The true Democrat., 1855-08-14
For the True Democrat. Nothing to Think About othing to Talk About

 the know nothing party has at least given the people something to think and talk about'- Thus leaving us to infer, that before this order sprung into existence, there was such paucity of subjects upon which tue tongues and Minka- bLeS of the American people could be excrcsed that said functions were in danger of becoming rllsted and useless, for the want of something on which they might be brought into pay- Whether this "know nothing" stands alone in this opinion or is supported by his political brethren, We are not informed.
 But that an American citizen, gentleman born and reared upon the soil of this Republic, should make such q remark is rather strange Nothing to think about nothing to talk about hv If we Were to give our opinion, we should most certainly deny that we have nothing to think and talk about, and should say that enough has already transpired ill this mundane sphere, to keep the brains of the whole Amer- can people occupied with thought. and the tongues of five thousand Lucy Stones in healthy action for at least half century hence
 Has Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry and other sciences now reached to such degree of perfection that we can think and say no more about them? Has Law Medicine and other learned professions been so deeply studied and so fully explained that ,oe need not perplex our brains about them? Has the Architect, the Mason the Husbandman and others of the la boring classes become 30 well informed upon their several occupations that they can no longer be instructed? Has the Bible become to be a book of such minor consequence that we should not think and talk of its contents? Have the morals of the nation become so pure that we must not talk of them and think of making ther, purer? Have the masses of the people throughout the world attained to such knowl- edge that we must not talk and think of the means by which they may be yet farther in- structed? No, no, Mir. Know Nothing, the an- swer to all of the above questions may be truly in tho negative And beside these things, there are thousand others, of which we can think and talk, that will present themselves to every retecting mind. Our country is thought by many to be endangered by the fanatcism of northern free-solers and abolitionists, and that too, before the know nothing party was ever thought of. Still we had nothing to think and talk about-the preservation of the Union being a matter of such small concern that 1t did not for moment arrest the attention of the American people. The Histories of all by gone times was an affair of such trihing impor- tance, that the mind of the American people could find nothing in them to talk and think about. The f.sacrifcng deeds of tie great WASHINGTON; the startling and unequalled deeds of Napoleon Bonaparte; the triumphs o Alexander and the prowess of the other war rlors of modern and ancient times, cannot elic from the American people thought nor word. The eloquence of Henry Clay ant Daniel Webster; the undying works of Milton and of Shakspeare; the ,mperishable writing of hundreds of statesmen and divines who hay long since passed from among us, cannot be S remembered by our fellow citizens, as to extrac from them thought or word
 Although we are under many obligations tc heoriginators oft the know nothing party for giv ing ussomething to think and talk about, still, w cannot but think that we had enough to occupy our thoughts and keep our tongues in action before the principles of their order ever saw the light of day. R. w. R.
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