The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-08

From the Cneinnau Enquirer
"KNOW-NOTHiNGiSM" AT WAR WITH THE PRIMA
RY INSTITUTIONS OF THE REPUBLIC AND THE
WRITINGS OF OUR EVOLUTIONARY sAGES AND
PATRIOTS.
As have before observed the whole fabric of know
nothingsm Is built upon ialsehood Every member in
the first oath which be takes in the council that he
will upon all subjects connected with the order when
Intercepted in relation thereto even in courts of Justice
This infamous obligation is accompanied with the shock
ing and blasphemons declaration $50 help Cod Every
member being Obliged TO deny knowledge the
OF the order its places OF meeting the unintated
il follows matter of course that every member is
roped in by lying The assertion made by the Judge Ad
vocae Of every know-nohing council in his address To
members that it formed for the preservation of
American liberty" is alsehood On the contrary, it is
endeayorng to destroy one OF lis most mpor ant features
freedom of conscience The declaration that the leaders
OF the fraternity anything about the Protestant re
gion false they have the inside of church for
years and many OF them practically and theoretically
nfdes In order to show the hostility of know-nothng
ism TO the primary democratic institutions of the country
and also to the views of our revolutionary fathers in
vite attention TO the following extracts commencing as
follows
Among the assigned by the signcrs of the
aration of Independence which mpeled them to separa
ton from the mother country is the following:
lie king George has endeavored prevent the pop
uaton OF these States for that purpose obstrucng the
laws for naturalization of foreigners refusing to pass
othcfS 10 encourage tneif fulhratUn miner.
The know-nothngs, like old King George opposed
the naturalization laws and would throw obstacles in
the way Of emigration to this country They therefore,
repudiac the Declaration of Independence In the federal
constitution it is enacted No religious shall be
made qualification for Office under the United States
government The knownothings are in favor of making
religious test" by rendering all Catholics ineligible to
Office. They therefore opposed to the constitution of
the United States made by Washington, Madison, Hamil-
ton their coemporaries of the days that tried mems
SOULS
The seventh section of the first article of the constitution
of the State of Ohio says
All persons have mutual and indeeasibIe right to
worship Almighty God according the dictates of their
own conscience No person shall be compelled to attend
erect support any place of worship or maintain any
form of worship against his consent and preference
shall be given by law to any religious society Nor shall
any interference with the rights of conscience be permitted
No RELIGIOUS TEST SHALL BE REQUIRED AS A
QUALIFICATION FOR OFFICE; shall any person
be incompetent to be witness account of his religious
belief Religion, morality, and knowledge however, being
essential good government it be the duty Of the
general assembly pass suitable laws protect
religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its
own mode ofpublic worship
From the above it will be that the Buntine
spators opposed to that other fundamental lawour
State consttuon--whch adopted, after animated
discussion, by immense majority of the people The
know-nothngs in favor of making upon the Catho
csa class of Of whom the Father Of his Country,
in letter addressed to them December 1882 used the fol-
lowing language
GAS mankind become more liberal, they will be more
apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves
worthy members of the community equally entitled TO
the protection of civil government hope ever TO
America among the foremost nations in examples Justice
and lberality. And presume that your eowcitizens
will not forget the patriotic part you took in the
pshment of their revolution, and the establishment of
their government the important assistance they received
from nation in which the Roman Catholic religion pro-
fessed'- Writings Of Washington VOL XII, page l7s.
The knownothng conspators insist that birth and sect
shall be made tests of public confidence and refuse to sup
port any who is not American and opposed TO the
Catholic religion In doing they take issue with Thomas
Jefferson the author of the Declaration of Independence
the most farseeng statesman America has producedwho
the author of the following true and noble sentiment
"Erey person has equal right to The honor and conf
dence Of his fow-cisens resulting not from birth but from
| his actions, and their sense Of them
jefferson also said that the only qualifications for Office
should be honesty capacity and fidelity the constitution
which equivalent to saying that all know-nothngs
unworthy of office, since, far from being faithful to the
constitution they endeavoring to nulfy, have
SEEM that provision Of it which declares that religious
test shall ever be made for any public trust
Having thus shown that know nohingsm is opposed to
the Declaration Of Independence the constitution of the
United States TO the constitution of the State of Ohio to
the writings of Washington and Jefferson will prove its
antagonsm TO the principles of the democratic party The
9Th resolution Of the national platform of the democratic
party adopted at Baltimore in June 1852, reads fol-
lows
"s. That the liberal principles imboded by Jefferson in
the Declaration Of Independence and sanctioned in the
constitution which make the land of liberty and the
asylum of the oppressed of every nation have been
cardinal principles in the democratic faith and every
tempt to abrdge the privilege of becoming citizens and the
of soil among ought to be resisted with the
spirit which swept the alien and sedon laws from our
! statute books"
part Of the 4h resolution says that erery citizen has
right 10 demand and insist upon equality Of rights and
prirtleges which is directly opposed to the idea of the
know-nothings, who would draw line of distinction be-
tween native and naturazed citizens unavorabe to the
latter
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
From the Ohio Statesman.
H. II. JOHNSON ATEp--The democratic cougres-