Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-05-18

given 20 IA. a. q hint that am making too
fowery speech. ELaughter-1
| Now, we know that Massachusetts, profess
! es 10 have not oniy the thews and sinews of
men. but 10 have good, honest. national. pa
trioiic hearts beating in breasts, and the
| pnise OF a generous patriotism aninating
| every vein.
We have stood for years, Mr.. President. in
q sort of lonely outpost of the Constitution
in State in which. as you all know. there
are many men and many women of extreme
| opinions for-ahd hope tn. ladies will for
| give me il ] say tone halt of the mischief
comes from the ladies, llaughtsr.l who, I am
sorry to say, are Republicans almost to a
man. Renewed langhter-] We have stood
| there for years, band of faithful. constitu-
| tional. conservative, Union men between the
dizzy heights of anii-slayery fainaticiSm on
| the one hand, and the deep sea of Democracy
| on the other, keeping that narrow pass of
/ Thermopyla of Constitutional doctrine
! llaught.r and applause and we have kept
| Il maniuily, and, gentlemen, we have our re-
ward. lApp'ause.
The material atmosphere around me is not
of the mast bracing kind, but the moral al
| mosplleFe of this place is to me like the noun
tain wind, with health and strength and DOW
er in it, wings. 1 feel it in every pulse of
| this frame. Now remember, Mr.. President
| and gentlemen that although there are many
| in massachusetts, of extreme opinions, yet
/ there are many who for the last few years
| have taken little or no part in politics men
WHO ,uld fild no party that responded o
| their convictions and their sentiments; men
who have abStained from voting in many
cases-c)nduct which certainly do not ap-
| prove Of but YOU should also rememb .r that
| YOU are not to Judge of the state OF feeling in
any place by the amount OF expression that
is given by it.
You remember Mr.. Burle's celebrated i'm
age Of. the grasshoppers and the great cattle
| { eding in the pasture: the grasshoppers
made all the noise, but he would be greatly
mistaken shonld he infer that they were the
| d incipal inhabitants of the pasture in which
| they dwell. Naughter.) Now, in Mas>a-
| chusetts, we have great many political
grasshpppers who make great deal of
| noise for their size, but there Is reserve
power of right thinking and right feeling in
| Massachusetts that want nothing but Just
such men as you have given them to-day,
and LIT such principles as you have put
| forth to- ~, to wake them from their leth-
| ary into high and active life. And | re-
| ioice, on b half of this part of the people of
| Massachusetts, the Intelligence of MaSsa-
chusetis. the thoughtfulness OF Massachu-
sets, the ttriotism of Mas<uhSettes, that
| you have discarded that miserable doctrine
| OF availability, and appeal 10 the reason, to
the confidence of the community.
What is the doctrine OF availability?
What is it but an appeal TO the lower part of
our nature, an appeal to the passions, so TO
! speak? And the trouble into which this
country la, fallen, artists from the fact that
it has long been given over 10 its passions.
| II is time it should be entrusted to its reason
and its conscience. The people, if they be
! interior to their political leaders in intelli-
| gence, are generally superior TO them III
| moral INSTINCT and [ think The doctrine of
| availability is founded often upon on Oblvi-
| business of that fact, addressed 10 the highest
part of nature and community; AID IL Will
rise up to meet you as the ocean rises up
u lder the attraction of the moon.
Now, gentlemen Of the Convention, you
| have this day done a good aud gl,rlobs work.
1t will seud thrill OF joy and hope all over
the land. | know well the feeling which will
be awakened in New England. 1t would be
felt there like the breeze from the sea alter
4 day Of exhausted heat; like as a man at the
poles who Is langulshing after the protacted
darkness OF an arctic winter teels, when he
sees the first rudy sparks which tell him that
the spring and summer is coming, so shall we
at the Moth welcome the intelligence of this
ConyeutIou. [Apptau>e.l As the greater
part of creation waiIeth tor the manlieSla-
lion of tie Son Of God, so all over tue land
will the true and patriotic citizens OF Amerl-
ca rise up and call you blessed. As you go
home you will be received with The applause,
Win Tue waving Oi udEuhci Tue clap
ping of hands, and eyes sparkling with joy
and triumph. As the English poet has said
upon Il great OCCASION
.sMen met etch other with erected look,
The steps highest " hich they took;
Friends to couErat late their friends made haste
Aud 10. inycter-Lc Ioes siluted as tuCy pas sed -
When we go back to Massachusetts,. and to
New England, all over our hills and val
leys which are just but beginning to feel the
genial touch of spring, what thrill of joy
aud exult alton will ring all along our cities,
our to@ns. our villages, our solitary farm
hou SEES, which nestle in the holows of the
hills. 1t will be so everywhere. APP
plause.l "How beautiful on the mountains
are the feet OF those who bring tidngs If
peace" How beautiful, upon the mountains,
are the feet of those who reconcile section
al discord, that bring together the North
and the South aud the East and the West
and b II | them together in the unity of the
spirit OF the land of peace. [Cries of good
''good and applause
Let by-gones be by-gones. Rash words
have been said. uuwise things have 5ecn
done. The North has been severe upon the
South; the South has been severe upon the
Mort. but let us forget and forgive it all
Let there be here one affectionate fond. fra
ternal embrace. aud. in the days of that
great man Washington. [poinling TO the por-
trait of Washington Massachusetts, Vir-
GINA and South Carolina stood side by side
in the days that tri mems souls, aud felt
his great arm laid upon them for support, 80
let Us now, in this day of our Joy aud tri-
umph go back to those old days, renew those
old feelings, and here on the altar of our
country's good m IKE sacrifice of every trum-
perry sectional abstraction, and vow one
Constitution, one Union, one country aud
one common destiny.
The speaker resumed his seat amid deaf
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chusetis.