Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-03-16
The City Press.

From the seductive allurementS OF Party
Politics, the Nf,cs always interchangeable in
IFS search after political truth. turns idly
away. and suffers its pen to daily momenta-
rily with the passing events of the day. A
brief article on Mr.. RICHARDSON'S Bill to wind
up the Bark of Tennessee (which Bill was
knocked on the head in the Senate the other
day., and few items Of news, constitute its
entire editorial stock in trade. The local
He,cs is much more lavish of pen, ink and pa
per. giving u, as it does. more matter than
usual. its leading article gracefully spreading
itself out 10 the extent of a column and
quarter What sympathy has Tennessee
with Disunion :" asks the local Ne,cs, in that
style of type the printers call Bargeois Clar-
endon, which is generally used for putting
heads to articles, and then proceeds to answer
the questions at the length herein above
specified. The article is written in our local
contemporary own peculiar and very forci-
bic style
Mr. SEwARD's late speech is the suhject Of
another leading article in the Gazette. Our
neighbor handles the subject quite graceful
Iy. but the indications are that b. has cut out
more work for himself than be can get through
IN week. To take up proposition after
proposition and assumption after assumption
as the New York Senator lays them down,
and demonstrate the fallacy or the absnrdity
of each, involves the preparation of more
copy than the printer is likely TO call for in
| the next Few days. This speech of Dir. SEW
AID is not exactly the speech the public ex-
pected from the man. For one VINO is sup
posed to hold several shares in the different
underground railroads of the country, he is
drawing it rather mid.
The Banner has an article on "Presidential
SpecuIations." ''The New York Herald, says
the Banner, lis of the opinion that the result
of the next Presidential election will be TO
break up either the Republican party or the
Democratic, and TO make the new party the
Opposition during the next Presidency.'-
We know of no con.ummation more devouIly
to be wished than the "break-up' OF the
Democratic and Republican parties but at
the same time, we know of none less likely
to be realized al the next Presidential election
than the extinguishment of the Democratic
party. That party may then BE- split up aud
defeated, but the hope that it will be entirely
wiped out is not at all fattering. Ii is not
going to die while il has so many inducements
to live. While surrounded by all the luxu-
ries of lille, p
erich in the gems If Inda's giudy zone,
Aud plumber ped from kingdoms not its own"
10 lie down and die-to join the innumerable
caravan that peoples the dusty road tosdeatb
with all its imperfections on its head aud
all the power and plumber in its hands, would
lie to commit an act that would be sublime il
it were not 81 ridiculous. Democracy is not
immortal it cannot much longer resist the
Iecaying influences of its own corruption !;
hut to believe with the New York Herald
that if beaten next fall, it will be ''extingush-
ed as a party" is almost as bad as Millerism
Could anything have been more signal than
the defeat of that party at the Waterloo of
| 1910? but did Mt they rise again to victory
four years aiterr Could anything have been
more thorough than their overthrow in 1913,
/ but did Mt they come at the Wings again
with bulldog ierOcity in 1852, and sweep
them from the face OF the earth Show the
Democratic party the channel which leads
most directly 10 the spoils. and they IL rush
into it though il lead through lake of fire
whose flames hiss defiance in the very face of
heaven. party of this sort can't be '.ex-
tinguished" ct "a single blow. Which is a
great pity. Democracy will receive sev.re
shock at the next election and will expert
ence all the agony of death-a death beyond
which there is no hope of salvation but
not until 1864 will it pass away like a trou-
BLEED dream forever.
The Union has article touching the
| Chicago Convention, and kindred subjects,
and another touching "Mr. SEwARDs late
Speech Mfr SEwAED's late Speech seems
to be good subject for the newspapers.
Also an article from the Washington STR,
headed, "A New Element Likely to Enter
INTO the Presidential Election What ele-
ment can il be! IL can't be the liquid eIe-
nent, for that is nothing new. The Democ-
racy have carried half their elections for the
last twenty years with the help of that ele-
meni.