Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-01-02
The City Press.

past from the effects OF an acute inclination
to inauguraie and carry forward the labnrS
of the New Year-the second diurnal install
ment of which Time planks down to us to-
day-with review of the leading articles in
the morning papers; but the experience of
former difficulties and fai ures, like the .'af-
lection" of which one OF the cheap poets
speaks,
q Makes Us timid, love-"
and we are afraid TO undertake the job ;-in
fact, We are so much afraid of the thing
that it mny be said that we are scared TO
death for what do you find in the daily pa
pers now but the featherv belle Ie'rts of the
disu1i and the light literature of The Sc
cessionist? Not much else, as the strictesi
of strict constrnctionss will confess Re
view an article to-day-tear it all TO pieces,
cut 1t up and salt it down, and then kick il
into the middle of next week-and it turns
up tomorrow in another shape. but still The
same, and respectfully solicits the honor OF
being made the victim of another assault.
This continued re-appearance. the-ghost-oi-
Banquo-like, of the same subj ct day after
day, is the red dragon which stands in our
way. and grinning horribly ghasily grin.
ian incident similar to which you will find de-
seribed somewhere in Paradise Lost.) flight
ems US from our prOprieiy, and sends US shv-
ering back to the Preparation of dull and
ignOble paragraphs feebiy descriptive of alb
scouding dray- horses in one street and
crowd compelling Dig fights in another. But
we shall embark in the enterprise anyhow.
and if our morning contemporaries will back
us with one half the capital The common die
tates of a fraternal spirit should prompt them
to furnish, we shall carry it on for some little
time but if they attempt to cram too much
of disunion and secession sentiment, pro or
con, down oar protesting Threats, We shall
throw up the contract in less than week.
and return to the mastery inactivity OF mi>-
cellar zous paragraphs.
The onion and Anerican-Orr contempora-
ries of the u SfA.-we would write the nam" in
full but for fourteen powerful reasons, VII oh
for the convenience of the thing, We Shall
condense into one. l. 1t won't pay. A.
were about to observe when so nnrxp ct d y
a.. keep a douhl, eafled paragraph standing
at the head of their leading editorial c"Ium
in which paragraph the public 1T large will
find. If they happen to lo.'k, som. rather
wholesome advice. Ia the present cOnd-
ton of the country" say our contcmpora-
ries, "every man should take a newspaper.
and thus keep posted This is very true
but there are some newspapers which man
may take in any condition of the country
without being posted in The right direction.
81 will never marry a woman don't love-
said young man the other day whose chiel
Object in life is to form a matrimonial ALI
ance with large plantation through the af
feciions of some confiiing female, young or
old, "but," continued be, Il shall be ID
particular whom do love- Take a news
paper by all sorts of means, but it is well
enough to be little particular as to what
poraries, however. settle the question. in the
same article-tO their own satisfaction if TO
that of nobody else. every one," they con-
tinue, should take newspaper, and d m
ocratic one at that Let all who desire to
fbe correctly informed take the UnIos and
American THIS l. quite cool, but probably
not more SO than ought 10 be exp cIed at
this season of The year. In public address
which we delivered to the pilot of an express
wagon The other day, we remarked in sub
stance, that the journal whose articles are
now under consideration is as cool a. any
l.
Gates the same principles, and We are ready
to make good or defeHd that declaration at
the point of The bayonet but as the Demo-
cratic party has been ground To powder by
the weight of its own corruption and scat
tered to the four winds of heaven by The
tempest it has itself called into action. we
can't see how the Uaioa AID AmeTieIa can SO
far forget what is due 10 the intelligence of
the people as to persist still in styling itself
a Democratic newspaper. We have got a
ssperanuaied one-dOlIar bill on the late. and
we may truthfully say. lament.d Exchang-
Bank at Murlreesboro, which we offer as a
standing reward for the discovery of single
vital principle, measure, or hope that goes to
make up the stock in trade Of the D mOcrai-
ic party Besides. the UIlion and American is
ready to recede from the Uuion at mo-
meut's warning from Washingt0n-to dis
solve the Confederacy if things don't work TO
its notion-whieh is anything but rue -
mocracy. But we have always coniended.
and very successfully too, that the i'll lated
party to which our contemporaries belonged
had out-Iived its true Democracy by more
than thirty years. and We are willing to re-
gard these questions as settled, and viii sag
no more about them.
The u e. Il. has two other articles, OF mnch
less importance, which we must pass by in
solemn silence, sor want of time and spare.
The Bann1.-Onr next-door neighbor
crowds out bis advertisements to wiring in
G. ". JoHNsoN's speech in the Senate on The
proposed amendments to The Constitution
with a view 10 create subsistence of The Alb
clifton fanatics on one side OF Mason i D K
on's line and The disunion fanatics on The OH
er. This speech is as long II well-r, p.
II makes thirteen columns in The Bmaer.
We have Mt got time 10 read IL, hut expect
TO sell out in day ar two o man that mas.
It was this " neat and a. npriltc little
speech" Of the great CosYPH. o. oil anti-dun't-
know-a-cns<ed-ihingi>m in times past. which
caused the ex Governors tfisy to fall into a
conf ,gration at Memphis the her day and
subsequently 10 encounter q like Calamity
at several other points Not having read
the speech, nor having heard il read; not in-
tending to read it, aud being fully deter
mined TO avoid everything like an opportu-
nifty TO hear it read. il would perhaps be in
bud taste ior Us to tell y bat Re think of ii
roH, eg uhat We may chance 10 think Of It