Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-15
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eon; haynes and Polk Messrs. HAYNES and
ok were not here. but were represented
by Messrs. Bate and Mccain. AT the an
pointed hour Col. Peyton came upon III.
stand at the Fair Grounds, half mile from
town, as 1t was his day 70 lead in debate
and commenced his speech by saying to lib,
audience the hour had arrived for speaking
| 10 commence, and it seemed to him from
what he had learned, that in place of one
| gathering there seemed to be two, as hC
learned that General Bate was at the tavern
| making speech to rome Of bis political
| friends Col PeytOn spoke for one bouI
and half, in one of his happiest strains. He
took up the Breckenridge Democracy and
| showed them off in their true character; he
| showed eonclusively that it was not princi
pie that divided the Democratic party; but
| an ardent desire upon the part of the Breck-
| lnrldge faction to dissolve this Union they
| Claimed they had split on account of Doug
las heresy of squatter sovereignty, BE said
that could not be so, for the whole party had
| affirmed and re-affirmed that doctrine, and
their candidate, Mr.. Breckenridge, himself,
was committed to that doctrine as early as
1880 and again he said Democracy claimed
all the credit for making the Government
what it is, but when they were shown that
they were responsible for all the troubles
that now affect the country, and responsible
for the rise of the Black Republican party,
they would bubble and say If they had
caused the formation of the Republican par
ty, that it was not made out of Democrats,
but was made up OF old line Wings, Ameri-
cans, and Know-Nothings, which Col. Peyton
denied, but said if that was even so, they
were no less responsible for the rise of that
party, but he showed that the facts were not
that way he said, 10 1852, Franklin Pierce
carried considerable number, nearly all Of
the Northern States-and large vote in all
Of them and since that time, Black Re
publican party had grown up, in consequence
of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,
and the agitation of the negro question, so
strong that the Breckenridge party could not
carry a single Northern State, and it was ad-
mtted by all, that very large conservative
vote at the North was laboring for the cleo
ton of the Union Candidates, Bell and Eve
rett-said>he left it with the peaple 10 say
from what party the Black Republicans had
got their recruits, saying nothing about the
fact that the Democratic party had furnished
every candidate that has heretofore run on
the Abolition ticket for the Presidency. The
Col. held the large audience, as it were,
spell-bound- the whole time he was
speaking he told the audience to notice par
ticularIy whether his young friend General
Bate would attempt to answer any of the
he had made-said he would not
that he was perfect adept in the science
of lodging. 1 shall not attempt in this hasty |
sketch, to give you all of the points Col. |
PeytOn made in his speech, neither can |
give you the most distant idea of the effect |
his speech made upon the audience. a man |
would have to be present to have realized |
he half. Col. Peyton concluded and Gen. |
Bate came upon the stand, and as Col. Pcy- |
.on predicted for him, never have listened |
o such lodging speech. You who know |
Zen Bate, know that be is an able man. and |
f he had cause that would bear investiga-
ion, he could make an argument that would |
ell upon an audience. But it requires a
studied effort on the part of Breckenridge |
orator to steer clear of breakers. He said
hat Yancey might be bad man; that he
vas no defender of Yancey; took the usual
course of Breckenridge orators, of demanding
of slavery in the territories, Con-
5ressional Intervention, &C.. for the same,
md made fiowery talk and concluded.
Mr.. Mccain then took the stand, and for
me hour and a half do not think L ever
Ieard party get such skinning as he gave
he Breckenridge faction, as ne called them.
lie showed cOnclusively, from testimony
7hich he said would not be denied, and which
yas not denied, that his candidate, Stephen
|. Douglas, was the regular nominee of the
democratic party. and that too, upon the
anne platform that the party had stood upon
'r the last ten years, and said that he would
rove from the best Democratic authority
lat it was not principle that caused the
reckinridge wing TO secede from the party;
lat they had been led off by wicked aspi-
Ints and disunionists; and that he would
rove it to the satisfaction of every man that
ould listen to him; said he knew some of
e Breckenridge men would not listen; that
ey did not want TO be convinced of truth
e showed that Breckenridge had announced !.
mself in favor of squatter sovereignty as
Irly as 1850; and more, that when Gen. !
ass wrote bis letter endorsing squatter SOW &
eighty, that all of the Democratic members I
the Tennessee Legislature of 1850, Gen.
ate being among the number, fully endors-
|, in a letter written to Gen. Cass, all his I
ews on squatter sovereignty. In fact, Nc +
ann just riddled every position that Gen. {
ate had taken, and confirmed several De- ;
ocrats that 1 heard speak of it, that Ste G
len A. Douglas is the regular nominee of r
e Democratic party, and they say they will }
ppOrt him. +
Col. Peyton's reply was every thing that I
e Union party could have desircd-elo- b
lent, argumentatfve and sublime. The
ovid having mostly begun to dispense, Gen. g
tie made but short reply, and Mr.. Mccain il
4 not reply. C
At candle-lighting pretty large crowd :,
sembled in the Court House, and called for q
speech from our gifted young orator, Col G
|. GOlladay, of Wilson, who had been repre- o
nting Col. Peyton in some of the Northern u
unties, who responded to the call, and de- a
cred one of the finest speeches of two y
urs in length that it has been my pleasure 9
hearing during the canvass. He showed =,
up with all its defOrmity His II
eech was eloquent; his arguments frne; his
nstratiOns excelled anything have listen
to. In fact, taking Col. Peyton's speech
the day, and Col Golladay's speech at q