Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-09-22

TER, Of simmer; W1SS, of stewast: and
STEEI. .of Marsshssll-ez--t
The Wings mad a decided majority on
JOINT ballot Bat a portion CT them fer
reasons, founded on 40 political .,r personal
objections To Mr. Bell. bat .nsi SECTIONAL
considerations alone, .fs.l it thei.y duty not
to vote for hiln or any other member Of
their party, who was not resideit of their
section of the Ssate--wlaieh section. they
believed, ought to be allowed to furnish the
Senator.
This preference of the Democrats for
Mr.. Bell, was not a preference over any
particular Wing, bat User aay and az oflBer.
Wigs in the State On that point the
language of the JRta and ARerican,
which we have quoted above, is clear and
precise. 1t never believed it g iaossi5l,i tor
the Democratic vote to be unitedn against
Mr.. BELL 'for any other Wing, or DESIRED
that it should be sol T:at ou06t it not
to have desired that it should be so.'if
Mr.. Bell had been the despicable trick.
ster" that it noa0 represents him to have
| been during his whole political life ,
| Ought it not to have called alike upon
Wings and Democrats to unite in averting
from the State the disgrace of his reelee>
ton, had it believed that his course, during
his Senatorial term, in REGARD to the Next
canWar and the slavery question, had been
justly liable to all the objections it is now
so industriously and vehemently urging
against it? Some other Wing in the State,
of high character and eminent abilities,
could have been found against whom those
particular objections would not lie. But
no other Wing than Mr.. Bell would the
Democrats have, if they could help IL,
The sentiment among them was: "As the
Wings are in a majority, and we cannot
have Democrat, let DIR Bell be reelected.
He is a statesman of national reputation.
and reflects honor on our State. Give US
Mr.. Bell" And so, after waiting decent
time for the Wings to agree among Them
selves, and seeing this was not done, ten
Democratic members of the Legislature
cast their votes for him and secured his
election. Had double that number of
Democratic votes been necessary to secure
his election, as against any other Wing, they
would have been forth coming. The
opinions which their actions in 1853 show
that the Democratic leaders entertained OF
Mr.. Bell are wholly irreconcilable with the
! opinions which, by cords, they profess 20
entertain of him noao. They were sincere
then; they are iasiacere now. They do
not themselves believe him to be the un-
| principled " trickstern they are now repre-
senting him to be. 1t is impossible they
| can believe it; believing and acting as
they did in 1861 They are raking up
reproducing, and improving upon, all the
old charges, which, since 1885, when they
first quarrelled with him because he would
not support MARTIN VAN buren,, have, In
the heats and animoSities of party strife,
from time to time, been gotten up against
him-they are raking up these old and
oft-refuted charges, not because they be-
lieve them to be true, but to revive against
him old party prejudices, aud thereby pre-
vent if possible, many Union-loving Dem
patriots is to perp'luate the Uaion on the
basis of the Constitution and The proper and
prompt enforcement of the laws. We have
heretofore shown that Mr.. BRECKIARIDGE is,
at least, TO a certain extent. in the hands of
those who have eonspired together 20 break
up the Union and revolutionize the govern
uant Rpt II tbara n r.. apv-1rho Supposa sb.k
he will be able 10 Withstand that influence,
we ask their attent on 10 the manner in which
that government may be administered, in the
event Of his election. The chief school iu
which Mr.. BRECKENRIDGE has received his po-
litical education was presided over first by
Mr. PIERCE and then by Mr.. BUCHANAN. Dur
ing the Presidency of the former be served
taking premature degree in craftsmanship.
but making remarkable progress in democra-
cy. he was promoted to an adjunct professor
ship with the latter. He was made the first
officer of the crown in the BUCHANAN Dynas-
ty; and has been part and parcel OF his adj
ministration, from that day to this. and a.
such he must bear his due proportion of the
responsibility. Not only So he is set up as
the heir apparent to the succession, and is
held up the younger political brother
worthy to receive theentire estate accGmula-
ted during the past four years. That part OF
it in which the people are most directly n
terested is the corruption, the profigacy. the
and the extravaganza which
have characterized its inception ard progress
And to this we now invite their attention.
We begin with
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ELECTION.
This event was ushertd in in a manner il
perfect keeping with the subsequent admins
lratiOn. We suhjoin certain facts connected
with that election, as an initiaiory step to-
The investigation we propose to make, which.
appear in the official records of the country
and cannot be gainsaid. Of course, fh,re is
great deal yet behind the curtain, which
will probably never see the light, but the
'eader, as well as ourselves, can form his own
conclusions upon that SUBJECT. In January
If Last year the corruptions in the Federal
having become 50 manifest, a
committee was appointed by the House OF
in Congress, TO investigate
he abuses in the Navy Department. Among
many other things, The majority of that CON-
,crats from voting for him-a thing they
yreatly .fearl
To expose in detail all of the peryersions
md misrepresentation, in regard ts Mr..
Bells public course, contained in this doeu-
nent of forty-two large octave pages
would require-so numerous arethey-more
lime and space than they are all worth.