Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-07-03
: A. rsI-wEExLY IS; WEEKLY So
Uno snail be:our next Governor,

binary condition Of public affairs has pre-
vented the usual canvass Only four weeks
are to eIapse before We will be called upon
to decide it at the baIlot-bOx- For many
wears past We have had party nominations
which were sufficient Of themselves TO indi
cafe the policy to BE- pursued by the respee
tive candidates in the event Of their election
That isaaII at an end now Our State has en-
+. tered upon a new career; new conditions sur
round as. new questions are before u, and
new themes are 20 b. diScUssed- The parties
of the past are buried, and The inscription
s.No Resurrection" written upon their tomb
For the present, at least. We have one pur
pose, one hope and one destiny, and t.
achieve common result We must think with
oRe mind, and strike with one arm To this
an overwhelming majority of the people at,
agreed
We have made no nominations for Govern
or. and no one of our distinguished citizens
Il regularly in the field according to past
usage. Yet the popular mind, as publicly
expressed in the press aud primary public
meetings. il, to large degree, directed to-
wards a retention OF our present Governor
At the same time there is portion of the
people lin what numbers We cannot under
take to decide who think, and no doubt bon
eStIy. that his election would be impOlitc
and inimical to the best interests OF the State
They contend that Gov. HARRIS is personally
odi,us to the people Of the Eastern division
of the State: that he has disregarded the In
q to nf TIa
ole Of the State in the military appointments
which the laws have required him to make
and that custom has made the Governor prac'
ticaliy ineligible to a third term And hence
they have sought another parsonage and
found him in the Hon. W. ii. Polk. Of Maury
county.
This brings Us to consider directly OF what
duty, as We understand it, requires of us
For ourselves We announce. at the outset
that we Cannot support Mr. Polk. We were
for the separation of the State from the Lin
coin Government, and for its union with
those of the South by the prompt adoption
of the Provisional Government they had
formed. More than two to one OF our fellow
citizens agreed with US and so ordained at
The ballOt-b0x on the Sth of June. We do
not know whether Mr.. Polk agreed with Us
and them upon this point. We are now for
completing aud perfecting our union with
the Confederate States by u like prompt
adoption of their permanent Constitution
We do not know whether Mr.. Polk cOncurs
with us in this opinion and desire. We want
our separation from the perverted govern
ment Of the North to be perpetual. We do
not know whether Mr.. Polk agrees with Us
in this. We want Tennessee to bear her full
share in all the consequences, be they sue
cessiul or disastrous, whether they iliumIne
our pathway with the glories of triumph, or
enshroud u in the gloom of defeat. with her
sister States of the South We do not know
that Mr.. Polk agrees with Us In this 30 long
a. the war is to be prosecuted by the desPOtic
North upon the inaIienable rights of treemen-
We desire the enemies of our liberties to be
met ard rspuIsed at all points, and that pre-
paratians be made accordingly. We do not
know whether Mr.. Polk cOncurs with US
On Bonded knees We petitiOned and begged
for our rights in the Union, and instead OF
obtaining them we have been met with abuse
and scorn, and TO silence our petitions and
circumstances an army is sent among u.s.
This army is designed either to subj gate, or
exterminate US We are for fighting that sr-
nv to the bitter end. We know not if Mr.
Polk cOneurs with US. We want no peace
which is not just and honorable to US, and
which does not secure to Us the principles of
Enforcement for which our fathers bled
and died. We do not know if Mr.. Polk Co
incides in this Finally, we do not know if
Nr. Polk has the qualities. judging from his
past career, if he agreed with Us, to execute
in the Gubernatorial chair, these views aud
Objects
On the other hand these are what We re-
gard as paramount considerations. On all Of
them we do know, from his public acts, that
Gov. HARRIS does agree with US. And how
ever bitterly we have opposed him In the
past upon the issues of the past, We will sus-
tain him with all our heart upon these. His
democracy, as currently understood hereto
fore. il lust as much at an end as our whig
gerry or our opposition. II he were in favor
of Southern independence before We were, it
only shows that he was in the picket guard,
while we were in the camp waiting for, per-
haps. a disastrous surprise. If he has made
appointments to military oilice that we would
not have made had We been in his place, there
is no complaint of the incOmpetenCy of his
appointments If his appointments are OBJ
noxious to the charge of being political in
their character, it was imprudent, perhaps;
but if they are competent, is it the part of
patriots to suffer that to come between them
and their country and the liberties of them
selves and their children? What has party
men and party measures of the past TO do
with the fundamental rights and liberties of
the people? No ghost of dead issue shall
brighten US from our present duty. So far
in this struggle Gov. HARRIS has acted the
part of brave and courageous and wise
man. aud has shown himself equal TO the
occasion. Since the 18th Apri! he has pur-
sued a straight course looking TO the emanei-
nation of the South and of Tennessee from
the despOtism of the North. We will not
swap him for any man, whose position upon
these subjects we do not know, and we shall
prefer acts to professions. We shall permit
no personal considerations to interpOse be
tween US and what We look upon as right ard
our duty to our country and its Cause
Wben,ge are through with The present, we
ma oppose Gov. HARRIS as heretofore, if We
esteem it the part of patriotism and duty to
do so. But we cannot hazard a noble and
glorious cause by setting up individual and
s,,a-sooaI affections at this hour.