dnd the plinder Of the Federal Treasury for
Internal improvements" II the Black Repub-
lican banner is any more piratical than this
we are not aware of it. Well may the Atr-
curry condemn Mr.. AsHAORE for marching I'M
der it. But is Mr.. AsHMoRE more guilty or
more censurable than the eighty,four other
democrats who marched with him? Are they
not all equally guilty? And should they
not all be '-set apart forever" by their con-
stituents? Amongst those who stood shout
der to shoulder with Mr.. AsHMoRE under the
Territories by Squatter Sovereignty-no
more Slave States-and the Plumber of the
Federal Government for Internal Improve
MEMS" are Messrs. AVERY. THOMAS and
WRIGHT. of Tennessee. What is the measure
of punishment to be melted out to them for
rallying under this banner, and attempting
70 elevate "a man to the Speakership fragrant
ly representing principles hostile to her (tbe
South's) constitutional rights and interests!''
Two of these gentlemen declared they could
not vote for GuMER, a Southern anti-Repub-
licau, because a number of Black Republi-
cans had done so; aud yet, apparently with
out any qnalms of conscience, they recorded
their voIes for man lwhose principles lead
by "a short cut to all the ends of Republi-
canism." Are their constituencies less de-
voted to the constitutional rights and inter-
ests of the South than those of Mr.. AsHMoRE;
and are they to be permitted to escape re-
proof and censuref What say the democra-
cy of their districts!