The true Democrat., 1854-10-11
Facts for the Know-Nothdngs.

The Washington Sentinel says truly that every Know Nothing in the land ought to ap- ply copy ot the census returns to his head, and keep it there for about two hours. At the expiration of that time he will feel the effects of the application. His respiration will be- come more easy, his pulse will gradually sub- side into regular movement, his eyes will lose their blood-shot expression and his feverish im- agination will no longer he haunted by terrible specters of the Pope, the Devil, and the cele- : brated Lady of Babylon. We know of no medicine half so efficacious, and if any gentle man in our neighborhood feels the symptoms, we advise him to use the census poultice at once It will reduce the inflammation of the brain, and relieve the patient immediately.
 The Sentinel then adds:
 A great deal of Balaam is vented upon the subject of Roman Catholic encroachments- Here the census poultice may be used with ad- vantage again. In 185O there were 38OOO places of worship in the United States. Of that number, more than 36, 800 were Protestant churches. Poor Protestant churches! into what an awful strait you have fallen! There is about the same reason in the loud cry so often made about foreign CTS in the U. s. custom houses- The number is positively insignificant. From statistics published in the Washington Union, we learn that the number of foreigners in the custom houses, the postoffice, the foreign and nome departments, amount to just jour hundred and one, in the entire United States! What a terrible sight it would be if these four hundred men were to rise up and march against the capital. These are only few of the facts which the Know-Nothngs might study with advantage. But these are enough for the pre- sent. They will teach sensible men, that the frotestant religion aLd the freedom of Amer- can people Is not yet in any very great danger from foreign Roman Catholic influence.
 In conclusion, we have only to express our unbounded surprise that any democrat who pretends to the possession of brain, should loln m thls complaint as to the foreign influence In our elections. The foreign vote is nearly unanimous Tn favor of the democratic party, and the North-Atlantic States is sometimes sufficient to carry the day. That the whgs should be anxious to disfranchse them is not singular; but that democrats should be caught by so clumsy contrivance can only be account ed for by the fact that some men were born imitators, and that they will die in the bus- ness. We want these Know-Nothing demo- crats to look at their own argument, as it stands when printed and reduced to logical form. It is simply this:
 1O'SAOA 'OoS 10 AAO"iiy uiAcauAuAOOo III ldVOl of the democratic party.
 The foreign vote is dangerous to our liberties
 Therefore it follows, as matter of course, that the democratic party is dangerous to our liberties and ought to be destroyed
 Excellent logic for whig But any democrat who argues after this fashion is not only Know Nothing now, but he never aoiN De anything else. No democrat can object to the foreign influence in our elections without regularly admitting that he has all his lifetime been sustaining a party which is unworthy of support, for the very obvious reason that his influence and the foreign influence have been uniformly ererted on the same side. Any reaecting man mustsee that democrat who suffers himself to be betrayed into this absurd course of argument, is very rapidly, though unconsciously, turning himself into donkey. We have no doubt but few democrats will be caught in this trap, notwith- standing the fact that the Know Nothings have uniformly opposed the democratic candidates for the Mayoraities in every city where they have been organized. To those democrats who want to try the experiment, we have only to say" Go IN, LEMONS, AND GET SQUEEZED. D