The Yazoo City weekly Whig., 1854-08-18
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she mysterious pa pn IS Know Nothings
4 originated Ii New s ork about yeaE ago, and
has swept over the country like an avalanche, car
rying before it old party land-marlSa, giving the
final quietus to oldpartzans and foreign usurpers,
IN manner 80 eHectual that al look ga with q
mazement at the potency Of its operations. e has
been asserted and it IS the popular belief, that the
Know Nothings is Native American party and
RehgiousIy opposed to tho Roman Catholic faith.
This IS an erroneous opinion. From what we un-
derstand Of the sentiments and articles 81 faith
and praefice Of the new order their principles are
based upon higher platform than the mere fac
tious opposition to any religion Or set Of men.
They are as strenuously opposed to abuses Of
american origin as those practiced by foreigners.
The Abolition party Of New York, il we under
stand their sentiments, are forever prescribed #
hIr Seward don't belieue i, let him run for Con-
slble q hisnative town, and he viii find it out.
Nh. Greely knows it, and be and Roman Catho.
Iie paper, Bishop Hughes organ, have advised
len blowers to keep quiet as the new party is
ella 1t present. that IS, they must lie low
eIs do when the simmoon sweeps the des-
ert. Ask Col. Benton if he thinks the Know
Nothings are more opposed to foreigners than to
hinself-they beat him the other day in ST. Louis
BY a large majority. He may write his own obit-
uary in the last volume Of his Thirty Years, for
he is now the deadest great man living. a few
weeks ago an intelligent Englishman in Troy, IT,
:, not six months in this country, conversed with
us about the Know Nothings, and to our surprise
said if it were possible for him to get an admit
tance into their order when he became naturaIiz-
ed, he would be one of them--for he considered
the party the saviours Of their country, and if
foreigners wanted safe asylum for themselves
and families, where they were protected in their
rights and property it was as much their interest
as Native Americans to keep the government free
from despotic influences He said that an Irish
man of Troy had told him that there was always
concert of action between the foreigners of Troy,
Albany and New York in elections, and they vot-
ed as Bishop Hughes directed. Now, win any
sensible man, be he Catholic or Protestant, Ger
man or Englishman object to an organization that
meets these secret Vaccinations of man and a
party protesting allegiance temporal as well as
spiritual to foreign power on their own ground.
As we understand the Know Nothings they only
out Jesuit Jesuitism The Jesuits have been bar
ished two or three times from Roman Catholic
France. They have been expelled from Spain
and even Rome itself, but the order was so strong
that in spite of King and Pope they could not be
put down. They have overspread our country
with the net work of their willy influences, and
shall we fear to oppose them on their own grounds?
When did the Romish Church abate one iota
ofits extravagant assumptions of temporal powers
from the time when the Popes minions put their
feet upon Kings necls and made them hold their
stirrup bile they mounted their horses. At this
time the Bishop Of Missouri has pronounced an
interdiet against the Church Of st. Louis because
the Dioces win not give him up the property Of
the Church. The quarrel has been going on for
a year, and the Pope had the impudence to send
over Bedeni to compromise matters in question
Of property between an American Bishop and
American citizensl It is not Roman Catholic
Religion that we object o--it is Roman Catholic
politics. We give below card from the New
York Express which is as we understand an ex-
ponent of the views of the new party in regard
to the Catholics.
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