The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-07-27
From the Hopkinsve (Ky Southern Patriot July a. 1s5
Maj. G.. A. Henry.


The closing scene of the great American Mass
Meeting in this city will long be remembered
drought Southern Kentuky. Never the coun-
try pride of old Christian more thoroughly aroused
than while the numerous auditory hung spell bound
on the lips of her gifted son, as with giant hand
and keen blade he laid bare the anti republican and
abolition deformities Of the anti Americans.
With thunder peculiar to himself, he demon
straed the banefnl results TO our institutions from
the in fux of that foreign trash that each Atlantic
wave washes on our shores, till the most reckless
Sag NIGHT present caught spark from the fame
OF patriotism that warmed the orators bosom, and
hung his head in shame as he thought on his coun-
try.
The old man as he held up his erect figure cast
as it is in the mould of manly beauty, was old no
more; but his visage youthful glow, and his
eyes sparkled with the fire of boy hood as he pro-
nounced solemn requiem on the old Wing and
Democratic parties, and then held up TO the view
of the enthusiastic audience the American platform
broad enough for every patriot to stand on, strong
enough to bear up all the States of the Umon durable
enough to defy the ravages of time, high enough
never to be mounted by an enemy, and powerful
enough to bring CONSERVATION to the crowned heads
of the old world, and read the death kne to that
prince of devils, the old Pope of Rome. The Sag
NIGHTS glared savagey the master artist painted
the glorious beauties of the new order that is
sweeping over the whole country, bearing before
its resstless wave all othe factions and parties,
and they cast hungry looks of despair on "the
loaves and fishes" as they read inscribed on every
American brow, that foreign pauperism was at
end and none but Americans should rule Ameri-
ca"
Each patriotic heart felt quicker pulsation as the
panorama of the American party, showing its in
ception, progress and final destiny was uniolded to
the view of the delighted auditory; and peas of ap
pause, that well nigh threatened the walls of the
noble edce, burst FORTH Catholic falsehoods and
Sag Nichtsh batteries yielded before the power of
logic and the touch Of eloquence; and all felt as
sured, although the new order, like volcanic erup-
ton had, in the twinkle Of an eye sheeted the pO-
litical heavens with its glory and poured the hot
lava of destruction Sag NIGHTS, Catholic and for
egners; yet it was the result of causes that have
long been, constantly though secretly at work,
that its principles coeva with love of liberty
its mission the salvation of the Union and its des-
tiny endless as time
Old Kentucky felt proud when she remembered
that it was on her soil this gifted orator and renown-
ed statesman made his professional debut, while she
will ever cherish the iveies affection for her sister
Tennessee, she can never pardon the heartless in
gratitude she has visited on Gus Henry who is
natures nobleman, embellished by all art can be-
stow. Could his heart be awakened again to the
call of political ambition, and Kentucky be made
the field Of his operations, she would not turn her
back on her noble son, but would honor herself by
honorlng him with any thing he might claim at her
hands