Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-10-27
Tho French Press on the Know. NOthIngs.
From lilo Paris Journal Ia Patio, mn Sent.

Know NOTHiNoisM IN TIE United STATEs.-POT
sOne months past il has rarely happened that q
steamer has NEriYed from the United States with.
out Bringing The news OF some Sanguinaly struggle
between tile Know NUthiugs and the Germans OF
Irish. 0uTTeaders will not probably be yeXed to
make acquaintance with the Know Nothing, tlOl
vanity Ullhe genus Yankee WHO has made his ap.
peaTaRce In the New world, under such deplora-
DlU nusnCtS.
The Know Nolhines do not date very Tar back,
they ate one Of The proGuctionsof Tie year 1854;
but judging from The impulses which they lave
given, and we even add with regret, the success
they have already attained IN the local and even
federal elections OF several cities onl States, II is
10 be hnpIehended lhat tliey will ultimately be-
come pnIty, II not respectable, at least mnuE.
tOnt, and with which The old parties have to
reckon, naHit ~
In phncple, aud, indeed, in fact, The Know
NOlhluts PR sent themselves a SECRET society, hlv!
ing lis modes Of initiation, lis preparatory eSs its
oalhs and is secrets TteC name even cUmes
hom q pirate oOntained in the oath extract
ed from tie novice, who pledges hmself TO know
noIlling IN Qnpos'lion TO the duty he owes to his
county" II Is unnecessary to add, that for This
association, as for oil others which seek secTeSy,
and aspire tu fOImh Stale within Stnte, the word
country always signifeslht society Of which the
initiated form u part. .
As to The spot in which this association origima.
luG CulUIh lNul uA llA ltuucIht
nothing positive is known. In taking into Consid-
Grafton, However, the ayOwed object that the new
association Proposed 10 itself, which Is 10 oppose
itself 10 the too IuUlle Naturalization Of Foreigners,
and 10 bui'd up dam Bgaulst tile torrent Ui emf
Igration which is pouring into The United States,
one Is led to trace dlsthut affinity between II and
n political party which erdtuYOTed some years
since 10 sustain itself underline lille OF the "Na.
tive American Association" aud which also
sought TO revive the old pTeiudices bgOnst foreign
eIs, protested against the laws Of naturalization,
and CndeavoTed ~ exclude from public employ,
mentpe sons VI foreign origin. Tie natives, not
having found amongst The mOsSeS sufficient sup
port, their association was compelled To dissolve
itself without having led 10 any appTeciHbIe IT,
suit.
The Know. NotIngs seem likely to succeed bet
teT than the natives, because they proceed more
SkilllulIy. In [inCU Of having candidates they
confue themselves TO throwing tile balance vi
their Influence OIL tle one side Ul those who OPP.
pear to lie the eOsl opposed 10 their Viswsj 0nd
thus Tessnng themselves 10 modest role, they
often IN fact decide The victory, as wus witnessed,
in 81. Louis in Missouri. TWAS OF tile election OI
o member OF Congress, ThOmaS u. Benton, a dis.
lingu'shed democrat, presented himself as eau
dLate; the public favor by which lie was SuTtoun-
led, aud the general supper, winch lie received
from Tie numerous German aud lush citizens oil
this State, seemed 10 assule his triumph, His II.
val was certain kemsll, man but little known,
Well, the Know Noibiugs declared against Ben.
ton, and in the bOllOl Kenneth obtained 6,26l
| votes, whilst RentOn only received 1904. Al
soon ns this result became known, 1t formed tile
signal fUT sullgulnuIy LattIe between the Know
NUlhngS OH one side aud the Irish aud GemailS on
tue other, which aid not terminate lOT couple oil
days. ~. ftart
Political principles appear to play bu. niDsig
nifiount part IN tile symbols OF tile Know NOllI'
ingsi en- TsvdHchs, evil passions, the feTcrst Of
winch is hatred against Tie Irish aud the Germans,
figure prominently. Haired Of Irish and Germans
has for cOTollary that Of Catholicism, pIOesSel by
The great mOjonIy of the emigIanls Of these two
nations, TOsuppTess Catholicism ia the Uni ed
Slaies and revive the old laws, which only per.
United Tue nnlufnl cation Of the Foreigners afleI
fourteen Yeas soiOuTn in the country such aIe tie
two principal arllcles--the only OLeS, in lacl-ds.
tinclly emunciHisd in the programme Of tue Know
NUlhiugs, such is tile end tow1EJs Which they all
vance, with The cool audaoItyand leTvityU which
tie seOtaIians Of former UgeS bgquealhed them tile
example, fef afr.a
Neither oftheSe two results, we entertain firm
hope, will lie nllOiued, for they constitute The lie
CATION Ufthe two principal elements Of tile moral
and material prosperity Of The United States. In
fact, religious liberty, in its largest acceptnliUn,
was tie staring point Of Tie formation OF lie AmtT.
lean confederation, whilst European emigration
was the first cause Of that great impulse Of eXer-
ton which has placed tue United States in the FIST
rank OF commercial nations. p n sAh
The Know NolhingS are tile hateful and short.
sighted pTotestntoI OF an ancient aud impotsilt
party about To vanish from the scene. The new
sectorans have mods themselves manifest BY riot
ing and Assassination. They will never succeed,
we trust, ior the honor Of the United Stules, IN
producing revolution. H
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