Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-12
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THE GREAT DOUGLAS RATIFICATION MEETING Al
| MENFIns.-A proper estimate of this remarkable
meeting may be formed from the following extract
taken from the account given of its proceedings in
the Avalanche of that city:
A notable feature of the Douglasite Squatter
Sovereignty meeting on Saturday night the fact
that most of their principal speakers men who
have spent the best portion of their lives in fighting
against the Democracy and this faction has the eff
| frontery to call itself the National Democracy
Faugh! An ounce of ciyet, good apothecaPy"
! There John P. Pryor, late Know Nothing
editor of the Memphis Eagle and Enquirer. He, at
his home half hundred miles distant had seen in
| that faithful Old Democratic organ the Memphis Ap-
peal, the announcement of the meeting, and had de-
| termined to attend, if it the last meeting he
ever attended upon earth. That faithful old DEM
OCratiG organ y that Mr. Pryor had for seven of his
best years been fighting. lie had come as an
humble ally of the Democracy" and to teach Demo-
Gratis how TO yoteLe that said in Memphis less than
three wears ago. that eff he thought he had one drOp
of Democratic blood in his veins he would let it out
He had come 10 help to ratfy the nominations of the
National Democracy stephen A. Douglas of Illi-
nOis and Herschel v johnson, the coon killer of GeOr-
giahe that has often been seen paradng the streets
of Memphis wearing coOn-skjn cap, with a cOon's
tail dangling two feet behnd-he Boosting of John
! son as a coon-killeri "Show me a disnniOnst of
1851" said Pryor, and will show you a Breckin-
ridge man Of 1867 when the fact is that Herschel
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the bogus delegates from Louisiana were leaders of
: what Pryor terms the disunioHists of 1851! No
hope for the Union" SAID this gentleman exeeptin
! the stGlwart arm and mighty brain of Stephen A.
Douglas" Suppose the mighty Stephen should hap
pen to give up the ghost, what then would become
of the Unicn! What disgusting man worship?
And, reader, would you believe it when we tell
you that just four years ago this same Col j. p.
Pryor denounced SqUatter Sovereignty as the most
damnabe doctrine of the age, and stigmatized
Douglas a traitor TO the South and an Abolition
ist for entertaining such dogma!
Of like spirit the declaration of Mr.. YER
ger, late Wing candidate for Congress in this dis
trct that for four years Douglas had been his first
and only choice, and that if he were the only man in
Tennessee he would consider it an honor and an
Immortality to be recorded az a voter of his" But
we are satisfied Mr. Gerger spoke to please his
friends more than for any interest he felt in the
struggle. Derger is lawyer and nothing else. He
has no experience in craftsmanship and is by nature
and habit very poor politician. As lawyer he
Is learned, able. profound. and without peer. As
politician he makes small speeches and puts stings
IN their tails. He has nervous organization and is
good al saucy repartee He is aUdaciOuS ia appear
ance and IN fact, and in speaking he throws his head
back SO that scorpion from the ceiling could light
on his chm and feel much at home as on the knot
Of a sturdy hickory.
Mr.. Ierger followed by an individual I'M
known to Us, who spoke of that lofty gentleman
gifted statesman and ineorruptible lifelong Demo-
crat lsham G. Harris disgrace to the gberfoto-
rial chair Of TeRAeEseel And men processing TO be
Democrats appauded him Democrats. do you hear
that? Yes, put the stamp Of intamy upon your
purest, truest and ablest men, and follow the lead a
men who have all their lives been opposed to you.
The last speaker We believe was Col. Addison II.
Douglas, late HHO0 Nothing candidate for State Sens
tor, another beautiful teacher in the Democratic
Church! The Colonel closed with a story-toO
coarse, however, for our cOlumns-refecting on
that model gentleman, that exalted patriot and
pure, gallant, gifted and chiValroUs man, John c.
breckenridge We can say to the gentleman how
ever that John C. Breckenridge is as far above such
assaults as the star is above the clod of the valley
The democracy Of the old Tenth District are not to
De seduced from their principles and their party.
They spurn DOugassm and its false teachers wbeth-
eF renegades from the Democratic ranks or new
recruits from the Opposition. One or two more
such demonstrations, and Douglasism even in Mem
phis VIII be buried beyond the reach of the hand
of resurrection