Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-10-31

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The careful, intelligent, and impartial
reader will not fail to mark, by portions
ofthe above, the main facts namely That
few persons were applying in the several
courts that "they were, generally speak
ing, we'll looking men - that Judge Bar
nard admonished them Of their response
bilities, and that witnesses were present,
and the applicants for naturalization were
qualified in the most solemn of religious
FORMS.
COLFAX AS a KNOW-NOTHING-
The Banner of Liberty, published in
New York, says that "an old Fenian
friend of that city has handed it the fol-
lowing from his scrap book for publication.
II is an abstract from one among the many
speeches delivered by Schuyler Colfax,
Radical candidate for Vice President, on
his return to Indiana from the National
Know-Nothing convention at Philadelphia,
in 1855"
HIS DESCRIPTION OF THE DUTCH
AND IRISH.
Mr.. COlfax says:
< "Some tell me that many
foreigners are intelligent; yes, intelligent.
How in the name of Almighty God can
they say it? Look at the Dutchman,
smoking his pipe, and if you can see ray
of intelligence in that dirty, idiotic face of
his, show it to me Look at that drunken,
bloated Irishman, with a rotgut whisky
bottle in his pocket and he drunk, swear
ing and reeling-show me in that polluted
face any spark of morality, intellect or
education. The idea is perfectly absurd !;
it is preposterous
We must change the laws of the land
and prevent these ignorant, degraded pau
pers here from voting and holding Office
They are set of unprincipled villains and
rufians, who congregate in and around our
large cities and villages, and live by steal
ing and begging from the Americans. Some
tell me they have rights. Some they have :
the right TO live under our laws and till
the soil and do as we bid. They are infe-
rior in intellect and intelligence to the
Americans, and they must and shall be put
down and Kept down, if it has to be at the
the point of the bayonet and with powder
and lead. There is no use talking min .
cingly, or of fearing results in regard to
the matter. A great cry has went up by
old liners about the foreigners being driven
away from the polls, and not being allowed
to vote. This, l suppose, is true in many
respects Would you have the American
citizen stand back, and let a bloated, red
yisaged, drunken brute Of an Irishman
vote instead of himself? See the wretch
as he approaches; his knees knocking, and
the slobber of tobacco running down his
jaw, and as he comes you hear him "hurra
for Democracy" and here he comes, fresh
from the bogs, just one year ago, and wants
to vote and because the boys cry, move
him." and he gets knocked down for i'm
pudence, great cry il made about it by
old line demagogues. Isay it is right-let
them stand back.
goi, Nea 600 o IoP oa-oI, ,ri1a-
mouthed, mullet-headed Dulchman coming
up Just from some hut in the Land of Krout,
with the loan of beer still sticking in his
horse-tail whiskers, and his breath SMELL
ing Of garlic and onions, enough to kill a
white man hundred yards, and before he
can say anything in the world but Demo-
GRAFT he must vote, and that vote counts az
much as yours or mine. This is Outragesus
ard abominable. These foreigners that
have carried elections for old liners will
have 10 learn their places. They have no
more right 10 vote than the brutes of the
field, and have not the sense of a good
Newfoundland dog and God knows were l
a candidate for any office, | would tell
these paupers and vagabonds, these vile,
dirty, filthy, degraded, idiotic foreigners, l
did not want their votes, and if ] ever am
candidate, / hope TO God | will never
get them"
Is GRANT a FRIEND OF THE
FOREIGNER:
If one wants evidence on this point,
let him read
ORDER No. II AGAINST THE JEWS"
GENERAL ORDER 10. 1.-THE Jews
as a class violating every regulation of
trade established by the Treasury De-
partment, also department orders, are
hereby expelled from the department,
within twenty-four hours from the res
ceipt Of this order by post commanders.
They will see that all this class Of peO-
pie are furnished with passes, and re-
quired to leave and any one returning
after such notification will be arrested
and held in confinement until an OppOr-
tunity occurs Of sending them out as
prisoners, unless furnished with permits
from these headquarters. Nopasses will
be given these people to visit headquar-
ters for the purpose of making personal
application for trade permits.
"By order of
"MAJ. GEN. GRANT"
Foreigners of whatever nation or re-
ligion, avoid Radicalsm. Sooner or later,
it will deceive you, and turn and rend
you in pieces. Your personal rights and
liberties are not safe in its power 1t
will not hesitate, when time and oppOr-
tunity offers, to make you the subjects of
general proscriptiVe class legislation
establish a State religion; and reinstate
over you a government as tyrannical and
oppressive in every feature, as those
from which you fed in the hope of po-
litical and religious liberty.