Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-06-17
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GYsTlImEs:: Iowant you q send me your tr.
weekly paper for six months. Enclosed ycu win
viii find two dollars and fifty cents I feel anxious
to hear how the candidates are progressing in tie
canvass Samuel seems. to have been quite q no.
ted character, especially before the Virginia election
took place. Since thai great calamity he has calm
y fallen back into the arms of his old ,ohig allies,
there to sleep in the sweet embraces of long tried
friends. How sincere hO,p honest he seems to be-
Such a thing as party is loathsome in his sight.
To suppose that the American party were made up
of wings, and that their secr organization was re-
sorted to in order to prevent detection, would al
most throw them into spasms OF rage. The phigs
lcbor hard to prone athege IS no party in IL that
they seek higher objects and ends than party
considerations. But it all viii come to light The
pist is fast disappearing. The power of truth up-
omit liks the lightcf the upon darkness The
order stands stripped of its covering; exposed naked
to the view Of friend and foe And what is it2
Why. it is the whjg party banded together under
the most solemn Obligations Of an OATH for the pur
pose of forming party to be made up ofnatye
born Americans, who pledge themselves most sol
man Catholic for office. Now ask the candid
reader, why make such pledges as these, when
there are no foreigners or Catholics amongst us
seeking office, none to vote for; even though we
had desire to do sol And yetshis war is waged
as though the country was filed brhn full. Is it
not plainly Swallowed forth to, the mind of every
honest wing, aud democrat that their only object
is to deceive and mislead the people, by holding up
before them some hideous monster in the form of
religious denomination OF people who were 80
numerous in the country that imminent danger
was to be apprehended from theml We must nat
uraly after having heard so much said about these
monstrous people who are going to overthrow our
government begin to look around to see where
they are. Do they live in your county, They do
not lioe in mine But these naturalized American
aohigs say that they are here; and that you must
come into our toaen or some county lodge, even
though it be at church or in the woods, and take
the oath Of allegiance and become aaturalized so that
you can fight this Roman Catholic church that is
trying to ruin our country. But says newly
made member in this order / see the platform
upon arhich goa propose to staad, and which have
10 support, contains an article in it that says
no religious tes. shau be made IN voting for men for
office. Now how can l oppose any religious denom-
ination of people because they are Catholics when
this article in our own creed says that no relig-
ous test stall be made in voting for men for Office;
thus you see, first, that they make terrible at
tack on something that really is not in existence.
We have no foreigners TO oppose, 40 Catholics to
prescribe Then what becomes of the secret mid
night organization? They have banded themselves
together have bought their implements of war.
fare, and no enemy to fight Brave, clirarop men,
| truly-Don Quirote Ike, attacking a wind mill,
sword in hand, in order to distinguish themselves.
How ridiculous it does look in q great party, who
have plumed themselves hitherto upon the purity
of the principles which they advocated, to now
come down and band themselves together and
boldly attack denomination of people, and there
by attempt to make it hobby to ride into Office
| upon. 7-Fro y.zs-id rs.a -a sHoi iiGv y5ll S.
feel proud to be abba to say that we viii give
johnson a better vote in our county than he has
ever got. Many democrats were decoyed into this
order, believing it to be good thing, looking at
the platform as the foundation upon which they
were to stand but be assured they are leaving
much faster than they joined, and before August
next there viii not be one democrat in the order
Their policy mas been to say, tnis man belongs to
it, aud that distinguished belongs to it for in
stance, heard it asserted here that Col Savage
belonged to it. and see it stated in the Wing that
| Col. Haynes belonged to the order i am author
lied Jy the Colonel to say that he does not now, nor
never has, nor never will join the order have
written this letter, that you might be posted up
to how things stand in this portion of the State.
am never much disappointed in elections, but
mark it johnson will be able to get better vote
| in East Tennessee than he ever got, s... .