The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-09-29
SATURDAY MORNING. SEPT. 2s.
The Charge OF AbOlitiOnism against the American
Party.


The determined efforts of the anti American
press to prejudice the American party in the
minds of the people, stop at no charge, how
ever absurd. They have exhausted their re-
sources in manufacturing Manchausen tales
after the most excruciating fashion. Among
the most monstrous and unfounded of them
all is the charge Of abolitionism against the
American party. In the face of the 18th ar
ticle of the Philadelphia American Platform,
the nationality OF which has never been assail-
ed-in the face of the published letters of Sc
ward and Greedy, prominent among the leaders
of the Freesoil faction, in which they repudi-
ate the American party-in the face of the
bitter and denunciatory resolutions against the
American party, of the Soft Shell, Freesoi
Administration Convention in New York-in
the face of the continued war of the National
Era at Washington, the Freesoil organ of that
party, which has warned its partizans to crush
out Know Nothingism, or Know Nothingism
would crush tlem-in the face of the united
and unbroken front presented aginst us by
every section of the Freesoil and Abolition
parties in the North-in the face of all these
things, our opponents persist, with shameless
and unprincipled audacity, to charge the
American party with Abolitionism. Clear
and uneguivocal refutations of their base SLAM
ders amount to nothing with them. The pub
lie is never allowed to see through their col
umns the current facts of history, when those
facts are calculated in the least to initiate
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The Richmond Enquirer of a late date-a
paper occupying high position in the anti
American party-made the following asser- !
tons, which are fair specimens of the way our
opponents deal with the American party. Fail
ing to find anything to assail in its principles,
they hesitate not to issue these vile ISLANDERS,
and impose upon the credulons reader for facts
the basest falsehoods The Enquirer says:
Senator Sumner stands at the head Of that North.
ern Know Nothing party that would scornfuly re-
fuse permit white men, flying from unrequited
labor from hanger, and from want in its every
form, to land upon shores, and yet who clasp,
with fraternal affection the filthy and criminal ne
gro who has escaped from his master.
Senator Sumner never was a member of the
American party. He is an Aboltionist, elect
ed by coalition of Freesoers and Democrats.
That is falsehood number one. The other alb
surd assertion about the "Know Nothings "
refusing to permit foreigners to land upon our
Shores is falsehood number two.
We beg the Richmond Enquirer to refer to
the record and see where this Abolition Sena-
tor stands On the question of extending the
right of suffrage to none but American citizens,
in the territories-a leading issue with the
American party-and also to see where stands
some of the Democratic Senators on the same
point. Turn to the Congressional Globe, first
session of the Thirty-third Congress, the yeas
and nays on Clayton's amendment to the Ne
braska BILL They will find them on page $40,
as follows:
"Mr CLAYTON moved to amend by striking cut in
the provision comforting the right Of suffrage and
holding Office, these words:
And those who shall have declared on oath
their intention TO become such, and shall have
taken m oath TO support the Constitution of the
United States, and the provisions of this act.
$50 that il shall read
" Prouided, That the right of suffrage and of
holding Office shall be exercised only by citizens OF
the United States"
Mr.. Seward called for the yeas and nays,
and they were ordered After debate, in
which Messrs. Walker, Petit, Adams, and
Chase, took part, the question was takeL by
yeas and nays on the amendment, with the
following result:
" Yeas-Messrs. Adams, Atchison, Badger, Bell,
Benjamin Broadaead Broirr, Butler, Clay, CLAYTON,
Dawson, Dixon, leans Fitzpatrick, Houston HUN
TER, johnson, Jones of Tennessee, MASON, Nor
ton, Pratt, lSbasiiGn, Slideti-2S.
" Nays-Messrs. CHASE, Dodge of Wisconsin,
Dodge of Iowa, Douglas, FESSENDEN, FISH,
FOOT, Gwin, HAMLIN, Jones of Iowa, Norris,
Petit. SEWARD, Shields, Sn'ih, Stewart So NJ
NER, Toucey, WADE, Walker, and Williams-2l
"So it was agreed to-"
Here it will be seen that not only Senator
Sumner, but all the Freesoil and Abolition Sen
ators voted against the amendment of Mr..
CLAYTON, a prominent member of the Ameri-
can party, and who placed his amendment
strictly upon the grounds occupied by the
American party. 1t will also be observed that
Messrs Mason and Hunter of Virginia, cih
eue7y Southern Democratic Senator, voted for
this amendment, the principle of which the
democratic papers North and South so bitter
ly denounce as ''proscriptive" in these latter
days They thus voted then, alongside with
American Senators, Clayton, Houston, Adams,
Rel. &c How comes it now that democracy
Is so changedG At that period democratic
Senators, /; appears, were cheek by jowl with
Americans, in what they now style, in their
false-hearted and deiDagoguical appeals to for
eigners, a "contemptuous disregard for the
RIGHTS of foreigners.
The democratic leaders are proverbially all
things to all men, and change their positions
with astonishing facility, whenever the pres
spre of circumstances demands.
is unnecessary 10 ask the orators and ed
itors OF their party 10 get over these record
facts before they again charge "abotionlsIn "
and ..proscriptionn rpon the American party
Ther will disregard them entirely, and The