Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-10-11
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
KNOW-NOTHINGISM A REVIVAL OF OLD
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FEDERALlSM-A SIRlklNG PAHALLEL.
The veterans in political strife who canremenlhcr
the PARTISAN contests which signaized the close of
the last and the commencement of the present cen
tury who participated in the canvass which resulted
in the election of Thomas Jefferson to the presldei-
al chair must be struck with the similarity OF the
political issues now and then involved in public
! troverSy. After the lapse of halt IA century, the
democracy calle upon to combat the same prln-
ciplcs and measures which old Federalism for bret
period toiSted upon the country, In 1873 the high
toned black-cockade adherents of Adams and flamil-
ton completely in the ascendency IN all BRAN
ches of the government They ruled the country
with an iron sway. 1t was cmphatIcaliy " reign OF
terror for the democracy. No liberal republican
measure could find its way to the satutebook, and
! such as had been put there underGen Washington
were erased from it, Animated by bitter hoStil-
! ity to foreigners, because when they landed here
! they generally attached Themselves to the liberal
part, the naturalization laws extended to four
! teen years. An alien law passed, empowerlnS
! the President to order from the country any for
eigner he might judge to be untavoraby disposed to
! our institutions and government.
In order to render these measures more effective,
and as theirneccsSary accompaniment statute was
made furnishing every person with fine and lmpris-
oElnent at the discretion of the court, who should
print and publish thing dsrespectfIl of the Presi
dent and other high officers of the government Such
We're the act>of federalism in 1898. The democracy
were aroused at these alarming entertainments upon
popular liberty, which threatened its total subverSion,
and rallied enthusiastically around the standard of
jefferson presidential candidate to succeed Mr..
Adams. The contest that followed memorable
one in history of this government. The ederaiists
make desperate struggle. They endeavored to arouse
the demon oiregious bgotry and intolerance against
Mr. Jefferson, by representing him an intld,l.
SO successful were they in this, that after he was
chosen it is wellknown fact that piOUs federal
women in New England concealed their Bibles be-
cause they thought Mr. Jefferson would order them
to be burned.
The first fruits of the democratic Jcfiersonan tri-
umfh change in the naturalization laws from
fourteen to five years and the repeal of the alien
and scdton statutes. The success decisive
one, and for fifty years but little has been heard of
those measures upon which put the seal of
probation. Federalism has undergone many forms
and changes since then-has been known bya dozen
different aiiascsbut has dared to bring into
prominent notice the measures it advocated during
the presidency of the elder Adams until in 1854
to tie establishment Of the whole country secret
organization has sprung up, whose members
principally federal wings, which proposes to fasten
again upon the country the hi 5l-handed anti-repub-
lican policy of IDS, and thus again place i'll peril
the principles Of civil and religious freedom.
The know-rothng wings desire entire
repeal of the naturalization laws being in this par
ticuar more ultra than their predecessors of John
Adams notorcty, who were willing foreigners should
enjoy the rights of suffrage when they had been
here fourteen years. Being hostile to emigrants
coming to this country of freedom, proclaimng
they to it, the Bunt!ine conSpirator$
in favor of even more stringent alien law than
that passed in 1898. They also opposed to free
dom of speech, and from the mob violence which
they have used in Chicago, New Albany, and other
places, to prevent the uttcring of sentiments I'M
palatable to them, there is every believe,
if ntrustcd with power, they would re-enact the
old sedtion statute. Besides the adoption of these
old federal principles of John Adanlss admniStra-
ton, the Euntiinites have incorporated into their
creed other tcnets hateful the friends of free
dom, that not even the adherents of Adams and
Hamilton dare urge them upon the country-we al
lule to their dsfranchscment of ell naturaized cit
liens from holding office, and the establishment by
q rnti a. he rSt yard
union of Church and State, and the commence
ment of persecution for conscience sake. These
ideas borrowed from the despotisns in Europe
the product of the dark ages-it is sought to
der popular in the only free and enlightened repub-
lie upon earth. From the parallel we have drawn
between old federalism and know-nothng whiggery
it will be seen that they are essentially the
thing In their tactics and mode of warfare there is
also striking resemblance. Old federalism tried
its best to identify democracy with irleligon and in
fidelity, and know nohngisn, that did not sue
coed, accuses it of proclivity to Catholicism The
aim of both was to excite against the only party
that contends manfuy for the principle of religious
liberation the prejudice and bgotry Of ecclesiastical
Sccts.
as the people were told in 1900 that it the demo-
cracy triumphed Bibles were to be burned SO they
informed that the same organization is in
league with the Pope of Rome destroy the liber-
ties of the country Can it be possible that story
at foolish and so false will be credited by a
single human being nhabting the territory between
Maine and California? Will not the democracy
initiating their glorious ancestry of the days of JEFF
ferson, once more rally in their strength and put
down the Buntne enemies of civil and religious IL
berty? The same odous measures against which
fathers contended during the reign of terror
in 1898 again subjects of discussion 1t has been
great many years since the democratic masses had
the powerful incentive for action The fun
damental principles of their faith, upon which the
government has hitherto been administered, are at
tackled. But fear the result. The Buntlin-
fes will give way when their lines charged by the
democracy, always victorious in contest for princi
pie. Their midnight club-rooms will be closed their
dens broken up; their inmates dispersed. Civil and
religious liberty has too many friends in the land of
Washington and Jeffcrson-who will contend for it.
even by taking up arms, if necessary-to allow it to
be destroyed by a secret society. Ncver-never |
while the and deeds of revolutionary !
fathers revered, shall religious test" be set
up in this country, and such course of policy be
pursued would it to lose its proud appclla-
ton of the "asylum of the oppressed"
EFFECTS OF COFFEE DR.. Mosely observes, in his
Treatise Coffee, that the great of the arti-
Gle in France is supposed to have abated the prevail
ence of the gravel. In the French colonies, where
coffee is more used than in the English as we'll as
in Turkey, where it is the principal beverage, not
only the gravel, but the govt scarcely known.
Du For relates, extraordinary instance of the
effects Of coffee in govt, the case of Mr.. Deyeran
who was attacked with the govt at the age Of 25
years. and had it severely till he upwards of fif-
ty, with chalk stones in the joints of his hands and
feet but for four years preceding the account of his