New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-23

usske be likely to have taken the side OF Liquor
Prohibition, or Anti Slavery, or Womsn's
"Riehts, or Suffrage regardless of Color, when
"weGidi Would such 8 ope have ventured to
"sptak as we did in behalf of the ADt-Renters,
when everybody hereabouts was banded to
rhunt them down unheard Can you think it
"probable that, after wha! we have dared aud
.tndured, We are likely to be silenced nov by
",be cry that we are periling our influence ,"
But in fact calmer consideration might demon
strate that influence is not to be gained by chas-
ing after the last popular bubble nor lost BY
contrary course. He who seeks primarily poPu-
larity may be borne on to prosperity or place By
the popular current, but lie can never impel nor
guide that current. Only those who readily brave
public sentiment when it lie wrong can nationally
hope to exert real influence upon it.
No one can ever have taken THE TRIBUNE
with any expectation OF finding 1t an advocate or
fsyorer of any such movement as that designated
"Know Nothing" When NAtivism was ram
pant in this City and Philadelphia, ten years OF
more $50, we stood as its most determined an
taeonist. We have long been s!igmatiZet with
"SewaIdism," and have Lot sought to rePel the
charge. though We wear no mans livery and have
differed with Gov. Seward as pOiRtedly as with any
one else. 1t is enough for US TO know that those
who hate the idea Of human equality, and
seek to perpet1ate acknowledgements aud pro-
scriptons because of differences Of Race or
Greed or Color, are uniformly his adyersaries, to
ally us closely in sympathy with Gov. S., even
thou Oh we in some cases dissent from his views.
And now, if any would prefer to discontinue TIE
TRIBUNE because it is and must remain opposed
TO every measure or scheme Of prescription for
opinions sake, we beg them NOT to delay one
minute on our account We shall all live till it
ia our turn to die, whether we earn q living BY
making newspapers or by doing something else.
Meantime, let US look dispsssionatey at this
state of facts:
There are in this City, for example, some Ten
thousand Voters who have joined the various
lodges Of the secret order kaown as Know
'NothiDas Nearly all these are members either
of the Wing or the Democratic party aud most
Of them are active, aspiring politicians. These
have taken solemn Obligation to support and
vote for such candidates the superior Councils Of
the Order may nominate. la the face of these
obligations, these members attend the Primary
Meetings Of theirrespectiyep parties aud there help
to make nominations; there, too, they obtain
nominations when they can. Bat it is all
patent safe operation; they seem to be partisans
of Clark, or Bronson, or Seymour; but in secret
they are pledged to Ullmann and must violate
either their solemn oath rs members Of the Order
ct their honorable obligation as members OF the
Wing or the Democratic party who have chosen
to take part in selecting its candidates.
Know Nothing makes a rush for the Wing or
Democratic nomination for some Offices if he
gets it. he runs and with the help of she masked
brotherhood, msy be elected; but If he loses the
party nomination he opposes the party nominee
and gees in for his secret opponent, who is thus
elected. Is this fair play Is it doing as you
would be done by If d man should act thus in
his business, who could respect or trust him!
Mr.. Chsuncey shnfier. for example, has Sc
cured both the regular Tanmaby or Seymou and
the Know. Nothing nomination for Dissatisfaction
ney and naturally supposes his chance is good one
But his TamEany nomination has not yet been
ratified in County Meeting and it does not see
very likely that it will be ratified there unless by
juggle, since two-thirds of those who would nat
urally attend the County Meeting are of foreign
birth. In this category the aforesaid Mr. Shat
fer, in Know Nothing lodge on Saturday even
ing, requested all the Hhig KmOn NOthings to at
tend The Sch County Melting at Tammany and
Tatify his nomination. promising thai The Democrat
ic Kror. No,hings should do The same good turn for
The Hhig NOMINEES at The Broadway House ra.if-
eatOH.-We have this from one who saw and
heard, and in whose testimony we place implicit
confidence.
But again, Mr.. Henry d. johnson, the Soft
candidate for Register, is also KNOWN Nothing.
and was in attendance at one of their lodge meet
ines on Saturday evening. He there solicited the
support of his Know Nothing" brethren, but
received little or no laid and comfortable
"Order" having agreed TO support his Wing
rival who is also member. We presume there
fore, that Mr.. J. will abandon the Order. and
probably declare that he never belonged lit.
But v i'll tina. set him right with the party he has
consFired to defeat and Destroy
We ask rejecting, conscientious men to look at
this whole Know Nothing" conspiracy in the
light ofprinciple, honor and good faith, and Judge
whether it is not a cut-throat affair, which ought
to be resisted and exposed. Why should the
friends Of CLARK and Raymond support candidates
who are secretly pledged to Ullmann and Scrog.
gins
Under which king BezOnisul Speak de-
|