The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-08-01
Cor. IOhu.Ou,. slauders On the American Party.

Gov Johnson's SANDERS on the American Party.
The Dandridge Herald gives sketch OF
Gov. JoHNsoN's remarks in his speech at that
place-from which we quote as follows
We will not endeavor to allude to all he said upon
this subject, but will mention only few of his de.
mandatory phrases. In the course of his remarks
he made assertion which he knew to be in direct
contradiction to FACTS, presuming upon the eredu-
lily and ignorance of the intelligent and respectable
audience he addressed. In his own language, for
we noted it down, II desire your attention" he
said 81 will admit that all abolitionists are not
Know Nothings, but ALL Know Nothings are Abo.
litonists" Is not this broad assertion for one to
make who is aspiring to the highest Office In the
gift of the freemen OF Tennessee? Is he sustained
by facts? Three fourths of the crowd were Know
Nothings and were looking him in the face when
be made this infamous and untruthful assertion
and were they all abolitionists? Are 80 900 native
born Virginians abolitionists? Are 65, 900 Tennes
seeans abolitionists? Are the thousands and tens
of thousands in all the Southern States abotonistsP
Ask yourselves the question. Put the question to
Gov. johnson himself, and if he has the least re-
spect for truth, he will answer in the negative
Then, why does he make the assertion? Does he
not know that Tennesseeans will not be thus insult
edS Does he not know that he offers great insult
to nearly half million of Southern peoplef Does
he suppose that he can make the noDle and mag
unanimous sons of Tennessee believe such asser-
tion which bears in itself the evidence of its own
falsehood? 1t seems so from the position he occu
pied.
He said, after reading part Of an obligation of q
supposed exposition of the Know Nothings, "that
they were SWORN to tell LIE to the first man they
met after coming out of Know Nothing conclave,"
(as he called it, Americans, do you hear that ?
Have you been sworn to tell lie? Was not this
the graYest INSULT ever offered to large and in.
telgent audience of American freemen, by q polit-
ical speaker? And yet, he stood up before that
large assemblage, and with the impudence of Satan
told them they were sworn to tell LIES, if they
belonged to the American Party Can you en-
dorse such a man by casting your votes for him on
next Thursday?
He also said and in saying it he got very devout,
"that we were ALL ALIENS to that celestial world on
high" and, 'IF any Of the Rhow Nothinqs ever got
to heaven, WHICH is VERY DOUBTFUL" he
supposed they would be for excluding foreigners
In one breath we see him VERY devout-pious-in
the next hear him uttering words that are bias
phemous-presumptuou before high heaven. How
does it become Gov johnson or any one else, to
say who shall who shall not get to heavenp This
is as much knowledge as the Pope of Rome himself
claims. Has Gov. johnson secured a seat on the
topmost round of Jacobs Ladder" and does he
there with the inhabitants of the celestial
world, and do they inform him who are to be ad-
mitted to eternal life
But to conclude. He applied all the epihets-
bitter and vndictive-to the American party, that
his inflated ambition" could possibly conceive; and
then turned round and asked those whom he had
been thus abusing to vote for him. Yes, rote for
HIN! Will they do III Will they, by voting for
johnson, endorse his epithets slang, and vitupera
ton in denouncing the present great movement Of
native born Americans? The ballot box on Thurs
day next will tell
Col. Taylor then came forward as the representa-
tive of Col Gentry, and in eloquent and laundering
tones, defended triumphantly the American party,
from the assaults made upon it by Gov. Johnson
He held the audience spel-bound by his overpOw
ering arguments and Irresistible eoquence. He re-
Cured to the issues made by Gov johnson in a
manner that could not fail to carry conviction to
the minds of all who were not utterly bound by
party shackles, and blinded by party prejudices.
Gentry will make gain in Jefferson of from two
to three hundred votes and if every other county
does half as well this county will do, he will be
elected by majority far exceeding the triumphant
one the American party now claims for him.