The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-07-10

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1t opens the door to foreign influence and corrup-
ton, which finds facilitated access to the govern
ment ITSELF through the channels of party passion.
/ Thus the policy and viii of one country subjec-
ted to the policy and will of another"
| And the other patriots and statesmen, have they
not warned to adhere to the Constitution and the
laws made in accordance with it the supreme law
Of the land. Jefferson, in the zenith of power has
told us that we are all Federaliss and all Repubi-
cans; and that there be appeal from the de-
cisions of the majority constitntionaly expressed
but to anarchy and despotism. Madisons papers in
the Federalist and when he was President full
of the same doctrine. And who does not remem-
Der how the indomitable and iron-wiled jackson,
own hero and patriot, Numbered against seces-
sion and notification Treason, and against foreign
influence, even in the form of a distant money
power, imploring his countrymen to Americanize
their thoughts and habits and defyng even the sense
of Congress when he thought it had overstepped
the bonds of a safe conservatism on this subject.
Jackson in his bank Veto speaking of the influence
of foreign stockholders declares it 20 be more for
nidabLe and dangerous than tie naUaI and military
force of .he enemy" 'Lf noe must Che says) hare
Bank NTH private tocksoderS ery consideration
Of sound policy, and every impulse Of american
feeling adaonishes that 10 should be purely ADaeri
can" Yes, my fellow citizens, jackson went even
further than this He said that if we must have
Bank with private stockholders he would not only
forbid the subscription of foreigners for any portion
of the stock but that he would prohibit the sale of
the stock "to aliens under penalty of absolute for
feit,sre" Yes, fellow citizens, could quote passa-
yes that would detain you here a whole day from
the writings of these great men, warning You against
foreign influence, intoxicating a profound religious
sentiment drawn from the individual study of the
sacred scriptures, and invoking specially public in
dignatien upon those pretended patriots who spoke
irreverenty of our Union, or suggested suspicion
that it ought to be abandoned. But there is not
time here to-day to do more than advert to the ideas
developed by sages and statesmen in the course
of our progress from weak to great and power
full nation; and my chief purpose in abiding to
them in this transitory manner was to call your at
tention to the remarkable exactness with which the
authors of our American platform have traced out
principles and sentiments for our guide IN harmony
with those embodied in the legacies left us by the
greatest and most cherished of our statesmen.
Yes, fellow-citizens, though communicated by
the Pope of Rome, though outlawed by President
Pierce and his ofice-holders, though denounced by
Andy johnson and his Jacob-adder associates as
worse than thief or kdnapper, the friend of this
platform is as calm as a summers morning, and is
rejoicing in robust national health and in uncorrup-
ed virtue. He boasts heraldry of ancestral peer
age, knows nothing of the pomp of tawdry display,
and is unacquainted with the luxury of wealth and
leisure. But he knows how to 90 into battle with
out fainting. He knows how to look out on this
glorious land and on the Heaven that is above it.
and to face the demagogue without shrinking from
a contest with him. He knows how to look at the
face of the abotonis and the nullifer and to hurl
at them the indignant defiance of Washington and
Jackson. He has raised his thoughts to the magni-
tude and power and destiny of this great confedera-
cY, and he will surrender his post rs the de-
fender of the Constitution, long as the Father of
Waters pays tribute to the ocean, or the rising and
setting sun shall bring to us the annual recurrence
Of this sacred day.
Fellow-ctizens, it may seem somewhat out Of
place to recur have done, to the political differ
,nces which separate from portions Of our coun-
rymen. 1t is sometimes said that the fraterIal
Ipirit which convenes the American people on the
occasion of the 4th of July, ought not to be inter-
upted by thoughts that take their hue from party
sperty rather than national Joy at our existence as
free people. subscribe to the sentiment in re-
yard to the minor questions of politics. but there are
subjects which nterweave themselves so closely with
he conditions of our liberty and with the preserva-
ion of our blessings as independent nation that
{ is impossible to discard Them when we look back
20 the revolution which separated US from the moth
er country or when we look forward TO the destiny
which awaits us if continue united as people.
Among these is, beyond all question, the oath of
fealty subscribed by every citizen to the Constitu
ton and laws of the land And it is here that the
noble platform under your consideration displays
those claims to the confidence and support Of the
country which justify me in regarding it as a con-
tributiOn to the of liberty well worthy of be-
ing laid on the common altar of our patriotism on
this holy day. We all feel we all see that there is
A tendency in the times TO blind US to the import
Of our constitutional obligations, and to shut out
from our view the calamties which would follow
the disruption of our ties one people. We have
amongst us the elements of European agrarianism
and radicaism-we have the corruptions of the
Romish Church, aiming to introduce in our midst
the pFeposterous idea that all who do not subscribe
to the nfallbilty Of the Pope are heretics. We
have also the league of ambitious men, brought
into light by the treachery and imbecil
ity of the present administration which is increas-
ing with fearful rapidity, and which under various
pretences is assailing the unity of the Government
which we received from Washington. The combi-
nato6f all these influences let apologize partisans
say what they may, gives an alarm TO the public
mind which must be QUOTED, and the American
party is the only party that can quiet it.
You all remember with what pertinacity South
Carolina under the lead of highly gifted and pop
ular citizen, claimed the right to nulify law Of the
United States because she objected TO some of its
provisions This chivalrous State distinguished for
its service in our Revolutionary war, and still dis
tinguished for the talent of its citizens, under the
impulse of passion forgot herself so far as to go
ahead OF the famous Hartford Convention, in the
assertion of doctrine that makes our Union mere
rope of sand. The right Of State to leave the
Union for any cause that she may assign, without
regard TO the constitutional rights of the other States
was openly maintained, and with such plausibility
as to enlist in its support large party which is
even yet strong enough in some quarters of the
country to maintain the lead in the Governments of
the States. This multiplying party, instead of being
rebuked by President Pierce, who obtained his
office by pledges Of opposition to the pretensions
of such party, is now virtually at the head of the
Federal administration. The man who fills the
place occupied by Washington, Jefferson, Madison,
and jackson has basely surrendered the great doc
trnes of these Patriots, and has aimed to acquire
popularity by arraying one section of the country
against the other, and by looking 10 party mana
gers and leaders instead of encouraging the people
to hold on to the compacts of the constitution and
to drive from their confidence men who habitually
speak Of the Union and constitution as mere con-
tracts, which are to be altered as men engaged in
trade would alter or wind up their copartnerships.
Since the South Carolina convention asserting the
right OF nulli6cation the disciples Of that school,
assembled at Nashville, repeated it here within ten
miles of the Hermitage. And now we have the
same doctrine avowed by the Legislature of Mas
sachusetts, and what is called the Democratic party