Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-09-22

enjoyed the advantage of being perfectly
! acquainted with the true interests of his
State and District. To his other eminent
qualifications it may be added, that he is {
sound republican, aud possesses stern and
fearless moral courage, and honesty of pur
pose which never falters or shrinks from
responsibility. IN this respect he is as mncf
superior to Mr.. Bell, as that gentleman Il
superior to him in. political clsacanery, an
trigue and management. But precisely in
the degree that integrity, consistency, hon
or and rectItude are preferable to selfish.
ness, ambition, malice, party spirit. ana
obliquity Of design, is Mr.. Halls claims t6
success in the canvass superior to those o.
Mr.. Bell; and this corresponds preciselJ
with the award which We BELIEVE THE PEG
rI1i: WILL MAKE N TIE ELECTION
To afford further insight into the objec.
tians urged at that time against Mr.. Bell
and the influences invoked to prejudice his
constituents against him, We copy another
article from the same paper:
| from the Nashville Union Of May 10, 1891
"THE CANvAss.-The pending election for
Congress in this District, grows warm apace
The friends of Mr.. Bell have discovered
that Mr.. Hall has adopted an open, manly,
independent course. The charges against
Dir. Bell, of having deserted the republican
party. of ingratitude to the Ex~President,
| IGEN. JACKSON, and being interested
in the promotion Of the panic by which it
| is hoped TO force the banks to a suspension,
and which, if successful, viii reduce the
! banks to a level-to a reduced state of
credit, by which general loss will be inhict-
ed on the whole country-are carried home
| to Mr.. Bell by his competitor, upon all pro-
per occasions, without stint. Mr.. Bell hav-
| ing openly adopted the doctrines of OLD
FEDERALISM IN THEIR BRoA DEsr EXTENT, Mr..
Hall spares him not. Being sound dem.
ocratic republican himself, he does not
| bate a iot
Right onward
| We can assure our republican friends Of
Wilson, that they must not suffer them>
selves to be deceived by Mr.. Bells strikers
| IN this county. His strength has left him :;
| if Mr.. Halls friends will stand up faithful>
| ~ IN Wilson, we shall be able to give such
an account of the canvass here, as will en>
sure his success in the end"
The result of this contest was, that Mr.
Hall, after brief canvass, retired from the
field, and Mr.. Bell again walked over it
| without notwithstanding 1869 votes,
| while the opposing candidates for Cover
nor, Cannon and Armstrong, received to-
getter 5,542.
Such was the triumphant verdict rendered
in Mr.. Bells favor in 1887, by his immedi~
ate constituents, when he was arraigned
before them and charged with the very of.
fences against Gen. jackson and his AID,
ministration, which the Union and Ameri-
can writer has raked up and preferred
against him now! The whole truth of the
matter is, that Gen. Jackson suffered him
self to become alienated from Mr.. Bell. and
to say hard things of him, because Mr.. Bell
VAN buren,, as his successor III the Presi-
dental chair. In this difference of opin-
ion, as to the relative merits of Mr.. Van
Buren, and Judge White, an overwhelming
majority of the people Of Tennessee, and
of Mr.. Bells immediate constituents, took
sides with Mr.. Bell. For full and suffis
cient answer, then, to all the charges and
insinuations of the Union and american
writer, imputing to Mr.. Bell the violation of
any obligation achaterer, which, as a repre-
sentative of the people of this CongressiOn-
al district, he was under to support Gen.
Jacksou's Administration-we say, for
conclusive refutation of these charges and
insinuations against Mr.. Bell, we cite the
judgment passed upon them by his constitu
ents of the HERMITAGE District, in 1885,
when they were first brought forward, and
again, when they were Reproduced, in
1897. OF the 5,242 freemen who attended
the polls of his District in 1885, 500 cast
their votes for him. OF the 5,542 who at
tended the polls in 1887, 1869 (more than
tonr,tftihs,) by voting for him, proclaimed
their undiminished confidence in his integri-
ty and fidelity, and their satisfaction with
his conduct as their representative. Was
ever more emphatic We'll done. thou
good and faithful servant uttered by pa
triotic and intelligent constituency?
MR.. BELLS RECOLLECTION IN 1883 GEN.
JACKSON, MR.. CLAY, AND Mr.. VAN BUREY.
This nearly unanimous reelection of Mr..
Bell, in 1885 and in 1897, was the judgment
passed by his constituents upon his previ~
Gus conduct. In 1889, it fell to them to
pass upon his future conduct. What he
had done, was the question in 1885, and
again in 1887. He had opposed Mr.. Van
Buren,, and supported Judge White. But
in 1889, the question was as to what he
would thereafter do. And he had an
nounced his intention of supporting HENRY
CLAY for the next Presidency, if he were
the Wing candidate, as was then generally |
believed he would be! Here, at length, the
leaders of the opposition to Mr.. Bell, fond>
ly imagined they chad him." They had |
sought in vain to crush him with the weight |
of Gen. Jackson's popularity, when he |
dared to differ with the General as to the |
superior and overwhelming merits of VAR
tin Van Buren,. But Mr.. Clay's unpopu-
larity, and in the Hermitage District, tool |
That was "load," they thought. too great
for any man to carry, and under which even
John Bell must sink To beat him, they |
brought out one of the very ablest of their
popular speakers, the late ROBERT NJ. Bur.
TON, who resided in Wilson county, and
had married into the family of Mrs Jack
son. Very soon the organ of Mr.. Bells
the Nashville Union, began to
appeal to the old jackson animosity against
Mr. Clay. We quote from the Nashville
Union OF May LIST, 1889:
.1If wa wanted to give him such inhu-