Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-07-04
COMMUNICATION.

AN APOLOGY FOR STEWART COUNTY.
GEsTLENEN:-In looking over the GAINESVILLE
Chronicle of the 18th of June, we find the following
characteristic specimen of Know Nothingism, which
we beg space in your columns to notice briefly:
90 In the good American county of Robertson the
Grand Jury at the late term of the Circuit Court
found not one true bill after diigent Investigation
Step down into Democratic Stewart and see the diff
ference-the contrast is striking Wherever you find
the greatest number of grown up men who are forced
TO sign the x instead Of their names, there you will
find Democrats thickest and crime most rife This
Is as true as preaching and to men of the fact
speaks volumes and to honest men conveys a warning
that should make them think well before they ioin
or remain with such party"
Coming from paper advocating as best it can the
fallen fragments of the self-styled American party,
the homely paragraph should not be overlooked by
the patriotic people of Tennessee. 1t is the smoke
of an old hidden fire. that has been wrapped up in
the bosom of federalism which has escaped thro' the
nOstrils of Know Nothing editor, and corroborates
the truth that there has since the formation of
our constitution, been party opposed to the exer-
else of the right of suffrage by every free white
male inhsbitant over the age of twenty-onc years,
and that such is the tendency of the Know Nothing
party is plain. And let him who doubts it read their
Osths and ritual and platform of principles as put
forth in its palmy days of 1855, making war on the
poor down-trodden alien who has sought shelter
from European tyranny and want, under the broad
and ample folds of the glorious stars and stripes of
American independence, and upon the Roman Cath
Ole, who chooses to annex himself to that church,
and worship God according to the dictates of his
own conscience, right guaranteed to him by the
1t IL.
mObs at Louisville New Orleans, Baltimore and
Washington, where armed Know Nothing DULLES
tried to take possession of the polls, and keep De-
mOcratie citizens from voting. And then as cap
stone, let him read the above effort of the Know
Nothing editor, endeavoring to thrust the Democrat
&c party by saying that wherever you find the great
est number of grown up men, who are forced to
sign the y instead of their Names there you will
find Democrats thickest and crime most rife" and
he can but know the truth of what we write .'This
is true as preaching and to men of sense the fact
speaks volumes, and to honest men CONVEYS a warn
ing that should make them think well before they
join or remain with such party"
We wish to add one more word of apology for
Democratic Stewart, that is, that however many
there are within her borders that cannet write they
as honest and patriotic as any on EARTH and are
too intelligent to be enrapped into the support of the
wreck of party, as void of principle and full of
corruption as the Know Nothing party is, and that
they have always done their part to demoish feder-
alism, in whatever shape it has presented ITSELF
And with their present standard bearers they are
encouraged to persevere in the work. and that they
will be found at the polls in August next to make
their mark the utter demolition and determination
of the last vestige of the Know Nothing party
STEWART.