The daily union., 1854-12-16
THE NEW ORDER OF PRESCRIPTION AND INToI.-
FRANCE.


large number of anN Nebraska will take their seats in
The Congress who but for this order, could not have
elected If the conductors of the Tribune do not know
this fact they nothngs in reality If they viii
take inform themselves with regard to election
turns in Maine Michigan Ohio Indiana, Pennsy ana I
nois and Wisconsin say nothing of Massachusetts, and
New York they will see unless they blind bats,
that the pro-slauey reoorker do not control this new
party.-Maine Temperance Journal.
Some friend has sent us copy of the Maine Temper
Journal from which take the preceding paragraph
The Journal is evidently Maine-law and abolition |
paper with very strong proclves towards knownothing
ism 1t speaks therefore not without some knowledge OF
the workings of the order, and in our Judgment il
speaks truly The ansavery rather the abolition ele
ment does control the machinery of this order in the
whole North and ,9M control it while the order exists 1t
will be the directing power moreover in any movement
which the order may attempt to organize throughout the
Union This the natural and inevitable result which must
flow from the very character and composition of the order
1t is idle disguise it, and worse than idle to neglect in
practice The strength of know-nothingism is with the
wings and abolitionsts The democrats body recoi
from it almost instinctively The only State which it has
carried without open alliance with some other party is
the old federal State Of Massachusetts In that region it
enguphed the great both Of the abotonsts and the
wings In other States of the North it nomnsed the abo
lon candidates again. and there many localities
in which the whig candidate the abolition candidate and
the Mainelaw candidate and the person We
do not to deny that democrats in some instances,
have joined the ORDER and that whigs in some in
stances have opposed it. We have repeatedly noticed in
terms of respect and commendaton those patriotic
among political opponents who have had the mani-
ness resist this subject the influence of their
sociaes and the tendencies of their party They have
fallen in good cause, and have gathered honor
from defeat But they exceptions to general fact
As general thing, the know-nothng lodges contain
majority of whgs and the democrats are in weak mi
nority The abolition element is of their marked fea-
lures and the abolitioniss better organization
subserve their purposes. Yet southern in some in
stances have Joined the order and it threatens at this
ment establish itself in the heart Of the South. We can
not believe that it will succeed there We cannot under
stand how any southern tolerate secret society
to act upon politics. still less comprehend how he
can Join band of affiliated societies whose headquarters
are in New England and whose prime are abol-
tioniss We should think that knowing the existence of
such association, he would feel that the very ground
mined beneath him, and that he exposed to
stan danger which he powcress to avert We should
think the whole South would rise up and for
bid the planting within its borders of this masked bat
terry of mischief The order is unsued to every southern
mode of thought action. 1t is and cowardly
organization which avoids the light 1t is attempt at
Capitalization in the perlous in its char
acter than any previous attempt which this country has
1t proposes to act in body through the Union
1t its plans in darkness and seeks to concentrate
its energies to strike always with their combined
force Some of the newspapers who favor declare that
has no recognised organs but operates exclusively by
the machinery of its lodges Others advise that the order
shall have candidate for President till after election and
that after having secured know-nohing electors those
electors shall fix upon President of the order.
Everything is to be in the dark public journals
public meetings, public speeches Individual suffrage
is to be practically annihated and the order must vote
one ticket under the duress of solemn OATH The ecuri
ties of free speech free presses and free voting to be
wholly swept away The very representative character Of
the government be changed We to be governed
practically by invisible power which conceals its dag
ger until it strikes its blow.
OF course we do believe that these results win hap
pen because we do believe that the order will be oe-
rated in this country We refer only to its mischievous
tendencies Its objects do not notice. because
human being tell what how many these objects may
come TO be- If the organization strikes at Catholics
it may strike the Methodists the Baptsts to-morroc
I
If il processes only to fear foreigners it may i'm
body distinctly in its creed upon State rights and
direct its efforts against the admission of another
slave State Its very existence practical attack the
constitution, and it cannot live and act under free gov
Either the government must to be what il
is or else the order perish There is very little doubt
which of these results will happen The order is sure to
die and that speedily But it will have done great deal
of evil 1t will have aided in the growth Of vicious pn-
cipes and will have introduced into public life who
are fit to be there 1t will have killed with its
braces great many worthy but indscreet No pub
tic have any connexion with the order without
feeling the connexon hereafter milestone about his
neck We the people to let it alone, whatever may
be their views either upon Catholicism immigration
There abuse in this country which cannot be correct
ed through legitimate and constitutional channels And
there is no abuse which this order attack that is hall
| so monstrous as itself
/ We pleased to learn from the St Louis Republican
that the health of the Hon. John G. Miller representative
from Missouri is rapidly improving and that he will soon
| be in his seat.