Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-04-09
The city Press.


it of the Opposition Press" the Union ..labors
through yearly TWO columns says the Ban
neT, sin futile attempt to show that the
Southern Opposition is diseordant." The
Bonner then goes on to show how utterly alb
surd it is for member of the Democratic
party to come nosing around among the OPP
position in search of discordant elements
when his own party is split up into forty fac
tons, no two of which are on speaking terms
with each other. Are not the Administration
Democracy constantly splitting fire aud brim-
stone at the DOUGLAS Democracy, and would
MT they burn the last one of them as witch
iu less than no time If the law did MT pro-
bibit the act? Certainly they are certainly
they would. And then there's the Charleston
Convention. What sort of q concern do you
happen TO suppose that affair is going to bet
migine a National Convention of the Great
National Party, the delegates to which are
camping out in the vacant lots of the city,
like so many vagabond Gipsies, merely to
keep from paying respectable hotel bill!
Won't description of that Convention, with
the dirty tents, rusty frying-pans and heas-
infested bedding of the greasy delegates, read
remarkably well in the London Times The
man who accepts the nomination of that Con-
vention will certainly be hard up for the
Preridency.
The Ne4es Under the head of "Squatter
Sovereignty Joining Issue"- the Neacs
writes the bulk of its editorial. From that
hot
MONTGOMERY, of Pennsylvania, has Joined
issue with Mr.. CURRY, of Alabama, on the
question of Popular Sovereignty. We say
we are panied to learn this fact, and SO we
are; but our sufferings are not so severe as
one would naturally suppose. Mr.. MoNTGoM-
cry and Mr.. CURRY are both Democrats, and
are of course not expected to accomplish any
good in Congress and it is painful to see
two such men wasting the time of that body
in spouting long four-penny speeches about
question they can neither popularize nor de-
molish. Every one of these speeches costs
Uncle Sam-or ed TO cost him before he
got sharp enough 10 pay his Congressman by
he job-from three hundred to thousand
dollars. Did you ever see one of them that
was worth Il secondhand postage stamp?
No-you never did.
The Utioa-The article which first attracts
your attention in the Union is one on THE
Truth of History" but you don't read it
though, for you hav emade it rule from
infancy that you will never read an article
in Democratic paper on the truth of such
history as the Democracy are now manu-
featuring for posterity-truth and her twin
sisters, virtue and patriotism, having so
deuced little to do with the transactions OF
that party;-and so you glance over the
sheet until your eye falls upon the words
CAMPING OUT AT CHARLESTON;
and there you stop. Under that head you
gather the fact that the Indiana delegation
to the Charleston Convention are going to
take along with them "a capacious and very
serviceable waterproof tent" about the size
of the pavilion of "grand consolidated
circus with three hundred men and horses
and variety of wax-work." Into this tent,
which will be erected a few days before the
Convention meets, and is intended to hold
five hundred of the anti-fve -dollars-a-day-
uOtei-Diii-bCniOSioO1 thC
will crawl after the labors of the day, and
having bolted fried-meat supper and wash
ed it down with Cincinnati whisky, will roll
themselves up in theirbankets
"And lie Gown TO pleasant Dreams"
The own rs of this circus tent-the repre-
sentatives o. the Indiana Democracy-are
going to take in boarders during the COnyen-
ton. But, although, as the Union states,
provisions will be forwarded aud placed
therein fol- the rejection of boarders." every
boarder will have to take along his bread,
blanket aud brandy, as nothing but shelter
! will be furnished him. The proprietors OF
this canvas tavern advertise that the round
| trip to Charleston shan't cost their boarders
but fifty dollars. As further inducement
we would suggest that they agree to cut up
their cloth shan,y after 1.-The Convention is
over, and give each of their boarders clean
| shirt of of il.
The Gdzette--A new correspondent on the
California beer question has turned up In
the columns of the Gazette. It's great
mercy they have Mt got the thing into Con-
gress; but it's very probable they'll do it
yet. There's one thing there can't be any
mistake about--Mr. QUARLEs will have to be
re narksbly sound on this question before he
can get any votes among the readeas OF the
] Gazette at the next election.