Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-06-20
The City Press.

The Banner.-Last Monday was. or is said
to have been, though by man who has MT
got any thermometer, the hottest day we
| have had this season and such were its
| enervating effects upon the mental machine
~ of the Banner, newspaper which totally
dscredits the popular superstition that mint
juleps are Strengthening and refrigerative in
their tendencies. that it succeededin getting
up far less than its accustomed quantity of edi-
torial matter. Gen. 10. LANE on Democra-
cy" is its first attempt il that line, and
though by no means an unsuccessful attempt,
1t could MT consistently be called a very
elaborate one. In that article the Banner
lays down as the foundation upon which to
build its argument, the self-evident PROPOSE
ton that "Gen. 10. LANE is an aspirant for
the Democratic nomination for the Presiden-
cy." 1t is safe to say that Gen. LANE is Mt
anything else--not much else any how. A
carefully worded search-warrant, placed in
the hands of an experienced detective, and
executed with the utmost rigor of the law,
would, in all political probability, turn up
several aspirants for the Democratic nomina-
ton for the Presidency in this country. The
schoolbOy whose parents are addicted to the
habit OF taking the newspapers could very
easily enumerate thousand, and if you
would give him time to think a little, he
would MT find it difficult task to double the
number. We sometime aga enunciatcd the
opinion that every American citizen who can
read and write, and has cyphered as far in
PIXIES Arithmetic as the single rule of three,
is candidate for the Presidency. This is
eminently true of every Democratic Ameri-
can citizen, whether he can read and write or
not. These little educational advantages are
of secondary consideration with the once
great and still unwashed Democracy, and if
the Richmond Convention were told to-day
of a member of its party who could defeat
STEPHEN a. DOUGLAS without fail, il would
nominate him before tomorrow night, even
if it knew he ''could MT tell B from a broom
stick" Several distinguished Democrats"
who have been spoken of in connection with
the Presidency, are pretty much after this
style. 1t is generally understood that they
know how to read, but they have never been
suspected Ofknowing much more. The pres
ent circumference" of the Presidential chair,
however, knows how to do several things, as
has been fully established by the develop
ments of the Covode Committee 1t is ma
tional misfortune that he does know them
They happen to be the very things that are
best calculated to make this country the
l., -, Ill
vince them that the American people are in
capable of self-govermment And that we
are afflicted with such an incapacity, the
election of another JAMES BUCHANAN would
demonstrate to the satisfaction of even the
most incredulous among ourselves. Fortu-
nately, such mel are rare, even in the most
corrupt of parties, and it is probable that a
century will elapse-a half dozen of them, in
fact-before his peer in corruption and disre-
gard of the public honor and welfare will be
people once pretended to doubt that
the miserable old trickster had any,
thing to do towards getting up the
charge of bargain and corruption against
HENRY CLAY; but the man who doubts it
now would doubt his own existence. JOHN
w. FoRNEY was at one time the leading
member of OLD Bucks kitchen-cabinet, and
when he 'flew off the handle" and washed
his hands of the Administration and its ras-
calities, our most noble and immaculate
Chief Magistrate, knowing that FoRNEY could
tale unfold that would cause the very
stones TO rise up in munity against him,
offered his quOndam confidential adviser from
ten to twenty-five thousand dollars of the
peoples money in cash, and the Liverpool
Ccnsulship, worth nearly eighteen thousand
per annum more, to support the Admins
tration and tell no tales out of school. The
President who would be guilty of acts such
as this. is capable of making the worst of
charges against the purest of men. Oh, of
course Gen. LANE is q candidate for the NOM
ination. If he get it, and is elected, we
won't have much President. but it will as
tonish the world very much if we don't have
better one than we've got now. We could
MT possibly have worse one, if we exerted
ourselves to that end for thousand years
The Uni0n-The Union informs its anxi-
Gus readers that it has gone off on sea-voy-
age. As its political system has been very
feeble since the 'bust-up" and breakdown at
Charleston, it has probably gone out short
distance on some sailing-vessel for is health.
If we had been its physician, this is the very
thing We should have recommended to it.
As a general thing, the Democracy are not
much addicted to the use of water, and voy-
age at sea would MT hurt some of them, es-
pecially if they were thrown overheard when
about a couple of miles out and compelled TO
swim ashore. OF course we have no refer
ence to the well-meaning masses OF the party,
who no doubt wash their faces as regularly as
the best Constitution and Union men among
us, but to some Of the leaders of the party
abroad who can see no necessity for water,
and can account for its creation only upon
the hypothesis that the Almighty attempted
to make very large quantity of whisky at
one lick and failed. The Union is "disap-
pointed in not receiving dispatch from the
editor, giving some account of the doings at
Baltimore" 1t says: 1.-THE meagre dispatch
from the agent of the associated press
amounts to nothing, so we are completely at
sea- in regard 10 the movements at Balti-
more.v AS 1.-THE movements at Baltimore
amount to nothing, the Union ought MT to
have been surprised that the dispatch
,r,oun,aI 10 it.st tho sauna thi1u TIKI