Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-24

explanatory re mafk<, fbe true nature, scope
aud design OF the League. which he says, Il
formed in Montgomery" We can now tell
Mr.. YANcEY that we have pursued our iuves-
legations on this subject with desire to ar
rive at the whole truth; and unless his mem
DRY of facts is much better. and his power Of
discriminating trnth much greater, than his
speeches in Memphis and Atlanta lead us TO
suppose, VIC are much better acquainted with
his political movements than be is himself
However this may be, we demand of BIN the
same measure of Justice, that we have ALWAYS
been ready 10 accord 10 him. If he will
state facts in reference TO the PATRIOT. we
are Indifferent to his arguments therefrom,
il they are legitimate, or bis criticisms there
upon. So much for Mr. YANCEY LET the
CALLED Jade wince''-we tell him sEour with
err are unwrupg.f'
Our account with the Montgomery Nal is
brief In our efforts to 'ssmoke outr the dis
union supporters of Mr.. BREcKINRIpEE. we
asked our late political friend of the Hal
how be could support Mr.. FILLMORE under
the Alabama Platform Of Feb'y. 1856. aud
make that same platform pretext for op-
posing Mr.. BELL, and whether he was not a
member OF the Southern League. We got
the following lampoon iu reply:
From the Montgomery Mail, Aug. 20.
ur. EiIimOre--The League--Tbe Mail.
The Nashville PATRIOT is one of those
nomlnally Southern papers, which is greatly
afraid that the South will commit some ag-
erosion on the rights of bowling, anti-sla-
very masses of the North. If it could con-
troll, ii would hang every man, who would
raise his hand 10 stay the onward course of
aboiitionism. 1t is impossible to read it.,
without seeing and feeling that all its ends
aud aims are towards the subiGgation of the
South to her enemies. We would respect
fully ask it If those who manage it have
wives aud children in the South?
The PATRIOT questions US. 1t would know
how il is that we supported Mr.. Fillmore, but
cannot support Mr.. Bell? We will answer
frankly. We believed and believe that Mr.
Fillmore was and is a sounder man than Mr..
Bell; we know by his own words, that he
Northern-born as he is-cannot conceive the
Southern 5aseness which would submit to
Black Republican domination.
But if ace did tcrong in supporting Mr.. Fill
more, is it reasonable that We shonld repeat
it, with opened eyes, as to Mr.. Bell? We tell
the PATRIOT. we have committed our last
error against the South. She is now envi-
roned by enemies. Many of the men in
whose embraces Mr.. Bell now lies so COM
Notwithstanding Washington Hunt, Lev
erett Saltonstall and Neil BrOWn-are wait
ing to stab her to the heart. If
by accident, inadvertence, or through
I'll
with those who are unwilling, or are
not free. to concede the South her rights
under the constitution, we wash our hands
forever of all such, their creeds and princi-
pies. Oar fealty is due to the Sovereign
State of Alabama, which has business con-
tract with number of other States; and
whenever Alabama shall decide that her
cOpartners have destroyed that compact by
fraud or otherwise, we expect to obey her
mandates, like true and faithful citizens.
The PATRIOT asks us if we were not a
member of the Southern League, and if that
did not prevent US from supporting Mr.. Bell?
We 1.-THE senior editor who writes) were
member of the League. That membership
did not prevent us from supporting any man
of our party, or of any other, If ace 6et.eCed
him zcllLipg 10 S1tsfaR the constitutional rights Of
the South. If, with Mr.. Watts, we believed Mr..
Bell sound, there was no obligation on US to
deter us from supporting him; If, however,
with the PATRIOT, Gas is evident from Its
tone,) we believed him DULY loyal to the
Union aud not true to the rights of the States,
we could not vote for him.
We suppose that the object of the PATRIOT
is to show, in Tennessee, that there are men
and papers in Alabama that prefer the secu-
rity and equality of the sl:vehOlding States,
to an OssawOttomie Union. The Mail is one
of those papers; its editors are among those
men. We revere 4 constitutional UniOn-a
Union controlled by Free Sellers and degra-
dCd to the carrying out OF their views. we
would abhor beyond hell itself, and would
fraternise with devils before we would affili-
ate with its supporters and defenders.
And now the PATRIOT may go forth and
gather free soil votes on the plain speech of
Southern men. who. however their section
may be degraded, do not choose to tawn on
those who are rivetting their letters !
We conclude that the Nail has not done US
the honor to be a constant reader of the Pa
TRIoT. OF it would never have so unjustly
cnaractef1aeu our pUsitie~ We have Away >
contendad for Southern rights to the very
verge of what our views OF the Constitution
would warrant. We have opposed the Re-
publieans aud their doctrines with constan-
CIV that never has known intermission. And
we are fighting them to-day with far more eff
feet than the 1HdiI; for while the Mai and its
coadiutors are pursuing with marked ability
that course which will most effectually
strengthen them, we are using our poor pow
ers to accomplish their permanent overthrow.
While. in our Judgment the MdiL is engaged
in policy which, if persisted in. will drive
the North in a solid body to them, we are
using our endeavors 10 scatter their forces
and render them powerless for all time to
come. There is the difference between US.
The rest of the article is reasonably ex-
planned 10y the unfortunate connection of the
editor with the Southern League; and taken
in connection with the address which we pub
lish elsewhere in these columns this morning,
and to which we again invite attention, is a
powerful commentary on the designs of the
Leaguers, of which Mr.. YANCEY is the &C
knowledged head and leader.
THE LEAGUE