Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-09-06
From Lynchburg Semiweekly Virginian.1
Democracy vs.. the Know Nethings.

| FROM lIyncnOuE5 CcIul-h0chly fuBlulbu
/ Democracy vs. the Know Nethings.
i 1t is evident that the rise of the Know Moth
ngs causes very serions apprehensions to the
Democratic Party Scarcely a journal which
follows the banner of the Brigadier has failed to
denounce them, in terms quite harsh enough
for the deserts of the most abandoned political
knaves. This feeling of insecurity and alarm,
giving birth to one ofresentment, has begun to
cial vengeance. The Postmaster at Washing
ton, for no better reason than membership of
the new party, dismissed from Office one of his
clerks, and it is said that this is but premonito-
ry of an intent to apply the lash generally, and
turn out all office holders who are Know
Nothings, or who give countenance to them.
We are not surprised that the administration
exhibits this hostile temper towards the Order
The foreign vote in the northern States has so
often beer omnipolent 20 carry democrats into
office, and it has so long been the policy of hat
| party to secure it that it is no wonder that an
organization, Que of whose alleged aims is to
exclude all foreigners from Office, should ex-
cite the alarm and anger of the party which
chershes them. Foreigners naturally become
democrats, for the most part. The vast MAORI
| ty of them are not only in the bhndest igno-
rance ofthe principles of our Institutions, but,
coming as they do from the lower walks of life
they are too ignorant to learn them. Finding
themselves easily invested with the franchises
of citizens, and, Ivy no unusual blunder, sup
posingthat the reverse ofwrong is right they
hasten to identify themselves with that party
which holds out the prospect of greatest license.
The very name Of Democracy is thus decOy
aud has in this way proved !ailsman of pow
er-because suggestive to the foreign mind of
ideas which find no place in the actual nature
Of our institutions. 1t is because the demo
cratic party is in this way the sink into which
foreign ignorance with its prodigous weight OF
! members unwittinGly gravitates, that their Off
Gals and presses from the first declared war
| upon the Know Nothings. who would establish
this as a principle, that at least one generation
is not too long to require foreigner to be in
pupilage that he may become Americanizeed
sufficiently to hold olfce.-Iadekaec lacrymae
The South Side Democrat, of the 23d inst,
attempts to justify the conduct of the Washing
ton proscriber, and makes a furious assault up
on the Richmond Wing, for an article in which
bis act was censured. We extract the follow
ing paragraph of its TRADE:
"No one, whose eyes are not blinded and un-
derstaLding stultiGed by party subservience,
can tail TO perceive that there IS as much con
nection between prescribing Know Nothings,
and prescribing men for their reli -iuuS belief,
as between denOuncing Benedict Arnold, be-
cause he was Il traitor, and Charles Carol, the
signer ofthe Declaration Of Independence, be-
cause he was a Catholic It's wrong to pro-
scribe man for his religion, because no sys-
tenn of eligious belief wars with our political
institutions. 1t is right to prescribe Know
Nothing. because every destructive article of
his faith is at war with the fundamental princi-
pies of our Government"
Ne have notable specimen of the effects Of
party subserviency, when the designs Of the
Presidents subaltern are vindicated by such
reasonings. So Ear as we are acquainted with
the Know-NothinsS, their tenetS may subsist
with Democracy in every article of faith, and
every object except the spos. They constitute
q separate party upon collateral questions TO
those which divide the great parties of the !
country. To make utilization with them cause
Of removal from Office, is to confess an appre-
hension of the effect they are destined to pro-
duce. 1t is TO prescribe a man for his opinion |
upon political questions in no wise Immediate |
ly connected with party issues. Tie South /
Side Democrat argues that the President post
master at Washington was right in ejecting a I
Know Nothing clerk, because the Know Moth
ing Mayor Of Philadelphia would "proscribe all |
foreigners" 1t is right to do wrong, because
wrong is donel
"In the exercise ofour privilege as Ameri-
can voters; we will elect no foreigner to office"
say the Know Nothings. "Tben no Know
Nothing shall hold Office under the Federal
Government" says the Brigadier. "Thals
right" cros the South Side Democrat-"a
Know Nnothing is no better than a Benedict
Arnold"
We have no particular sympathy with the
Know Nothings, and no nothing certainly of
their organization; but we confess that the ago
ny into which their rise has thrown certain
Democratic authorities gives rs some hope that
their mission may be good.
THE MILLER DELUSlON.