Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1855-05-11

political purposes, until, instead of beng a
people united in promoting the interests Of
the hole nation, we shall become divided
into innumerablc cliques and factions plot
ting against the rights and privileges OF each
other and screened from the gaze of the
public eye But this Know Nothing order
must sooner or later be dissolved. II con-
tains within itself the elements of iis own
destruction. Already has II become perverted
10 answer the ends of time serving polii.
clans. Its leaders are for the most par, the
refuse Of the old political parties, who have
Joined the new order 10 control its action.
aud put themselves in power. The syren
song Of Reform and Progress, which Il warb-
led so sweetly IN the morning OF It's exist
ence. has no longer power to beguilc or &C.
ceive We confess we have had some faint
hopes that the movements Of the Know No,h-
ings. with all their Objectionable purposes
and iheir still more Objectionable mode of
operation, might be ovcrrued for good, in
checking political corruption. The old par
/ ties have been quite too INSCRIPTIONS in the
means they have employed IN gain power
aud Office. But if the Wings and Democrats
have courtcd the influence Of our foreign
born aud Catholic citizens. and have parcel
/ led the lcsves and fishes" in accordance
with the principle. that "to the victors be-
long the spoh.,r the Know Noihngs have
sunk stl deeper into this miro of corruption
and dishonesty for not only have they cour.
ted The influence ofunprincipled demagogucs,
tucked with every gale, and displayed the
colors Of every party" but they have enlist
ed in their patriotic cause the whole mass Of
the iraoraai and cicious, and even such very
] lr..ua Of III, hlaTl Lone uf &fuu
wix Hall. The course of these Know Moth
4 ings in our large cities has been marked
with riots aud bloodshcd. Catholic church
cs have been torn down, the guaranteed
rights of citizens violated the balol-box De
/ s,foyed, aud this too by .N'hrc .1msric1Hs,
spedcsable lac abiding citizens" as we are
/ told. whose foreiathers blcd at Lexington
I Bunker Hill, aud Yorktown, to secure to pos
teriiy that religious aud political freedom,
which their degenerate descendants tranple
in the dust. " e firmly believe that the safe
/ ty Of our Republic depends upon the speedy
organic ton OF party devoted to true Re
publican principles. Such a party is deman
ded to check the controlling power Of Slave
~ in our government. No one observanl %
the ''signs of the times" can fail To see
that thus vii! never be done by the Know
No,hings We may be referred to recent
state elections where they have seemed 10 BIZ
upon the side Of freedom, but wherever the
order has appeared in national character
It has studousiy avoided all expression OF
opinion upon this great and paramount ques
ton OF the day. Judging from the tone oil
the so-caled .4msrican press. from their pro
posed candidates for the next Presidency, and
from the present aspect OF political affairs IN
the South. we predict that they will fall a
prey TO Southern influence, and become Ike
the old parties before them, the suppilnt
tools of the slave-holdlng uignrchy. The
true friends of Freedom have a common rul-
wing point, and plain course of action. -
let chem organize a party upon the broad
platform Of perfect and ,nirsrsrt liberty. To
such party the Genus Of Columbia ap-
peas with outstrciched arms, and implores
that It will preserve the name aud character
of the American nation, maintain the purity
Of our free institutions, and that upon the re-
iigious persecution and political intolerance,
of this secret faction of Know Noihings i
",riH stamp The tndeiibis Stigma Of public
adherence"
II. q. s.
North6ald Anil IS5i