Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-05-08

: the matter. Had the South agreed 10 ac
pit the Cincinnati platform pure and simple
ere had been no division. As Il was. when
ey came TO compare opinions and 70 settle
herences like honest and candid men ought
do. they were found TO be irfeconeiably
Issue. and separation was the only alter
tive. This proves all we have said. And
ow the great Democratic party, 1.-The only
sIational party lies bleeding and torn. It's
boasfed ana everywhere svaunied claim to
nationality. has been diss;pated and exploded
as frosi-work melts and disappears before
The rays of the rising sun.
If we could beiieve that this is significant
-as many will teach-of the tate of the Re-
public. we should feel sad enough: hut we
read the lesson il inculcates far otherwise
We regard it as retribuiive Justice which
seldom fails to overtake individuals. parties
or nations 1t is the consequence of long
career of wrong doing. Il is in the nature
of an evil returned to plague ifs inventors
Curses come home TO roost. and the party
which has so long flourish d apd maintained
its ascendeDcy by The selfish and wicked agi-
tatIon OF the slavery question. has now the
POSTPONED chslice to quaf. Let it drink
the last bitter dregs. 1t Is fitting termina-
ton of its career, that the viper which it
warmed Into life. should poison its very
vItals: that the mistleiOe which it nourishrd.
should sup its very existence. Let il die.
having served its purpose. and grown 10 he
monster OF iInpurify and corruption. The
stencil of its decaying carcass will, for a
time, pOlluie the atmosphere, but there may
be some vitalizing principle in il that will
nourish and promote the growth of a more
beautiful and saiufary political organization.
We have no timid fOrebodings that the
country will be ruined because the rotten
hulk If Democracy has stranded and parted
amIdships. The cargo will be saved. The
conservative, Union-loving men of the coun-
try must now look to Baltimore, and if the
Convention Of The 9Ih of May shall fulfill the
public expectation. we shall have two men
upon whom the patriotic masses of our cour-
trymen. North aud South. can rally. We
should have Southern statesman of pure
record, of broad national views: one who
Will plant himself firmly on his platform:
The Constitutions; The Union, and the En-
forcement of the Law<;-and with some such
associate as that pure-minded noble son of
The North, Ex-GOy. Hunt, we shall march on
20 victory We verify believe that the conn
try Is ripe for such a movement. and have no
doubt that thousands of patriotic Southern
Deinocr MS, and Northern gentlemen who
have been Disguised with the excuses of the
ianatical horde led by Seward and Sumner,
will fall into line to aid in rescuiug The coun-
try from sectional domination and utter
ruin
The bow OF promise is in the heavens. and
no party, siuee the sun first rose on the party
organizations, has had a higher. more impor-
tant mission dcv0lved upon it, than has fall
en- to the Constitutional Union party of the
United States We pray that it may prove
equal to the emergency. and that those of
lis representatives who shall assemble in
Convention at Baltimore next week, will he
governed by wisdom and moderation in all
things, and give TO the country nominations
that will be hailed by reclamation in every
part OF this broad land; thus confirming its
claims 10 the proud distinction it has already
earned. of beiag 1.-The only national party"
Virgmian.