Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-06-27
V-o1 N. MemDbis Avalanche, June Is.

From the Memphis Avalanche, June IS.
Breckinridge and Lane---The C0nshtu-
ton and the UniOn---Equal Rights to
All.
The lightning winged messenger has brought US
intelligence of the nomination Of those noble and
exalted patriOts JOHN G. BRECKENRIDGE and 10.
LANE, for the Presidency and Vice Presidency by
the National Democracy assembled at Baltimore on
Saturday We unfurl our standard to the breeze
inscribed with their honOred names, and shall do
battle in their cause because it is the cause Of the
Constitution and the cause of the Union, the cause
Of equal rights to all sections Of this COnfederacy
with all the ardor and energy Of our soul, until the
sun shall set upon the field Of the conflict and the
last tocsn shall ring over the cOmbatants
The true Democracy viii need no appeal from US
10 rally with enthusiasm to their support They
viii equally spurn Douglas and Lincoln as sectional
candidates-the one with his infamous dogma of
Squatter Sovereignty, and the other with that Of
Congressional prohibition both tending to the same
result: exclusion of the South from the Territories
the one openly and boldly and the other treacher-
ousy and by stealth. They will equally spurn them
as the nominees Of a sechOn-the one openly so,
and the other seeking to cover up the sectonalsm
of the nomination by the fraudulent exclusion Of
the real Representatives Of the Southern Democracy,
and the admission of bogus delegates falsely claim
ing to represent a constituency which spurns and
despises them
They viii point with pride to the fact that the
principles for which they contending demand
nothing than the equal rights Of both sections;
that they stand approved by the seventeen Demo-
cratic States and large portion Of the Democracy
Of every other State in the Union that their candi
dates tried and true Democrats devoted to those
principles, and that they have been nominated by
convention in which the most distant and widely
separated States of the Confederacy united, North
and South. 1t is glorious cause, one worth living
for, and if need be, dying for one which it will be
a source of proud recollection in future years to
have enlisted in. 1t is ticket worthy of the cause.
Men whose patriotism has been tried upon the
tented field as well as in council hall; men whose
devotion to the true Constitutional principles of this
Union could not be shaken by the popular clamOr Of
Northern fanaticism, or weakened by the bandish-
ments of a seductive ambition. Breckenridge and
Lane-Kentucky and OregOn-the Mississippi Vel
ley and the Pacific shOre-the Democracy, North
and South, East and West, on a platform as broad
as the Union and as immutable as her mountains.
Tennessee, the home and grave of Jackson and
Polk, calamity stand forth to champion and sup
port the cause of its Representatives with the
gifted Andrew Ewing at their head, who left in
scorn that falsely styled Democratic Convention,
when had proven treacherOus to the principles of
the party, and perfdous to the obligations Of men
of honOr-who shook its dust from their sandals
and joined hands with the true Democracy excluded
both in principle and to their delegates from the
Convention. They will receive the thanks and the
praises Of every true Democrat in Tennessee, and
may well scorn the miserable squeakings of a few
Douglas penny-whisters- Tennessee, IN NOvem-
Der next, will endorse their course, and will roll up
a lofty pyramid of Democratic thousands majority
for Breckenridge and Lane.
Democrats! rally to the standard and answer TO the
bugle1cal! The battle begun. Shall sectonalists
and tricksters triumph shall the Constitution be
indicated and the equal rights of all preserved and
thus the Union perpetuated!