The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-11-08
Movements Of Foreigners.

Movements Of Foreigners.
The foreigners in the United States ar,
showing the cloven foot more papably every
day. 1t will be recollected that few month";
ago, the Irish military companies of Cincn
natl were deprived of their arms by their com
manding officer on account of disobedence o.
orders. Just upon the eve of the recent State
election in Ohio, a disgraceful attempt was
made by the Sag NIGHT party surreptitiousy
to supply the Irishmen with State arms. For.
tunately for the peace of Cincinnati, this wss
frustrated by the wa,chful prOmptness of the
commanding officer of the brigade Since that
election, a petition has been circulated solicit
ing contributions to enable these Irishmen to
purchase arms independently of the State or
any corporation. The following sentence in
the petition indicates the real purpose of this
movement: 1--WE therefore solicit your dona-
tion in aid of an Independent Irish battalion,
10 which we can all look with pride aud which
will be placed beyond the reach Of State author
ity, when duty we owe the land Of our birth
calls upon us to use them"
Here we find the foreigners of Cincinnati
binding themselves together in order to be
beyond the reach of State authority" What
do the American people think Of ths7
Further we find the following proposition
translated from the German for the organiza-
ton of an armed German league to extend
throughout the whole United States, wherever
there is sufficient German population to form
one or more companies:
lst To form in every town, where there is a suf
fcient German population, one or more guard CON-
panies, who shall furnish their arms.
ID. The uniform must be everywhere the same,
to preserve equality. The uniform is necessary
90 prevent confusion and to distinguish our friends
3D. The arms must be everywhere the same and
we recommend as the best the arms of the Turner's
and reUolvers
4th. A member Of any company shall be recOg.
nized as a member wherever there may be such
company formed. All the companies in the United
States must be in connection with the chief or
leader.
5b. The decade system is the most commenda-
bic, l. e., every ten members to constitute one de-
cade, and make one leader, who in case of necess-
~ can call together his nine comra7es. The leaders
then elect their officers. Five decades would be
enough for one company.
These proposals are only sketches, and are left to
be corrected. To stir up the Germans was my only
object and have done Help yourself.
These propositions emanate from the same
source from which we quoted and commented
upon the sentiment that foreigners and Amer
cans cannot live together upon the same soil,
and one must be subjected to the other.
Can native-born citizens, pertinently en-
quires the Louisville Journal, any longer doubt
the propriety, the necessity Of a Native Amer
lean party2 Is their admiration for the for
eigners, these secret emissaries Of the despo-
tisms of the Old World, these broken-down
political intriguants and agents of fanatical,
radical red-republicanism, these outcasts per-
haps of European prisons aud poor-houses, so
much greater than their love for their own
countrymen that they are willing, for the pal
try hope of political preferment among such
associates, 10 aid in this proposed debasement
and degradation of the sons of the soill III
there can be found in the Union single Amer
lean whose heart does not revolt, whose blood
does not boil with Indignation, at the Infamous
impotence of the proposed aggression, his heart
must be twenty times more hideously black |
and corrupt than that Of the traitor Arnold.