Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-09-18
Frnm the jackson whis.
Polk, Peyton and Haynes.


On Saturday last, very large number of
the citizens of Madison County, including q
goOdly number of ladies, assembled in the
Courthouse yartI in this city. TO hear the
candidates for ElectOr for the State at large
address their feIlOw-citiZens upon the ques-
lions Ethe Presidential election. now peud-
ing. The three speakers, PeytOn. Polk and
Haynes. representing respectively Bell Doug
las and Breckenridge, came with well estab-
lishcd regulations as able and eloquent de-
batOrs, of great experience
Col. Vim. H. Polk, the Douglas candidate,
led off in the discussion, at eleven clock,
| and for an hour and half. spoke greatly to
the Strengthening and edliieation ot his
friends Indeed, high as was the reputation
of Col Polk. be elevated his standard here
considerably His speech was argumeHta-
tive. well delivered, and temperate in tone
and manner, and won for him the good Opin-
ion of all who heari him. He exposed. in a
mastery manner, the hypocrisy and duplici-
" of the Breckenridge men, who persist IN
! running a man who has "HO chance on earth
| for eleetiCn: and as evidence that he did
not believe that Breckenridge could be elect
ed, he proposed, anG repeated the PROPOSE
tion that ii Col. Haynes, as an Honorable man,
would come upon the stand and tell the peo-
pie that he believed that Breekinridge STOOD
anu chance to be elected, either by the people
OF the House of Representatives, that he.
Col. Polk, would surrender the canvass and
go home When this proposition was made,
Col Haynes was standing in the crowd with
n stipguished democrat of this county, who
urged him To accept the propositions; but
HAYNES dared not do H. lie does. not be-
lieve that Breckintidge has d1ly possible chance;
and as an honorable man he would not say so.
Col Folks speech gave general satisfaction
to tue friends of Judge Douglas, and was adj
mitted to be much ADLER effort than any he
had ever before made in this place.
Col. Baltic Pey ton, the gallant, glorious,
true-heaFted and eloquent champion OF Bell
and Everett, came second in the list; and de-
livered one of the most argumentatlve, elo-
duent and able speeches ever delivered IN
Jackson. His old friends, those who had
heard him twenty years ago, were prepared,
from reports. to expect a great falling off in
his powers as a public speaker. aud were,
therefore, very agreeably disappointed in bis
speech on Saturday. He has lost something
of the ''lively aud gessipPing" style which
characterized his public addresses of 1910;
but he has acquired instead, "a soidity and
eompaetness OF argument, which greatly
more Than compensate for the loss. dis
speech here on Saturday filed his friends
with admiration and delight, and gave his
political opponents load TO carry, which
will grind them to impalpable powder before
the canvass closes. .s-ss ~s.ss - a.s-.' 2
Col Langdon C. Haynes, the bright particu-
| lar star of the Breckenridge democracy, who,
when a member of the Tennessee Legislature
some years since, in a letter TO Gen. Cass, IN
company with Gen. ]. DR.. c. Atkins and w.
B. Bate, District Electors on the same ticket
with him, most enphatically and cordially
endorsed the doctrine OF SqUater Soe7eigniy,
came next in order, of course; and was listen
ed TO for an honr aud a hall, with The Profound
est attention. He is a fluent, graceful and
eloquent speaker-superior, by all odds, as "a
declamsr--io either Polk or Peyton-but in
4 ferior To either OF them as man OF solid ar
i gument and substantial reason. Indeed We
have heard the remark almost universally
made. that Haynes had nosupefior in voice.
manner and language He is a tall, hand
some, fne looking man, of pleasing address,
ana has a command OF language unsurpas-
sed by any gentleman of our acquaintance ;
but it bis speech here on Saturday. was =
| fair specimen Of his argumentatiye powers,
we are compelled, by conscientious regard
for truth, to say that be falls far below either