The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-07-31

from a neighboring county, Of letter writer
by Hon. A. V. Brown; to a committee of hi
friends in Dickson county, dated the End inst
in which he says many hard and unjust thing'
of the American party. The Prophet o
Mount Pisgah" has become devotional again
assumes to derive some of bis arguments from
the Bible-and Grams into one short letter
more of perversiOn and error tLan we have
seen embodied by any one else in the same
space. Take specimen or two. He says:
"No matter how corrupt and tyrsnnical this or
der may become in after times, still you must bold
on to t in its corruption Now what is all this bu,
conspiracy against the freedom of election, and
therefore indictable sod punishable BY laW!"
A sufficient answer to all this, is the simple
fact that any member is at liberty to with
draw from the Order whenever be pleases.-
Yet The Ex-Governor has the temerity to say,
''you nsust hold on to il, . &C., &C., 80
Again: The Prophet Of Mount Pisgah''
utters this sweeping and monstrously unjust
charge against the members Of the American
party:
''They will not testify in court or out of court,
tlluR
nudge is a member. and sworn TO comply with the
will of a majority The jury, who may have to try
INV suit which may be brought for damages, for
loss of property or character, all members, and
leagued and sworn to carry out the unholy work OF
destruction"
1t is sufficient to knock all this ridiculous
and wicked clap-trsp on the head, to know,
As every member of the American Order in
Tennessee does know, that they are all SOL
emily obligated to support the Constitution Of
the United States and Of this State Of course,
any obligation they may take as members of
the Order, is therefore taken subject to the re-
guirenents Of the Constitution and the laws
enacted in pursuance thereof. Thus it Is seen
that the rights of person and property are rot
whit the less safe in court, though the judge
and jury should all chance to be members of
the AMERICAN Order We are surprised that
any man of Gov Browns age and position
should be willing to compromise his character
Snd reputation so deeply as TO make sweeping
and reckless charges like these against large
and intelligent portion of his fellow citizens
many of whom are quite as respectable as
himself.
We give one more specimen. he says:
81 repeat, kill this Know Nothing monster first,
and afterwards pass any proper aud constitutional
laws about foreigners. You must kill it. or it will
kill you. 1t will kill your Republican Government"
What a delightful SAVIOR of molesty and
simplicity in this characteristic appeal! We
can well imagine how "the Prophet of Pisgah"
may have laid his hand unctuously upon his
"full heart, when he had completed it, in an
ecstacy Of relief and graduation, casting round
about one of his peculiarly knowing and gro
tesquely sympathetic looks, with an express
ion of phiz which seems to say, "Boys, got
you that tine!" But only see the surprising
modesty of the appeal-"Kill this Know Moth
ing monster first, and afterwards" trust to u.s.
the unrelentiDg enemies Of Know Nothingism,
or Amercanism, to do what the American
party proposes to do. Demolish your fortii-
cations, throw down your arms, and then trust
to our magnanimity, without Gag of truce or
terms of capitulation, to assign your reward
according to the usages Of soar. Such is SUBJ
stantially its import. He says: "You must
kill it or it will kill you" AS partizans of
Andrew johnson Democracy we presume
ait ,oiU kill YOU" but as citizens of the Re-
public 1t will make you alive. He says: at
will kill your Republican Government -
Shockingi The Ex-Governor should have
written, "Your heretical, destructive, John
sonian Democracy" 1t is that which "Sam"
is warning against in Tennessee-not our Re-
publican Government. No party obligated as
are the members of the American Order, in
good faith, to support and defend the Consti-
tuition, can be enemies of the Republic. The
ex- Governor and venerable prophet of Mount
Pisgah" ought to know this, but it seems that
he DON'T
His ScrfpturGL argument, virtually confOund-
ing the alledged oaths of the American order
with prQtane scedriRg, and maintaining that
they are unchristiaR, because not required by
a magistrate, is sheer nonsense. II applies with
equal force to all fraternal associations bound
together by similar obligations, and consistent
ly leads to the Roman Catholic idea that it is
irreIigiouS to assume the obligations of any
such secret associatiOns-though" Holy Mother
Church" of Rome can swear her Jesnits, or
other sacerdotal orders, to every thing 10 the
long catalogue of their mysterious duties or
services TO the Pope, without the authority Of
any osIer magistrate than His Holiness, Pope
Plus TX. Besides, the text be cites proves too
much, except as against prcrane stcearing, for
il says, ''acear not at ALL" What monstrous
qualification. AS the Ex-Governor seems to
be taken with ssmi-oceasional fits OF religious
feryor, when discussing exciting political top
les, we respectfully suggest, that if he should
wish TO enter the ranks Of the 'teachers in
Israel" CONSISTENCY would assign him the
cowl and gown of Roman Catholic Priest.
OF piece is his absurd and ridiculous as
sumption, that those who administer and those
who receive the oaths, are liable to "indict-
lnent under the laws Of the landl" "Pro-di.
gi.ous!" as Dominic Samson would say. As
he asserts this as a fact, and also that the or
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