New-York daily tribune., 1854-07-14
AN ECCENTRIC KNOw-NOTHING.
rrrrR To ORgsTEs A. BROwNsON, LII. d.
From The CItizeI

From The Citizen
DR. BRowxsoS In your Quarterly Rs1ep, ana In inc
current number thereof you think tit to nickname mo
" Radical mage 346.D Hereupon shall have some re-
marks to make presently bxt in the meantime, apply
mvself TO the extraordinary article In which that nick
named is applied entitled " Native Americansm.
When YOU. Doctor take up Native Americsnism, OF
ANYTHING else you it into the ground when you
were radical" you preached as yourself with confri-
tiou admit preached in tho nsme OF the gospel tne
rnost darnpable radcasm. lSee your Rsoer, January
ls4s page iO3) AT the time when you were Quaker
YOU must have been the most exaggerated q broador'
When you were Baptist you thought Mao must %
saved hydropahicay by punsing the whole world inio
cold water you undoubtedly seeded from the Mornon'
III in enunerating your an,eccdent religions, you
can act me right because Joseph Smith did not 60 r
enough and now that you sCstholic you are peusf
Catholic than your Bishop, aad outpontn the rope
Native Americsnism also, you have fairly sn.
bark ed ia that cause you drive to romantic lengths amer
very peculiar fashion and it Is certain ia yeur 9snos W
grow into philosophy almost into religion, ana 70 wesf
snch arrange aspects and affect 10 deep s'gninca
that the knowigst Know Nothing in the land whi ae'
know il when he sees II. 49,.
Nothing reader that you expoaadins precisely ss
principle and that so broad and clear a. nv
Of doubt oa your genuine Nstivsm. You say ,
American .Dd 70 ssr ,ls ~ M noas
o Europe"
,.,oa when hospitality opens ts dsers %
n vii sxd 20 md HEN forgetting rnss ey
49,, safar1 bora if,As sad psscseA
- 49,. 10 sss she Of s of iss upon ~
sA .sIy bring ourselves TO feel that they have ths
So i,st so national political ans thar pc
,es<ee By natural boyr eitsens ..ff..
do notA now indeed that any foreigner ever claimed
,.,,rsIizatiou az a natural right not an % nfs
. 1nous reyoutionist." Neither have been informed
what are those airs becoming in native citizen, Wsch
another citizen may not assume. When have foreign
ers lby which term you mean adopted cizens esxen
the management of your ssirsl Or wherein y the ad
vice OF one citizen admissible and the advice OF another
not unless indeed the citizen have more sense OF
knowledge than the Others distinction which not Per-
haps unsrersaly ia favor Of the native. - l,.I
You do not however, stop with general and vague
Know Nothing obssrv Of this sort Yoa undertsks
to define what unfYrtanatey, the laws OF your couafy
have left onsissss the precise powers and ptv
ezes which na.urslxed citizen II to exercse' h'
They nsy vote s freely s<serns % thr sse
make themselves saf psrfrsns sc
srur - heated scon end envenoned eonsCs&
poiesl psrss Tao b soters ss a1arasse sgra
calm sweet, and phosophic serenity II seenas ycg
prescribed 20 adopted citsenshey are 70 watisn
own bouses to be canvssssdf they have ~ op,nsos -
any public queston they not TO presume % vnsr~ -
bat having selected tkeir ticket they arc 70 Ss,,
.hsir FRANCHISE with certain nodertrcn sna ps5rn
r.ssr7e hoidng themselves slsof Scn ness 40 ~
kesyug :tsnssiyss seel esvss ~ 'ss