The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-02-26


TagsEIa9 OsE.
The Louisville Journal Is tspering
offs preparing to bow to the msjssty
Of ths psopls-to yield to the logic Of
events. Well, that lie soaefling--though
no. much either; IS it is of very little
consequence what the course Of that
psper is, since ithas lost its influences.
Bat It is tspeFing off; is preparing no
longer to kick against marble walls. Not
many months have interviewed, since .
call, emsnating from some Missouri
smsncipstionists, ives issued, for con-
vention Of the Border States, to be held
st Louisville; and no sooner had the
document reached the Office Of the Jour
nal, than it few into = passion, and
threatened the assembly with violence.
The assumption Of tie movers would
never be tolerated on the soil Of Ken
lucky; not by any means; however
abolitiOnism might flourish elsewhere;
however successfully it might invade the
State Of Missouri; it must not cross the
line into tbs sacred soil Of Kentucky.
The boundary lines Of that State, were
balwarks, which would be sssAiled in
vain. The sentinel would say, thus fsr,
and no farther.
But the Csnutes Of the Journal speedi-
" found that though they could readily
lord it over some things, they were not
masters Of pebble opinion, which, like the
waves of the ocean, rolled irresistibly;
and like she unfortunate Dane, they were
soon compelled TO remove their chair
from the beach.
The Journal could NOT incits violence,
by braVadc; many of the most substsn-
tial Of Kentucky's citizens, including
some Of her ablest, though young states
men, responded TO their brethren from
Missouri and other States, and prepared
to welcome them. The Journal was non
plused.
Il, however, soon recovered some Of its
squanimity; and having lost none of its
maliguity, while receiving q lesson of
prudence, it attempted to do by ridicule,
whatit failed to accomplish through de-
nunciatiOn.
The Convention assembled; its dele
gates were men of standing ia their re-
spective States; and Kentucky's repre-
sentatives were not inferior to the others
and the constituents they represented
embraced the most intelligent class of
the country. The proceedings of the
meeting were digniied and harmonious
and its actions anything but nOncOmmit-
tai; circumstances which increased the
tribulation that assaulted our nervous
Contemporary
In this dilemma nothing was left to the
astute gentlemen who control the
Journal, but ridicule; but that was IN
trOdden ground for them; they had
dwelt in denunciation and high sounding
superlatives SO long, that they scarcely
knew how to cultivate the new crop
But this didn't daunt them, however
Like Biddy, who applied for the situs
tan Of > wet nurse, they thought il
would not take them long TO learn.
10 speaking of the affair, it says that
+" the -slave-state negro equality
red republican one term pOlicy-aDti-
administration Louisville convention has
given is lsst kick" The egg was
broken on Monday, and its contents dis
tribuied yesterday in liberal PORTIONS"
and also that " Dickens Great Ezpscts-
tons" was out done"
When any one gives evidence of gs-
MUS, in 8 particular channel, we always
are anxious that it should be improved;
but when there are no seeds to grow, we
wouldn't advise the manufacture of
artificial ones, as the people of COnnec-
tieut are charged with doing. The Edi-
tors of the Journal are not satirists
though they claim to be humOrists
Biddy could learn to be a good wet
nurse in q much briefer period, than !
would be required to make them passs-
bic satirists, if the above extracts are
fair samples Of their first efforts.