Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-03-19

TO the very able speech Of the Hon. JORDAN
Stokes, of Wilson, on the Bill for the Eypul-
sion from the State of Free Persons of Color
delivered in the Senate, February 10th,
1860. The Nescs could not devote its columns
! purest and best of men, and possesses talents
that would adorn any station in life, no mat
ter how exalted He is one of the few men
whose every action is swayed by that God
like integrity which it is impossible for poll
tics to weaken or corrupt, and who would
pass through long life of political activity.
achieving and dispensing place and power,
sans peir ct cans reprOche. and at last yield
their souls 10 Heaven pure and unsullied
as the fresh spirit of infancy. If only such
men as be were called to make our laws, aud
tn guide and direct the State, it would then
be infinitely less true, that
ssThe post Of honor is the prisat station"
The Ne,cs has an article on the Results of
Art and Science" Those results are too
numerous TO be cataIogued here.
The Homestead Bill is The subject of the
leading article in the Gazette. To prevent
mistakes, perhaps we'd better state here. thai
the Homestead Bill referred to lay the Gozehe
is totally dis tnct from the Homestead WILLIAMS
around on Church Street. In the latter We
have the most unbOunded confidence he is
true friend to the agricultural interests of
the country. In the former we ha,e but lit
tie confidence, for if il is the same bill that
has been trying to thrust itself through Con-
gress for the last ten or fifteen years, it is not
much of friend to anything or anybody -
Mr.. GRow's bill, however. may be a different
one, and more liberal in its provisions.
The Union has an article on ANDREW
JOHNSON" predatory to one from Minnesota
paper recommending that gentleman as a
candidate for the Vice Presidency. The
Union thus throws itself and Gov. JOHNSON
inso the dut Cesar am nuilus attitude before
the country: Gov. JOHNSON and bis South
ern friends feel very highly complimented
by the Kankato Record and its correspondent.
But Gov. JoHN-o and his friends for him
would be unwilling to accept the position that
is thus desired TO be awarded TO him by his
Minnesota admirers" By this the Union
means to say, we presume, that Gov. JOHN
| SON will not consent to play second-fiddle to
the best of them. We don't blame him. No
| body aspires to the Vice Presidency nova
| days. AS CLAUDE MEINOTTE remarks to
sweet Mrs. ANNE PAGE in the tragedy of
Wine Works Wonders.
''Iu the lexicon Of y ruih which Fate
For bright nanhooi, there is NO such word
As"
the Vice Presidency. Without the honor and
fun of beng the head and front of the Senate,
the Vice President, resting as he does in
the shadow of a higher power. is so nea rly a
cipher that no aspiring youth, whether old
or young, will sigh for the position while
there remains the slightest chance TO figure
as the great Executive l Am OF the G overn-
ment 1t is not strange. then, that Gov.
JOHNSON should say, substantially, to the
people through his home-organ: " Give me
the White House, or
.Give me a in the valley love.'''
The Banner has two articles of the custo-
mary length; but neither of them has head
to it. Il never read book, /" said cel-bra-
ted critic of the Scotch persuasion, until
have reviewed it, why do you not read
it first?'' he was asked "Oh, because" said
be, lit prejudices one So" That's pretty
much the way with us. When our contem-
poraries put heads to their articles, indicat-
ing the subjects of which the articles treat,
: We can notice them here without prejudic e.;
but when we are forced to read them to ind
out what they are about, We can't help being
prejudiced. either for or against, TO a greater
or less degree. This ought not to be; for as
The CRY Press will go down TO posierity
as the reflex of the enlightened opinions Of
the age, il is very essential that il should be
as free from the taiut OF prejudice and partial
ly as the divine spirit OF justice itself. SO
far as we have been able TO ascertain without
reading the articles in the BanHer for we
have MT had time 10 read theml. the first is
about 1.-THE language of the ever-gl orious
HARRY OF THE WEST. when he said i had
rather be right than President (which was
probably intended pun on the name of
he late SILAs WRIGHT. of New York; and
the second is about somebody's want of vcon
sistency in his pretended anxiety in regard
to the principles of Mr.. Bates" One of the
Burners news items states that "the Demo
cratic Convention of North Carolina has
chosen delegates to Charleston for Mr..
HUNTER, and the indications are that Georgia
will follow The example, North Carolina
then, is lost in wild goose chase, and Geor-
gia will probably so over to Hunter.