Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-03-08
THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1860.
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THE CRY PREss.-The accustomed ''Polit-
ical and Presidential' article of the Nelcs ex-
hibits pretty kettle of fish, a charming state
of affairs. among the switch-tenders of the
Great National Democratic Party" The
newspapers of that party throughout the
country are wrangling among themselves
over the question of the Presidency, scarcely
any two of them entertaining the same views
on the subject, and each one having a candi-
date of its own, who is alone capable of saw
ing the party from that torrid country from
whose bourne no such party can possibly re-
turn. One Of them-the Jackson Mississippi
dn-styles the clamor being kicked up by the
DOUGLAS organs, "the bowling of the Hessi-
ans" To call even ones political enemy
Hessian is considered bad enough in some
circles of society, but the bestowal of that
vile phrase upon a member of ones own
political family, indicates state of feeling
around the domestic hearthstone of the par
ty that is utterly .evolting TO him who loves
10 behold brethren dwelling together in uni
ty. The Charleston Convention, though, will
cut this quarrel off as short as pipe-stem,
for the last one of the Democratic papers, let
them quarrel now never so much, will sup
port the nominee of that Convention, nomi-
nate that Convention whom it may. The di-
vide-and-conquer theory is of no practical
value TO the enemies of modern Democracy.
No outside pressure can divide them. They
are sometimes divided by internal cOnvul-
sions, but never wide and long enough for
the coDquering wedge to enter. The local
of the Ne1rs kindly copies the very hattering
compliment the too partial editors of the
PATRIOT few days since paid its local edi-
tor, and swings under il an article on news
paper lyingi The article, however, is not de-
voted exclusively TO that subject, which is
highly gratifying TO the here-presiding local,
as, although heartily approving all senti-
ments condemnatOry of newspaper and all
other sorts of lying he has never felt any
anxiety to be made the text of an essay on
the subject. We thank the local of the NeuOs
for the concluding paragraph of the article,
and for the opening lines of the second.
The Gazette lays before us what it styles
''An Eloquent Extract from a late speech OF
Senator Hunter, of Virginia" We are glad
our contemporary had the presence of mind
to tell that the extract is eloquent, for with
out being told, we wouldn't have suspected
it. The fault, though, is probably not in the
extract.
The Banner contains less editorial matter
than usual. 1t finds in the Richmond Enqui
rer IAN Admission and a Prediction"-an
admission that the Cincinnati Platform was
dOuble-faced platform, meaning Squatter
Sovereignty at the North, and the reverse at
the South;" and a prediction that "the trick
will not again succeed" The Democracy
were told a thousand times in 1856 that their
platform was trick. The Enquirer knew it
to be such then as well as it knows it now,
but it was unhealthy to say so then, and 1t
wouldn't say it now if anything whatever
could be gained by not saying it.
From two columns of editorial matter,
sometimes more and sometimes little less,
the Union has dwindled down to a dozen lines
in the number before us. Such things will
happen now and then. An editor can't work
himselfto death every day, without endanger-
ing his health, and he must occasionally steal
a day of idleness that his days of toll and
nights of waking may be the more prOiitably
employed. Such stealing is fortunately not
an indictable offense. The Union stands &C
quilted.