The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-17
Cincinnati Enquirer
THE REGARD OF THE KNOw-NoTHINGS FOR THE
AMERICAN FLAG

The infamous oaths and obligations of the know-noth
ing eonspraors proaned by the moekry of the can
ddate graspng in his hand and holding il alof the star
spanged banner If there anything the associa
tons surrounding that glorious standard that gave the least
countenance aid TO know-nohingsm. Nothing can be
more out Of place inconsistent with the ayowed objects
and enets Of the Buntne organizations than invocation
10 the flag of the stripes and stars Az its sight glorious
"reminiscences connected with the history of this republic
and forming large volume in the chronicles Of the past
every page OF which is eloquent in condemnation OF the
principles Of the secret faction rush upon the mind
How the knownothngs dare TO appeal 10 this emblem is
utterly beyond comprehension and is act OF almost
paraeed audseity. What appeal TO that flag which is
everywhere recognised il floats proudly the and
over the land as the banner Of civil and religious free
domof equality Of political rghtsas the embl of the
asylum OF the oppressed from whatever quarter OF the
world they may cometo countenance religious bigoty
and political intolerance, which would make country
one OF persecution TO the emgrant rather than refuge
from tyranny, and entirely subvert ng-cheshed policy
DO not the Bunnites know that their principles
trely aniagonstical and al with the constitution
that they nulers of that instrument which iorbids
what they sanction-that they endeav orng attain
antAmerican objecstbat they desecrae the national
flag when they unro the upon which is emblazon-
ed the stars and stripes and seek take shelter under it
in their uuholy crusade against religious freedom and POI
litical equality
If they wholly destitute OF any national pat
rotc eelingf there in their hearts the least spark
Of gratitude, they would invoke that standard of free
DOM which the gallant Lafayette Dekalb Steuben Pulas
XII, Montgomery and host of Others Of foreign birth
sisted and maintain flying in the face of lis
mics the badge of prescription of all who like the
distinguished patriots above named born upon the
other side of the Atlantic but whose love of liberty led
them cross its tempestuous waters to strike blow in its
behalf
Any other standard in the world would he appro-
pirate a Buntline than the which Dekab bore
alo at the bloody field of Camden until he rddlcd
with bullets which Montgomery waved almost in the cit
adel of Quebec and Lafayette carried when he led the at
tack upon the redoubt at Yorktown, emblem that the
countrmen of those leaders, when they shores
shall be denied share in heritage Of civil and religious
freedom \ of shame ought to prevent the know
notngs from using o Rg for such purposes when they
engaged in midnight plotting against institutions.
The American standard is fit emblem OF nation of free
men, who have avowed and maintained republican sent
in the face Of the world but is entirely unsuited and
desecrated when it is employed by band of conspra
tors whose aims and objects odous that they seek 10
hide them from the light OF day and the principles of
whose organization unworthy of Americans
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