Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-11-04
Sam.uei.

Il Inc enquirer OF yesterday was exceedingly iugu
! brious. 1t whines most pitifuy over the wrong
which that poor prosecuted innocent john Bell re
/ ceives at the hands of the wicked Ardlcnche. tt
read the GOleful lamentations of the Enquirer onC
| would naturally suppose that John Bell was the
| bosom friend of Andrew Jackson. the boon com
panion of James X. Polk, the peculiar champion of
the foreigner, and the advocate of civil and reli
| giors freedom. But John Bell Is neither. We stat
ed in the AUGldnche on Monday fact notorious In
Tennessee, that he sigalized himself in this State
! by his violent abuse of Gen. jackson. The great
| man under whose broad mantle he was sheltered
for years the subject of his most bitter inVec-
tive. John Bell did not hesitate to deny Gen. Jack
/ son every noble attribute of character, and to as
cribe many of his official acts TO the basest and
most unworty motives. He also with the malevo-
| lenee of the devil, hunted James X. Polk to the
grave. There has not been contest in Tennessee
| for thirty years in which the Democracy has not
had to encounter the ennity of John Bell. Jackson
| and Polk were the especial objects of his
hate. and it requires extraordinary impudence to
deny facts which are notorious and incontrovert-
able
The Enquirer deals in all sorts of paIaver when it
undertakes to defend John Bell from the charge OF
Know Nothingism. To read its hypocritical cant
one would naturally suppose that John Bell not
only the friend of jackson and Polk but equally the
friend of the naturalized citizen Junius said TO
Zeno, II will not can you a liar. but will prove
you one" We not only call John Bell an enemy to
the foreigner but we will prove him to be one
Here are a few eloquent extracts" from his Knox
vile speech:
l will not stop to inquire who provoked the she'd
ding of blood Louisville and other places but this
will say. that whatever party may have given the
provoeatiOn. 1T Is BETTER THAT A LITTLE
BLOOD SHOULD SPRINKLE THE PAYMENTS
AND SIDEWALKS OF OUR CITIES now than that
their streets should be drenched in blood hereafter;
that the highways and open fields of our country
should drink up the blood of its citizens slain in
deadly conflict. between armed bands-it may be
!.
the side and foreigners supported by native fac
tiOnists on the other. And this will be our future
unless now and before it is too late we erect certain
barriers 90 arrest the torrent of aliens and strang
ers. which threatens in a few years more to flood
the whole land"
am not member of the Order, but feel that
at heart true to the great and leading prin-
ciples of the party could be formally in
itiated into one of its councils.
| have said that the Wing banner no longer floats
the stand in political assemblies in Tennessee
That is true. but it has given place to another
sign under which, trust all true and conservative
patriots of both the old parties will rally and make
it equally glorious and more triumphant than the
which was supplanted; and, that it may never
have to be lowered or resign it's place to another
less significant of patriotic purposes and stern de
termination TO maintain the national character and
institutions against all who would change the
or undermine the other. 1t is in this trust, and
with this hope--the hope that the members of the
new party, now but springing into existence, will
eventually succeed in forming and maintaining
great national and truly conservative party on all
questions that present myself before this assembly,
arrayed under new standard acting with new
associates, and in the support of new though not
Inconsistent principles, after doing battle for twenty
years under the old Wing banner.
If the American party shall succeed in cutting off
the perennial supply of fresh recruits to the Demo-
cratic standard, derived from the annual influx of
the half million of foreigners or more, the Demo-
cratic leaders may still find that they will have to
fight their future battles with diminished chances of
success. But whatever alliances the Democrats
may form with foreigners and Roman Catholics,
however the leaders may fret and rage with what
ever obstinacy of purpose they may seek to resist
or crush the American party, they will fail to de-
feat the great end and fundamental policy of that
party" SKA - s.-. co
In view of such overwhelming and damnable
proof that John Bell was the enemy of Jackson
and Polk and the foreigner, astounGed at the
article which appeared in the Enquirer yesserday-
Avalanche.