Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-11-27

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was = violent, shortiiyod, sporadic affair. There
were mobs assassinatons, and condagrations but
the thing Was oyerdone, and, with the election Of
Mayor Harper, ofNew York, the political achieve
ments Of that native American party ended. There
was reaction, and reaction so great that General
Scott In 1852 made clean retraction of his native
American principles of ls4l This proves ccnclu'
sively that this new American party has been ere
Ated since the last Presidential election, and 70 the
offspring of the dissolution Of the Wing party IN
1852, -and the destruction of the Democratic party
In 1868 and 1854, through the demorallzing spoils
policy of the administration.
From the waste and loose materials, then, OF the
two old defunct political parties the KnowN othings
ike Minerya from the brain Of Jove, have sprung into
life full grown and full armed. Such appointments
as Soue, the llibustering French refugee, to Span
and Belmont, the Jewish agent Of the Roths-
childs, to the Hague; and such things as the
impudent church mission of the Pope's Nuncio,
Bedini, to this country, have, il is true, given
cost and spirit to the Know-N Nothing movement
but they are not the origin Of this dreadful party
As well might we say that the interference, some
years ago, (under the Influences of Seward Of
Archbishop Hughes in the affairs Of our common
schools gave birth TO this widespread order Of the
Know othings. No. The mission of Bedini and
the movements Of the Catholic hierarchy to obtain
the monopoly of their church property in the Uni
ted States In the hands Of the bishops, have given
powerful impetus to the Know Nothings; but
their origin as great party begins with the dsso-
hutton Of the old Wing and Democratic parties
II il very natural that the native American re-
publican sentiment Of the whole country should
rise in opposition to the creation Of foreign land
cd aristocracy in these States. That the ABSORB
ton of the Catholic church property absolutely, In
fee simple by the bishops, would result in such an
arstocracy, Is very likely The idea Is consistent
with the proverbid weakness Of human nature.
But the spirited opposition Of the Catholic laity to
this project, at Buffalo, and in the late exciting
case ut Hartford and elsewhere shows that the
body Of the Catholics Of the United States re-
publicans and Americans at heart, in spite Of the
Pope, his Nuncio, and his Bishops We see some
thing Of this arstocratic tendency of our Catholic
preates in the Protestant Episcopal and Prcsbyte-
Tian churches. Hence their communicates are
comparatively small; while, throughout the Union
the Methodists and Baptists whose church govern
ments are thoroughly republican and American,
are counted by millions. In view of this predomi-
nant American spirit, shared in by Catholics and
Protestants, depend upon it perseverance, on the
part of the Catholic bishops in this country to Be-
cure the exclusive possession Of their church pro-
perty, will result in rupture which they can never
repair. The Catholic hierarchy should allow a
broad margin between republicanism in Mexico
and democracy in these United States.
1t Is against the 81 'eek1ng Cath0nc hierarchy
and their Baltimor, New York Councils, that
the religious hostillt Of the Nothings is d.
rccted. It is against the corrupt political bucks
tiers who traffic in the votes of ignorant foreigners,
newly invested with the honors of citizenship, that
the Know-Nothngs are operating as league OF
the native-born. We have no fears that respecta-
BILE adopted citizens, or Catholics, identifying them
selves with the people, the institutions and the in
terests Of this country and its laws, are to be
hunted down and extermnated by the Know
Nothings
In political view we recognise in this Know
Nothing movement something Of positive and inn
mediate good to the country. We recognise in it
the practical overthrow of the Seward disunon
alliance Of the North, and Of the imbecile spoils
coalition at Washington It breaks up the plan Of
a northern anti-savery crusade against the South +;
1t demolshes the despotism of those disgusting
Democratic Baltimore conventions it removes the
rubbish and clears the track for a new order Of
things in 1856. Mr.. Wise may think differently.
His opinions and those of the cabinet organ at
Washington, and of Horace Greeley, seem to be
the same--that the Known othings are detesta-
BILE party, and that their projects are full of mis-
chief to Seward and his allies, and to the admins
tration and its spoilsmen. So be it. Read the
manifesto of Mr. Wise. 1t presents us, in connex-
lon with the cabinet and Seward organs, new
political conjunction. The Virginia Democracy,
the administration, and the Seward alliance. Singu
lar coalition. Curious state Of things.