The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-29
A GENERAL BREAK UP IN THE SOUTHERN KNOW
NOTHING LODGES


Within the last weeks the number Of Withdrawals
pending has increased to such an extent that
would be compelled publish supplement regular
issue we attempted give complete list Of the
The Missssppian OF the goth instant preaces long list
Of know-nothng Withdrawals with the following re-
marks
The morning breaks brightly and the good work moves
goriousy onward. We might devote all space the
cards of withdrawal from the know nothing lodges which
are pouring in upon and yet fail to insert than
fourth that reach Hundreds quietly Withdrawing
without giving public notice of the while Others
king think, view of the subject
admonishng their eounymeD of the evils which their
nexon with the order has enabled them discover and
gng them, by every consideration that is patriotic. holy
and sacred to put il down These publications signs
showing which way the is rolling. They the
thunders which precede the storm that will sweep know
nothingsm from the State in November"
In Kentucky the signs are equally portentous The
Louisville Times says:
Our interior exchanges crowded with the
Withdrawals from the know-nothng lodges The current
against know nothngm is carrying everything before it.
We have never before witnessed such areyuon in popular
sentiment. Sam is the deadest that ever died.
In Tennessee the prospects of know -nothngism are
equally desperate The following is copied from the Knox
vile Standard
" We insert elsewhere paragraph from the Greenve
Eagle reporting the eroaas of Sam Greenvle, and
also the death Of the True American It's newspaper organ
OF that locality Reports getting be very
OF explosions in the Tennessee councils Of bogus
ISM II turning out predicted long ago, that the
southern cline does suit this northern hybrid produc
ton Ii cannot flourish under the heat of the genial Of
the South There but spot soil the South
sufficiently congenia to its peculiar temperament it
over the season. and that is Sab riye and to that port the
people OF Tennessee intend shipping off the first Thurs
day in August 1t is only offered temporary burial
ground Its Sambo relatives in the North will be warned
to take from that dreary abode before the stink
ng time comes FOR there ia poters field in the South
which the southern people will suffer to be polluted with the
rottening carcass of such huge spirit of evi'
and patriotic The Macon Telegraph says:
The work still goes bravely From every portion Of
the State receive the most cheering intelligence and
feel assured that organisation and energy all that
qured to insure glorious and decisive victory Those hon
est democrats who entced into the lodges
by the cunning misrepresentation of interested politicians
coming forth and taking their stand the old ban
in spite OF all the threats with which little would be-
yrants seek to ntimidate them into submission Hundreds
of patriotic wings following the example of their ables
leaders, refuse the letters Of the order The
people everywhere begin feel that ill becomes eemen
to ask permission of lodge before they the right of
suffrage They know they ree-frec to and GO
free to precisely they peaseree to abandon any
party which they may desire spite of all the
prayers and exhortatons all the fowns and menace of all
the threats and murmurs by which they may be bese the
members who desire to withdraw tM cdram phenerer and
10 az suit their conpenienee.'A