Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-03

The several councils Of the American party in
Memphis met in convention on the evening of the
10th; and the following resolutions, which We
commend to the attention Of our readers, were
adopted unanimously and enthusiastically. Every
pulsation Of the hearts that prompted these reso-
lutions, is thoroughly and intensely American:
l. ResolUed, That we have heard of the late cleo
ton riots at Louisville with deep regret, and the
more especially so as the blood of unofending ma
tive-born citizens has been wantonly shed by the
hands of foreigners.
2. That. while anxious that all shall exercise the
elective franchise, who are entitled to 1t, we also
insist that il is the imperative duty OF all good cit-
zens TO protect the balot-box from fraud and pol
luton, especially when we consider the great an
nual influx of the lower class of foreigners into this
country the facility and rapidity with which they
become naturalized," and the low estimate they
place upon the right Of suffrage.
8. That knowledge of the nature and char
acter of our nativeborn citizens teaches us that
they are at least as intelligent and virtuous as the
mass of ignorance, vice, and corruption annually
thrown upon our shores from Europe; that they
have quite as much love for the land OF their birth
as these aliens have for the land of their adoption
that they understand our laws quite as well as do
these gifted" strangers who have just come
among u.s. and that from example, education, and
association, they are accustomed TO pay at least as
much respect to those laws as do the ignorant and
vicious swarms who in many instances have sought
refuge here because Of their violation OF the crmi-
nal laws of their own land.
A. That we, therefore, can but regard it as an
omen bodng no good to the future peace and quiet
of the country to see the papers OF the ant-Ameri-
can party olost to all pride and faith in the native
born citizens character as unblushingly to believe
and avow that in these riots at Louisville, native
born citizens alone forgot the respect due TO the
laws of the land-that they alone forgot the value
of human life and wantonly shed human blood
that the "dear foreigners" only were the law abid-
ing, unoffending victims of mob-yiolence.
s. That we could not believe this base Islander
upon the American character, even II the facts did
not exist to disprove it, because the history OF
our land records no election riots where there are
no foreigners
6. That the contest between Native American
ism and Foreignism is rapidly assuming complex
ion which should invoke every native-born citizen
to aid in checking that lawless ruflianly agrees
sion upon American rights daily becoming so char
acteristic of the foreign horde now flooding this
country.
I. That, in such contest, the post of honor for
the natve-born citizen is that to which he IS sum-
moned by the deep, enthusiastic love which he
bears for his native land her institutions, and her
laws, that bis motto should be Ny countrymen
may they always be right, but, right or wrong, my
countrymen"
]. T. IRRELEVANT,
President of the Convention
= J. T Z Pryor, Secretaries.