Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-07-01
Democratic Know Nothings.

The Democratic press in most parts Of the
country assals the mysterious order OF Know
Nothings with merciess severity, charging them
with bitter hatred towards foreigners, and with
Whether this secret association really entertains
such principles is more than we can say. Here
is an extract from the N. Y. National Democrat
of the 18th ult., which we particularly recon-
all over the Union:
s'As for the Irish vote, we care nothing for it,
if it cannot be given to us conscentiously. We
do not want it if it has to be bought. We spurn
it if it has to be solicited We are perfectly
willing to let it 90, s'horse, foot and dragons.
We shall rejoice from the bottom of our soul to
get rid at once of the Negroes and the Irish, and
see them quartered in the arms of those who
seem, from their appetites and habits, so ex
quistely adapted for such embraces. Wethank
God that we have lived to see through the hollow
pretensions of those aliens who fancy themselves
'better citizens" than ourselves. And we will
not play the hypocrite sufficiently to say, that
we think them, as a mass worthy of the privileges
they here enjoy, or that we deem them fit and
capable to sit in the places Of trust and emolu-
ment that of right belong to our countrymen.
If we could be so complaisant, the writings OF
such men as Doheny, Bishop Hughes, McMasters,
&c., their ll-concealed arrogance and their half
hidden hostility to rational liberty and republican
institutions, would be sufficient to awake us
from our dream of romance, and disgust us into
keen sense Of the painful reality. Honestly
speaking, we believe that the Democratic party
will never become worthy of it's noble principles,
Il
wholly alienates itself from all foreign influences
There are, of course, exceptions to all general
rules, and we are here and there acquainted
with Irishmen, whose hearts are sound, and
whose judgments honorable. But, as body,
the Irish are always insincere, always corrupt,
always ungrateful, bigoted, and despotic. They
are unfit for freedom, and cannot properly APP
preciate it. Their sense Of equality is nothing
but an intense selfshness, and their sense of
justice, that which pays most for the most per-
fdy. From such elements of mischief, we say
with the Ritual, Good Lord delivers US as well
as the Democratic party"
The conclusion of the article is extremely
significant. The editor is certainly rabid
Native, and if Nativism means Know Nothingism,
he must have advanced to the sublime and in
effable DEGREES of this occult association:
sWe respectfully submit that we prefer our
own countrymen for the public Offices of the city,
State and nation, and shall consistently refuse
to support. for any public position, gentleman
Of foreign birth, as long as we can find native
born citizen as capable Of filing the place, and
willing to accept it.
We presume the True National Democrat will
be forthwith read out of the party by the Wash
ngton Union. The only circumstance that can
possibly preserve it from political excommunica-
lion is its position as the solitary administration
champion in New York-the Evening Post being
abolition mad, and the National Democrat being
he organ of the Hard. But whether placed
lnder the ban or not, the journal in question
las manifested an independence perfectly as
;onishing in Locofoco sheet. Like most new
oroselytes, however, it pushes its zeal beyond
discretion. The rankest native will hardly be
Wiling to endorse the sweeping denunciation of
he Irish contained in the article we have quoted
But be this as it may, it is worthy of remark
hat a leading Democratic sheet has voluntarily
the Irish vote! Certainly after this,
We may expect that political regeneration is
1t hand. -..