Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-23
TUESDAY, OCTOBER zs, 1860.
The BeggarIy Shifts of the Dfsunion-
lists.

The extremists of the South, it seems home
hausted their catalogue of denunciations OF
Messrs. BELL and EVERETT. They have ac-
cused them both of unsoundness, of abolition
sympathies, of everything calculated, in their
opinion, to weaken them in the estimation OF
the Southern people. They have been an
swered and exposed. They have been put to
route on the hastings, in the newspapers, ev-
erywhere. And as final resort they are
friends of BELL and EVERETT. They have
played card after card and lost trick after
trick, until within two weeks of the election;
and now are aiming to brighten the men who
cherish an affection for the Union, as it was
handed down by the fathers. from its defence
Listen to the n. o. Courier, the special organ
of Mr.. BREcKyRIDGE, in the State of Louisi-
ana, in its impression of the 18th inst:
But these leaders for Bell and Everett)
are doomed; let them mark that. Unless
they intend TO join openly our sectional adj
versaries. they had better be recantiBg and
going on their knees TO ask forgiveness and
reconciliation al the hands of the South. I'm
less they are prepared to commit overt as
well covert treason, let them look to their
fate hereafter. If they can stink from pub
lie execration into obscurity they will be
fortunate. II they can hide in some bound
less contiguity of shade and thus save their
names from being gibbetted on the climax of
scorn and iniamy, they will be thrice hap
py."
They, in effect, tell us the present oppo-
nents of BRECKENRIDGE will be gibbetted with
out benefit of clergy. Having secured, as
they fondly believe, the election of LINCOLN,
as they laid down their programme and di-
rected their best energies to do, they are now
industriously, though covertIy, playing the
last act in the drama, preliminary to the
grand tragedy of revolution. They have
known from the outset that, in addition to a
Republican triumph they were bound to have
majority of the Southern people to vote
their ticket. before they could risk the bloody
step OF dlsunion. a ma jority vote for BELL.
In the Southern States would baulk all their
plans and leave them high and dry on the
barren shores of defeat. They would not
dare inaugurate a revolution in the face of
an sssertained majority against them in the
South. And knowing that BRECkIxRIDGE
uOr HAS HOt tHe sHduOH VI q C0dnCe lOE eiec-
ton, they are endeavoring to rally MAORI
ty of the votes of the South in his behalf thus
not only weakening the conservative Union
ranks, but rendering LINCOLN's election more
certain, and paving the way to the speedy
achievement of the primary object of disun-
ion.
There is but one way for the people, the
honest, conservative, patriotic masses TO
meet and overturn the conspirators, and that
is by rallying TO the polls, and speaking
through the ballOt-bOx, in tones of triple
thunder, their disapprobation of the course
pursued by the enemies of the Union. Such
threats as those launched by the Courier are
absolutely contemplate. We only notice
them for the purpose of acquaintin. our
readers With the plans and purposes of the
dlsunionistS, and the means they are bring
ing into requisition to compass their aims
The sincere lover OF his country Will hardly
sue for respect, or crouchingly beg for mercy
from Its enemies-neither will he be intimi
dated or swerved from the right line of duty
BY the insane threats and empty bragadocio
of such revolutionary organs as the New Or
leans Courier.