Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-04-05
The City Press.

ANDREW JOHNSON and the Homestead Poll
ey." That policy, in view of the inealcula-
Die aid and comfort it must inevitably bring
to the cause of the Free Soiier is utterly in
defensible at the South; but it is the darling
pet measure of the Union's ''Man for the
Times, !" and it must be defended by the De-
mocracy OF Tennessee, though it be destined
to carry Freedom" into every inch of terri
tory yet to be erected into States. Accord
ingly, the Union, the commander in-cbief of
the democratic press in Tennessee, rushes
lion-like into the breach, and discharges three
quarters of a column oi loaded Brewer into
the ranks of those who oppose the Homestead,
and when seen with the naked eye, seems
very much as if it were about to load up and
fire again. This it will have to do until its
Hyperion locks grow gray in the conflict. ere
il conquer the Sonth into the belief that the
measure is anything else than the architect
of Southern land-monopoly and Republi-
can @gis to protect the public domain against
the ''encroachments" of our peculiar iustitu-
ton. The Union will find this fight for the
Homestead Policy all the way up hill. with
the representatives of its own party steepen-
ing the ascent and blocking up the way
With single exception, every Southern mem
Der who voted at all, voted against the meas
ure in the House, and the great mass of the
Southern people will applaud the deed; for
however seductive the measure may be in the
abstract however attractive it may appear
when viewed merely as means of securing
homes no hOmelpSS-nn sort of sonnistrv
can conceal the fact from the people of the
South. that in few years it would throw the
Presidency and both Houses OF Congress into
the hands OF an anti-sIavery party.
The Gazete.-Our Cherry Street neighbor
No. l Counting from the telegraph post on
the corner of Deaderck) was probably out
all day enjoying the fine weather, and view
ing with both a critics and poets eye the
beautiful and well-turued objects of nature
adorned by art that are always visible on the
streets of city when the sunshine of spring
is abroad, and the wandering winds waltz
laughingly along the pavemrnts, making
that innocent mischief upon which woman
may chance to frOwn, but upon which man
must forever look with a forgiying eye.
While squandering thus, perhaps, the golden
hours the less Impressible members of the city
corps editorial were devOting to the thank
less toll OF the narrow sanctum, our neigh
bor's pen lay idle and unified upon his de-
serted table, and the scissors alone responded
to the never ending copy-call of the devil
But the GdzeIs found time in the midst of its
outdoor rambles in search of "the beautiful
and the true" (f we arr, correct in supposing
it to have been thsF engaged) to get up an
article branching on Hnoralzingly from the
interrogatory, lis the World Mistake ~
which stards at its head. We have seen
nothing connected with this terrestrial re-
tundity calculated TO warrant the belief that
il is mistake. To the eye of philosophy.
and we long since abandoned the use of every
other sort. it looks very much like premedi.
tatcd thing. But if our contemporary by
the exercise of a wiser aud profouuder
philosophy, have discovered that the world
IS a mistake, he ought to have mentioned ii
sooner. 1t is too late TO correct it now. We
find. however, that he processes to have made
no such discovery, but is fully persuaded
there is no scarcity OF the people who fancy
they have. We have often heard it said and
sung. that
''This world is all feeting show
For mans illusion given -
but we have never regarded the remark as
. either just to the world or complimentary TO
( its CREATOR.
Tie Banner.-' Incendiary Publications,
Bon-Fires, etc." have afforded our contem-
, porary slantindicularly across the street a
. light sufficiently strong to enable him &c
spread himself out to the extent of some
thing over two columns. The Banner says
'Pithy quotations and excerpts, such as are
usually found in our local sheets. are obvi-
ousy more mischievous than full speeches
and historical documents, or than the de-
tached sentences which vigilant committees
may chance to detect in books" This we
regard as personal to the press of Nashville
and as such we reply to it at great length
and in the most whitening style that has
been adopted since the days of JuNIUs, q
writer who said great many things that
were considered uneommonly good, princi-
pally because nobody knew who said them.
Whatever may be said ofother ''local sheets, ~
those of Nashville certainly cannot justly be
styled incendiary at any rate, they are re-
| garded abroad as possessing neither the de-
sign nor the ability to ''set the river on fire."
The Nelcs.-.!'The Issue between the Presi-
| dent and the House of Representatives" is
| the subject of the leading article in the Ne,es
| Our Cherry street neighbor No. Counting
from the point above indicated) gathers up
several facts which go to show that Mr.. Co
voDE had good grounds for bringing the
President to taw, and that the old gentleman
will be in pretty tight place when be gets
there. Nobody is surprised to find that OH
BucK has been trading around, and making,
with the help Of what little change there may
be lying loose in the Treasury, the most OF
things while they last. The Opposition told
the Democracy as much four years ago. He
has had bis dance: now let him come up and
pay for she music.
De Bows REvIEw.-The April No. of De
Bears Rerisv has been received. The contents
are: