American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-09-13
DID You HEAR IT THUNDER /!

The Know Nothinge, says the Berks
=. County Press, area singular people,if such
= wedare call them. They are not, however
~ the Liilputians who made letters out Of
the hair Of poor shipwrecked Gulliver, but
= they are giants Of colossal weight and
strength, and endowed with.a vitality which
bids defiance to allthe mortal weapons that
: can be brought to bear against them
= Their enemies deny them to be possessed
ssof the attributes Of common humanity;
andiastead Of men, we are told, our land
is filed with monsters. Never before, say
e they, has a portion Of the family of man
y appeared upon the stage Of action in SO
hideousalight. The painted Indians, who
pitched the British Tea into Boston Har-
Dor; were not more terrible to the English
Parliament than the Know Nothings, who
4 have thus suddenly sprung into existence,
: -arete the politieial hack ks.and .demagogues
Of the present day. Ten thousand arrows,
it would seem, are darkening the sun a
gainst them; yet they are undismayed and
undaunted, and are still victorious! They
are, indeed, singular race of "bipeds;
an to the wo-begone warriors who have
heretofore been fighting only pigmes, they
are an enemy that can laugh a siege tc
scorn- and who will not even deign to re-
turn the fire kept up as it has been, un
ceasingly, the last twelve months. Like
the gallant band at Bunker Hill, they fire
only when they see the white of an eye,
and retreat from the post of duty novel
follows until the last cartridge is gone!
The oppositionpepers have dug deep in
!. to the Golfers of the arsenal of detracton
.exhsusting nearly its vast stores, and pour
gr ing upon the heads Of the Know Nothing'
with spirit Of malevolence fiends only
indulge in---the choicest denunciations tina
could or can be found in the language; ye
amidst all this storm that RACES SO violent
ly--amidst all this whrlwnd that sweeps
now SO 6ercely over the land, they stane
unmoved and solid, like the walls of tn,
81 sea, pressing the waves closer as eacl
~. surge advances and dashing them in sue
80 csssion into ten million PARTICLES upon th'
iron-bound strand!
The Know Notnings have an imperative
duty to perform, if American liberty is tc
be preserved and perpetuated. Foreign
ers, who appreciate their position and val
ue the privileges conferred upon them b.
the Constitution and Laws of this Country
, do not press forward to put down Ameri
s-ss cans at the ballot-b box, OF FIRE upon then
with muskets from the windows OF thei
houses They are contentto restin peace
= and are grateful that they have found
home in this land ofcivil and religious lib
r erty. Butthey are, unfortunately, not Al
so, and these the demagogues of part
fatter and cajole. They point out 10 ther
their strength and tell them that they al
the controlling power in the State-tht
they eau decide the elections as the
please. 6.
h. Hence the attempt to intriduce amongs
y y :. :. tsforeign abits-foreign customs-fol
: eign dogmas. Can it be wondered at ther
a.s why this new party, the American party
which is unalterably fixed in its purpos
ssofpreserving the legacy bequeathed to y
4. bv our Revolutionary ancestors, and whic