The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-07-20
An Eloquent and Patriotic RESPONSE!

Mr.. GALLOWAY, editor of the Florence (Ala.)
Gazette, recently came out upon Mr.. J. CRAw-
FORD, editor of the Protestant american. pub
lished at Aberdeen, Miss, with great severity
Mr.. CRAwFoRD, says the Knoxville Whig, is
an lrishman by birth, finished scholar, and
formerly the President of Jackson College
The following from Mr.. Crawfords response,
is eloquent, powerful, overwhelming. Read
it, American citizens of foreign birth-read it
everybody:
Here Is no inconsiderabie torrent Of words. but
we must not become beWlldered. "The two grains
of wheat" must be found. The sting and arrogance
Of the document lie IN the opening sentences
Having disposed Of them, the rest, which, "like a
wounded snake, drags its slow length along,
easily bury out Of our sight.
You charge against as, that We conduct Know
Nothing Journal Did it ever strike you, sir, as
possible, that the principles we advocate in this
paper, and which you fear will arouse the ndigna.
ton Of your readers, are the principles we held
many years before Rirop Notings had dn erisis1ics
that have not gone TO them, but that they have
come TO US? that from the circumstance Of our for
eign birth, we knew the force and necessity Of one
great vital doctrine Of the American party, long
before circumstances forced it upon their attention.
meet il snd crush it. or be crushed by it,
Il would be OF considerable advantage 10 you,
sir, il, relinqushing your present QuiEotic battle
against the American party, you would 60 and see
for yourself what Popery is Ishere she has the poOeF
You are now running muck" with all the fury OF
an exasperated Thug, against Know Nothing news
papers, suppose you wipe your dripping brow, and
let your painting system COOL and get little iufor-
nation on the subject OF Popsry rih poacsr ia her
IL xvfu oh Ri lhg :
OF those you oppose. IL will give you time TO
practice your native politeDess; and you may cease
TO call us ser slGUe, syoophd1, because we choose
10 set face like flint" against system which
enslaves mot the bodies, but worse, infinitely worse,
the souls and minds, the hopes, the fears Of its vo.
tsries. You see, sir, am a cool man, a very cool
man. Il shall for the future use the singular nun.
bert Is more convenient and natural to me.)
But let US look at the charge. What Is my
crimes i, foreigner, holding opinions which do
not coincide with the views Of NJ. c. GaloEay, ana
therefore ssgE /, an Irish Protestant and fourd
acting with party, whose leading object Is 70
abolish the temporal power Of Popery, am there
fore crusading against my own countrymeni Shade
OF common sense, what Als the man? Did Jon ex-
pect me, Sir, 10 aid, either with my pen or voice
system which has hunted INV fathars 70 the dun
geoa and the gibbeL Which gave them the rack,
for argument, which placed on their legs the iron
boot aud drove 10 wedge aher wedge ill the mar.
roS over ran this Popeish argument q \ which hud-
ding women and children inIoA house, applied the
torch, and caught them as they ran madly out, on
the heads Of their iron pixies. With what Party
play, should bG just where am, Sir; with the
American Party. because, Il has raised is mighty
arm, aud sworn by lila that ivsth forever aadsVer,
thst such sceaes shall never be enacted American
soil
whs, ia my srims' That at time when half q