Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-08

For eight or ten days there has been continually /
stanSing in the columns Of the Opposition press of
this city, an announcement signed Many DExo-
cEATs.p stating that there would on yesterday be a
meeting ratifying the nomination of DouGIls and
JOHNSON. The first thing that viii strike the mind
of the thoughtful as a little strange is that call
thus signed to ratify nominations professedly Demo
cratic should appear in the bitterest Opposition pa
pers s0iho@ svsr having been offered to the paper that
is most extensively patronized by the Democracy Of
the State. But the day came and whit the meeting
The distinguished speakers who had been invited
from abroad failed to attend. The crowd though
sufficiently respectable in numbers and intelligence
was not as large as we expected to see The most
of the leaders of theOppositon in county on
hand with good sprinklng of those from the neigh
boring counties. Among the number we saw was
the BELL Elector from the Lebanon District. Mr.
VIM EwIEG BELL. member of the Legislature from
Williamson, the three BEIA. members from this
county, Maj. Corr, BELL ex-senator from Davidson,
the Bell Attorney General Of this district, Col
Ed. EWING, BELL delegate to Baltimore, several
BELL J. P's, Capt DAVIS, one Of the BazL wethers
of the flock, and many others il that hne. There
we're also quite number Of the truest BREcKNRIDGE
men on hand to witness the prOceeaings.
Gov FoorE called the meeting TO order and nomi-
mated Col STEVENSON Chairman. aud Dr. Hurley
Secretary; Vice Presidents were omitted. A
letter was read from DR.. ROBERTSON sympathiz
ing with them, snort speech of Hon. GEO. W.
JOKES, at EoUGIAs meeting, was read from
New York paper. Coy. FoorE then took the stand
and addressed the audience for about two hours,
after viii included, saying that he would adj
dress them again at night Much tina. the Gov. said
we could not hear owing to the passing to and fro
Of those curious to see what was going on. He
commenced by saying that there were three candi-
dates for the Presidency of whom he wished to
speak, LINCOLN, BREcKNRIDGE and DOUGLAS. OF Mr.
BELL he had nothing to say. If he ever mentioned
his name once during the whole of his speech we
did not hear it. The Gov. having frequently stated
as learn. that if Mr.. DOUGLAS was not nominated,
he would support Mr. BELL it would not have been
proper to attack Mr. B. He said but little about LIN
COLIN but pitched into JEFF DAVIS r. BARNwELL
RHEET, and YANcEr furiously.
He gave a complete history Of the wonders that
he had accomplished accounting very satisfactorily
to us for the defeat of Gen CAss by announcing that
he was the chairman of the committee that man
aged the canvass of 1913. He hooed the idea of
Gen. LANES being Vice President of the United
States he was " as ignorant man ever got into
the United States, and could not write grammati-
cal note to his ne:ghbor for peck of peas" The
old JACKSON Democracy will remember that it was
| the cry of the BELL men that Old Hickory could
not spell correctly that he wrote all correct,
oil korrect" but still the people said, IF he can't
write, the British who at New Orleans, say he
can make his mark" So with JOE LANE, although he
may not be able to write, he can make his mark.
The Gov. had nothing TO say against Mr. BREckIN-
RIDGE, except that he would be beaten.
The BELL men were out in greater force and were
more enthusiastic in Gov FooTE's ratification meet
ing than when they met to ratify Mr.. BELLS nOmi-
nation Indeed they rather over did the thing.
Some few Democrats who had been kindly disposed
to Mr.. DOUGLAS that the trick was to get them to
help Mr.. BELL and they decline further assistance
that way. couple of foreigners called on us after
the meeting and assured lis that they could not 90
into the DOUGLAS snare when the bitterest Know
Nothings that could be found in Nashville in 1855
were the drivers Gov. FoOrE read series of res
olutions, which were adopted by very few voices
responding aye The nays were not called for The
Gov in the course of his speech frequently chal-
| lenged any respectable friend of BREcKNRDGE and
LANE to meet him on the stump and he would use
him up quick. As he threw out no challenge to the
BELL men, take it for granted that he does not
wish to annihiate any of them.
Upon the whole the affair was weak, too weak to
write about.
We understand that Gov. FoorE continued his re-
marks at the Market House last night. Fe was
surrounded and Justify cheered by the BELL for
awhile. The manner in which they took charge of
the meetings yesterday and last night doing the
voting and appauding has, we think. opened the
eyes Of few of the DOUGLAS men TO the BELL trick
After Gov. FooTE concluded last night a call was
made upon Mr.. PTTNAN by the Opposition b'hoys.
He arose and said that be had heard men denounced
to-day as disunionists whom he knew to be as pure
patriots. He expected the crowd was slightly mis-
taken in calling for him he was for JOIN BRECK
INRIDGE and old JOE LANE. This announcement Gre
ated something of fuster. and those who called
him up concluded to call him down, and thus ended
the performances.
We are informed by gentleman who resides in
California, that Gov. FooTE was, during his resi-
dence there, a prominent member of the Know
Nothing Party, and such, an aspirant for the
United States Senate.