Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-11
McM1SNvILLE, Aug. sth, 1s6C

All goes well here.
MCMINNvHLE, Aug. Sth, 1860.
EDITORS PATRIOT :--Gentlemen :--Monday.s
August 9th, being Court day." together
with the fact that Hon. W. B. Stokes and Hon.
III. NJ. Watterson were expected to address
the citizens of Warren, attracted to McMinn-
vile a large crowd of all parties, to hear
what Douglas and UNION man had to say
concerning the political issues OF the day.
Immediately after dinner, therefore, the peo-
pie poured into the Court room, and at the
time entered, Col. Watterson was occupying
the stand. His address was characterized by
mildness, forbearance, and dignity,-he evil
IDENTIFY spoke more in sorrow than in anger but
mild as he was, when he reached the Charleston
Convention, and began to handle the sece-
ders, disorganiZers, and disunionists, it was
evident that .feao selfconstituted leaders of
modern democracy here, began to grow very
FESTIVE, and were determined that the people
should not hear Col. Watterson tell 's how
the thing was did" According to previous
arrangement, therefore, some two or three of
those seLf-ayled leaders, placed themselves in
front of the speaker for the purpose of inter-
rupting, intimidating, and preventing him
from being heard. They laughed. talked,
Intercepted, and interrupted Col. Watterson
in various ways, proposing at intervals ''three
cheers for Breckenridge and Lane" to which
no one responded but themselves Altogeth-
er it was the most pitiful and disgusting sight
witnessed in the " mountain district" and
the utter contempt with which the whole pro-
ceedings was regarded by the respectable and
thinking portion of the audience, will utterly
preclude the possibility of like occurrence
again. There was but one expression of
opinion from all, and that was that it was
dtsgrdcetia.
Col. Watterson, among other things, stated.
that the cause of portion of the Tennessee
delegation following off the disunion faction,
was attributable mainly to the presence of
Gov. Harris, and the two editors of the Nash
vile UniOn:--that if they had never gone to
Baltimore, the Tennessee delegation would
not have bolted. His reasons for this opinion
were clear and conclusive.
Stokes took the stand and for near three
hours had an attentive audience. He told
the people he had come among them to
give an account of his stewardship. He said
he was their public servant, that they had
the right to know what he had been doing,
and he was there to answer any and ali
questions, upon which they might see pro-
per to interrogate him. He referred to the
time when he was a candidate for their
suffrages, and to the measures he had pro-
missed to advOcate--the duties he had pro-
missed to perform. The account he gave
showed that he had been no idler, and that
he was never found sleeping at his post
his promises and pledges made to the peo-
pie have been fulfilled to the letter. His
constituents may with propriety confer on
him the commentator, +" Well done, thou
good and faithful servant"
On the pending Presidential canvass
position of parties, &C., he was very point
ed, sparing not those who were seeking to
preeipitate the cotton states into a reyolu-
ton, aud the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Union
He pointed to Breckenridge as the sectional
candidate OF the South, and to Douglas as
the sectional candidate of the Northern
wing, neither of whom from the fact of
their being sectional, he could support -and
spoke OF Lincoln as the representative of
Black Republicanism-whom no true patriot
could, or would support.
From JOHN BELL alone then, when the
hour of trouble and peril came, could we
hope for that policy which would restore
peace to the country, and prosperity through
out the length and breadth of this great
Republic. l will not attempt to follow Mr..
Stokes throughout all his arguments he
is now making a partial visit to portion
of his district, and will, hope, thoroughly
canvass the Mountain Country, before No
vember next, that all may have an oppor-
tunity of hearing the very able manner in
which he disposes of modern democracy.
generally, and the disunionists in parti-
cular.
Mr.. Stokes alluded to the report which has
gone abroad-whch has got into various pa
pers, and which was told with great gusto
few days ago, by Andrew Ewing. at Muir
freesboro, to-wit: That he (Stokes) sta
ted at Smithville on the 2lst ultimo,
that the Black Republicans had told
Colonel Hatton and himself, previous
to the adjournment, that if Mr.. Bell
could be carried to the House, the Black Re
publicans would help elect him. Mr.. Stokes
in emphatic toues denounced this report as
being false, and stated precisely what he did
say, which was as follows That John Bell
was the strong man if it went to the House,
that neither party had the majority to elect,
and that Bell being the second choice, he aoas
Of the opinion that the Republicans would
support him before they would see the Dem
oerats control the country. He stated farther
that some of the Douglas Democrats told Col.
Hatton and himself, that if the election was
thrown into the House, they would vote for
Mr.. Bell in preference to Breckenridge
Therefore that made Mr.. Bell the strong man,
and in his opinion would elect him.
The officiousness and forwardness of
Breckenridge leader; % who will long be
remembered for his temerity, and who will
have occasionn long TO remember the many
hard and "telling ticks" he received, led to
an invitation on the part of Col. Stokes, to
the affect that if he (viz., said ''leader,')
wished to hear himself talk, there was va
cant place on the stand, and that he would
give him an opportunity to reply; where
upon the said individual, with more brass
than brains. and more temerity than discre-
ton, stalked round, and as soon as an oppor-
tunity offered. he sprung up, struck one of
his favorite saw-miil attitudes. gestieulated
furiously, threw himself into the position of
the little bull that attacked the locomotive,
and then-subsided. He made no point, advo-