Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-06-16
The City Press,


testify TO the fact that the late speech of Mr..
SUMNER in the United States Senate "does
not meet with that appreciation even from
the Republicans which was evidently expect
ed by the scholarly orator." That speech, it
is safe to say. is not reflex of the sentiments
of the Republican party, but rather of the
sentiments of a faction at the North. whose
hatred TO Southern institutions is infinitely
more bitter and implacable than that felt by
the Republicans. A great many of the latter
are very strongly of the opinion that Mr..
SUMNER has again made a fve-sroly fool OF
himself, and that the kindest act he could do
for himself and his country would be to crawl
into hollow log among the mountains of
New England. and there,
''The world forgetting, by the world forgot
spend the rest of his life in dreaming dreams
of purer and better things than the stirring
up of strife and bitter feeling between the
two great sections of the country. The Ga
zette gives US, in a selected item, the iutelli-
gence that "Miss MARGARET JoICE, a poor
widow, with seven children, hanged herself
knew not how to support them" From which
it would appear that Miss JoICE (what queer
widows they must have iu South Carolina),
being unable to support her children, deter
mined to make rope support her.
The Banner.--The subject of the leading
article in the Banner is Mr.. BELL and the
Slavery Question" We can't help regard
ing it as great waste OF labor to discuss Mr.
BELLS position on that question. He has
been prominently before the country for thir
ty years, and has never attempted to conceal
his political opinions, but has, on the con-
trary, awaited himself of every suitable occa-
sion to make them known to the people and
hence, if the people don't know now where
he stands upon the slavery question, they
would MT know thousand years from to-
day if they We're to go to school for that
length of time and study nothing else. The
that question succeeds only in proving him
self biockhead. Mr.. BELL was born at the
South he has lived all his life at the South :;
and it is generally understood that he will be
disappointed in his hopes and expectations if
be dOu't die at the South. Such being the
facts in the case, if he is not sound On the
question of slavery, then JOHN G CALHOUN
was an Abolitionist and VIM. L. YANCEY is a
Black Republican. This is known to every
Democratic editor who knows anything. and
that it is denied by some of them is attribu-
table solely to the fact that some of them
l.
use for US to fire bird-shot at these unfledged
gulls in the sea of politics. We don't know
anything about politics. We spent eight or
nine of the best years of our life in studying
the subject, but having sunk money in the
enterprise from the word go, we broke short
off in the pursuit of that sort of knowledge,
and have subsequently devoted two years TO
singularly successful attempt to forget all
we had learned. There is no callidg SO un
profitable as that of the honest, conscientious
politician. He is compelled to squander his
own money. without the slightest chance of
accommodating anybody else's. He works
like cotton-and- tObacco-factOr' dray-hGrse
and when he is bankrupt in purse and broken
down in health, he finds himself at the foot
of the ladder, with nothing to do but chew
the cud of bitter fancy, and muse upon the
vanity of political hopes and the immeasura-
BILE ingratitude OF republics. He knows that
wealth and fame and honor are forever be
You'd his grasp, and that for the reward of his
labors be must look 10 that better world be-
yond the stars, where the ballot-tox is not
stuffed and illegal votes are not polled, where
the demagogue rides not rough-shod over the
patriot, and where broken VOWS and violated
pledges are unknown. You may admonish
the king sitting crowned in his pride of place !;
the victorious soldier at whose coming from
conquered fields the triumphal arch upsLrings
and the hoarse artillery speaks the poet
thrice happy in the splendor of his fame and
the fresh verdure of his wreath of laurel,-
you may admonish these that
''Earth's highest honors end in 'here he Iies,'
And 'dust to dust concludes her noblest song"
But to the politician who labors, not for self
ACCOMPLISHMENT, but for the good of his
country, warnings such as this are but
mockery and a jest. Earth's honors are to
him among the beautiful things '.far of and
nnattainabie." and his name may never be
woven into her nobler songs. Having sac
rifced his own constitution in defense of bis
country's, be can only settle down, with
what comfort may be afforded him by the con-
seriousness of having labored for truth and
justice,) in Times great Express Train to
another world, until the invisible conductor
shall call out the grand junction, Death,
where he is to change cars and take the
Lightning Line for Eternity. Aud wheu be
is gone, and il seen and heard no more among
man. his virtues are recorded in stereotyped
and copper-faced paragraph, ending. inevita-
bly,
After lffe's htfuI fever, he sleeps well;
Treason has done his worst: nor steel. nor poison,
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing,
Can touch him further !"
uch is the end of the honest, upright man
,ho makes politics his study and his trade.
q is not so, however. with all politicians. as
everybody knows. Your Democratic politi-
clan, who makes the Federal Capital bis
headquarters, and is ever ready
$50 crooS the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thIin may follow lawnIng,"
somesimes coutris es TO win enough OF power
-ad place, and TO scrape together enough Of
che beggariy elements of the world to make