Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-06-17

The American party, notwithstanding the
abuse and misrepresentation with which 1t was
assailed, was riumphantly sustained by the people
st The llot-bOx.-PatriOt Of Wednesday,
And how was this wonderful triumph accomplish
ed? The Know Nothing bullies seized upon the
registers Of voters, with view of preventing all
but their own friends from placing their names upon
the lists The Washington Union presents the fol-
lowing statement on that subject:
Among the omissions Of the telegraph, in its mar
rative of recent events at New Orleans, was that OF
stating an apparently efficient cause for the SUD
denness Of the movement Of the Vigilance Commute
That cause is nov pretty freely disclosed by the
papers received by mail An announcement IN the
BIlgsin, which we transfer TO our columns, shows
that the Registers lists Of voters had been seized
as on three previous occasions, evidently with the
intention Of allowing the name Of no person 70 oe
placed upon them, except such as should vote &C
cording to the interests Of the parties who had
seized them. This last act, added to the unusual
number Of assassinations committed for a day or
two previous seems to have been the exciting cause
in determining the Committee to carry out their
purposes by demonstration Of force
The Bulletins statement is as follows:
The evils in the meanwhile kept constantly aug
menting and about q week or ten days before the
last election the people were Mortified at the murders
which we're almost nightly perpetrated; and as
the brutaties were visited almost exclusively upon
Germans and Irish, the inference became strong
that thew we're committed for the sake of intimidat
ing them, and thus keeping them away from the
pollg on tie day Of election. This became the
settled conviction Of the community, and Is almost
universally believed at the came time, nobody
supposed for an instant that any respectable or
honest man who considered himself as belong
ing to the party gave the least counenanee
70 these crimes Within g week or ten days Of
that election, if we remember rightly, some eight
or ten murders were committed! These things
being So and there being no prospect OF deyerance
from these atrocious aud laWless DEEDS movement
vas few days ago set on foot by men Of all par
ties to bring out men for the city government who
should nos owe their election TO the rOwdy cut
throat influence The measure became amazingly
popular, and everything was progressing hnely,
when the community was again shocked by the
perpetration of some three four deeds Of blood,
one man being taken from his bed and assasslnated
The old game Of intimidation again beiertd 10 De
commencing. On Wednesday, last understand,
sbers of persons DeHt TO Register their order
to make themselves qualified UofeTs, and found eroOd
at the Office to preUent thtm from gatHiHg admutaHee
When we remember, in addition to these facts
that out Of p 600 registered voters only about four
thousand votes were polled in the mayors election,
we nav form some idea of the means by which the
Know Nothing party secured the election Of their
candidate The Patriot makes this victory the sub
ject Of unbounded exultation. Il was accomplished
by violence and intimidation according to the es-
tablished rules of the Know Nothing party, and we
ought not to be surprised that the organs Of that
party rejoice in the success of a system by which
alone their triumphs have been obtained. Any
other party would feel ashamed Of triumph gained
by such dishonest means