Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-08-26
DAILY IIRGiNIiN.
SATURDAY MORNING AUG. %. 1854.
Democracy va the Know Moth IS


Ii is evident thai the rise the Know Moth
ings causes very serious apprehensions to the
Democratic Party. Scarcely journal which
follows the banner nf the Brigadier has failed to
denouncn them. in terms quite harsh enough far
the deserts of the most abandoned political
knaves- This feeling Of insecurity and alarm,
giving birth TO one Of resentment, has begun 10
exhibit itself in the usual method, namely. Off
cial vengeance. The Post master at Washing
ton. for no better reason than membership cf tie
new party dismissed from efhce Of his clerks.
and IL is said that this is but premonitory & an
infant to apply the lash generally. and turn out
all Office holders who are Know Nothings.or who
give conference Ia hem.
We are not surprised that the ADAM 'ration
e1'ioi4s shis hostile temper toward the Ord.f :.
The fsreign vote in the northe >tates has so
often been omnipotent to carry demoe = into
Office, al il has long been the policy ~ Tat
party to secure il. that il is no wonder that an
organization, ene Of whose alleged aims is TO ex-
clude all foreigners flom Office, should excite the
alarm and anger of the patty which oheri she's
them.
Foreigners naturally become democrats, for
the most part. The vast majority of them ARE
not only in tae b adest Is norahce Of the primo,
pies of onr institutions, but, o1m.Lg they do
from the lower walks NJ lie, they are tvo ,gna-
rant 70 learn them. Finding themselves easily
invested with the franchises = citivens, and bv
unusual b'under, suppospg that lhe roverse
ef wong is right. hey hasten TO ide1 ify them
selves win hat party which holds ont the pros
peot of greatest license. The very nant Of De
mocraoy isfhus a deooy-and has in this
proved t--,isInan If power--because suggestive
10 the foreign mind of ideas which find no raoe
in the a. al aatnre of our institutions IL l.
because the democratic party is in this way The
sink into which foreian ignorance VIII its pro-
digious weight OF members nnwittin, " ,,ray-
tates, that their officials and presses from the
first declared open war upon the Know Nothings,
who would establislitnsa prlsclpie. Z It at least
one generation II not too long to require for
eignet 70 be in pupage TINT he LAY become
Americanized sufficiently to hold oi6ce.-Indt
haze !dcrymde
The South Side Democrat ,of the Did inst, at
temptr to Justify the conduct of the Washington
pr'scrber and makes furious ssault upon tie
Richmond Wing. for an article in which his net
wss censured. We extract the following para
graph of Is TRADE
mo one, whose eyes are not blinded and UNI
Or landing siutiied by party subsersence, cnn
fail 20 perceive that tlpge is a. much eonnccuon
between prescribing Know Nothings, and pro-
soribing uen io- their religious belief as between
demo seeing Benedict Arnold hecnuse he was IA
traitor and Charles Carol, the signer Of the De
olaraion of Independence, because h was "A
Catholic. 1t Is wrong 20 prescribe man for his
religion, because ne system oi religious belief
wars will politi al institutions. 1t is right 10
prescribe Know Nothing. because every Dies
tructiye article Of his faith Is at war with the
fundamental principles Of cur Government"
We ha' a notab.a specimen Of the effects
patty saAservisnoy, when the doagps Of
the President. sabaltern yndcated by s.ea
reasonings. SO far as we are acquainted with
the Know Nothing, their tenets mny suN ~
with Democracy in every article of faith, aud
every object except the spois. They cor
shtute a separate party upon collateral ques-
tons to those winch divide the great parties
of the country. To make Utilization with them
cause of removal from Office, is 10 confess an mp
prehension Of the eff I thev are destined to pro-
duce. 1t is to prescribe a man for his orinion
upon political questions in no wise Immediate,
connected with party issues. Tie south Side
Democfhi Argues nat me President pn. ,ster
at WashiLs,o whs right =. cjecting Know
Nothing clerk, because .he Know No.hing May
Q. of Philadelphia would ''prosoribe all foreign
ers." Itis right to do wrong. because wrong is
done
In the exercise of cur privilege as America.
voters, win elect foreigner to olaoe" nv
the Know Nothngs. 9Th n no Know Notning
shall hold office under the oderal Government"
SAYS the Brigadier. mats right cries the
South Side Democrat-"a Know Nathinr j. no
better than Benedi Il Arnold
We have no particular sympathy with the
Know NothLss, md 10 eohieg certainly of
Their organization; but we confess that the sonv
into whioh tLeir rise has thrown certain Demo
cratic authorities gives some hope that their
mission may be for good.