Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-10
The City Press.

he Baanfr-.'The Inconsistency Of Dir
EWING and the Breckenridge Leaders again,
is correct and Iife-like representation of a
remark which stands at the head of the lead
ing article in the Banner. 1t will be remem-
| bercd by the attentive reader that we dis
cussed this question of Mr.. EwING's incon-
sistency in an able, calm, powerful, dispas-
| sionate, and also mastery manner, in our
| article of Tuesday morning, and the high
| opinion we entertained of the discretion and
good sense of our contemporaries OF the
Banner and Union did not permit US to doubt
that they would hide their diminished heads
and let the subject lie, in all the artistic
beauty of finish and thorough completeness,
where we had left it. But it would seem to
an individual lodged among the branches of
one Of the larger trees Of the forest, that we
were mistaken in our reconing. The Banner
is determined to show the world, which stands
| with anxioushea and batcd breath await
| ing the result that it is not to be outdone
in the discussion Of a question of its own
getting mp. Accordingly, our ambitions
neighbor. (wbOse private motto. if we are
correctly informed, is THPe est reliRq1i- IN
at cRnsia Pers eUerGHdl1H), makes another
two-coIumn struggle TO run in ahead of us.
/. is, we candidly confess. a splendid effort of
both speed and bottom; bat we cannot, with
ont doing a violent act of injustice to truth,
confess at the same time that it is successful.
In our article we demonstrated most clearly
aud conclusive by how this veXed question of
Mr.. EwING's Inconsistency could he settled in
GevcFal hours less than no time while the Ban
ner and Union have been hammering at it in
the Old-fashiOncd way for about 4 week, and
it is MT settled yet. They are too proud to
adopt our plan, which would be a virtual ac-
acknowledgement OF their defeat in the argu-
ment. and it only remains to be seen whether
they have the courage and industry to
persist in the prosecution Of their own. We
believe that Mr.. EWING. as a general thing,
is much more consistent than the ma
jOriiy under the tWO-thirds rule of
Democratic leaders, Nor do We intend
this compliment rs gilded bait to catch the
support of Mr.. EwING's party friends when
we come up for the Senate at the expiration
of Mr.. NIoHOIs0N's term-the mantle of his
colleague we can never consent to wear. Nor
do we intend the remark as a compliment al
all. for we must say further that the leaders
of the Democratic party are consistent in but
one thing-their utter. Inconsistency; and it is
can be consistent even ia that. And now we
are done with this subject for several years.
IF our contemporaries choose TO discuss it
further, they must make arrangements to get
along without assistance from us. If they
have capital, let them invest literally and
they may succeed.
Tie UaiOR-The chief exhibition which the
Union is now carrying on for the enlighten-
ment and amusement of the public, is an
nounced in the small bills as 'IIon. JoHN
BELL: his Past History connected with the
Public Service,''' while the side-show is It's
attempts to defend Mr.. EWING against the
Banners charge of Inconsistency. Upon both
these subjects we have already said as much
as our readers care TO have us say, and at this
point we drop them. In his article on Mr..
BELL, our contemporary of the Jiaicy uses
more CAPITALS, SMALL. CAPITALS and Halies
than he had supposed every printing office
IN town could afford; and they seem to be
used about as indiscriminately too. as if he
had underscoEed his manuscript by some i'll |
regulated machinery. We have gone TO the |
expense of getting up specimen of his STYLE
of lettering, which also bears some ra-
TO his style of argument. in as
much as it amounts to nothing in the world |
bnt fine display OF four different fonts of |
type. Here is the specimen:
AT the age of six YEARS Mr.. MoGGs at |
tached himsetf TO the Democratic PARTY, and |
in three weeks was DETECTED in a most |
attempt TO break 1T UP AND ruin |