Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-07-16

General QUARLEs, the present Opposition Can
didate for Congress- is a KaOw Nothing trebly
sworn; he advocated those cd GUS ana prOscriptive
principles of his party which flooded the streets of
louisville, New Orleans and Baltimore with the
blood of our adopted citizens and applied the torch
to their dwellings. lie is now adding insult to in
jury by endeavOring to wheede the foreigners into
his support. he is asking cur nauraized citizens
to help elect him to Congress that he may pass laws
to prescribe them AID drive them with ignominy
from the ballot-box; or expel them from the coun-
try as ''naf starved hungry paupers" and criminals
as he was fond of calling them in his speeches.
Let us see what Gen. QUARLEs said Of foreigners
ia his published speech Of 1867
"Cut off This foreign horde" said Gen. QUAELEs,
'until they understand our form Of government,
from DER ballol-5ox, and you apply the axe to the
root of this disease of aboliouism. Is it not time
for Americans TO say TO the scaTls Of half starD:d
hungry paEUers we will govern our own household
q But let us look t. the class and character OF
the population thus annually voNITED FORTH By
decGyed and saperGnnuated Europe and Asia up6n our
free and hapgy country daily, gen hourly. OF the
whole number of pauPers in the United States IN
1906 43l were natives-and 6S, o3o we're OF Tor
eign birlh-that of the whole number OF persons
convicted Of crimes-12 S55 were n9veS and Is, 59l
our native population is seven times greater than
the foreign; and it is stated on high authority, that
ia last year 1851 there imported into the nj
ted States pa, 900 criminals AMI paupers Is our
country thusto be made second Van Delmans Land?
paGrer colony for the despotiss ofEurope?
Is there no danger from this vast influx Cf foreign
ers into our country-totaly Ignorant of our intri
cate and nicely balanced powers Of government,
who never exercised the right Of suffrage at home.
'sWe are placed felow-countrymen Jet'Ossz tcO
immense VaVes Of foreign population, the one cast
eff by the trembling monarehs of Europe; aHd the
other from the lettering desPoism Of China beneath
a0hich our Liberties may Be buried and OUerThslmsd I'M
less we form ourselves in serried columns around
our Constitution and Union," Sc.
"But will not the Same public sentiment that
will elect Congress to pass law extending the
period of Naturalization also elect Legislature in
the several States, that will pass law that no un-
naturalized foreigner ehould vote? Then If a for
eigner lands here can he vote until he shall have
been here Il or 81 years. Congress in its wisdom
may choose to fix it. / have heard it urged that
some of the States may do this aud others may not
true-but those States who refuse to pass such a
law would soon be by these hordss Of pquPers
and criminals and would be forced in self defense to
to adopt it"
Here 1t will be seen that the pOlitest terms used
by General QUARLEs in reference to our foreign
population, were those in which he denounced
them as "hondss Of pagpsrs and criminals" who
we're ready 10 overwhem our liberties. He speaks
of their having bean Z" vomied fort" upon US, as
something vile, putrid and Offensive" hungry
and half starved, ignorant and viciOus,-as dan
gerous to our institutions and wholly unit to be
recognized as citizens. Now, he and his party,
are fattering snd csjoling them, and using all the
arts they are masters Of to win their votes.
! This Is adding insult to injury. They denounced
them as felons, and roboing them of the rights of
men would have reduced them to the condition Of
slaves They now ask them to cringe at their feet
| like dogs and lick the hand that smote them.