The true Democrat., 1855-04-17
Know Nothings in Little Rock.

We have been credibly informed that the Know Nothings have determined, in secret con- clave, to establish an organ in this city. We learn they have already raised for the purpose four thousand dollars, and that they have se- lected for their editor well known individual who was candidate for State Treasurer, but defeated last winter, in tte secret caucus of the Know Nothing members of the Legislature- Whether the Know Nothings intend to pur- chase new press and material, or intend to buy out the Gazette or the Whig we do not know. We presume the purchase of one or the other of these concerns will be effected, as in the event of the establishment of Know Nothing organ here, the breeze will be taken so completely out of their sails, that their longer publication, under their present auspices, will not be- we imagine, a very profitable business 1 But whether the Know Nothings intend to purchase new press or intend to buy out eth- CT of the establishments alluded to, there is one thing certain, that neither the Gazette nor the Whig, as now edited, taougH Knoa0 Nothing to t5e core, will suit them. These concerns have not sufficient nerve to face the music. It is true they herald, with a great deal of complacency, every little Know Nothing triumph in the diff ferent cities of the [ ion, and even, now and then, admit into their columns timorous de- fence of "Sam," by the Knight of the order; but the sound drubbings they have received at the hands of the democracy of Arkansas have taught them rather to shun than court another open encounter Such ti,nidity does not suit the old whig leaders and campaigners of this city, who now have the Know Nothings in training, and expect to ride into power through he means of their secret performances They want bold and reckless champon--one who will dare every thing, and yet has no antece- dents to be tracked by. They want an organ st who is not only unknown to public life, but, without any aspirings himself, devoted body and soul to the Know Nothing cause.- These qualifications neither the editor of the Gazette or of the Whig possess. He of the Whig has his sins to carry, and, as a lawyer, has too much of other business on hand any way. The editor of the Gazette IS still more object onable. lie is not only an ambitious aspirant himself for every honor within the State, but has been guilty of far too many fragrant out rages upon the taxpayers to be accepted as the organ of the new party just struggling for ex- istence These H71oaU Nothinqs are shrewd fel- lows, and they know well that their faction could never live under the weight of all the sins the present editor of the Gazette has to answer for to the taxpayers.
 How the Gazette and the Whig will relish the " go by'' thus received from their brethren we, of course, are unable to say. Bound down. as they doubtless are, by oaths of the most dreadful nature, we opine they will submit tamely and quietly. If we understand Know Nottingham rightly, the majority is the absolute master and the strength of the order consists in the slavish subserviency with which that master is obeyed and followed. When man becomes Know Nothing, he surenders entire ly his freedom of action, and becomes the SUD- pliant tool of the few cunning long headed in- dividuals who control the concern-he becomes the slave of an oligarchy of petty tyrants.
 We hardly know what the Know Nothings expect to accomplish in this State. Composed only of the whig party (and not all of them either) and few disappointed and soured de- mocrats, they are scarcely match for the de- mocracy in any county. We are informed that they will have ticketin in the field at the nex. general election, if they don't split up in the scramble for the nominations. The material they have received from the democratic party is of the most unruly ard ambitious charac- ter, and the scramble will be bitter one, for we understand that they intend to give their no- mutations almost exclusively to those who for maily acted with the democracy. They will do this in order the better to deceive and impose upon democrats. They base their hopes of success almost entirely upon the gulabity of the democratic party. They expect to entrap a suf6ciency of unsuspectng democrats to car ry their ticket, and, to assure our democratic friends that the whole thing has been hand sOmely and cunningy planned, we can inform them that 1t is all the handwork of the old whig leaders of Little Rock, whose well known talent for political strategy is sharpened by hun- ger for spells. | We shall await with good deal of impa- titnce for the appearance of the new organ-I We want to hear from it a justification of the party which humbly protesting to Know No- thing presumptiously aspires to direct every thing"-who, under the cover of midnight se- crecy, aspires to rule and control the affairs of the JTeest people an tue worId."
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