Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-04

| your advocacy of the Lpeonpioa ConstI
tuition was prompted principally By the de
ire of bFs.akingI down the formidable rival
/ hip Of Robert J. Walker The triumpt.an,
-uecess OF GOV. Walkers brave elnquencs
md skillful craftsmanship in Kansas, excited
| the low passions of your nature. Ii was
then fhat every appliance of fraud and forcs
| vas erected into machine Of corruption
For the past twelve months you have ner
vously watched the Presidential field, driving
-ack any aspirant who appeared to be advan
! cling too rapidly. ~s@
| Instead laying aside selfish views, ana
| periodically coming to The rescue Of tn.
Democracy at the recent Convention. you
| formed an Executive and Congressional
cabal, to force upon the people diciatorial
nomination, and platform of unreasonable
aud impracticable issues. a powerful CON-
| pact minority of Northern delegates, Federal
| retainers fagrantly disappearing their
constituencies, and in many cases voting
against direct Instructions. failed, however,
o shake the true representatives of the peO-
pie. who would, perhaps, have, indeed, been
justified in boiling nomination accomplish
I'd by means so nefarious. Yet not in the
darkest hours of the fierce battles at Charles
tim and BaltimoTe--the only fields in which
the Federal Executive and Congressional
cab Il had particle of pOwer-did the rep
resentaiives of the people for one moment
contemplate abandoning the Convention
That such man. and the clique around him,
should seduce any large portion ofdelegates
into the mad act Of secession. gives only the
greater value TO our elastic institutions
which so rapidly return the unfaithful mag
israte to the comparative harmlessness OF
private life. The hallucination und.r which
you and your coadjutOrs have been labOring,
however, that National Conventions could
be controlled by Executive and Senatorial
stratagem. was dispelled by the triumph OF
the PEI p e at Baltimore.
The Nero like perfdy to individuals which
charact rized your administration from the
beginning, now marks its close by the be-
trayal of The great aud generous party thai
has f"stered you 10y its hitherto impregnable
organic ,tion, from your carly days of Fed
eralist-aposty, down to your last hours of
reasonable ingratitude and disuniOn, in th,.
Presidential chair. Never did man owe 81
much to a party-never was party SO wan
tonly betrayed. False alike to Persons and
party. you have not thought of either but foI
ih" shallOwest instincts of self.
II is favorite thought and expression
with you that tue Federal officers are youI
property. How often have The monncratc
words, my secretaries, my ofiice-tolders."
grated upon the indignant ears Of American
citizens assembled in the presence chamber al
the White House! Even the European des-
posic formula qualities itself by the less aro-
giant use of the Plural Instead of inculca-
ting the ennobllng idea that their FIRST duty
is TO their country and to Democratic princi
pie, your rule holds officials to a degrading
subservency there is not man of your APP
Dointment from Cabinet minister to tide
waiter who does not live in L stat, of daily
irritation and protest, under your grinding
ue. Officers, men, patronage, and public
Ill Il
There is scarcely Il contract made under tn.
Government in which you do not participate:
not on the side of the pc pie, bit for some
follower, as iustanced in your divisions and
subdivisions of the profits of the Post Office
blank printing. The thou hit never struck
you that it was your duty to save the excess
over reasonable profit. Instead of disrepu-
ably dividing it among your favOritrs.
Your small politics keep you always in some
imaginary administration crisis, and cou-
siantiy on the look out for vacant positions
Tor the reward Of the paris,ns of the mo-
ment. Positions of const quence are thus not
appreciated by you, and are often thrown
away or overlooked. whilst inf riOr posi-
tonS are swelled into places of Importance.
Witness Your recent varied att, mpts to get
rid of the Paraguay commission. lii pursu |
ance of your tactics to lower superior men
by offering them inferior positions. The an
ermine of The Supreme Bench into the dust
of party arena. to reward your Jcffreys for
his famous decisions and sneakiug desertion
rs President of the National Convention. |
The Cincinnati platform was good enough |
for yOu, with James Buchanan, that upright. |
statesman UPON 1T; but tie |
brave and true Douglas, because he was noI |
your mouth-piece and shadow, neeied |
more stringent rule. You were very uncs' |
during your own canvass, in declarations oil |
the necessity of your election upon the Gin |
cinnati platform to save the country. You |
thought The election of Fremont over your |
self and that declaration of principle, was
sufficient cause for the dissolution of the Un-
ion. Now, with its provisions strengthened,
you, as President, are aiding Lincoln with
all your oiled machinery. 1t will be ditfl-
cult, however, for you to convince the nation
that the Institutions of the country would
be any safer under Lincoln than they would
have been under the less ianltical Fremont.
Instead of heavily taxing your ofice-holders
TO initiate Breckenridge tickets North, it
would be brave and generous. comparative
ly, the result being the same, to order them
to go direct for Lincoln. Your hands reek-
ing with Democratic gore, you thus essay 10
deliver over the betrayed South into the toll, |
OF Republican Intervention. Your Admins
traUian will be marked in history as III
fomenior OF anarchy and civil war. There
is nothing so base that you would not do To
prolong your power; madness seems to pos
sess yoa--to have no successor, to leave no
Government behind you-like the miser who
his bag of gold in his dying
hour, and refuses even to will it to another.
lest it should loosen his hold upon it in his
last moments. | 81
When the Democratic party was in the
throes of its present dismemberment, and
you were telegraphed of the iact-a fact
which would have awakened painful emotion
in the heart of any honest Democrat-tiie
only excitement Visible in your sordId ma
ture, was intense rage at The cost of the des-
patch.
Homogeneous associations always accom-
pany political irregularities. The Admins
tration having dragged the party into tie
V"rtex OF fire, carries with it from the North |
10 the feet of DisunionistS. the place men, he !
men spoiled by long official life, imbedd d |
fossils, incapable of arousing themselves to
the imminence of the occasion. The young. |
hraye and gallant patriots at the North arr |
on The side of d uglas and the country--ii |
is the militia of 76 against George III. 1t
Is the revolution of '9S against John Adams |
and old L, dtralism.
At The seat of government of the States in |
their united maj sly, is a city called for tile |
Father of his coInty. the presence of whose |
spirit we can readily imagine, "indignantly |
upon he attempt TO ALLEVIATE one |
portion of our cOuntrym from the rest" |
was witnessed few evenings since, the spec |
tacleof his succ, or ihau- ur. ting a division |
of bis own party-the last thIrg national that |
the strife OF antagon site Interests had lcfi |
Us asa people; the moraie of the position is so |
low that no honorable mind can fathom lis |
terpitude Tue journals Inform LIS that & .e
hundred Thousand copies of This address are |
to be fra'iked through The mail to the people. |
I n thousand dollars worth of bread snatched /!
from your unfortunate -office-holders-to |
many of whom submission or suffering for |
themselves not ouly, but for helpless pa
rent, wife. children. is tue only alternative. |
Nnt to sneak OF The ethics of The whnls