Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-05-19
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from t1e Lebanon DemcSfat-
sTbere may be some little grounds ofjus-
tif1cation for our delegation not seeding with
the first States that vifbdresy. hut there is
not even plausible excuse for their remain
in the convention after their own sifimotdn
had been rejected. for not only the rights of
our State. but her honor and her fame de-
mandef That they should withdraw. And
although Tennessee is not as excitable on
the slavery question. and does not make "a
mnch noise as some of her more southern
sister States yet she is az firm and deter
mined IN the vindicaiion OF her constitutional
rights as Alabama. Mississippi. or any other
Southern State, and she will join them in
any enterprise which the condition of things
rrnd"rs n cessary for the protection of those
rights. If the Northern
Democracy viii not come squareiy up and
acknowledge our constitutional rights. and
assist as in good faith, npon principle in
the great contest with the Black republican
party, then we say. let them go. we must sep
arnte. the South must fight the great battle
alone. And Tennessee is with the South
art and sonl, and it was a fraud upon her
Democracy to place her in the catalogue with
those States evidently tainted with freesoil-
inn. And if her delegates had been true to
herintere>t and her fame-had been mnved
by the spirit of Jack-on. they would have
Withdrawn from the convention SO soon az
would have been greeted by the applause and
congratulations of The people. as true and
faithful servants, who had fully represented
the viii Of their constituents
From the Chattanooga Advertiser.
THE srcedrs appear to have hard time
OF 1t. Their convention comprised but
handful of men in the first place. There
were few of the Alabama delegation who
never went into the seceders' meeting at all.
and several from other States. who seeded,
kept away, while some who did go into the
secession movement were anxious to get
back into the regular convention before the
adjournment Gov. Winston, of Alabama,
who withdrew from the convention under the
instructions of his State. went into the sece-
ders' meeting. but on seeing their aims Sc
coded from it and would have nothing to do
with that body. Senator Bayarii, the Presi-
dent of the seceders. on ascertaniug their
programme, vacated their chair, and t'ok
ii IL adieu of the boiling body. The South
Carolina seceders also refused to follow the
fortunes of the seceders into their adjourned
sectional meeting at Richmond Let the
the masses once understand this secrding
movment and look at the men who are a; its
bottom. and we predict that the Richmond
Convention will be- regarded as little better
than a regtltr disuniOn movement, with
which the people have no sympathy. Poll
t;cian for sci ) romotion may pirate long
and loud about distractions aud attempt to
mislead the people as tc encrcachment of
rights and all tkis. but the intelligence of
the people is too great to cause them to be
led away by extremists"
From the Lincoln Journal.
"The disruption of the Charleston Convpn-
ton and its failure to present candidates, have
thrown the party far out at sea, without chart
or compass and how the voyage is TO end
the oldest and best skilled mariner cannot
tell For ourself we confess we have but
little hope that meeting at Baltimore or any
other place will be more harmonious, or re-
suit differently from that at Charleston. 1t
is quite evident from the pr0cc, dings, that
faction and not love OF country ruled the
day. and produced a state of things unpre-
cedented i'll the history of the Democratic
partR We say faction and not patriotiom
ruled the convention. That rule or ruin was
the principle that governed the Douglas and
anti-Dougas factions The friends of Doug
las demanded his nomination or the disrup-
ton of the party, while the antI-Douglas
delegates demanded his defeat or its disco
luton, and each maintained their ground to
the last. In this state OF things We say We
have but little hope from the meeting at Bal
timore. and it becomes the duty of every man
who desires to see this government perpetu-
ated and its blessings handed down TO sue
crediHg generations to consider the great and
vital question, whether they will p 'rrnit a
few mad politicians to destroy the best gov
ernment ever pnt into operation by human
wisdom for the elevation of any man, or the
acknowledgment OF mere abstraction, or
take the matter into their own hands and
save the country"
From the Chattanooga Southern Reflector.
"The Democratic party has some good and
H., md txbn hau
proven of late that they are not 10 be trust
cd. This is an humiliating, Vt true adj
mission. Mr.. Douglas is the favOrite of the
Northern democracy, with few exceptions.
II they will give US q platform not su>cep-
tihle of two cOnstructions-a national plat
form, securing the constitutional rights Of
all sections. and place Mr.. Douglas upon it,
we will battle for him; but candOr compels
us to say that. in our opinion he is not the
choice of the democracy OF Tennessee. There
are men both North and South whom we
would support without a platform of princi-
ples. But in the name OF Justice. and in the
name Of Democracy. we most sOlemnly pro-
test against forcing upon the South both an
Objectionable man and platform"
From the Grand Junction Q iii Nu7c
ain the name of all that is holy aud right
eous. we would beg leave To enquire Of
Southern men what real motive encour-
agement would the Democracy of the North
have longer to battle for the constitutional
rights of the South, while portion of the
South scorned and rebuked them for their
patriotism. or every species and the grade
of suicide, this movement on the part or a
very respectable portion of the prominent
men of the South, to cut of and dismember
the Northern wing of our party, seems to us
TO be the most ineXcusable and reckless.
Just while We are boasiing. and truly too.
OF being the only national party in existence.
hue and cry IL raised over an abstract
question, the nature aud character OF which
not one in ten have ever put themselves to
the trouble of investigating for one half
hour. The whole secret is not yet under
stood by the people-the politicians alone
know l0hat aud how things are to be conduct
eel in the future. Our Government is too
large and does not supply the appetite OF
;he whole number OF Office seekers With " hich
the country abounds. Dissolve the Union
set up a new Contrdrracy-an u full set
Of officials can then be selected from the
South. This Is the end uf il all
From the Rogersviile 5 ate sentin l.
"For what is there to prevent a union and
restore harmony between the different Sec
tions; for what practical interest is ut stake
in this Territorial question. Kansas and
Nebraska are If ciually barred 10 slavery,
il not virtually by climate. maniiesily by
settlement, and what man in his srn-es, with
slave property, will cross the rich bottoms Of
Texas To the dFeary steppes Of New Mexico,
or the desert wastes of Utah and ARENA.
What else then. from beginning 10 end is
this whole Squatter Sovereignty business, in
fact the whole Territorial question practical
" considered, but in tiuh "A humhug! Aud
we earnestly ask the Democracy ii now Is
the time Tor wrangling aud dissensions, when
Repub.icsnism is leTeling It's weapons against
slavery ut bone, aud threatening to abolish
every Cons itutional protection the institu-
ton has in the ates! The simple truth is.
the South needs no more territory. II her