The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-08-17
Sentiments Of the Press,

From a lengthy and able editorial in the
Memphis Enquirer, upon 1.-THE deep disquiet of
the country" we extract the following para
graphs. Americans read and ponder them:
The late horrible affair at Louisville is lesson to
he deeply studied; and no time is more appropriate
for that study than TO day. In time OF profound
peace our laud has been drenched in blood; and the
natiye.born citizen feels emotion which mere
words can never portraI, when he is told that by
the hand of foreigners, American blood has been
freely and wantonly she'd on American soil. We
shall he told that 'all this is the result Of Know
Nothingism." At the street corners il will be pro
claimed by small beer politicians that 'it you had
lat the foreigners alone this would not have hap
pened." There is one conclusive, overwhelming
answer TO all this despicAbe toadying TO foreign
ers;" aud IL is this-UNTlL FOREIGNERS CANE
AMONG US. WE HAD NO ELECTION RIOTS.
Vtl their ''adveni" heard nothing Of ballot bores
6eipo broken or JloodsLed at the pills. Aye, more
than this-ice hear of no riots uhere there
Eayc;oners Remember this, nRtive-bOrn citizens
Think OF it, speak of it among yourselves and to
,onr neiohbors your wives and your children--that
,ohere there are $40 foreigners there are no election
riotsy IL is holy truth, and proud, patriotic
answer 20 the demsgogue, WIN, forgetting, or hav-
ing never felt that noble enthusiasm which should
thrill his bosom for beng q native born citizen, can
and sny glory in proclaimng, that Americans and
NOT Foreigners we're 20 blame Oul upon such
lpan iaundiced patriotisml IL Is but upon par
with the national pride Of the man who Is so vely
bsse-so utterly void of all love OF country, as TO
ayou that he "ieels no better for being born
American
The american party" will be charged with
desire 10 disturb the peace OF the country. IL Is
vile chandler upon the American character for, az
,he election riots at Louisville american volunteer
oo,apa,,ies were called out 90 que them, AND THrr
MN n. This fact alone, is worth volumes OF such
SANDER as will soon flow from all quarters opposed
Al "Americanism" But ''the end is not yet" This
Il but the "skirmish Of the vanguard" The war Is
only begun. The claim set up by the mass OF our
foreign population is neither abandoned nor abated
They know that their strength consists In the court
which demagogues pay them, THAT thrift may fol
low awning and they do not intend TO yield any
advantage which such political abasement places
within their grasp. We say 10 our cOuntrymen,
the fight is coming Already the deep toned thun
der il heard In the distance. The black storm is
gathering force and Americans" must breast il as
patriots who love the land Of their birth, and who
viii not suffer its temples OF liberty 10 be decorated
by the Goths aud Vandals OF the present day. We
claim nothing but rights. Our war is ever and
only on the defensive. Here aud here only, the
homes Of our chldhood-the graves Of our sires-
she mountain and stream which make beautiful and
holy all that belongs 20 our 'native land" These
and a thousand other ike recoliections should make
doubly dear 70 the principles which We cherish;
and while dwelling upon their value let us also re.
member that "ROBls did not foil hA the rad. hand
of the Foreigner Ods laid upon her temples AND her