M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1855-05-18
The way The Know NoihIngs are


views:
Sixteen members of the Executive
State Council Of Know-Noihings met in
cont lave at Columbus snd laid the fol-
low ing plan for nominating their State
Ticket. first Iesolged that the order
should make secret and seperate uomi'
nations; then they would pack the ere
publican or peoples Convention aud
loist upon il these nominees. The mode
nf procedure is TO be ihis:-Some time
in May all the subordinate Councils are
to express their respective choice for
State candidstes-the voice OF each
Council to be counted according as the
majority that shall vote.
The expressions thus obtained are to
he forwarded to the State President al
Cincinnati. During the fore part oi
June a grand State conclaye is TO BE-
held in Cleveland. Of delegates from as
many ofthe subordinate Councils es
will attend. At that Convention the
candidates suggested by the supordinate te
Councils, will be balloted for until the
choice is reduced between three for each
Office. These are to be referred back to
The subordina,es, o be voted for during
the FIRST week in July and the persons
receiving the most votes is TO be declaf
ed the nominees Of the Order.
After the nominations are made they
will secretly endeavor TO secure dele
gates to the Republican Convention
and compel il to re.nominate the candi'
dates oLthis Order. The Free Soil pa
pers snG Frse.Soil party in the Western
Reserve are down on this wire working
yehemenlly.
The Cleveland Leader edited by John
c. Vaughn, a leading Free 'Soller' thus
pitches into the plan, He says;
"ln our humble Judgment this patent
right contrivance will not work. Screws
will get loose, and cogs will break. and
the whole machine will smash to pei.
ces. Some Of our reasons are these, lst.
The proposed plan is neither fair n'r
honest. 81. II successful, the conven
lion would not be a Republican but
Know Nothing body, and tie ticHet
nominated would be simply Know
Nothing ticket. 81. The method con
templated will destroy the Anti Slave
~ and State Reform issues, and cause
the election 10 turn on ratlvlsilc pros
cri ption-wlth the Te.enactment OF the
Cincinnati scenes over the State. 4Ih.
The effect will be to drive the whole
Protestant natura lized vote over to :he
Locofocos and Sag NIGHTS thereby losing
about 80 900 Republican votes, as the
recent election in Cincinnati and else
where demonstrated. 5th. The more
active and Jealous Anti.Slavery men
will either stay at home in disgust and
chagrin. or vote the Locoioco ticket to
help defeat the "Hindoos." 9th. The
Anti Slavery cause will be troddon un'
der foot: the treme eudous msjorities
against Slavery of last fall will melt
into disastrous defeat: stakeholder and
ser'ile will send up shout OF victory
over the prostrate Republican giant.
whose uPfaised arm they SO much lear
ed. But his is not all. The bitter
prejudces Of caste and race will be in.
ilamed TO the highest Pitch natives viii
become more proscriptive, and foreign
ers more clarnish. All natUralized ci:-
lzens will sink their national ditferen.
res and combine in sci defence against
The common opTressor. The organiza
ton OF the Locoloco party which was
and almost anuihiated By the
Anu.Slavery men. will be recruited aud
with renewed vitality on thr
new issue Of nativislic prescription, di,
rected by the spirit Of caste and bigutry
and the ueedful State reforms will be
eiested and forsot!on in ;his fierce
though miserable contention. If its
old dough faced ullies mount again into
power, ii will rejoice. II the Union
saving muzzlers succeed. its gladntss
will still be ecsta!ic,-in either event
its great antagonist will lie prostrate a.
its feet.
Thus it will be seen that the Free.
soilers look upon the X. N. organza.
tiOn with distrust, and from the spirit Of
tie Leader we are enabled TO judge Of
the feeling OF the whole Free Soil party.
Last fall Know.N Nothingism professed
to be opposed to be opposed to Sluvery;
a fter The election, the Grand Council,
in order to ''save their country" and Sc
cure X. n votes in the South, declared
that the sgitstiou of the slavery ques-
tion ought aud should cease; and hence
the hostility Of Free.SoiIers TO the
Order" The Leader gives the follow.
ing as the platform of the American Re
form OK. N party:
The so called American party, is an
organization whose members are sworn
to prescribe all persons of roreigr birth
regardless. of their principles, character
or patriotism. 2nd. The Order refuses
10 advocate Anti-Slavery in its CouEcils.
or pleGge its members to oppose the ag
gressions Of Slavery. By the terms OF
the new third, or "cotton degree" each
member is sioorn 10 play the part OF a
doughiace. under excuse Of SuUing the
Union, BY putting down the agitation
of all dangerous questions. Opposition
to slavery. it is asserted. endangers the
peace and perpetuity Of the Union
therefore each third degree member is
sworn to prescribe such agitation, and
keep it out Of the councils Of the Order
aud no person is full member Of the
order until he has taken that degree
lie is obliged, Furthermore, that he will
support, at all elections, only those who
are third degree members Of the Order,