The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-07-12

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but liberty and slavery delight in separation" Lib
erty must live on the elements of her creation; she
must have freedom of thought and acton-freedom
from want, from ignorance, vice and superstition
She must have unity of support and defence. 1t
gprang from one nation, language one religion.
The Temple now is like the Tower of Babel, ringing
with the confusion of all languages and tongues.
The Union, the sheet anchor OF your liberty is in
danger. The North is divided from the South-the
South is divided against ITSELF and the whole country
Is divided between two great rival parties, siTug
Cling for themselves and rending the vital principles
Of their countrys safety Is there no hope for the
institutions of freedom? Yes, my friends, there is
hope, there is confidence there is safety. The
American platform, and the creed of the American
party NAV save our country from impending danger.
hail it as the return of the dove to the ark, bring
ing promise that the angry food is subsidng, bring
ing hope of safety to the country. Tennesseeans,
ever true to your country ever ready to defend 1t
agans; foreign and domestic foes to you and to your
twin sister of the valley, noble Kentucky, | look
with more confidence for support of our Union than
to any other portion of nation. You have
always rebuked diSunion and secession, always
supported the principles of Jackson and the Consti-
luton. Foreign born American citizens, you who
Iold no double allegiance, you who have sought and
found freedom among Us, who have enjoyed our
liberty, and shared our prosperity; you who have
placed your fortune, and the destiny of your chill
aren among US, call you to vindicate your
)aths, and support the principles of the government
you are pledged to protect 1t is not you reject
rom our platform, it is not you we dstrust, and
discard from sympathes and affections but it
that herd of ignorance, bigotry, and pauperism
missionaries of crime, ministers of guilt, sent by
Kings and Catholicism to cor rupt our institutions
And subvert our liberties.
Democrats, held together by an endearing name,
zgnifcant of the pristine purity of institutions
N the early days of the republic that honored name
has lost its prestige and its virtue. Abolitionsts
and freesoilers secessonists and dsunonists are in
Iour ranks. No longer hope that the Democracy of
he North, and the Democracy of the South are
strong enough and pure enough to save your coun.
Try and its happy institutions. | invoke you to
awaken from this fatal this delusive dream. You
can only maintain your power, by corruptng the
source OF representative government by giving the
public. patronage, and public offices to foreigners
and Catholics, a reward for foreign and Catholic
votes-corruptng your government by foreign in
duence, cOrrupting your religion and violating the
altar of your God. Ny friends, how long you
hope that your Republic, erected on the pillars of
Protestant religion, morality, virtue intelligence,
End patriotism, can stand the shock of these
rupting elements.
Wings and Democrats, 1 invoke you in the name
of your Revolutionary fathers, in the of your
nosterity. You stand on the middle ground between
th9m, you are the recipients of pure and uncorrup
ted liberty it is your duty to transmit that inherit
to your children. Let not the cup pass from
you tinctured with the pollution and the poison
which must bring death to liberty, wreck and ruin
to the institutions Of your country. Let not party
strife derde and distract you, while the altar OF your
country and the altar of your religion broken
and ruined by foreign dissertation. Rend not this
glorious Union which has made you one nation, the
happlest and most prosperous On earth. Rend not
that proud banner of your country which has waved
N triumph over so many battle fields.
Come forward, invoke you this day, the polite i
Sabbath and birth day of America. Come ami
sacrifice the altar of your country all your party
lies, passions and prejudces. Come upon the
American Platform 1t is firm and pure as
he altar of your country in the purest days of our
Republic There is not Aboitonist not free
soer upon it. 1t is too pure for their unhallowed
touch. They fled at its approach, they retired
from the Convention that formed it. They can
lever return until redeemed and regenerated from
all moral treason against the government and its
Institutions. There is no party here but the party
Of the Nation, the American party, devoted to the
Constitution and the Union. If i am told that
The creed Of the American party, denying patronage
so Catholics and foreigners, and pledgng the mem
GERS OF the order not to vote for foreigners and
Catholics for any Office under the Federal and State
government, is a violation of the Constitution of
lne United States, ask to be shown the article
.hus violated. Is it the 1st article Of the Amend
ment, which says Congress shall make no laws
respecting the establishment of religion prohb-
itng the free exercise thereby" answer that our
creed set forth in the American Platform does not
contemplate, or design to establish any Religion !;
that it does not intend, do wish, to prohibit
the free exercise of any religion; that we wish all
men to worship God according to the dictates OF
their own conscience. Then there is no violation of
that article. On the contrary our platform supports
and is intended to enforce, that article and all other
provisions of the Constitution. If | am told it is
this provision propose to violate-"The Senators
and Representatives before mentioned, and the
members of the several State Legislatures, and all
Executive and Judicial officers both of the United
States and of the several States shall be bound by
oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution ;
bat no religious test shall ever be required
qualification to any Office or public trust under the
United Sates"I answer that this mas nothing to do
Sith elections, nothing 70 do with the qualifications
of voters or the eligibility OF candidates for Office
That it is intended to apply only when and where
the incumbent is sworn into Office, aud TO explain
more fully the nature Of his oath. That it not
intended to control, nor it control, my free
choice and action as q voter. That it does not
require me to vote for a Catholic, or foreigner,
sny more than it requires to vote against them,
or to vote for or against a Hndoo, Mormon or any
sther man OF any other religion. That if the Con-
sttutiOn of the United States does not in express
terms require me to vote for a Catholic a for
eigner land there is such provision) then can.
not violate the Constitution of the United States
when | vote against foreigner or a Catholic. Be.
fore the law there no trfnsgressiOn, and until
Catholicism and foreign influence shall so corrupt
the religion, the morals, and the government of
this country, to enable their friends as a reward
nor their service, to make that amendment in our
constitutional law, which will require the Protest
ant American to vote for foreign Catholic our Con-
titution cannot be violated by voting against them
fhis lisa sefevident proposition, and the Americans
may exult in the perfection of their creed, when
shey find their enemies assail the exclusion Of Tor.
eigners and Catholics from the patronage of the
government as the weakest part Of that platform.
There is truth, there is strength in our platform;
there is virtue and morality in our creed They
offer peace TO our country, safety our civil and
religious institutions. Patriots in the North ma.
tional men who love their country more than all
party ties and bands, have entered upon it, aud
driven off the Freesoilers and Aboltiouists, and
they call upon the South to enter upon it, to sup
port the Uniou-to support the peculiar institution
OF the SOuth-to support our Republican Govern
rBent and Protestant Religion. Come, my
friends, il is the genius Of your country which calls
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