Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-27
The Montgomery Mail Again.

The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail has opened
its batteries on the Nashville PATRIOT Sav-
eral day ago we put to it Il very searching
interrogatory, which it had the manly cour-
age to answer promptly and frankly. For
that we commend the Mail with all our
heart. And if ever its Editor shall be hung
for treason TO his country, we shall always
believe that he lived brave, manly and hon
est life, and that he deserved a better fate.
As friend he is warm, impetuOus and de
voted, and as an adversary open, chivalrous
and Just. Such an one may be mislcd by
the designing to commit errors of the grayest
character, and to perpetrate follies almost
incredible, on the presumption OF mental
sanity; but there is that in it which viii
always command respect ''frOm all sorts OF
people" Therefore, however sad may be
his fate, he may count Us, in advance, rs
among the mouTncrs, next tue hearse- at his
funeral. If there be any ungenerous reader
of the patriot who would in ignorance up
braid us for this sincere tribute TO fire
eater, a Southern Lacquer, We tell him: Go
thy ways!' Was not the Editor of the Mont
gomery "Maii'' q WING? And how much
that simple fact is worth in the valuation OF
human life and character, there be none can
estimate. Was he not Wing IN ALABAMA,
where Wing never saw high honor, and
where there was never motive To make
Wing impure Was he not a Know Nothing.
where and when Know NOthngs never thrOvc:
Was he not a FILLMORE man, when FILLMORE
was abused and villiied, worse than BELL
now is, as vile a5olitiOnist? Did he not
bear FILLMORE, Pandora's box and all. on
his stalwart back sterny. calamity, nobly
heroically from the 22nd February to the :ird
November 1856? Is ne not the father of
"SMoN SUGGs," and "HoRsE SHOE NED
Does he not say to US, in the plaiucst print,
at twelve O'Clock, noon, on Thursday last.
the 23rd inst: ' TIC are not Democrats; nor
do we ever expect to be called by That
name?" May all the gods of Homer and the
rest, send troubles endless upon Us when we
forget such virtues! Reader. upbraid Us,
hold the back of your hand to Us, anathema-
tie US, say we're fool; but, Mail, - we re
spect we admire, we love you.
But our interrOgatory struck the Mail"
a
tantrum, and the mail" is blind. We forgot
Sirius when we put the question. Eut The
"devilment,r as Horse Shoe Ned would say,
is done, and we can't help it. So the Mail
adjusts its guns and fires away at Us. But it
don't hit It's mark The Mail wrote to a
friend in Nashville for something to shoot at
US, and rec v urn an article of sOmc-
time in Is5- ;5oUi me files Of our neighbOr
of tue Banner" and it calls that ours, and
in it, Impression Of the 23d inst, rams that
in its artillery for ball. and precedes it with
an article from the Baltimore Patriot for
powder to "fre the Southern heart" and
with the loud exclamation: "a precious brace
of riots,"-''let Ter OFF, 1t is true we
repubIished the banners" article, but it
was not our editorial-what we said about it
is our editorial. Let the Mail do as we
did. publish the whole article, and then say
what it pleases. ''Maii," load up and fire
again.