Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-06
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The political estate which Mr. BuCHASAS.
is about TO leave behind him at his official
death is not likely to give rise to much con-
tented as 10 its disposal. The errors which
bristle in every page of its melancholy his
tory and the numberless CONCEPTIONS which
have found their way into all its departments
constitute legacy which nobody would viii
nngly accept Nevertheless it must be ap-
propriaieiy distributed and those who are
Justly entitled to it must undertake its case
and defence. The American people cannot
permit it to he thrust upon their hands,
naked, diseased and Iosthsome as it is, as the
property of nobody. The democratic party
is moi willing to aeeep. it, while the oppose
tioc would flee from it as from river filled
purifying loeusis. Bit somebody mnst take
and keep and cherish it, or disavow and
bury it--bury its menstrous features from
human sight and ita stencil from human
smell. There is no one to whom that filial
duty more appropriately falls than to Mr..
BRECKENRIDGE. Was he not member of the
Convention which brought it forth Was he
not sent out with it To bear it company, to
give it strength and help it along to the
Federal Capitol? Was he not inangurated
with IL? Has he not stood by it? sat with
it !, been part and parcel of it from the be-
ginning? In this great game of political
euche in which all the points have gone
against The country, ii BUCHANAN was the
trump knave, was not BRECkINRIDGE the left
bower? Has he not been touching toes and
giving signs under the table all the while the
game has been going on? Is he not now
backed and sustained by the whole power
of BUCHANAN and supported by the whole
| body Of his retainers? If there is an Office
holder in the land who dares refuse to rally
to the standard OF BRECKENRIDGE does not
his head role into the basket? Is not the
present administration, to all intents and
purposes, stalking its vindication, its reputa-
ton, its all on the throw of the BREcKIN-
RIDGE die? Was there ever amore complete
Identification of past action or future hope +?
Until, therefore, Mr.. BRECKENRIDGE une-
quivocally disavows and repudates not only
all responsibility for but all sympathy with
the BUCHANAN administration he will be its
candidate, its champion, and follower in its
footsteps. And even should such disavowal
be made, it should be taken with the utmost
caution. 1t is said that interested human
nature is frail, that the very best OF it is not
beyond the reach of temptation; but that
which has absorbed qualities and received
impressions from the "Sage, of Wheatland,
must be unusually infirm. 1t would, there
fore, require more than,.a simple and formal
remuneration of the BUCHANAN administra-
sion-it would require the most manifest
and overwhelming penitence-such as would
lead to public repentance in sack-eloth and
in ashes, after the manner of the sinfnl man
who beholds all the terrors and feels in his
soul all the fortunes of the "the worm that
never dies" Until such an exhibition, Mr..
BRECKINRIDeE is the administration candi-
date.
Is anybody, of any party, in any state pre-
pared to defend the corruption and extrava-
gance of the present administration Who
can be found TO indorse JAMES BUCHANAN?
Who is willing to perpetrate his policy and
continue his practices? Hthere is q straight
forward lover of his country who viii do SO,
let him speak, for him have We offended. We
want to hear from the BRECKENRIDGE democ-
racy on this topic. We want the masses Of
that party to take the subject home to their
hearts and minds, aud ask themselves, under
the high admonitions of the patriotism, and
under the solemn calls of duty, if they are
prepared longer to tolerate or countenance
the system which has prevailed at Washing
ton for the last four years-a system which
has disgraced our name among nations
abroad, and made us reproach to ourselves
at home