Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-03
The Great Reader OF the sectional
Eemocracy, VIM. l.. Xancey.

democracy, VIM. l.. Xancey.
WV. L. YAScEY made speech ct Hunts
vile, Ala, on the 2sth ult TO meeting OF
th. supporters of BRECKNRIDGE and LANE.
Hon. REUBES CHAPMAN presented him to the
audience as a gentleman more identified 15fh
the Issues than any man in The country This re-
mark of Mr.. CHAPMAN Is true; 10 man IN the
country is more identified With the issues
presented By the BRECKENRIDGE wing OF TIE
democracy than Mr.. YANCET, not even ex
ceptins Dir. BRECEISRIDGE and his colleague
on the ticket To him. more than to any
other man is the nation indebted to the pres
eut PROSTATE and forlOrn condition ct the cne'
imperial democracy: and principally 10 ms
efforts is to be ascribed the startling cOnjunc-
ton of Union and conservative democrats
with the ultra secessionists and disunion-
lists, who have been set king for ears to break
up the government The influence which
this inyeterate disoFSaniztr and ccnspirato
has attained Is truly astonishing But few
years since he was marked and proscTib'd,
and held to be untrustworthy. but to-day ne
il the head of one wing of the denaiionaliz'
democracy, leading it by the power OF his
will, and dragging after his triunphal car
men who formerly Missed him in derision and
contempt. Even here in Tennessee, State
whose patriotism and fidelity be insuited no
longer ago than 1858. be has aPologists and
defenders; and what is worse. without
word of atouement for his offence, he has
been invited 10 Wilt her and instruct
her recreaut sons in lessons of dnty and
fidelity. May we rot call upon our demo-
cratic friends to set up monument OF the
progress of bad sentiment when he sets his
foot by invitation upon Tennessee soil? How
Ts Inssseans felt when, in 1858. he libelled
our State, the reader can learn from an arti-
Gle from the Unisn and American which We re-
publish this morning. Then our contempt
rary held him up justly as one of that class
of politicians "who, failing to gain distinc-
ton by their talents and ability, seek to OBJ
tain notoriety by the advocacy of extreme
sectional and disorganizing measures'-re-
PEELED his insult TO Tennessee-and de-
bounced as they deserved false statements he
had made. Where sleeps the Indignation OF
our contemporary now? Is MIR. fANCET not
the same disorganizer now that he was then?
Is he any more entitled to public confidence
Do his statements now display, any the less,
ssdisgraceful ignorance. or most culpable dis
regard for the truth? These interrogato-
ries are susceptible of ready response. The
YAHcEr of to-day is the YANCEr of 1858;
grown more important aud mere powerful hy
having at his cal sectional organization,
which claims prominence in the South, and
in which hi. secession and disuniOn followers
dominate.
"The home of JACKSON and POLK" said
our contemporary, sis not prOpitious to the
growth aud nurture of disunion doctrines.
nor do the people of this State regard with
much favor men who entertain the views
which Mr. YANCET expresses" And yet we
now find the Union and AMERICAN calling upon
the home of JACKSON aud Polk TO su, port a
candid ate for the Presidency, who. it is
claimed, owes his nomination to Mr.. YANoET
aud '.men who entertain the views be ex-
presses and who, should he (lir. b. be
elected, viii be tie power behind the throne
greater than the throne itself" Verify, hs:
there been progress on the part If democracy
in this State, if our contemporary succeeds
in rsllying party of much strength under
such standards.