The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-05-31
THE OLD MPosToR WITH A NEW NAME.

THE OLD IMPOSTOR WITH NEW NAME.
Ten years ago the native-AmeIican party revived
under circumstances which promised to secure it orm-
dabe and lasting organization. For lew years il -four
sed in great power but having started in riot and
in bloodshed and maintained by sweeping prescription
of all those who differed from it gradually lost its ad
herents and is now almost numbered smong the things
that were The debris of this organization however has
yet been dsspated Indeed while there are intolerance
and bigotry and demagoguis in the land there always
is enough material to originate and to keep alive for
short space of time, something like native-American
party 1t win have its paroxysms of success it will even
be strong enough occasionally defeat those who stand
upon great truths and whose integrity is often regarded
necessary to the preservation Of free institutions
MISUNDERSTANDING after having been greatly reduced
in numbers and in circumstances has recently emerged
into new life under The appeation Of the
rejuvenated combination is "knownothngism adver
tsenent Of ignorance which, in this age should repel in
stead Of attracting support We believe those who belong
it justify the name because it is making Of mystery
sort Of merit, and because it enables them TO deny all
that may be imputed them This is not certainly the
manifest way Of approaching the voters Of this country
One thing however is beyond doubt-and that is that the
objects OF the party essentially natvcAmerican.
oics-hostility 70 notwithstanding to all hold
ing Office who are Catholics or adopted ctzens-and
other ideas no less patriotic liberal and magnanimous
1t Is curious contemplate the rice and fall Of eombna
ton based upon such ethics as these There Is not man
who cln read or who think or who can hear others
read that does prove himself whenever he foolish
enough be caught by such tricks these that in this
country native American party is Of the un
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danger Of the Mahomedan Church az wc arc Of the Cath
oic Church, Of any other sect school whether It
breaches orthodoxy or heorodoxy Men 20 into these
now-nothng7 clubs Tor pAstimc for curiosity aud in
nearly every less because they anything about
them than because they nothing There Is however
stain upon all such parties that should keep every Amer
lean citizen who appreciates his rights and his blessings
away from them, It is tho boast Of people that they
generous and just and there few who know Why
they should be generous and just hope all do who
would be Inundated Il detected in the o. giving
way to groundess suspicious and foolish jealousies
The know-nothing7 party is really @know-nothing7
party II II expects to maintain itself upon such platform
that have referred Our word for it. It's leaders
who happen % be an,Cathoic win osner the inside
Of tavern than church. and quite ready 70 let for
eigners vote IL they win vote their dopromisng to
them II they wil all the Offices which the "know-noh-
ing philosophy primarily refuses to them Let mar
this idea to single neghborhood Take Catholic
family, for instance what man, whether native foreign
born would that family, doubtless we-behavcd and
wel-sustained his own degraded into Interior
What would not rcpe with high scorn The idea oil
suspccting that hmily2 What would hesitate to
take such neighbor by the hand, and invite him 70 his
house, TIE bigot might, and the fool might but not
sensible and right-minded man.
But there is wider and a healthier view. No Amer-
clnand those who attach themselves to thee one-iden
creeds are always loudly Americanoan find warrant
for proscrpve and ntoloran pa les ia our laws Our
written laws all again, such organizations and TIE
common lr which is not written law has not an element
that Is not repugnant to any shade Of nativsm. Orr
Declaration Of Independence federal constitution our
State constitutions whole policy in States and in Ter
ritories s against il and yet those who submit 10 i,
foies Of know-nothingsm would be indignant II told
they were not good citizens and were hostile TO the cons
tuition and the laws
We presume "know nothing is alo a man who re-
members nothing lie reoollect the adopea c,i-
who probably fought his fathers or his sssnd-
fathers side in the revolution and other warwho raye
to the wounded and the dying the aid Of friend or WHO
shared with he living the glory Of tbe victory seh
man deoerves 20 be nknow nothing
Besides how long, Mr. Know Nothing was il since your
father to this country Some years eyosome ren
erations Rgoyou win say He may have been the odc
nhabitant he may be the newest but he followed
after the Indians he was himself foreigner and pray
friend what right have you foreigners descendant 70
prosecute those who like him. choose to settle among rs
You ought to be ashamed Of yourself
We never knew any man who was not phariseo or q
bigot that did no, retire from netveAmercansm soon