Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-03-20
The city Press.


sob, perdurable shame. let's stab ourselvesl''
We are led to make these melancholy re-
marks by the uninviting aspect of the papers
Of Sunday morning-not uainsit;ng to the
general reader. but quite so to him who must
find in them the materials out of which 10
construct column of matter that must not
be absolutely too stupid to be read.
For instance, the Banner contains nothing
In the world but speech on the late lament
ed Free Negro Bill, and about a dozen lines
OF editorial in reference thereto. When we
say. For instance, the Banner contains moth
ing IN the world but speech on the late la
meGted Free Negro Bill, and about a dozen
lines of editorial in reference thereto, we of
course mean no disrespect to the few adger-
tbs ments which were permitted to go i'm, nor
TO what the local editor saw fit 10 say for him
self on the opposite page. The speech in ques-
ton Is certainly one of the very ablest, if not
the ablest, that has been delivered during the
present session of the Legislature, and is
highly creditable in every respect, to both
the head ard heart of its author: but of the
thirty millions of people now enjoying those
celebrated unalienable rights, among which
are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,
beneath the wings of the American Eagle,
lin the words CT TITM0USE, may those wings
never moult feather!l, there is probably not
one who would walk across the country to
hear Us say another word about it, The
American Eagl,-thon mag nificent fowl of
frecdOm!-but we'll reserve our .apostropbe
until the Fourth of July
The Nt,cs grows eloquent over a sample of
p ri' deal literature. With a pen weary of
Democratic politics and Le@g.r stories, and
schl DER with The pale cast IF thought, it
says: ut is refreshing IN these days of polli-
cal and literary degeneracy to turn aside, Tor
little while, and walk in the path of pure
literary excellence. Such has been our pciv-
ilege in the March number of Russell's Mag
azine 1t is pure, gU,hing fountain of lite
rary water, wherein a man may battle his
weary mind and come forth refreshed, to
meet the heavy burdens of every day life.
The price is only SO per annum" Russelrs
Magazine (of which the publisher will please
send US dozen copies immediately is pub
u
number of subscribers couldn't be procured
for it just now among the Democracy. The
local Neucs has an article, we need not say
strong ono. upon the proposed removal OF tie
Penitentiary to Manchester, the shire-town of
Coffee county. Oar local neighbor does not
the practice of distributing convict labor
among the various mechanical branches, :"
which he pronounces "injury and an in
suit to every honest mechanic in Tennes-
see, as well as those in Nashville and
Davidson county, city and a county
situated just over the line As they say in
certain grades of society, to a man up tree
(who is supposed to see an object from q
point of view which enables him to take in
all IFS branches), the position assumed by
the local of the Ne10s seems 10 be a very
sound and sensible one. If you were to at
tempt to make printers of the convicts, we
fear you would have to make convicts of half
the printers.
The Gazette gives US third article on "Mr.
SEwARD's Speech" together with the infor-
nation that there is at this time can un-
usual scarcity of bricks in Richmond, Va"
This state of affairs is probably owing TO the
fact that the people OF the city have but just
put on III. r new spring hats.
The Union seems to have unlimbered its
heavy guns and Ibid them away to cool until
after the Charleston Convention, (Which is
/ soon TO be held in Baltimore or New York.,
as it has baen fighting with small arms for
several days past In other words, its articles
for several days have all been brief. 1t is
not always the longest articles that accom-
pii>h the most. There are few editors in
this country who are capable of writing ADLER
articles than our contemporaries oflhe Ui.ior,
and if they should hereafter write nothing
above the dignity of paragraph on the
prospect for a fine crop of wheat, or the ex-
isting state of the weather. every body will
know it is because they don't want to, and
not because they can't. Our love for the
political sentiments of the Union has never.
within our recollection, amounted to what
you might call dolatry in the general ac-
ception of the term. aud our present state
OF mind does not indicate possibility that
1t ever will; but the politics Of the linton do
not affict US either with a lack of sight or
with an ohliquity OF vi>ion. aud hence we ATE
not blind to she ability and enterprise with
which that journal is conducted.
p. SHOWS the time to subscribe.