Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-06-12

The City Press.
The Union At the head of the leading
editorial column of the Uaion--(so thorough
ly is our patriotic pen imbued with the spirit
of the unique and comprehensive little plat
form adopted by the late Convention at Bal
timOre, that it never traces the word Union
without an inclination to couple with it "the
Constitution and the Enforcement of the
Laws" hence, If our esteemed contemporary
will have the kindness to call his ably con-
Quoted journal The American without the Union
he will save our pen the labor and fatigue of
so often depressing that virtuous inclination)
stands the name of CHARLES SUMNER, ''the
in whose choice, says our contemporary,
ssTo reign is worth ambition, though in hell.''
For the information of the Union, and all
others who may chance to be uninformed on
the subject, must he permitted TO remark
here en- passant, that in adopting this terrible
sentiment his choice, CHARLES does not
| preeipitate himself beyond what politicians
call the line of safe presidents; for his great
prototype, the President of the tropical re-
public named in the above-quoted line (and
| we might say tie author of the line, were it
not for lessening the number of precedents
| We propose to cite) once, upon a memorable
| occasion, remarked to a leading member of
| his cabinet that one had
''Better reign in he'll than serve in heaven"
And our distinguished friend julius CESAR,
since deceased, was accustomed to declare
that he would rather be the first man in a
village than the second man in Rome; while
at the age of sixteen We had the honor of
very charming young lady, now perhaps the
mother of several small children, and
'sThe chief engineer of a miIliner', shop,
And the boss Of sewing machine"
the following sentiment of similar charac-
ter, which we produce with pride and pleas
ure:
so NANCY love so fills my soul
With dreams ofthy Heart-realm alone
That if 'twere fixed beneath the sea,
And could grasp and call my own
The crown and sceptre of that realm,
would not abdicate the throne
For all of ophir's golden ores,
Nor steamboat loads of Kohl noors p
Well do we remember that nigh on to the
shank" of May, 1886, just as we were step
ping on board the good steamer William
Dickson. Captain BAUGH, Master HENRY c.
WOoD lat the desk - CHARLEY COME "Mud |
Clerk - BILL BENHAM, keeper of Wood
Yard" (names of chief cook and chamber
maid unknown). on our way to Cincinnati,
ba1 al,
the last of the illustrious line of harmonious
and unbroken National Democratic Conven-
tions a telegraphic dispatch announced that
Sunator SEMNER--we mean Senator SUMNER
had said something out of the way to Sena-
tor BUTLER, and that Congressman Brooks,
'nevy'' to Senator BUTLER. knowing there
was mt any danger of getting hurt, had gone
into the Bay State Senator with a 'gutter
perker" walking stick, and had let him have
it over the head like putting out large fire.
Well do we remember, too that the head
turned out to be harder than the cane, and
that though both sustained more or less in
jury in the conflict, the latter got the worst
of it, and has never been of much account
since. 1t was feared by the ABBY KELLEYs
of the North that Loor CHARLES head was so
badly caved in that it wonId run him '.raving
distracted - but they finally put him on a
ship or two and sent him to Europe, where,
feeling safe with the Atlantic rolling between
him and Books gutta percha, his skull
gradually got over its fracture and its fear, its
old enemy having been summoned in the
meantime from a corrupt Congress here to
stand in the presence of an uncorruptible
Senate in another world. And now CHARLES
has got back to the Senate, and we to the
point at which We set out-the article in the
Union. We had no intention whatever of
straying so far from the subject but when
one gets to wandering through the beautiful
labyrinths Of personal and political history,
there is no telling when or where one is going
to pail up. The Union says that after Sena-
tor SUMNER had been thrashed by Col. BROOKS,
s'public opinion drove him to seek refuge in
the diseased portion of European society"
Such was not the case.-in a PICKwICKIAN
sense, of course; for we simply mean to say
that our contemporary is honestly mistaken.
CHARLES was proud of that public opinion,
and went 10 Europe simply TO keep from being
nursed to death by the idiotic old women of
Massachusetts. If it had been the young
girls who wanted to plaster up his broken
head and lull it to repose upon their palpita-
ting bosoms, in justice to him we must say
that he would continually have
''Torn his gaping wounds afresh,''
and would have been there yet. But the ten
der care and solicitude of all the aged females |
of the country were different sort of thing,
and he left He made another speech in the |
Senate the other day, giving slavery and its
upholders particular thunder, and the Union |
is tempted to think that it is its .duty to pub
lish the speech that the people OF the South |
may fully know the sentiment that is enter |
tanned and expressed by portion of the peo-
pie of the Free States" If we have not |
placed too high estimate upon the intelli- |
gence OF the people OF the South, they al
ready know full well the character of those |
sentiments, and there is nothing in any code
or creed to which we subscribe that makes it
the duty of a Southern journalist to pour in
to the bosom of our peculiar institution senti-
ments which carry even in their utterance
here the vital embryo of a peril to that in
stitution, and the bare suspicion of which in
the bosom of Northern man on this side of
Mason a DIxOSis Line sometimes creates /
an Immediate demand for tar and feathers In