The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-09-07

purity and virtue is not exempt from the ferocity
of these fends-at least she was not at Louisville u
There is, it is true, nothing original in this. II is
merely an effort to transplant and revive an old
decayed SANDER. But in this case the ofshoot has
evidently s'lit' on sterile soil. Perhaps, however,
If the cntivator, who has certainly done credit to
his zeal and industry viii assiduously dig about it
and dung it" for get another year, it may spring up
and yield fruit
But the powers Of invention have not been left
untasked even in Tennessee. With what results
witness the following idiotic fabrication 80 In
Louisville" says the Chattanooga Advertiser, linen
have been beheaded by the mob-their heads stuck
upon stakes and borne in the streetsl"
As another example of this party-wide emula-
ton of satanic malignity which steams up in sui
phurous fumes from the laboratories of Sag Nicht
ism, hear the Newport Weekly Necs =" A better
idea of the heartlessness of the Know Nothing
bulies NAV be found from the fact that the brains
of an infant child were blown out while in its
mothers arms, scattering them in her face and bo-
som and she begging mercy at the same time of
these fendsh Williams" Ut is unnecessary to say
that the heartsickening o1tpouring of such demon
iacal lunacy, is without the shadow of basis no
child or infant being killed in the fray, except an
American boy ten or eleven years old; and be was
shot dOaOn By the tereigners)
Words are inadequate to express my utter loath-
ing for that party.recklessness which, ignoring in
toto the overpowering weight of testimony, and
browbeating the truth in the face of historical facts
that no honess man pretends to gainsay, can dole
forth or countenance such heaven daring assertions
those who utter them do not slough off, struck
with gangrene-that their envenomed tongues do
not drop out mass Of putrescence
Yet these things seem to be approved and endors-
ed with one acclaim by the Sag Nicht press. 1 do
not know of a solitary instance where they have
corrected the falsehoods or rebuked the propaga-
tors, while they appear with like unanimity to have
withheld from their readers the legally testi
mony in relation to the matter-thus Withholding
the true statement of facts with one hand, and with
the other disseminating distorted mass of misrep
resentation upon subject in regard to which,
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, every citizen has right to know
the whole truth.
HOW, leu NE dShY can SOutT Lninueu COuSCltutiOuo
men cling to party whose leaders are driven to
these resorts9 What reliance can they place upon
representations from such source as to the char
acter and object of the American movement? How
are they to regard the aspersions cast upon the
Know Nothing" 0rder2 Is it possible that in
telgent foreigners in particular should be strapped
into the traces by such means, knowing that you
are only wanted to pull the car of demagogusm,-
knowing too the uses to which they scruple not to
put your less rejecting countrymen?
But, thank Heaven, bearer equal to resist the
united torrent of party corruption and foreign in
Auence, has at last arisen, deeply implanted in the
great American heart The waves of denunciation
but vainly beat against it malice, falsehood and
vituperation dash and foam idly at its base. And
having proved sure bulwark against the allied
warfare, it will stand its own proud memorial to
the gaze Of grateful posterity.