Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-05-10

east know.aotaire President and Cosgtvssi
Cen they go to that President and ask Tim 70 re-
commend it to Congress in his MT ssage, 20 exclude
foreigners and Catholics frem yo,ingi He would
instantly answer, Congress can have nothing 10 90
with it-ihat power belongs 10, the States = al
they go to the newly elected members oil Cons''
of their own choice and ak for their exciusioH'
The answer would be, go toathe o'a'ee' ,o'
and they only act on that SUI Jecr - 10
nor thew would soon discover that all TINS cianor
about national know-notbing party was Tue sneer-
-. ro-sersa in the world The answer to this
r.. ,hs. trpe enough, none but the States can
dec;ds whether they msy vote, but by our exer-
tions as a national party, we can excnde them
from being naturalized at all or have it postponed
for 81 years. Well, suppose you do, what good
will that do. towards protecting our institutions
against thems Not particle. During all the time
of suspended naturalization, they might be voting
under the laws of the several States for Governors
Presidential electors, members of Congress, and CT
the different Legislatures of the States, just as II
they been been naturalized under the existing laws
This brings US to our sixth question;
If all zoe haze arged against kno'o mOttfngS'n DC
true and 0en founded as it not good and commemorate
State partyF
We do not mean to discuss it as party Tor the
State of New York, or for Massachusetts or Penn-
sylvania- These have great importing cities where
foreigners assemble in great numbers, ard we leave
that to be settled by themselves. But even there
we would protest against the secret meetings. the
| horrid oaths, and cabalistic mummery OF this new
order as of dangerous tendency and notorious evil
example. But is it good and commendable par
tv for Tennessee? That is the question, the pre-
c;se opestiou in hand, and we boldly affirm that 1t
is not. Is there any danger to Tennessee from the
number of foreigners and Catholics here? AS to
Catholics they are so scarce, that there are thou
sands of the citizens of the State that never saw
catholic to know him. Take the different precinct
elections of the respective counties Of the State and
we do not believe that at majority of them one
SINGLE foreign vote will be cast At oil our towns
of any size we know that comparatively very
small number will be polled, and that know-noth-
ing must be the very impersonation of timidity
who can fear any danger from them. They have
not and never have had here, auy candidate Of
their own, and therefore, from necessity, have al
ways to fall into the support of some one or the
other of the native born candidates in the field
Let US make this plain. At the last election in the
Memphis district for Congress, Mr.. STANTON and
| Col YEReER were ca nddates. Now was there
any danger to our Amer icanism, in whatever vote
the foreign population of Memphis might give1 II
it were given to Col. YEReER, it would be Ameri-
lean in the policy which it might establish. II CIV
en- to Mr. STANTON, it would be equally American,
and so the foreign or catholic vote could not nure
in any degree to the benefit ct any monarchical
government of Europe, nor enable the Pope Of
| Rome to extend his temporal dominion beyond the
little province which he now governs, scarcely
larger than one of the third or fourth sized State.
Of the Union. In the same election in the Nash
vile district, Gen. ZoLLICoPFHR and Nj ALLISON
were the candidates and in no vote which the for.
eigners and catholics did give wa. it possible to
| prejudice the Americanism of our Institutions
With these plain, blunt, positive facts staring Us in
the face, what becomes of the argument that
Americans ought to govern American so far as
| Tennessee is concerned? Look to all her Cover
nors, every one of them American; to all her Leg
islstors. not dozen foreigners catholics among
Supreme and Circuit Judges all native born sons of
the soil, except some two or three. Judge ROBERT
| WHITE and Judge GEO. W. CAMPBELL were, we
think, born in Scotland; but their youth and man
hood and even their old age was devoted to buil1-
ing up our magnificent American Institutions. A
third foreigner, understand, may be found in the
person of Judge MCKINNEY, whig now presiding
in our Supreme Court, with unsurpassed dignity
and ability. All Tennessee knows him, East leu
nessee especially knows him, and mott know-notk-
ing cheek but must Jingle with shame at tbs IN
feeling persecution of such man.
We have lately heard of good Illustration of
this universal prescription of foreigners aud catho-
lies A distinguished Senator of North Carolina
was vindicating their exclusion aud charging on
the danger which the country was in, from their
being allowed to vote. A gentleman listening to
the argument, inquired of the Senator, what he
would say of his illustrious and noble hearted pre-
decessor in the Senate, Judge CASTOR? "GAsron !
| Oh, could not be know-nothing against him"
| But what of the present able and universally be-
! loved chief justice Of the United States? What
! TAEEY! why, sir, he is the best Judge and man
now living, and my acknowledged shall never
| touch hair Of his head" How many good
| wings Of Tennessee must there be, who will feel and
know that that cause and party ust be bad one,
| that would exclude r. J. MCKINNEY from all Office
of either honor or. trust in the very State whose
pure American Judicial system, he is now wearing
out his life to build up and adorn2
THE GAZETTES PLATFORM REPUDIATED.
The know-nothinp co, yention which Xves ball
in his city on Monday and Tuesday, adopted
platform, which the Gazette Of yesterday prints
This platform ignores and repudiates one Of the
main planks in the platform of principles adopted
by the Gazette when it announced itself know
nothing organ! 1t is the plank, relating to the
roht of The States TO fix the qualifications of their