Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-03

| has yet made into the political questions al
| the day, it makes In the numb + before u.
II take. for the subj CT oil lis leading ar icl.
the Inconsistency Of the Breckinridge D m
ocrats of Tennessee-Sectionalism the o =
j ct-Disunion the Tendency" Under thI
imposing array of what the printer calls
bold-fsce letter, our contemporary draws W
lrugthy Indictment against Certain l. aders
of the Breckinridge Democracy in Tennessee.
and proceeds to convict them IF maintaining
to-day doctrine which few year.
ago they utterly repudiated-the doctrine OF
Congressional Intervention fer the protec-
ton OF Slavery in the Trrritoriea That man
will never enjoy realisation Of his expecta-
tons who expects to find anything like Gun
-istency in modern Democracy, whether tha'
d. mocracy be found In Tennessee or els =
where. A few short years ago, Messrs. An
DREW EWING. LASDos C. HAYNES. J. D. C.
ATKINS and WILLIAM BATE, Breckinridge
Electors in this State (all but the first, and
he could have been if he wouid.) were, as the
Banner shows, dead out against the doctrine
they will tell you that there 10 no oiher doc
trine known to the politician, that. when
compared with this, L. worth continental
sixpence-that the man who does ut swal-
low this doctrine as easily rs q sugar-coat.d
pill, must be brother-in-law to WENDELL
PHILLIPS. or a very near relation to JOSHUA
z. GIDDINGs. Four years ago these gentlemen
(of course we don't mean PHrLLIPs aud Gin
pxNos, for they don't come under the head OF
gentlemen in this country,) thought the Gin
cinnati Platform was Of almost divine origin
that it reposed in unsulied purity midway
between the Bible and the D, claration of In
dependenee-aud that it ought to be framed
in gold and precious stones, and hung up in
every meeting house in the land. so that it's
sublime prccepts might aid the minister OF
th Gospel in leading the people by the still
waters of life
''To q rock that ia higher than they
But how stand they now upon that platform!
Just as an elephant stands upon the top OF
. conservatory. or q schooi-boy stands upon
hot horse-shoe-the7 don't stand upon
1t ss ell. To them it is humbug and
. swindle, and they repudiate and spit upon
It. In this they are not far wrong; bat they
are very far from consistency.
The Union and Am<riodn.-We are panied to
learn from the B,sson and American that 1.-The
BELL and DouGLAs wings of the Opposition
have been very busy in circulating the
charge that Mr.. BREcKINRiDGE in 1856 ia
vored Squatter Sovereignty" If this isl true,
we hope that warrants will Immediately b.
Issued for the arres. of these two wings OF
the Opposition" and that they will be Sc
vereiy punished for such infamous conduct
Such things should not be tolerated in n
respectable and law-abiding community like
this, and If it Is persisted 10, the majesty OF
the law must be invoked tn put it down.
charges of any IT should be circulat
against Mr.. BREKISRIDaE- He is now a
private citizen, or had just a. well be. and
he ought strictly and r-iigiousIy to be l-i
alone. Fog our part. We don't believe that
Mr.. BkLckINRIDoE ever did isver Squattrr
Sovereignty, or n be did :, that il was dons
merely by way Of Joke. and was not int-n
did to hnrt anyhody's feelings. BE. like all
O her leading Democrats Of his school Of POL
ilics, 10 very fund of Htiie tun. and lie
quenily does and s.ys things 10 aznse hi
friends tina, be would very much dislike b.
see urder the head OF Wit and Humor' in
the newspapers- And hence. Il be ever said
b. was In favor of Sqnstter Sovereignty, IL
wa done simply to burle-qae the LrrrLE Gil
Ant, and the rrmark should not be made q
Serious thing Of IL men, possessing tine
dow OF animal spirits, are to be held smena-
bic to the people for the Innocent jokes they
may chance to get of. it Is difficult to tell
what the country viii come 10.
The Gase<.-The leading article in the
Gaazte il from The text: .'What shall We use
for money" Our neighbR lie becoming
alarmed Al the facility with which ali sorts
OF money are now counterf-ited.
"lf both gold and flne ensrsvings fall"
says he, 40 give confidence 10 the value 81
the coins or notes which they represent, 1t /.
hard to see how we shall apd currency to
supply their place"
We really don's know what we shall "us-
for money" unless We fall back upon tn.
currency Of the early settlers, and use coon.
skins. This, We think, would be q good
idea. You may make bogus c.in, and rpu
rieas hank-biila. bst We day Jon to counter
ydss eooarskia.