Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-01-10

forced to read The local Nerrs thereafter with
a proper allowance for that infirmity from
which its editor confesscs himself not entirely
exempt Speaking of lying, which is as nes-
an approach as we ever make to the impious
practice, the inference to be drawn from our
neighbor's say-so TO the contrary notwitb-
standing: Several years ago; in point of
fact, a great many years ago,
When Learning but from cioisterrs dim
1t up the brow Of Time;
When Greece was Glory's synonyme,
And Rome in her prime;
the philosophers got to puzzling one another
with such propositions as this: when say
lief lie, tell the truth; and ifI tell the
truth. lie.r And he did lie. whether he told
the truth or not, if mankind in sOid Platea
day" were as desperately given to that sort
of thing as they are, in the opinion of the 10
cal NesVs, in the nineteenth century. But
this proposition puzzled the sages wonderful
ly. One of them. being gentleman of ele-.
giant leisure. went so far as to write a work
of seven volumes in calculation of it,
Whether or not he succeeded to his own sat
are unable 10 say, as We left before tie work
went to press We trust the local Of the
Nelrs will permit US to hear from him on the
subject.
The Union appeals in feeling manner to
the Democracy of Tennessee to come up and
subscribe for it. 1t doesn't ask them 10 read
il. however. sensibly alive as it is that tkdt
would he asking too much. We hope the De-
mocracy will respond literally 10 the appeal.
The Union is conducted much more ably than
a paper of lis politics ought to be. With its
marked ability, it is calculated to do great
deal of mischief by intoxicating princidl,s
detrimental to the interests of the Opposition
party. on whose Albanian shoulders rest the
glory and theperpetuiiy of our Republican
institutions. By coming over to this great
party, the Union has it in its power to attain
a position In society at once respectable and
useful. Let it think seriously about the mat
tee, and come down and talk ii over with Us.
In another article the Union says: There has
been a continued effort on the part of the
Southern Opposition. since the disintegration
responsible for the slavery agitation" Our
contemporary forgets TO mention the little cir
cumstance that, in this effort, the Southern
Opposition have been eminently successful.
the demon of Abolition" says the Union,
smust be Lound hand and foot and cast into
outer darkness, then, and not Till then. will
the perturbed spirit of the Constitution rest
This demon of Abolition, the twin-brother OF
Official Corruption, is the off spring of De-
mOcracy. and under the careful nurture of its
tender mother has grown to be such Her
chilean young scoundrel, that We fear this
thing of binding him hand and foot is job
more easily undertaken than accomplished.
If that respected parent hadn't been so care
full of his health, he had died in his infan-
cy 1t is h0w too late talk about binding him
hand and foot; and a. tscasting him into onter
darkness, that is absurd; for it is the darkness
of the South he's after. Give him that, and he's
got all be wants. The Union speaks of 1.-The
perturbed spirit of the Constitution as if
that venerable instrument had been dead and
buried these twenty-Odd years, and its ghost
we're in the habit of ''revisiting the glimpscs
Of the moon," like that of Banquo or the
King Of Denmark. Such rcmaI ks are calcu-
lated to mislead the public mind, and it is to
hoped the Union will forbear. The COnstitu- |
ton still lives. and if the DemOc -atic party
will get out OF the way, it will continue TO
live for many day to come but SO long as
that party holds the dagger at its breast as
it does now, there is no sensible insurance
in this country that would venture
to risk anything upon the chances of its life
Or death.