The southerner., 1855-04-14
Also, what is meant by "ignoring

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slavery:
"The party never has, and we hope
never will, illuminate antislavery re-
solves for the purpose of humbugglng
the masses, but it will do right, move
right, and act right, and in every free
State in the Union it will give new protec-
ton to every citizen within its borders.
It's first great national aim is to pro-
cure an alteration of the naturalization
laws, and upon that point they will
know no sectional divisions; but upon
the great question of freedom and sla-
very every northern American freeman
will raise his voice for liberty, and
Banks, De Witt, and Trafton will utter
upon the floor of Congress the senti-
ments of this new party. The foreign
element that has given the pro-slavery
democratic party the control of this
country will soon lose the means of
augplenting its numbers; and when
that is effected freedom in this repub-
lie is secure. The prize We are bat
tling for is aliberty to ALL" and when
Americans rule America We shall obtain
it, and not till then"
Thus, we learn W hat is meant by
their "ad captandum" expressions
conservative indeed! slucus nou lu-
condo" called conservative for the same
reason that a certain mvtholical charac-
ter was called Midas, from Greek word
meaning to eat because he could not
eat. What can Southern men promise
themselves by afiliating with this or
der. If the people of the South act
with their usual foresight, they will fly
from it as from raging pestilcnce, and
shun "Know Nothing" lodge-room as
they would the charncl- l-house of small
pox hospital.
have thought from the beginning
of this new movement that it was an
emanation from the filth and corrup-
ton of rotten and fostering isms, and
that it was a mere igais tatuus, fetid
miasma springing up from moral and
political decay corr useating and shining
in the darkest hour of night, but dis
appearing before the light of morn.
1t is not to be expected that the people
Of the South are to be blinded and led
by this jack with lantern into the bogs
aud marshes of abolitionism; nor will
they follow Sam with his dark lantern
into the midnight eonclave of the Know
Nothings. But they tell US that these
men are native Americans, and We arc not
to suspect them. Is it not true that
much the larger portion of the abolition
lists of this country are native Ameri-
cans? Some of the leading spirits
who figure in this Know Nothing party
are foreigners although the party itsc If
profess such a holy horror for all for
eigners. The Crusader, a Know-Nothing
paper at New York, is edited by one
Caselli, and has for its chief contributor
Father Gavazzi. 1t would require but
little crcdulity for one to infer from the
columns of the New York Herald, that
a leading spirit in the councils of the
order might be found in its Editor,
Bennett, an unnaturalized foreigner,
and political Ishmaelite, whose hand
has been against every man, aud every
nuns hand ag;sist him; he has proba-
bly, done more towards furthoring the
progress of this order than any man in
the United States. History will record
two remarkable things of this order,
one is that protesting to be composed
entirely of native Americans, its chief
pillars ofsupport are foreigners; and
the other is, that it is society of po-
litical Jesuits, professedly formed for
the purpose of waging war against re-
ligious Jesuits. --
The friends Of the "order" say that
it is necessary to establish their secret
societies to protect ourselves against
foreign influence. In the section of
the country in which live, we have
none of this foreign influence, and we
are not troubled with anything of the
kind. What foreigners we have among
us are generally Intelligent and educa-
ted people, men of character, and | sup
pose one reason Of it is owing to the
fact of the existence of the "peculiar
institution among US which I regard
as one OF the greatest moral, social and
political blessings that was ever vouch-
safrd to man, and another reason is ow-
ing to the fact that We have not encour-
aged these men to come as they have
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