Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-21

- There is no man af The Sontn rxIno more
deserves 20 be called southern man
Be1l.''
Thus spoke one Of Mr.. Bells own friends to
Boston audience. If we were to use such an ex-
preston about Mr. BELL here Tennessee his friends
IN this State would at once declare that we were
doing him the grossest injustice But here is the
sentiment uttered to Boston BEIIoEvERErr meet
ing by Mr.. HILLARY, one of the most intimate
friends of Mr.. EvERErD one of the great guns Of the
BEI4rEyERETTs of Massachusetts. What BELL man
Of the South dare gainsay sentiment uttered by
sach high authority at the home of Mr. EVERETT
Read the following from the Augusta Dispatch:
'since Mr.. LEyERETT SALToNsrAIL wrote q reply to
gentleman in Alabama who addressed EDWARD
EVERETT in reference to his views on certain ques-
lions, We have heard nothing Of him. On the night
OF the 9th the BELL-EvERETTs of Ward No. IL, BOs-
ton, had reunion, at which Mr. SALroSsrALL made a
speech In the course Of which he spoke as follows
Of the Sage of Tennessee ''-JoIN BELL;
suppose we are all adverse to the institution of
slavery but we do not wish to interfere with the
government of the slave States. When the Sage of
Quincy, John Quincy Adams) was fighting for the
T1gt Of petition Of anti SlaUey men, John Bell was
on his side You find him standing firmly against
these things the South calls him antislavery man.
That is the for national conservative men, a
man who is opposed to Northern extremists and
Southern extremists"
Kind Mr.. SALToNsTAILr-he don't intend to inter
fere with the government of the slave States"
he likes JOIN BELL because he was on the side Of
the " Sage of Quincy " when the Sage of Quincy )"
was on the north side of popular question IN
fortunate for Mr. BELL he has had leaning for the
North side of nearly all the great national questions
for almost a quarter of century. Therefore Mr..
SALTONsTAsL thinks he viii do. We think Mr. SAIL
roSsrA1L ought to contine himself to his legitimate
duties Of conscience-keeper for Mr.. EVERETT, and
let BELL alone. One "anti-savery man" on a ticket
ought to satisfy the dear, good conservative SAL
ToNsThIs and his speeches might not do his South
ern brethren any good We suppose they viii treat
it as they did his letter to the man in Alabama
with discreet silence.
AT the same meeting Mr. HnLnRD made quite a
finished defamation, in the course of which, after
abiding to Mr.. BRECKINRIDGE as the accomplished
candidate of the pro-slavery and secession school,
he endorsed Mr.. BELL as follows:
'Ou the other hand how has it been with Mr.. Bell
he has been all his life in opposition to the dom-
nant public sentiment of the South. He is protec-
zionist the South is for free trade He was in IA
vor of the United States Bank; the South was not.
He opposed the South Carolina doctrine of nullihca-
ton He protested against the removal of the de-
posites Of all the Tennessee delegation he alone ia
vOred the reception of petitions for the abolition of
slavery in the District of Columbia. He opposed
the annexation of Texas. He protested against the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise and resisted the
Lecompton Constitution. There is no man at the
South who more deserves to be called a Southern
man with Northern principles than John Bell"
How do the BELL-ringers of Georgia like the pic.
ture? If we had called BELL Southern man with
Northern principles, we would have been called I'M
scrupulous; and much abuse has been heaped upon
Mr.. TOoMBs for saying that Mr.. BELL had with a
exceptions, acted with the North on sectional ques
tons. VIII they repel the soft impeachment OF
their Massachusetts allyn