Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-07-03
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CEsTREvfIla, June 2S, 1857.
Mr. misunderstanding to appointment, the
don. John '. Wright addressed the people Of old
nickman at this place on to-day. For about half an
noun he reviewed the great American party" in
tne happiest manner 1t has fallen to my lot to hear
from any man since the adventeof Know Nothing
ISM IN our midst. In short, he arraigned them and
charged upon them their former organization their
umes and places Of meeting; their secrecy; oath;
the foreign and Catholic questions, and then asked
10 know If any man would endorse them! If the
AnoW Nothings had not come down. and bent the
supPliant knee and acknowledged all this to be
wrong and declared they had abandoned their secrs
cy oaths places of meeting and their positions upon
the foreign and Catholic questionss No candidate
OF that party now daring to come forward and plant
nimsen on these questions, he appealed to the
people to come forward and support him. There
are now no fears of the foreigner or the ;nCr;;,;
of the Pope of Rome.
He then took up the distribution question Tbova
heard Nicholson, Brown, Gardenhire, Guild and
other of the ablest and best Democrats in the State
upon this subject, but never did hear any system
more completely uprOOted and overthrow than was
this system by Mr.. Wright. He showed that the
charge of robbery by the Democratic party of the
people in regard to the public domain was utterly
false and untenable. That it was not the hone Of
the leaders Of Know Nothingism Of ever redeeming
their promises Of building all the railroads canals
and school houses, and educating all 'sthe Aaxen-
haired girls and blue eyed little boys" and paving
the State debts; but it the mission of this oues
ton to hide the errors, enormities and hideous de-
formities of the Know Nothing party, that had in
duced the Hon. John Bell to introduce it into the
canvass in order that others might 90 before the
people, fight through the conflict, and then that he
might again hang his hopes upon the chosen few
for continuation Of his seat in the United States
Senate; but that Mr.. Bell does not dare to come
before the people of his State and ask to be heard
and supported by the masses for he knows that be-
hind him stands the blacklist record ever attached
to any representative from his State, and being
sorey afraid of this, he stands back while others do
the fighting.
On the subject Of Alien Suffrage that s'infamous
doctrine" he was beyond controversy too hard for
the followers of Sam. After stating that each ter
ritory, with but few exceptions, was organized upon
the same basis, far the qualification of voters
are concerned, since the days of President Wash
ingtOn to the present time he then showed that all
the feeling upon this subject had grown out of the
| Kansas-Nebraska bill, and that during Mr. Fill
more's administration the Washington territorial
bill was passed; that this bill contained the very
same provision that every other territorial bill con-
| tanned upon the subject of the qualifications of
voters, verbatim ct leratm, and that in addition to
all this, the bill provided that grants of land should
be.made to every settler occupant of the public
lands, hd.f-breed indians included and that every
citizen of the United States, or those having made
declaration of intention to become citizen on or
before the 1st of December, 1851 shall, if single
be entitled to $50 acres of land and if married to
$40 acres; not only giving the foreign and native
born the same right of suffrage, but offering the
same inducement to both to go to the territory; and
the record shows that Mr. Fillmore not only signed
and,apprOVed this bill, but that Mr. Bell and other
| distinguished Know Nothings in Tennessee voted
| for it and passed it.
| But cannot write you any further. Be assured
all is wright here. There is no doubt but Harris is
the choice of our people over the author of such
humbug as the Normal school bill, offered at the
last session of the Legislature. The ids of August
| will tell. Yours, &C.,
SPECTATOR