Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-03-05
MONDAY MORNING, MARCH :. S, 1860.
The Chr PnEss.-The Ne.ps finds in the


Memphis appeal an article touching Mr..
BELLS speech before the Opposition Conven-
ton. The Ne,rs comments on it. The COM
ments are full of spirit and good humor.
Subscribe for the Nesos, beginning with this
number, and read them. The junior of the
vile. She is now in Lonisville. Well take
the responsibility of saying to her, that if
she'll come to the City OF Rocks and Candi-
dates. and deliver series of one lecture or
more. our junior contemporary Of the Ne,os
will go to hear her and give her a first rate
notice. This inducement is uncommonly
brilliant, but we Nashville people never
hold out any other sort.
'.The Election To-day" is the subject of
the Gozeae's leading article. We make an ex-
tract:
The duty OF the people in the election Of
their public servants is plain one. They
have been so long blessed with the -epublican
privilege of voting for whom they please.
that they will not to-day. we suppose, find
any difficulty in the exercise OF that inesti-
mable right. Therefore, we need not give
any advice or say more upon the duty this
The republican privilege of voting for whom
we please is swindle. We wanted to vote
for seventeen candidates for Revenue Collec-
tor. but they wouldn't let us vote formore than
one. Do you call that blessed privilege
It's very contracted one, to say the least
OF it. The Gazette gives US a piece of poetry,
all about widow who dwelt ia bower. We
presume il was in the summertime, ard that
the lady was therefore a grass-widOw. Any
how, it seems she had three lovers, one of
whom had wit. another gold, while the third
went in exclusively upon his shape, which is
represented to have been quite striking. We
give the de noomong in the words of the poet:
"Then the man Of wit and sense
Wooed her with his eiOqHence;
Now she heard him with a sigh,
Then she blusbed scarce knowing whyI
Then she smiled to hear him speak,
Then tear was on her cheek;
Beauty vanish; gold depart,
Wit hath won the widows hearth
Until we are convinced that the man of gold
possessed very little of the metal. we can't
believe that the widow lived in this country.
"a lady who her love had sold,
II
Why wedding rings were made Of gold2
venturei thus t'instruct her:
Love, ma'am, and lightning are the same,
On.earth they glance, from heaven they came
Love is the sOuI-s electric fame,
And gold its bes' conductor"
The Union has an article on the "Circula-
lion of Democratic newspapers" In that
article our neighbor-in-law says: ave ought
to have thousands more subscribers than we
have. and feel satisfied they could easily be
obtained, if our friends would put their
energies at work, and make an effort to OBJ
tain them" The Union seems totally oblivi
Gus to The great moral wrong of circulating
Democratic newspapers. Such papers. will
do for strOngminded men to read-men
whose principles are uualterably fixed; but
upon the plastic mind of youth they some
times exert an influence very derogatory to
the sacred principles of the Opposition party.
and thereby initiate against the best inter-
individual who invented the circulation of
the blood was unquestionably public bene-
factor; but the man who invented the circula-
ton of Democratic newspapers had much
better been engaged at something else.
''Tha Treaty with Mexico" constitutes the
staple of the Banners editorials. That treaty
we have not enquired into. and hence we
know nothing of its merits. The Banners
graph of political cast in the Union.