Southern shield., 1855-10-20
Vol. III, p. 392l

Vol. III, p. 392
 It is thus seen that Gen. Washing ton himself was the first and greatest of Know Nothings. Nor ought it to be forgotten that by American officers he was always treated with affection and repect-while with foreigners he had repeated difficulties. Baron Stuben denounced him as unfit to commando; Lee was insubordinate on the field of Monmouth, and Conway so villifed and slandered him that he was challenged and shot by an American.
 I would quote also his farewell ad- dress, but I know it is familiar to you, and only beg you to take 1t into the account when making up your opinion as to whether or not you are disciple of the School of Washington.
 With the sanction Of the Constitution and that of the Father of his country, the American party might have been satisfied, but they went urther.-They hunted up the opinions of the Sage oI Monticello. In reference to the dan gers of Foreign influence MT. Jefferson said:..
 "I can scarcely refrain from joining in the wish of Silas Dean that there was all ocean offre between this and the old World"
 In his letter to Mir. Jay he denounce; the practice of appointing Foreigners to office abroad-mentions with appro- bation the Congress of 1704 which had prohibited it, and adds: ''To avail ourselves of our .NatiUe Citizens il appears to me advisable to declare, by a standing law, that no person but a .Native Citizen shall be Consul"
 In his "Notes on Virginia" he be- comes prophetic of the future, and makes predictions which our experience is every day verifying.
 "Civil government being the sole object oi forming societies. its administration must be conducted by common consent. Every spe- ces of goyernm nt ba5 it's s sgeqf B5Enff6pP5 6f the freest principles of the English constitu- tlon, with others derived from natural right. or natural reason. To these, nothing can be more opposed than the maxim5 of absolute monarchieS. Yet from such we are to ex- pect the greatest number of immigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their earliest youth or if able to throw them off. 1t will be in exchange for an anbounded H- eentiousneSs, passing, 0s is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children.
 In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us in the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit; warp and bias its direction, and render it heterogeneous. in- coherent and distracted mass. may appeal to experience during the present contests for a verifcation of these conjectures. But. f they be not certain in event are they not possible are they not probable? Is it not safer to wait with patience twenty seven years and three months longer for the attainment of any degree of population desired or expected? My not our government be more homogeneous. more peaceable, more durable?"
 This was the prophecy. The time of its fulflment has arrived even before the bones of the Prophet have mingled with their Mother Earth. The German association of Louisville, Society not called into being by the Know Nothings, but existing anterior to the American Organization, have favoured us with notions of Government so wild and startling, as to be sufficient of them selves, to justify the most jealous vigi- lance, in guarding against the possibil- ity of their blackening the Statute Books of the United States. In the very first article there is a sad differ ence between you and your German friends.
 PLATFORM OF THE FREE GER
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