Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-03-29
THE stars have said il
And his own prophetic a ID oracular soul
CoIfr. ms tine sh ming y bills"

SohuT Ale tho RI nIbs = oiIs-
The stars may have said also that Gov JOHN
SON was not born to lie defeated. 1t is likely
they did. When they are lit lie cloudy
which is sometimes the case, they say good
many Things they are ashamed OF afterwurd.
However, if the remark WAS simply intended
10 hold good during the year 1860, and it l.
more than probable tina; such was The cas-,
the prophecy will bring neither shame nor
reprOach To the golden PYrHIAS of the sky.
To be defeated one must first be candidate
and that, the UHioH's ''Man for the Times"
can not he by the authority of the Charleston
Convention. Ia his ante-nortem funeral ora
ton OH Gov. JOHNSON, our contemporary
says There would be nothing dotlbtfld in
the policy of his administration everything
would be pOsitipe." And it would, too-a
positive failure.
FRED. L. STANTON, border rUffian in Kan
sas. Who used To represent the Democracy of
the Memphis District in Congress, recently
went TO Connecticut 10 talk politics to the
Republicans, into whose ranks he has gone
with thousand other Dem Gratis who once
denounced the old Wing paI ty unsound ON
the slavery question. At New Britain Mr..
STANTON pulled up and made bis Republican
speech. The Banner gives US about column
of it. We shan't give our readers any of it,:
not a solitary line. The people of Tennessee
don't care Continental (anylhing you please
what Dir. STANTON has had to say in Connec-
ticut, or may have to say anywhere else
We don't blame FREDERICK THE STANTON for
quitting the Democratic party any more than
We blame FREDERICK THE GREAT for quit ing
the field of Kunersdortf, or FREDERICK BAR
BARossA for quitting the bosom of the Catho
lie Church when the enraged bull of Pope
Gregory TX get after him. Nor do we blame
him Tor going over 10 the Republican party I;
for at the time he went, FREDERICK had
stronger suiipaihy to travelling than now,
and very naturally stopped at the party that
was nearest to him. From Democracy TO
Republicanism was scarcely an afternoons
ride
The Mars has an article on Democratic
Platforms aud the Slavery Question:" aud
another on THE Homestead BILL" These
are fruitful themes. The first it is unntc, $
sary here to discuss II will come up more
legitimately during the approaching .'Pre,i-
Dental struggle" The platform which the
Democracy will adopt at Charleston will be
made up almost en- iirely of the slavery ques-
tion. II is The ouly platform material they
have got. They will of course Gil in the
chinks with some sort Of cheap mortar. but
you can very easily see the wool mixed all
through it. The boIy of the structure will
be that pet question of the party; take il
away. aud their platform will look very m ,ch
like pig-pen with the top blown of. For
fifteen years, "The Homestead Biii'' has been
Gov. JnHNsoN's hobby. He Struggled all that
lime to get it through Congress. but was
sadly wanting in the strength necessary to
accomplish the task. He has now got it into
the Snate, while an opposition line has run
another and a better one through The House
The Republicans claim Gov. JoHxsoN's bill a.
"a measure tor Freedom" and think that his
devotion 10 the measure viii materially en-
nance bis chances Tor the Presidency at th,.
North. This man, appIauded by the .'Black
Republicans" tbe especial horror Of Southern
Democracy. is the U,.ioa's Man for the
Timcs." The "Man for the Times,r then. is
The Southern man wEo leans far enough over
Mason and DIxoS's line to rake In the slffra-
ges of such Republicans aud AbolitionIst. as
hover about the outposts of their parties,
and vote where thrift is most likely TO follow
fAwning-or voting.
The Gaxss-bat somebody has made IL the
subject Of an act OF larceny. IL Is net 10 be
fOana in the sanetam, aud beyond the limits
Of that enchanted halm we cant 60 70 and
&c.