Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-08-24
SPIRIT OF TIE xoRHue PRESS

SkA0&1 VI IA8 AV&UlQ8 kR6SS.
The Union discusses secret societies, using
detailed account Of the organization of the
Know Nothings taken from the Cincinnati
Enqsirer, holding that their leaders are sin.
lister men who
"Desire office, which they cannot obtain
from the votes Of freemen, who canvass
their merits, and act with fearless inde-
Pendence. They can only succeed by ma.
chinery, which enables its managers to con-
troll the votes Of others, who blindly consent to
act az their bondsmen, and who are incapable
OF thinking and acting for themselves. Will
an American freeman consent to have q mas
ter tell him how he shall act and vote, or what
religion he shall profess? Never. Still, this
cunning continuance has no other object than
enabling the managers to control and give the
vote or their subordinate and submissive
brethren as they shall direct-and all to give
the leaders the Offices within reach Those
whom they use in their unholy work are in
no way to b benefited by becoming the in.
struments OF tho managers 1t is Offices, and
not patriotic and commendable measures that
they seek to control. In the name of liberty
they deprive their followers of their right to
think, to act, and vote, and subject them to
the slavery Of obedisnce, or to the endurance
OF the penalties which they have contriYed
for the disobedient. This is one of the most
stspsndous inventions ever contrived to de
stroy liberty of thought and action that have
been disclosed to the world .-
The Intsliigencer speaking of Nsbraska
and Kansas, says: s.
"a report from the Land Office shows that
Nebraska covers an area Of 342.43S square
miles, equal to PIG ,l6O, 800 acres of land
Kansas has an area of 128, 1913 square miles
equal to 30 821 120 acres of land To large
portions of this land the Indian title has not
been extBguishea, but enough is open for set
tlement to satisfy the most eager enterprise
for years to come. In so large an extent
there must be every variety of soil; and if the
Newspaper reports Of the day are not greatly
exaggerated, there are crowds of hardy pion-
GERS already within the boundaries of the new
Territories"
The same paper also explains for the benefit
Of the Ms,stssin2tan, that Congress, after due
elaboration, refused to appropriate the ten
million proposed to be used as q FIRST install
Insnt in payment for Cuba.
The Senttnsi argues that there il no such
thing IS . National Wing Party now in EXIT
enee, claims that Gov. Biglsr is about to be
re elected in Pennsylvsnia; and justiiss the
removal Of "Know Nothing" from the Wash.
iDgton City Post Office, saying
at is, indeed, ridiculous, to denounce the
prescription which removes from Office a men,
Der Of one Of the most proscriptive associations
which has ever been seen in this or any other
country. In fact, the Know. Nothing organi.
cation Is based upon prescription, and pros
ecrfption alone. The members Of that organ.
isation will not vote for q foreigner or the son
Of foreigner. 1t is the leading article of thei,
creed to prescribe such and drive them from
svery species of public enjoyment. But this
Il not all. The members Of the Know Nothing
organisatio do not con6ne their hospitality tG
foreigners and the sons of foreigners. They
scrutinize the religious belief of their fellow
citizens, and prescribe all the members of q
particular denomination, no matter how pure
their lives may be-"