Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-16
OUR CONTEMPORARIES,

LYNCHBURG, Va, Aug. 18TH, 1o0O
EDIToRs PATRIOT AS have been travel
ing through q goodly portion of this State
during the last few weeks, have thought
perhaps it would not be uninteresting to
your numerous readers, to hear occasionally
how the Union Ticket is progressing in the
Old Dominion; star crowned as she is, with
beauty, chivalIy and romance, the glorious
old mother of States and Statesmen, with
fame as imperishable as her snow-capped
mountains, and patriotism as pure as her
bright sparkling waters-the birthplace OF
Washington and host of heroes who fought
and died to cement our golden chain of broth
erh0Od, now endangered by the violent and
most reckless fanaticism.
have had ample opportunities for obser-
walton since l saw you, of feeling the popu-
lar pulse, and think may safely give you
an item or two regarding the appearance of
the political horizon here.
In this city and adjoining counties, the old
Wing party TO a man, are rallying to the
support of our gallant leader, that purest and
most patriotic'of Statesmen, John Bell, whose
name is ringing the watch-wOrd of Union in
thunder tones throughout the land, and
whose reverberations, l trust in God, will
never cease until the hideous monster, diSa-
nioa, with all its corrupt, unprincipled adyo-
Gates, are buried in the depths of infamy
and Oblivion they so well deserve.
Iheve conversed with many gentlemen of
influence and position, who never voted with
US before, but who now declare their prefer
ence for the Union Ticket, and their deter
mination to support it to the utmost of their
ability, believing it the only true and safe
party to quiet the country and save the
| Union.
The people are aroused to a sense of duty,
for they see.the dangers to which the country
! is exposed through the corruption of the
party at present in power; and they also see
the imperative necessity of Union man, and
are well aware of the strength of Bell and
Everett. They know, also, there is no hope
| for either wing of the late Democratic party
and feel assured if admitting there was a
| chance, or even a shadow of chance, for either
| Douglas or Breckenridge in the South, it
would be dangerous to elect them, because
four years hence our country would have no
more rest than at present, consequently they
go for John Bell and the Union.
The split between Wise and Hunter last
year came near giving this State to the gal
liant Goggin, and now the same between
Breckenridge and Douglas strikes the death
blow to Democracy in the Old Dominion for
ever, leaving eighty or ninety thousand
faithful, true hearted old Wings rejoicing in
the hope of breaking the letters and freeing
themselves forever from the corrupt infu-
ences and iron thraldom of the so called and
self-styled Democratic party, which has held
them in worse than Egyptian servitude for
seventy years. This band of invincible pa
| tricts-true to every sentiment of Nationali-
ty. and every tie of the Union-composing
the very flower of the Vnginia popuIation
have been virtually disfranchised and their
| ambitious hopes crushed like budding flow
rets in the pathway of cold and relentless
| Democracy, held subject to few heartless
leaders. Thousands of young men whose
intellectual superiority and eloquence would
have shone conspicuous at the Bar or electri.
the display of their talents at home without
the sacrifice of principle, have expatriated
| themselves and carried their strength and
usefulness elsewhere.
But now, 10 biumphs, a light, beacon
light, shines through the darkness and bids
them bravely on.
The Valley Including the 10th Legion)
goes almost en- naasse for Douglas. A friend
from Rockingham says that county alone
will give Douglas 1900 majority over Bell
that Breckenridge is not known, while the
| Democracy on the Eastern shore goes for
Breckenridge and Lane.
Douglas has q host of friends in this part
of the State also, who declare him the
strongest man. Numbers of Democratic pa
pers are hesitating, but show decidedly that
ere long they will hoist the Douglas flag