Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-03-28
a0RE ALARM I-THR COUNTRY AGAIN IN DAE-

Know Nothing party in tennessee become great
u alarmed and sgtsted with dreadful forebodngs
L viii be many years before the public ind vii
cease to remember the blOcd and thunder ste
ries that hllsd their papers, and exercised their
IePsazers in 1855, about the power Of the Pope,
the dangers of a arHierarcby, and the great
army Of Foreign Paupers and Criminals, that
were flooding our country and threatening to tear
down our republican institutions with their sae'ii-
qious hands, TIE churches were exercised 7ut
it. Ministers f5rsook their pulpits and went into
the political arena. The danger was so eminent
that men dubbed themselves togetherin secret coun
cls; assembled ia gsrrets and cellars in the dark
hour Of the night and took osths upon the bible
and the cross to prescribe every man, even their
fathers and their brothers, who bad not entered in
70 this modern crusade against al old parties, the
Catholics snd Foreigners.
The wonderful scenes Of Maria Monk were re-
vampei under new and Shy headings, and issuei
in the form Of campaign documents Text B 5Oks,"
on the order of Fox's Book Of Martyrs, flooded
the country. All the horrors Of the Inquisition
and the persecution Of the Jesuits were pictured
to the mind. Bishop HUeHEs was charged With
making war upon Protestant schools and the Pro
tsstsnt bible, and ss the agent Of the Pope, seek
ing to engraft Catholicism on our political ineti-
tutions. The Prophecies Of the Cd Testament, and
the Apocalypse Of the New, were studied with in
tense interest by excited enthusiasts and strange
discoveries made, forstellng the speedy struggles
that were to eusus between Cog and Magog, In
good old puritan New England, the ism swept
everything before lis march. Democrats were
hurled out of power and the new organization
went in. Smelling committees were appoint
ed to examine Catholic SCHOOLS ard zee what afro
cities could be brought 10 light. Foreigners were
prescribed from voting and free negroes admitted
10 the ballot box. An intense American " feel
ing was eBgendered among the rowdies Of our
large cities; the foreigners vera beaten down and
driven like wild beasts from the polls, or manned
and murdered for their obstinacy.
All this was done in TIE name Of " intense
Americanism, % as the only means of securing the
blessir e Of li5erty to ourselves and our" pos
terityl Columns, now, would not enUmerate halt
the dreadful evils and dire cslsmities that imme-
diately overhung the country; threatening war,
psstilsnce and famine, and all resulting from the
Catholics and foreigners; and only to be averted
BY placing know nOthingism in power.
Hundreds of clever, but inconsdsrate and ner-
VOLS individuals were driven from their propriety
At the time, who soon discovered the ridiculous,
ness Of the farce and turned against it and aided
in putting it d,Wu We shall not review its his
tory. 1t has become a by-wOrd and scot.
In the opening Of he campaign Of last summer
il was well understood that there wss but Ii de to
be made cut Of the Foreign Catholic question.
Threatening issues not with the Pope, but with
monster Aborionizn, weT, made up. Know
Nothingism was crushed out bstweeu the upper
nrd neither mill stone leaving but 8 fragment
here and there to agitsts in the State elections
Another canvass is coming on and another sgi.
tation INST be gotten Up another furOTs lust be
raised More blood and thunder stories
more danger more dreadful forebOdings-
must be distributed over the country, deceive the
ignorant and sarm the unwary TIE Patriot seems
equal to the emergency. Its last issue has an ar
ticle commencing When our fOreiRthers hsd
successfully fought the last battle Of the revOlu-
ton, they entered on the work Of establishing
government, the chief tject of which was to &C.
cure the bleszin Of liberty to ourselves end cUR
PoeTERIrY. Upon the native born soDs of the
soi-ths pogtority Of the sons Of the fires of &c
dsvolves this duty, says the Patriot Having
thus, in solemn and impressive manner, initiated
the idea, it then rolls out its big WOrds, after tie
following fashion:
"a vast tide of immigration from abroad, is in-
undstiug our land
Three CT four millions Of this alien horde and
their descendants, are now scattered from one end
of the land to the other; most of them, through
the corruption Of the baot-OOx and The deeper cor
TUption Of RatiSs allies, are erjoying ell the priv
leges and exercising eli the functions of the most
favored citizenship. In them already reposes one
sixth Of the sovereign power of the government;
they are controlling cur elections; they are filing
our Offices; they are elevstDg men to power who
cultivate their friendship, who are dependent for
place, upon their favor, and who dstter and iawn
and pauder 10 their false pre- JUDGES and their anar
chical ideas Of liberty; ttey are perm eating every
section Of the country; they entering into and
COrruptiug the very sources OF the sovereign vii;
they are thwsrting the honest and patriotic aim Of
the founders Of our Union; they are exciting the
sectional feelings Of the county 10 q still deeper
and more irrecOnCilable hostility" &c Sc, ad
igtiaitttm.
OF tie Democratic party it says, it is now de-
bsuohed. sp5 is rapidly passing into state Of
thorough corruption and generalization" It then
makes the issue and presents it to the people as
follows:
TIE issue presses itself upon tie native masses
Of the RepubliC whether they will assert their 30
cred right Of efgoverument, or suffer the sceptre
to pRss into the hands Of strangers, aliens in
habit lie education ard 10 blood; whether we shall
attempt 70 preserve the legacy which the vsloT,
and the seli-iorgettng devotion Of our ancestors
secured TO ourselves and our p0Sterity or
permit it to be sgusndered upon az igngble IN
grateful multitude OF foreign seris. This ia the
question now prOpounded to the people OF Ten
nessee: will you allow The worse than mIschievous
doctrine, Blen suffrage and alien rule TO iasten
Itself upon toe vesy vItss Of your native laud2"
What dreadful state of nffars we lave got our.
selVss into, to be sure. "a vast tide Of emigration
in,rndatiag our land Thrss or four millions
Of this alien horde and their descendants are here,
[many of them in Nashville placed upon On equal
ity with otbee white people, They are allowed
to vote, and some of them to bold oficesl (Ahi
there's the ru'D What 8 pity that any Of them
should hold Office, when there are so many good
Know Nothings who are OUT Of businessl
What an u1inviting future the Patriot presents
The party in power belong to tie Dutch, and are
carrying the country to certain ruiul The great
blessings guaranteed to ourselves and our posterty
will not Be preserved There ia not libertye ouph
for Us al, and the foreigners are dividing it with
usl viii no one get excited for the Patrios2-