Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-02-13
Tur CRY Psrss-Not long ago Mr.. Mich.

\ n, sox Of Tennessee-of Columbia in fact
4 made speech in the United States Senate.
Il The other day the Banner had an article in
reference 10 that speech. The Union now has
an article in reply to the Banners article in
reference to that speech; but the reader Is
mistaken if he think The CRY Press is going
to have an article in answer to the Union s
article in reply tn the Bdnner's article in re-
A ference to that speech. what Ii there prac-
Il tical.r asks the Union, lin the Black Repub-
L Iican organization ?" Some of the Democra-
\ them r, Gently will tell yon that the Long
/ WORTH Catawba and the DEXTER whisky OF
| their organiza ton are in the highest degree
practical The Union also wants to know
what there is practical in the Democratic
party. Every thing that can be accomplished
by lashing the masses into measures and by
| official corruption and intrigue may be re-
coned among the practical things of the
Democratic party. According to our cotem-
porary, the Republicans are preparing to
"iood the entire North" with "millions Of
anti-Slavery documents" Well, let the food
come and drown both the Democracy and
the Republicans. In several of the Northern
States the NoAHs of the Opposition will fad
a Fesoark The Union copies from the Mem
| phis -4caLancae a fine compliment to one of
/ its editors las clever q fellow tout side of
politics." by the way, as you will find any
where,) who is absent" 1t is a remarkable
fact that we editors are always absent"
when we receive complimentary notice of
this kind, and our associates never fail to
publish it before we have time to come home
and rtop it. 1t is very annoying to an editor
to be handsomely cOmplmented by a cOtem-
porary, and it is still more annoying, If pos
sible, to come home after a "brief absence"
and find that the other editor, /" or the pub
Usher. has slapped it in"
Under the head OF political and Presiden-
tial' the Nesrs strings together six or seven
paragraphs from different newspapers, with
little scraps of editorial between, for all the
: world like dabs of mortar in a stone chimney.
a The Nesrs has an article on County Meet
ings - from which we learn that things are
#, going on swimmingly all over this State;
1 that the prOce' dings of the meeting in Will
hanson breathe undertaking devotion to
the Union. " and that .'.old Williamson never
, falters ;" (of course she never does; she
did MT ''falter" q bit when she elected VANCE
THOMSON and Speaker WHTTHORNE to the
Legislature.) We learn further that "the
best feeling pervaded the meeting" in Knox,
and that "old Knox never falters" either !;
(Which is true, for she always Knox the socks
4 in, trt -l,ar
they have MT got any socks to be knocked
| from them.) And further still, that the .'glo-
! rious enthusiasm which inspires the 0pposi-
1 ton in other portions of the State, actuates
the true spirits Of old Cooke" and that 1.-The
undismayed Opposition of DeKalb county"
(the "old" being omitted by particular re-
quest) assembled at Smithville on Monday
&c. Old Lincoln and old Robertson still to
hear from but we have Mt much to hope for
in either. as the Democracy there are true to
the country stil, and are always '.pervaded"
by the best of spirits
The Postofice Department is the subj"ct
Of the leader in the BmRer. The weather
and the Posrofice Department are two things
which the press Of the country can't control.
Ever since we can recollect, and it il now
several years since, Democratic admiuistra-
tions hav. been mismanaging the mails, and
will continue to do so as long as they are in
power. 1t does Mt do any good to complain
of them. We utter no complaints ourselves.
and will give no further cOuutenaBcc and
encouragement to those Of the Banner.
The Ga1ete was delivered at the PArRIor
Office usual. but somebody came in and
b rrowed il before IL reached the sanctum
People will please remember that their city
papers are sent to them. and ours are sent tn
: u.s. We don go and lake other peoples,
4 and other people must mt come and take
ours Ii is said that one word 10 the wise is
sufficient We hope the iorty-odd hire writ
ten will be sufficient for these newspaper Dor
rowers-