The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1861-03-30
THE NASHVILLE BANNER AND TIE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

DEMOCRATIC PAhIfs
In last weeks HeYaid we printed the fol-
loving paragraph:
"They who vote on one side, will vote
for slavery; they who vote on the opposite,
will vote anti-slavery. This will be so, .et
what or who will be on the ticket lie who
votes to stay in the Union under Abe Lin
coin, will vote to abolish slavery. lie who
votes to 20 out, will vote to continue slave
~. This is the question involved, and it
cannot be disguised.
We do not hesitate to proclaim ourselves
for that action which shall free Tennessee
from the rule Of Tennessee. We care but
little whether the act be called secession.
rebellion, or revolution. When we make
this declaration, we speak 70. ourselves
alone"
The Nashville Banner, commenting upon
the first, says:
The democratic party has always uscd the slave
~ question as a means of success in elections and
10 that fact may be traced the present condition of
the country. They have always falsely charged
their opponents with being anti-sayery and claim
I'd for Themselves prc.emInent devotion to the in
stitntlon They have succeeded in quilting the
people by this shallow pretense, and have had the
century or more. They have practically demon
strated their devotion TO the South kFabrinRing
about violation Of the Federal Constitution,
which Is the strongest safeguard of slavery, by
bringing distress and pccuniary ruin upon thous-
ands Of shareholders in the depreciation Of their
property and the destruction Of their business and
by plunglng the Government into n crisis from
which perhaps not all the wisdom, patriotism and
sagacity of its wisest statesmen can extricate IT,
And now II proposes to go into another canvass
upon another false issue In regard to slavery.
We have endeavorcd, and we believe
have succeeded, in discbarging all party
prejudice from our minds in discussing the
present state Of the country, and the future
p ,licy Of the Site therein We have had
frequent OCCASION, however, to apprekend
that the leading men among our opponent:
are still fettered by old party shacklcs, and
working only for party success. This e1
tract convicts the Nashville Banner beyonc
all reasonable doubt. And we recomment
it to the especial consideration of thos,
"Uniou men" who were once democrats
with the simple suggestion, that under tn,
cry Of Union Unionl snch despcabIe parti
Esns as lead that party, are seeking mer
party ends.
The second paragraph which appeared il
the HERALD contained the word Tennessee
where it should have read Lincoln. Com
menting upon this paragraph, the Bonns
grows hugely indignant. Now, Mr.. Ban
ner, we didn't write that we wished "to fire.
Ten. from herule of Tennessee, which woul,
have been an absurdity, but we wrote tina
We wished to free Tennessee from the ruiz
Of Lincoln.
For your especial benefit we vii
add, that if you were n representative
Of Tennessee, we should write, talk and pray
night and day, for God and the good peopl
to deliver us, and the State from such evil
now and forever. We have no fear tina
our devotion to Tennessee, or respect for he
people can be brought in question by Yer
mont Emmissary, whom even the pure al
Of Tennessee has not been able to cleanse .
the odor of free-soilism, though it ha
been blowing on him for years. Therefore
weshall continue to labor for the riddanc
Of Tennessee from the baneful influence O
all such, whether in the person of Abolition
Lincoln, or the not less dangerous, though
less open designs of the Nashville Banner