Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-04-29
REPRESENTATIVE" pARfY.

The sample know nothing Legislature of Mass-
saehusetts has passed law that a foreigner no
matter how well educatedh he may be, shall not vote
until he has been twenty one years in the country;
on the ground that it will takea foreigner twenty
one years to learn " our Institutions Yet this
same knoac nothing Legislature will permit slave
escaping from his master in Tennessee, to vote IL
six months after reaching Massachusetts, There Is
an example of pure conservative" know-nothing-
ism in Massachusetts, which we hold up Tor the
admiration of the Tennessee ''brethren."
The New York Herald says:
sRkxcK LAWS IN MAssAoHusETTs-That remarkable
bsdy the Massachusetts, Legislature, has been leg
jlatins pretty nearly all the present session tor
The benefit of the blacks. They have adopted an
address to the Governor, requesting the removal
OF Judge for acting as United States Commis-
sioner in fugitive slave case law disqualifying
all persons who assist in the Fugitive slave act from
holding Office under the State constitution, has
passed the House, we believe, and law placing
negro children on the same footing IN the public
schools as white, has also been enacted. NOW the
blood of the Winthrops, the Otisses, the Lymans,
and Endicotts and the Eliots is in q fair way to
be amalgamsted with the Sambos, the Catos and
the PoInpeys The negroes have several times
forced their children into the public schools, and
been sustained in one or two instances, by the
Supreme Court of the State, but the present law
settles the matter The woolliest head and the
thiekest ips had an equal chance for education pre-
yious to this time with the whitest skin and the
strongest Saxon pecuarities but now the niggers
are really lust as good as white folks. The North
is to be Airicanized. Amalgamation has commenc-
ed New England heads the column. God save
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,.
LITTLE DELAwARE-The democracy Of Deawsar
are moving in solid column against their unabashed
foes Hon Geo. r. Riddle is among the foremost
democratic meeting held in Wilmington the follow
ing resolutions, among others, were offered by him
SELF and unanimously adopted: e4-t1is
RESOLVED, That at no period in our political his
tory has title been more arrogantly assumed or
impudently applied, than that OF AMERICAN" by
the know-nothing party; that no true American re-
publican can subscribe to an oath which will pro-
scribe fellow man on account of his religious pre-
elections, engender powerful and dangerous for
eign influence in our midst, las much to be depre
Gated as that influence which we have been warned
against by the Father of our country by prevent
ing, forever alien residents from becoming interes
ted in, and identified with, American institutions
and people, or restrict in any manner the freedom
of the elective franchise.
RESOLVED, That it is the duty of all political asso
cations or parties, to proclaim the principles and
measures upon which they rely for success, and
that all good citizens, of every political complexion
should deprecate any and every effort to promote
the success of individuals by the introduction of
temporary expedients, sectional jeaousies and re-
igious prejudices.
1t a painful spectacle, says the Washington
Union, to see how sedulously certain of the wing
papers of the South have set themselves to work
to conceal the ruth from the Southern people If only
they can induce the people to act as they desire,
and to believe what they say, they think the game
is their own. This, we fear, viii be more diff
cult undertaking than they have anticipated. They
may be induced to believe that the naturalization
laws may need amendment, or that convicts should
not be allowed to land on our shores; butt is quite
different thing to expect the South to credit the
allegation that the know nothings of the free States
have not elected great majority of abolitionists
to the next Congress. This is asking little too
mich.