Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-26

1hio hO OP"oAie' we TtCOlteCJ seeing Il reply
of an anti-Know Nothing to member of
the virtuOus Order-the X. N. said that if his
party had done no other good thing it had
purified parties Yes, said the anti, and if
you would take the same sort of beings and
the same number from He'll, have no doubt
but you would purify it. The recent riots in
Cincinnati show how much the virtuous or
der has done away with corruption; they have
given up bribery to use violence. They have
shown their Americanism in Massachusetts,, bv
putting out of Office man who simply dis
charged his dutyto his country, by obeying its
laws. They don't like Catholic priests, but
they worship Theodore Parker.
Know Nothingism has a broad, and we NAV
say a strange platform. On one end we see
LoYD GARRISON, WENDAL PHILLIPS, FRED
ERIcK DOUGLASS, and others of that stamp,
crying disunion, because slavery exists in the
South, and on the other, men of the most ul-
ira pro-slavery principles crying disunion be-
cause Abolitionism exists at the North but
they all shake hands over anti-papacy and
anti-foreign voting They have their own
candidates for Office, but when it suits them
ths;;=.i,, -. ~ an abolitionst or pro-slaye-
ry mana Maiae law or an anita silver
grey or wooley- -head-a hard or a soft
They hold to the same principle which they
condemn the Jesuits for, viz they do evil
that good (?) may come of it.
Let us see what good Know Nothingism
has done. In early Colonial times, the same
spirit of fanaticism, which actuates the virtu-
GUS order now; burned and tortured defence
less old women; cropped the ears of Qua
keH; prosecuted Anabaptists; prevented a
man from kissing his wife on Sunday, and
made men hypocrites. In latter, later days,
its fruits in Massachusetts,, are the burning of
the Ursuline Convent the ousting of Judge
Loring, because he did his duty, and the late
very valiant act of the Committee of Inves-
tigation of the Massachusetts, Legislature, of
intruding upon the privacy of defenceless
females, and very bravely inspecting their
warlrobes.
In New York, it has desecrated the Amer
ican flag, by throwing it over the body of a
dead rowdy, and it has canonized Bill Poole.
In Pennsylvania, it has burned churches,
and murdered inoffsnsive citizens.
In Ohio, it has again desecrated the Amer
lean flag; it has hired ruffins to drive away
honest men from the polls, and again mur-
dered peaceable men.
These are the only opportunities it has had
of displaying itself, and such have been its
fruits. These are the effects of that virtuous,
high-minded, light-shunning, purifying order;
this order which has dared to be the champ
ion of a religion which is peace-giving to all
men,
Well may its signals of meetings be bloody
bits of paper. Born in darkness; cradled in
gloom and obscurity reveling in the black
ness of midnight; stunning the gaze of honest
men dealing in treachery loving intes-
tine war and broils; having for its saints, men
of the worst character, and bearing for its
fruits, the blood of the citizens of the Repub-
lie. And this is the order which calls upon
Native Americans to give it their support
Think of it Americans; ponder over it
Look at it in every possible point of view !;
look at the good which it has done, and cast
your votes accordingly. If you wish this gov
eminent to be the creature Of an order inf
nately worse than that club of Butchers, of
which Robespieue was leader, then sus-
tain this virtuors order; but if you wish this
glorious republic to be what it was intended
to be-the home of liberty, of freedom, and
of peace. Then come out in your might and
crush the beast. AMERICUS.