The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-09-20
While the unknown polcy-for in reality

j aware OF the real OBJECT, when we presume L
i be secret as solemnly observed as the myste
/ ries of free masonry-of the know nothings oc
! cupies SO much of the public attention, and
: portion of the Pierce newspapers are filled wit
e bitter invectives against Americans, and at TIL
same time lauding all foreigners to the skies
i with the view Of "blarneving" them out c
: their votes, it is we'll enough to hear what tn
i naturalised citizens have to say on the subjec
: The editor of the Orleanian, native of Water
+ ford, and one of the oldest and most patriot
n Irishmen in Louisiana, man who has on al
It occasions espoused the cause and interests c
S his native country and countrymen, speakin!
: in recent number of his paper of the knoy
+ nothings, says that it can neither be disputed
t nor disguised-and we have often sorrowed a
its manifestation--that the most uproarious, Oh
5 election occasions, are men new to the land
who, either instigated by others, of whom the,
! are the tools, or inflated with their erroneous
ideas of liberty, proceed to greater lengths anc
assume to more privileges than the circumspec
and retiring Of their countrymen, resident, per
haps, in the Union for ten fifteen, twenty, thir
ty, or more years-aye, presume to dictate ano
decide, and not unfrequently usurp an author
ity which even persons born on the soil are del
icate in claiming. We hope that citizens Of
Irish birth will refrain from either originating
associations or connecting themselves with op-
f,,oc OH
cret and political, which, instead of being at all
eficacious, will only make more wide the sepa-
ration between them and Americans-between
the people Of common country, where the
ship should exist. If the feeling now widely
prevalent amongst numbers of our citizens by
adoption is concurred in by all, the necessity
for having recourse to the passage of regis
try law, will be obviated; for, amongst the
majority, the conclusion has been come to of
not rendering their suf1rages until more ami
cable understanding and harmonious friend
ship prevail
The above remarks of naturalised citizen;
form great contrast to the abuse heaped upon
the know nothings by the Pierce office holders
and the Pierce organs.
We give below the true cause of the opposi-
ton manifested by certain papers to the know
notbings. 1t is nothing less than that the ed
itors applied to be initiated into the mysteries
of the order, and being found unworthy, were
black balled Ever afterwards, as is the case
with men refused by the masons or odd fell
lows, the applicants turn about and open their
walls of wrath upon the associations with which
they vainly tried to affiliate There is no Jour
nal in the country that denounces the know
1othngs in such abusive terms as the Cincn-
1atl Enquirer, the Pierce organ in Ohio. Not
number of that sheet appears without contain
ng articles teeming with bitter invectives and
ow abuse of the know nothings and Americans.
This opposition Of the editor it was thought
arose from the fact that he was Pierce-nom-
nee for the Legislature, and was striving to get .
he Irish and German vote, by heapng abuse
m the Americans. But the know nothings
lave drawn the curtain and publicly hold the
enquirer man Cup to nature Read the fol-
owing documents:
'MoRGAN LODGE No. 7, I.O.KK's,)
Cincinnati, August 81; 1854. c
AT meeting of this lodge, held this even s
lg, 1t was unanimously !;
> Resolved, That all the proceedings of this
'dge, on the application of Hiram II. Robin
On (edltor of the Enquirer) for membership. '
furnished the Daily Commercial for publ "
alton "
"Copy from Record-On the 10th dav Of u
lay 1854 the following application was re-
10 the officers of Morgan Lodge, No. 7, K. b
A's-Hiram H. Robinson, age 10, editor of
re enquirer, asks to become member of vonr '
ody,, pledges himself to abide by it's rules and a
agulatons' T
'W hlch application was, after considerable 81
unanimously rejected, =,
"MAY 19.-It having been announced to tba j"
'dge that Hiram II. Robinson, editor Of tbe h
inquirer, who had been heretofore reipctod is
ad threatened to make application for nen,, tt
ersblp to lodge in New Orleans. if was ~ ~
'o.on unanimously resolved that the secreta- .,
De instructed to telegraph to all the LODGES q: :"
''' VI Vic leJectlOn OF the said Hi
I'm II. Robinson; and on the Esd dav Of limo
'e following dispatch was received from tho -,
rand secretary Of louisiana: u
I'll. II Robinson rejected in all the ]odoas &C
New orleans: Z. R. H., grand sec'y,7 m
July 1.-THE following dispatch was 70 .,
lived from Tippecanoe Lodge, No. 3, of Indi- =,
1apolis: -''~''' e
r ci; +. Robinson, editor the Enquirer Ia
Cincinnati, is proposed for membership. Is h
e all right?" - ~
',To which the secretary was instructed to ~ ~
ply, H; H. Robinson rejected here and ~ ~ ~ ~
Il the lodges of New Orleans. III, secv I M b
''To which dispatch reply was had bacy tbo pr
'me day: H, H. Robinson rejected and n rne ic
&c Sent to grand lodge, and also to natioas]
dge. P r o n".lonal
II hereby certify the above to be correct ~ B
es from minutes. w q n ullse, ', CO. w
Attest. H., sec-y." p''' T. u,
The Cincinnati Enquirer cannot DENY tbe cor in
ctness of the above statements, and tho NH -,
can well imagine that the hostility dsn,aved or
wards the know nothings by number ofotb- br
editors, had its origin in manner similar -
at of Mr.. Robinson. -: