Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-07-26
To Nnturalizea citlzens.

"The times change and men change with the
times" On the 25th Of July, 1855, Know Moth
iugism was rampant IL almost every civil district
of Tennessee there was a secret council. Nothing
In history 30 much resembles that organization as
the JacObin Clubs which rulei France during the
reign of Terror. The Jacobin Climb worked the
Guillotine from morning till night. The best blood
of France was poured out to appease the maddened
passions of these infuristed conspirators The
Know Nothing conspirators had double object They
desired to crush the Democratic party, and they
wished to ostracise natural zsd fellowcitizens
because fliihful to their just instincts, they had
been s,eadfast in their support of the Demo-
cratic party. In midnight council they plotted
against the constitutional rights Of the Foreign
born citizen. Their objec: was TO place a ban
upon him and drive him ANONYMOUSLY from the
polls. Thsy wanted 10 tear dowa and desccrnte
the affairs at which he worshipped They denied
him the right of worshpping God according TO the
dictates of his own conscience. They wen! even
further: they swore to ignore him in the social
circle. He was not to be recognized He was TO
suffer in his business This was in July, 1855
Well, the ides of August came The mask was
torn from the immaculate Sam and Mokanua-ike
he stood before the world in all his hileou3 def5rm-
ity. Once more the Democracy swept the State
and another glorious victory was written upon her
banner. The flag of Know Nothingism, fashioned at
midnight when darkness and sleep had settled upon
the world, trailed the ground and vas covered with
the duet Of disaster and defeat The Councils we're
broken up and the dark lantern was exlinguishei
forever. Who will forget the fierce denunoistions
IL, I Ia Iol
at the countrymea of DEKALB AMI LAFAYETTE?
This country was to be made too ''HoT " Cor them.
Through tie streets ofNlshvills carried banner
on which was painted Foreigner suffering the
death of felon on tae gaows. Every iniignity
which could be devised was offered. At Louisville
an Infatuated mob drove them from the polls, butch
cred them in cold blood and burned their houses to
the ground. In Baltimore the same scenes were
enacted. But the times have changed Theae
same men, now, would not only protect the For
eigner in mis- rights here but they would cross the
seas and make war for him Feow-ciizcns
of Foreign birth, do you believe them sincere
VIII ycu forget that great Party who in the hour of
danger stood by Your side ard Stoutly maintained
your rights? The Democracy have heretofore pro-
teeted and sustained you in your just rights. They
will be as true to you in the future as they have
been il the past. If they have been true to you,
will you not be true to them? You are not I'M
grateful 1t was because the Constitution guaran-
tied you civil and religious rights; because they
had not forgotten that LAFAYETTE poured out his
blood at BrandyWine, and the heroic DEKALB fell
bleeding on the field of Camden, that Democracy
stood by your side. And it is because they did
stand by your side in the hour of calamity, when
your enemies would have wrested from you these
glorious rights, that you NOW will be f4ithfuto
your friends.
FellOw-citizens OF Foreign birth! the Democracy
expects every man of you to do his duty on the
foarth Of August