Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-05-22

he Vi tue DAILY, XIV EEhL1
and WEEKLY PATRIOT will be continued from
this date as formerly. Our extensive job
Department will also be carried on as usual
We make this announcement, not for the
information of the great mass of our readers
but for that of one here and there, who hay
ing Indignantly stopped his paper, has been
living in daily expectation that our entire
establishment would go by the board in con-
sequence. There are a few men in Tennes-
see who are afflicted with the irradicable
opinion that they hold in their bands the des-
tiny of every newspaper that has the misfOr-
tune to number them among its Subscribers.
They are profoundly impressed with the con-
victiOn that they have but TO write down
and mail the fatal sentence, Stop my paper"
or if they happen to be addicted to the use
of profane language, stop the id thing"
and printing off ;e is instantly smashed up
and a publisher or two and lot of editors
are hurled into bankruptcy and q broken
heart Each and every one of them honestly
believes that his copy of the paper is put in
type and print. expressly for him, and that
it is the Only one of the kind that is pub
Hsbrd Believing this, if the editor Utters
sentiment that dos not accord with his way
of thinking, is it an outrage upon his feel
ings, for which the editor should be indicted
and made to suffer the extreme penalty of the
law. These men still cling to and worship
that "Sheeted memory of the past the
Union. and believe that all who pronounce
the Union essentially dead should themselves
be essentially damned. There have been a
few such subscribers upon our books, but we
trust they have all now withdrawn their
patronage. and that We shall be bored by no
more of their silly and wOuld-be insulting
letters.
We have a subscriber at Shelbyville. We
know this to be fact, for gentleman there
has written US letter mot very insulting
one, it is true, but very silly one) and signs
himself "a Subscriber" If we had consult
ed our boOk-keeper, or Intercepted our
mailing-clerk, We might have known that we
had subscriber at Shelbyville; but We did
not happen to dc so, and hence we were ig-
norant of the fact. 1t is by no means beyond
the range of probability that we have a num-
Der OF other subscribers at Shelbyville, for we
don't see how a community SO distinguished
for its intelligence could well get along with
sincerely trust that none of them are after
the pattern of 81 Subscriber"
Here is the way a. S. begins his letter.
You will observe that his style of orthogra-
ply is in some respects inferior to that of the
standard photographers; but it is neverthe-
less admirably adapted to the ordinary pur-
poses of epistolary correspondence, Gen
tIemen have bin Subscriber for your Pa
per for sevral years being Whige Sucked
Whigry from my Mothers Brest-" That A
S. has ''bin" subscriber to the PATRIOT for
'sevral" years will seem incredible to some;
but We presume it is true. We are personal
Iy acquainted with quite number of men
of the highest standing in society against
whom a similar charge might successfully be
brought. That he sucked Whigry from his
Mothers Brest' is also quite likely" 1t is a
phenomenon, however, that we don't pretend
to account for, not being sufficiently acquain-
ted with the nature of the female "Brest" to
say whct il is or is not capable of yielding to
the demands Of energetic infancy.
A 5. goes on to say that be used to like
the PATRIOT, and is unkind enough TO add:
"Yew don very well so Long as you stood
firm TO the Principles OF the name of your
paper & Taught Democrats d the Devil But
a lass a lass my Editor has gone wild i is in
Pr. Suit or in other wards be is in Company
with the Tfesend Demecrteeat Party il thay
ar all Going to hell as fast as time can move
them" We are sorry to b. ar that A 5. ever
liked the PATRIOT. Ii is extremely mOrtify
ing to think that by anything We may have
said or done we have incurred his good Opin-
ion We have not labored for this, and it is
painful to think that such is one of the re-
suits of our toll. "a lass a lass" land We
will add in the language of RICHARD, my
kingdom for a lass) how vain and uncertain
are the hopes and expectations OF mani But
let that pass. That We have Taught" the
Democrats il would be folly to deny; bat We
challsng the world to prove that we ever
had the slightest difficulty or misunderstood
ing with shat other feller." 1t is true we
are not upon speaking terms-that there
does not and never did exist between Us that
entire confidence and mutual respect which
sometimes characterize the relationship OF
distinguished persOnages; but TO say that we
have actually "Faught" him, or that We
have ever expressed al Intention TO do so, is
to do us The groseest injustice We long since
give him TO understand that IL he would lei
rs alone We wOald not interfere with him, OF
at leass would not attack him In bis
own house, and 20 far a. We are con