The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-10-19
A Development Of Foreign Sentiment.

The opponents of the American party are in
the habit of asserting that the alleged evils of
foreign influence are all fol de rol, and exist
only in the Imagination. Assertions like these
are made directly in the face of recorded his
tory, and Of the experience of every nation.
Tie assertion of Prof Brownson, the exponent
and organ of Catholicism in America, that the
Pope was competent and authorized to decide
for him whether he should or should not keep
his faith with this country such remarks as
that made by Archbishop Hughes recently at
Newfoundland, that if Americans didn't like
them (the Cotholics) they (the Americans) can
pack up as quickly as they can and go;-aGd
hundreds of other like circumstances constant
ly occurring, go to prove conclusively that
the American party has mission to perform,
and that in its successful performance rests ul-
timately the hopes of freedom and republican
ism in the world.
Our attention has been arrested by the fol-
lowing extract from German paper, called
the San Antonio Zeitung, published in Texas.
The writer was commenting upon the recent
dsgraceful riots in Louisville, instigated and
commenced by foreigners, as has been album
dainty proven. BE says
How shall we avoid a civil war; History
yet knows no instance where people Of different
origin and language could live near one another on
the same SOIL on footing of perfect equality
Sooner or later, one must be pressed down into
serving position, or even in the severest slavery.
These very foreigners themselves are con-
tempating a crisis at the mention of which the
anti-American party affects the utmost indif-
ference, and even essays to stave off the ques-
ton with rdicule Let the American people
be warned in time. There is honely adage
that an ounce of preventure is worth pound
of cure" That preventure should be at once
put in requsition before the body polite be-
comes hopelessly diseased.
With what complsisancy this German editor,
fre,h from the wild orgies of some Red Repub-
lican, Free Thinking, radical democratic Ger
man Association, perhaps, and not long enough
upon American soil to have Invested himself
of the odor of sour krout and lager beer, talks
about "civll war, and the impossibility oftwO
races living on the same soil in perfect equali-
ty; contemplating the chances of subjectIng
Americans TO be the slaves of German refu-
gees and mendicants. Can anything equal his
assurance2 A war of races, indeed to de-
@ de whether men whose fathers and grand
fathers won this soil from monarcbical tyranny
shall rule, or whether they shall be reduced to
slavery by band of foreign adventures from
all parts of the world, who not only are inno-
cent of the slightest conception of our institu-
tions, but who are constitutonaly unfit to en-
Joy them, and would subyert them as speedily |
as possible, had they the power. A war to
subjugate aud debase American freemen, and |
to elevate to power those who have been edu-
Gated practically and theoretically to slavery,
under tyranncal governments.
Who asks for stronger exemplifcations of
the absolute necessity Of the American organ
ization than such facts as these2 Who cannot
see in such demonstrations the evil influences
of foreign sentiment, tlattered and csjoled
by designing demagogues until it dares thus to
speak out in our very midst. This German
ediJor has made startling issue. He and his
lean party says, for an ASYLUM from oppres-
sion. They have come 20 seek home. Their
industry and their capital will develop our re-
sources, and promote our national greatness.
Indeed, But no sooner is his foot upon cur
roll than he discovers that he can't live here
on an equality with the American citizen. And
what does he do? Does he say, | will return
10 the banks of the ZHyder Zee, and endure
the evils that there oppressed me, or content
inysc.f to remain in obscurity, labor and reap
my rewards, and let my children grow up I'M
der the broad shadows of the tree of libertyl
No lie at once resolves to inaugurate a civil
war--lo wrest from the freeman his bIrthright,
resolving that, sooner or later one must be
pressed down into a serving position, or even
INTO the severest slavery" OF course be does
not expect To be the servant, but the victor
and the master.
Such presumptve arrogance must be re-
,uked first or last. That the preventive is
preferable to the cure, no one will deny
Though we could never apprehend danger that
n such contest as the ZeitUng contempates,
.nything but a victory TO Americanism could
esult, yet, We would prevent the possibility
If such a contest at ALL Nip such dangerous
heories in the bud before their poisonous va
,ors are too widely spread. This, the Ameri
au party seeks TO do, aud sooner or later, will
10.
TUE PRoGREss or AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.
The New York Economist, in the course of
n article upon lawns, cautions importers of